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- Tricks for Machine Learning for Beginners and Advanced
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- Length: 6 hrs and 2 mins
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- By: Phil Champagne
- Narrated by: Stephanie Murphy
- Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 244
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 212
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 213
The Book of Satoshi, the collected writings of Satoshi Nakamoto, creator of the bitcoin. The foreword was written by Jeff Berwick.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great historic read that'll teach the blockchain
- By Peter Hanson on 05-19-16
By: Phil Champagne
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Algorithms of Oppression
- How Search Engines Reinforce Racism
- By: Safiya Umoja Noble
- Narrated by: Shayna Small
- Length: 6 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 374
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 317
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 315
Run a Google search for “black girls” - what will you find? “Big Booty” and other sexually explicit terms are likely to come up as top search terms. But, if you type in “white girls”, the results are radically different. The suggested porn sites and un-moderated discussions about “why black women are so sassy” or “why black women are so angry” presents a disturbing portrait of black womanhood in modern society. In Algorithms of Oppression, Safiya Umoja Noble challenges the idea that search engines like Google offer an equal playing field for all forms of ideas, identities, and activities.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Read this book. Tell everyone you know about it.
- By Joshua Daniel-Wariya on 06-06-19
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The Master Switch
- The Rise and Fall of Information Empires
- By: Tim Wu
- Narrated by: Marc Vietor
- Length: 14 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,417
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,014
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,013
Could history repeat itself, with one giant entity taking control of American information? Most consider the Internet Age to be a moment of unprecedented freedom in communications and culture. But as Tim Wu shows, each major new medium, from telephone to cable, arrived on a similar wave of idealistic optimism only to become, eventually, the object of industrial consolidation profoundly affecting how Americans communicate.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great Read
- By Roy on 11-12-10
By: Tim Wu