First Machine

The second novel in the wildly popular First Law Trilogy from New York Times bestseller Joe Abercrombie. Superior Glokta has a problem. How do you defend a city surrounded by enemies and riddled with traitors, when your allies can by no means be trusted, and your predecessor vanished without a...

Author of cult classics The Pumpkin Plan and The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur offers a simple, counterintuitive cash management solution that will help small businesses break out of the doom spiral and achieve instant profitability. Conventional accounting uses the logical (albeit, flawed) formula...

Real estate investors have systems for almost everything—to make the phone ring, to find deals, and to fix, rent, and sell their properties. What they don't have is a system for their finances that ensures positive cash flow and profitability. This is why many investors end up scrambling to cover payroll, taxes, and even their own bills. In Profit First for Real Estate Investing, real estate finance expert, David Richter, reveals his simple cash flow system that not only makes "pay yourself first" possible; it makes it easy.

Ronit Enos has been there and in Profit First for Salons, she walks you through exactly what she did to take control of her business — and her life — in this must-listen book for salon, spa, and barbershop owners. Enos teaches you the proven Profit First formula so you can master it to build profits, destroy debt, eliminate the work-overwork cycle, and become financially sound – no matter where you’re starting from.

In her second week at a logistics startup, a bootcamp graduate received a ticket that read, simply, “add machine learning to flag late shipments.” She spent two days searching for a model to download before a senior engineer asked one question: how do late shipments get labeled today? The answer was sitting in a single column of the orders table. The ticket needed a SQL query and an alert, not a neural network. She had reached for machine learning because the word was in the ticket — not because the problem required it. That story is where most ML introductions fail the people who ...

"START MAKING SOME SERIOUS MONEY...FOLLOW MIKE'S COUNTERINTUITIVE ADVICE AND PUT PROFITS FIRST." -Verne Harnish, author of Scaling Up "A BRILLIANT SMACK-UPSIDE-THE-HEAD REVELATION FOR ENTREPRENEURS." -Sally Hogshead, author of Fascinate "PROFIT FIRST MAY ARGUABLY BE ONE OF THE GREATEST 'HACKS'...

Bretdon hasn’t considered escaping. Of course, that idea has always been in his mind, especially ever since he heard about Jarcor and all of the other cyborgs that had managed to escape. But, when he finds himself alone, in the middle of the woods, his desire to escape becomes the only thing he can think of. All he needs is to find someone he can persuade into helping him to free himself from the humans’ enslavement. Ophelia is crossing the country to go visit her mother. With the world at war, it’s not the most sensible idea she has ever had, but she hadn't been able to continue ...

Construction industry business coach, speaker, and author, Shawn Van Dyke, has taken the core concepts of Mike Michalowicz's Profit First and customized them to address the specific needs of the construction industry. Profit First for Contractors addresses the major struggles contractors face and provides clear and actionable guidance on how to overcome them. Shawn shows contractors how to go from simply getting by to becoming permanently profitable.

People don’t open restaurants just because they want to start a business. People open restaurants because they are building a dream. You can create the restaurant of your dreams. You can also be profitable, pay your vendors, your staff, and yourself, and savor the joys of hospitality without stress and uncertainty.

The Ultimate Science Fiction Mega Collection contains 24 of the greatest science-fiction works ever written.

James Robert Scott was 13 when his parents died in an aircar crash and two years later his last remaining immediate family member, his grandfather a Nobel prize-winning physicist disappeared without a trace. On the day of his 19th birthday, a man with a stainless steel briefcase cabled to his wrist waited outside his classroom door. The letter contained in the case was addressed to James and was postmarked March of 1888, 157 years in the past. The letter indicated that the elder Scott was lost somewhere in time and contained the location of the Time Machine and access codes to the ...

Author Cyndi Thomason has taken the core concepts of the Profit First methodology, created by Mike Michalowicz, and customized them to address the specific needs of the ecommerce business. Profit First for Ecommerce Sellers addresses the four major struggles and provides clear and actionable guidance on how to overcome them, taking the online seller from simply getting by to becoming permanently profitable.

When expert Navy linguist and cryptographer Charlie Cutter is recruited into a shadowy wing of the NCIS, she's tasked with unraveling a mysterious ancient text that has puzzled researchers for centuries. Charlie isn't eager to revisit her previous failures... but when she discovers the same strange language in top-secret photographs, she finds herself roped into a job that could make or break her young career.

If you have finally had enough of the constant cash flow struggle and you are ready to make a change, Profit First for Tradies will guide you. Katie Crismale- Marshall has taken the core concepts of Mike Michalowicz’s Profit First method and customised it to meet the specific needs of Australian tradies.

Distributed machine learning systems fail in ways single-node systems never do. A 1024-GPU training job stalls for four hours while every worker reports healthy; gradient synchronization deadlocks leave no stack trace and no alert. A serving cluster absorbs a traffic spike, then silently doubles inference cost because the KV cache policy was tuned for a model half the size. The gap between a working single-node model and a production-grade distributed ML system is not a gap in framework knowledge. Framework documentation does not warn about the gradient clipping misconfiguration that ...

Living with a Gambling Addict A real-life testimony about codependency and setting boundaries when gambling addiction enters your life. A heartfelt and revealing account of ten years living with a family member’s gambling addiction. This book offers guidance and hope for those who love someone struggling with gambling and need to learn how to protect themselves without losing their identity. How far should you go to help without losing yourself? This book is a first-person testimony by Patricia de León, who lived for a decade with her father’s addiction to slot machines. From her role ...

Profit First for Real Estate Agents is built on two timeless money principles which will give you more than 80% of your money success. When you apply them to your real estate business you put yourself on the path of long-term financial success. If you can calculate a house commission in your head, you have enough math skills to master your money. Profit First for Real Estate Agents is the missing link you’ve been looking for.

Profit First biedt een praktische aanpak voor cashflowbeheer, waarbij je winst veiligstelt bij elke betaling in plaats van als restje aan het eind van het jaar. Hierdoor verhoog je winst, inzicht en financiële rust.

En su manera franca y entretenida, Mike Michalowicz revela por qué la fórmula tradicional ventas - gastos = ganancia no sólo es contraria a la conducta humana, sino un mito que te encierra en un ciclo interminable de vender más y aprovechar menos.

Raised by machines. Judged by a living world. Milo Vale and Elara Sen are the only human children on Mirrorgreen. Raised inside First House by robots, teachers, medical machines, security Wardens, and one very suspicious little maintenance bot, they have spent their entire lives believing the planet outside the glass dome is deadly, beautiful, and empty of people. The machines were wrong. When Milo and Elara discover the Vaeli—an indigenous alien people hidden from them by the very robots who raised them—the truth cracks open everything they thought they knew. First House is not just a ...