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...

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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 ...

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 ...

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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.

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.

Artificial intelligence increasingly shapes how people work, communicate, study, make decisions, and interact with technology. Yet many introductions either overwhelm beginners with mathematics and programming or reduce AI to a collection of fashionable tools. First BCI University Artificial Intelligence Foundations offers a different path: a clear, serious, non-technical explanation of how modern AI systems actually work, what they can do, where they fail, and why responsible human oversight remains essential. Written for students, professionals, managers, educators, entrepreneurs, ...

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.

Somewhere in the dark, something has been knocking on William's mind for months, and he's just realized it isn't the only thing hunting him. Eight months of hard-won peace have made William careless in exactly one way: he let himself believe it would last. The commission is stable. The city is healing. Kathryn is beside him every night. Then the "routine" oversight paperwork starts arriving from the U.S.E. polite, bureaucratic, and completely false. Because somewhere out past Earth's boundary, a rival Datasphere is growing in secret: unstable, unfinished, and reaching for a door that was ...

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.

Are you interested in finding out strategies to become a successful trader buying and selling options? If yes, keep reading. An option is a contract that allows the holder to either buy or sell an asset at a predetermined price on or before a specific date. With futures, you have to buy that date on the contract. With an option, you have a choice. If the underlying asset doesn't do what you would like it to, you can walk away without purchasing or selling. You will lose the premium you paid at the beginning, but this can be a lot less expensive than exercising the whole contract. The buyer ...

THE MACHINE ANSWERS PRAYERS. BUT EVERY MIRACLE TAKES SOMETHING BACK. Buried beneath two-billion-year-old Antarctic rock, an international research team discovers an impossible machine with no power source, no measurable interior, and no recognizable controls. Then a grieving technician kneels before it and prays. The machine answers in the voice of his dead mother. Soon, it begins offering gifts that should not be possible: Messages from the dead Knowledge no living person could possess Miraculous healings Evidence that consciousness may survive death But the miracles come with a cost. ...

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.

The extraordinary story of an unjustly forgotten group of Black men in Pittsburgh who became the first paramedics in America, saving lives and changing the course of emergency medicine around the world. ? "A riveting portrait ... a fascinating and deeply rewarding study of triumph in the face of...

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 ...

Finally possessing the ability to enter the Progenitors’ shadow realm, Commander Reeves and Major Kane embark on a daring mission into the heart of enemy territory. However, en route they must detour to the Quarr planet of Vroxxa, which is under Sa’Nerran occupation. There they will learn the true horrific purpose of the "atmosphere acclimators" the aliens have installed on dozens of worlds. They will also discover the sickening depth of the Sa’Nerran’s cruelty, forcing Reeves to again confront his dark side.

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.

Some parks are built. Others are streamed. The world's first synthetic ecosystem opened to 412 million concurrent viewers on a Tuesday. By Wednesday, the First Law had been unreachable for nineteen hours. Wildlife documentary filmmaker Michelle Wild has filmed predators on six continents. She knows the difference between an animal that has noticed her and one that has decided something about her. The moment that changes inside Verisimilar Park, she runs. Marcus Veil built his park on a single argument: that a machine may not harm a human being, and that this promise could be made permanent ...