This book sets out the case for Bitcoin being 'resistance money', arguing that in an imperfect world of rampant inflation, creeping authoritarianism, surveillance, censorship, and financial exclusion, bitcoin empowers individuals to elude the expanding reach and tightening grip of institutions both public and private. Andrew M. Bailey, Bradley Rettler and Craig Warmke begin by explaining why bitcoin was invented, how it works, and where it fits among other kinds of money. 

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This book aims to improve the reader's pandas skills to a professional-level through two hundred exercises. Reuven Lerner tests your abilities against common pandas challenges such as importing and exporting, data cleaning, visualization, and performance optimization. Each exercise utilizes a real-world scenario based on real-world data, from tracking the parking tickets in New York City, to working out which country makes the best wines.

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This book describes the historical development of the architectures of the first computers built by the German inventor Konrad Zuse in Berlin between 1936 and 1945. Zuse's machines are historically important because they anticipated many features of modern computers.Raul Rojas examines the machines and features such as the separation of processor and memory, the ability to compute with floating-point numbers, a hardware architecture based on microprogramming of the instruction set, and a layered design with a high-level programming language on top.

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This book tells the inside story of the largest law-enforcement sting operation ever, in which the FBI made its own tech start-up to wiretap the world. Joseph Cox looks at how a powerful app for secure communications called Anom took root among organized criminals. They believed Anom allowed them to conduct business in the shadows. Except for one thing: it was secretly run by the FBI. The book reveals the true scale and stakes of this unprecedented operation through the agents and crooks who were there.

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F# lets you keep your code simple even in the most complex applications—and it’s the perfect language for taking your first steps in functional programming. In this practical, example-driven guide,  Isaac Abraham shows you how to build professional applications the F# way. The book upgrades .NET development skills with the core principles of functional programming, and shows how F#’s functional-first approach helps learn the paradigm.

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This book aims to bridge the gap between learning C++ and being able to use it in a professional setting. Rafał Świdziński looks at topics such as the automation of complex tasks, including building, testing, and packaging software. This second edition is updated to the latest version of the CMake tooling suite, featuring three new chapters and an additional appendix dedicated to CMake presets.

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This book, subtitled "How to Put the World in a Machine", explores the history of computer simulation by chronicling SimCity. Chaim Gingold explains that SimCity was created in part to learn about cities, appropriating ideas from traditions in which computers are used as tools for modeling and thinking about the world as a complex system.

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In this book Mike James provides in-depth exploration of the essence of C, identifying the strengths of its distinctive traits. This reveals that C has a very special place among the programming languages of today as a powerful and versatile option for low-level programming, something that is often overlooked in books written by programmers who would really rather be using a higher-level language.

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This book shows how to implement stream processing on Apache Kafka using Kafka Streams and the kqsIDB event streaming database. Bill Bejeck also covers the entire toolbox you'll need for effective streaming, from the components of the Kafka ecosystem, to Producer and Consumer clients, Connect, and Schema Registry.

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This book shows how to develop for the Godot 4 game engine and GDScript 2.0 by building a game. Sander Vanhove shows how to use the features of the open-source GDScript 2.0 to develop your ideas, from simple platformers to complex RPGs.  Starting with a primer on the fundamentals of programming, and including topics from data to logic, the book includes information on Godot's built-in tools such as the physics engine, navigation, and cameras.

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This book shows how to use Python libraries to get, clean, prepare, and analyze data at a professional level. Scott McCoy starts by showing how to use Pandas for data analysis and Seaborn for data visualization. He then goes on to show how to use Scikit-learn to create regression models that can be used to make predictions. To tie everything together, this book contains four realistic analyses that use real-world data.

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This book is an in-depth exploration of the principles and designs that have shaped computer hardware through the ages, from counting devices like the abacus, to Babbage’s Difference Engine, to modern GPUs and the frontiers of quantum computing. Charles Fox's blend of history, theory, hands-on exercises, and real-world examples makes for an insightful romp through a fast-changing world.

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