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As well as influencing the world we live in, the Internet itself is being shaped by the latest technologies and we have looked at some titles that reflect this.

Authors: Haralambos Marmanis & Dmitry Baenko Publisher: Manning Pages: 368 ISBN: 9781933988665
Mike James gave this book the maximum 5-star rating because of its excellent and practical coverage of AI for the web. while noting that readers would benefit from having a prior knowledge of statistics. Mike said that if you are looking for an introduction to the way that some basic AI techniques can be applied to the web then this is a good place to start, as it provides good accounts of searching with Lucene, similarity measures, clustering and classification.

He noted that even if you know the basics of any of these you will probably learn something because the book presses on into slightly more specialised and practical issues such as combining classifiers, bagging and boosting and even explains significance testing. Mike concluded:
"If you are interested in bringing some intelligence to the web then this is the book to read. Highly recommended."
Author: Scott Murray Publisher: O'Reilly Pages: 272 ISBN: 9781491921289
This is a book written for web developers wanting to use the D3 JavaScript library, and Kay Ewbank rated it at 4.5 stars, noting that the book started life as a set of online tutorials posted on Murray’s website, and much of the material in the book can be viewed there. The book does contain new material, along with 78 percent more bad jokes (or so Murray promises).
Kay's conclusion was that the book is well written and while it’s code dense, the descriptions are easy to read and understand. The title has now been updated with an updated and expanded second edition.
Author: Martin L.Abbott & Michael T. Fisher Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pages: 272 ISBN: 9780321753885
The preface to this book states that "it is meant as a primer, a refresher and a lightweight reference manual to help engineers, architects and managers develop and maintain scalable Internet products".
Awarding it 4 stars, Alex Armstrong said How valuable you find this book depends on your prior knowledge and skills but while each rule is stated in a simple manner there is in-depth discussion around each which will be of interest even to experienced developers. There's an updated second edition printed after our review appeared.

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ChatGPT For Dummies
Author: Pam Baker Publisher: For Dummies Pages: 176 ISBN: 9781394204632 Print: 1394204639 Kindle: B0C63LZ6DN Audience: Everyone Rating: 4 Reviewer: Ian Stirk
This book aims to introduce you to ChatGPT, how does it fare?
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Clean Craftsmanship
Author: Robert C. Martin Publisher: Addison-Wesley Date: November 2021 Pages: 416 ISBN: 978-0136915713 Print: 013691571X Kindle:B095C16LSW Audience: General Rating: 4 Reviewer: Mike James Well, I'm a clean craftsman - are you?
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