Download or read book The Love Algorithm written by Camilla Isley and published by Boldwood Books Ltd. This book was released on 2024-04-26 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At 28, with a Ph.D under her belt and a meteoric rise to head of Research and Development at Mercer Robotics, Reese feels her decision to put her career first has worked out pretty well for her. Sure, she doesn’t have many personal relationships to speak of, but she does love her team and they like her too. So when she’s called to the Big Boss’s office and told she will be looking after his son while he does a rotation in her lab, she’s not thrilled that her hard work and achievements have boiled down to being a glorified babysitter – especially to a billionaire playboy with zero experience of mechanical engineering. But then tall, blond Thomas walks into her office, and Reese realizes this assignment is going to be even harder than she thought. Because the CEO’s son is not only extraordinarily gorgeous, chiseled, and charming... he’s also on course to become her new boss one day, and so extraordinarily out of bounds. As the pair get to know each other, can Reese hold her nerve and her beliefs, or will she fall victim to the billionaire charm? A gorgeously funny work-place rom com with only one bed perfect for fans of Sarah Adams, Lynn Painter/Abby Jimenez and Ali Hazelwood.
Download or read book I m With Crazy written by Luke Cruickshank and published by Luke Cruickshank. This book was released on with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mental illness is the default state of every human being on the planet. The truth is that we’re all crazy. If you don’t believe me, then try telling that to the voices in your head. We all know this is true. Every one of us lives out our lives with an entire collection of voices in our heads, and this is completely normal. Some voices are helpful, some are empowering, and some are even kind to others. But then there are the other voices. The tyrannical ones who torment and exploit us. The ones who tell us that we’re stupid, that nobody likes us, that we’re unworthy of love, and who constantly remind us that we’re on the verge of being exposed as the incompetent imposter that we truly are. Why do we do this to ourselves? Why, as a society, do we condemn bullying, yet accept the spiteful, belittling, critical bullies that live in our heads? Why won’t these voices go away, and who put them there in the first place? Whether we recognize it or not, we’re all innately predisposed to mental illness. This conversation will help us understand the biological, psychological, and cultural vulnerabilities that push us toward mental illness. It’s only once we understand these issues that we can learn how to take the actions necessary to enhance our mental health. It’s time to face our inner critics. It’s time to stop posturing and playing the character that we’re expected to be. It’s time to show up to the world as our true authentic selves. Together, we’ll learn how to embrace our inner crazy, how to make friends with the voices in our heads, and how to redefine the culture of mental health.
Download or read book vViIrRuUsS written by Jazalyn and published by MetaLiterature. This book was released on with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three robotic viruses are released from unknown forces and compete with each other exposing crimes, with humanity’s scale of existence oscillating between total destruction and reinventing recovery. A REVELATION of the THOUGHTS. An AWAKENING for the HIDDEN reality. A MADNESS pandemic. A WAR of ESPIONAGE. Whose VIRUS is which? Is it too late for reinstating? The PANIC button pushed. An attempt to erase the MEMORIES. Can an EVIL virus SAVE the world? A post-apocalyptic techno thriller poetic novel that emulates psychological reactions of a serious medical and technological global emergency and provides philosophical insights on the world's best direction. It's unfair To be guilty When no one Is innocent
Download or read book My Child the Algorithm written by Hannah Silva and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2024-08-27 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A playful and provocative exploration of queer single parenting and love, in conversation with an AI algorithm and a toddler My Child, the Algorithm describes encounters between a single parent, a curious, verbal toddler, and a language-producing algorithm. Like a male seahorse, Hannah Silva carried a baby made from her partner's egg. But when she gave birth, her partner left, and Hannah found herself navigating life alone with her child, surviving on United Kingdom universal credit, humor, and buckets of imagination. As she navigates friendship, dating, and life as a queer parent in London, Hannah begins cowriting with an open-source language model, a precursor to ChatGPT, feeding the algorithm language and receiving language in return. Through her interactions with her toddler and the algorithm, expressions of humor, play, and insight begin to emerge. With the help and disruption of these unreliable narrators, Hannah deconstructs her story and constructs a new one, unraveling what she has been taught to want, finding alternative ways of thinking, loving, and parenting today.
Download or read book What s Next in Love and Sex written by Elaine Hatfield and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-25 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What's Next in Love and Sex is a comprehensive examination of contemporary academic findings relating to all matters of the mind, body, and heart. Inspired by questions asked by students, the book covers cutting-edge topics so new that they are rarely addressed in current sexuality texts, providing insight into modern trends such as hookup culture, virtual pornography, robots, apps, and online dating as they evolve in this day and age. Written by one of the pioneers of love and sex research, Elaine Hatfield, along with historian Richard Rapson and social psychologist Jeannette Purvis, this book uses contemporary scientific findings to provide an updated and relevant explanation for why we do the things we do when we're in love, searching for love, making love, or trying to keep a faltering relationship together. Combining rigorous scholarship with an accessible and entertaining style, no other book will give college students and academics alike such a developed understanding of contemporary love and sex.
Download or read book The Belief Algorithm How to be the Alchemist of your life written by Shadin El-Kasheef and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-07-10 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THIS BOOK WILL EMPOWER YOU TO: - Achieve your goals by utilizing an empowerment-focused approach to life and all its circumstances by challenging life's perceived adversities. - To harness the power of belief and your expectations to alter not only your subjective experiences but even your objective ones. - Inspire you to utilize the power of suggestion to achieve your true desires. The Belief Algorithm is an inspirational anecdote and guide to achieving your goals. It utilizes an empowerment-focused, yet practical approach to attain optimal health and happiness. The vision is simple, and highlights one's inner ability to be extraordinary and the Alchemist of his or her own life. The notion of exceptionality is highlighted in the Authors personal and relatable journey in creating his own algorithm and utilizing it to build his ideal reality. The author invites you to challenge and transform yourself in order to live the life you have always dreamed of.
Download or read book Genetic Algorithms and Investment Strategies written by Richard J. Bauer and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1994-03-31 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When you combine nature's efficiency and the computer's speed, thefinancial possibilities are almost limitless. Today's traders andinvestment analysts require faster, sleeker weaponry in today'sruthless financial marketplace. Battles are now waged at computerspeed, with skirmishes lasting not days or weeks, but mere hours.In his series of influential articles, Richard Bauer has shown whythese professionals must add new computerized decision-making toolsto their arsenal if they are to succeed. In Genetic Algorithms andInvestment Strategies, he uniquely focuses on the most powerfulweapon of all, revealing how the speed, power, and flexibility ofGAs can help them consistently devise winning investmentstrategies. The only book to demonstrate how GAs can workeffectively in the world of finance, it first describes thebiological and historical bases of GAs as well as othercomputerized approaches such as neural networks and chaos theory.It goes on to compare their uses, advantages, and overallsuperiority of GAs. In subsequently presenting a basic optimizationproblem, Genetic Algorithms and Investment Strategies outlines theessential steps involved in using a GA and shows how it mimicsnature's evolutionary process by moving quickly toward anear-optimal solution. Introduced to advanced variations ofessential GA procedures, readers soon learn how GAs can be usedto: * Solve large, complex problems and smaller sets of problems * Serve the needs of traders with widely different investmentphilosophies * Develop sound market timing trading rules in the stock and bondmarkets * Select profitable individual stocks and bonds * Devise powerful portfolio management systems Complete with information on relevant software programs, a glossaryof GA terminology, and an extensive bibliography coveringcomputerized approaches and market timing, Genetic Algorithms andInvestment Strategies unveils in clear, nontechnical language aremarkably efficient strategic decision-making process that, whenimaginatively used, enables traders and investment analysts to reapsignificant financial rewards.
Download or read book UNBORED Games written by Joshua Glenn and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-10-14 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: UNBORED Games has all the smarts, creativity, and DIY spirit of the original UNBORED (“It's a book! It's a guide! It's a way of life!” -Los Angeles Magazine), but with a laser-like focus on the activities we do for pure fun: to while away a rainy day, to test our skills and stretch our imaginations-games. There are more than seventy games here, 50 of them all new, plus many more recommendations, and they cover the full gambit, from old-fashioned favorites to today's high-tech games. The book offers a gold mine of creative, constructive fun: intricate clapping games, bike rodeo, Google Earth challenges, croquet golf, capture the flag, and the best ever apps to play with Grandma, to name only a handful. Gaming is a whole culture for kids to explore, and the book will be complete with gaming history and interviews with awesome game designers. The lessons here: all games can be self-customized, or hacked. You can even make up your own games. Some could even change the world. The original UNBORED has taken its place as a much beloved, distinctly contemporary family brand. UNBORED Games extends the franchise -- also including UNBORED Adventure -- in a new handy flexibound format, illustrated in full color throughout. This is a whole shelf of serious fun the whole family can enjoy indoors, outdoors, online and offline.
Download or read book Experimenting with Basic Tasks written by Bee Smith and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2018-08-20 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an autobiography on Bee Smith. The book is about the struggles Bee faced mostly because she developed amnesia for the majority of her life. She started to regain her memories about her unusual childhood fully since 2006. Bee lived what she refers to as a “psychological thriller” in discovering and solving the mystery that was haunting her all her life and getting out of amnesia. She lived a somewhat bizarre life as a result and this book is all about her travels, living and working abroad, her strange relationship with her boyfriends, the friendships she tried making along the way and eventually becoming a single-mum and having her beautiful daughter in her life now.
Download or read book Hard to Take A Brother s Teammate Sports Romance written by Piper Lawson and published by Piper Lawson Books. This book was released on 2024-08-20 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My fake boyfriend is now…my new roommate? Miles Garrett, pro basketball player and star of every one of my fantasies, has decided I’m moving in with him. My brother’s teammate has always protected me out of loyalty. He makes me feel like everything will be okay even when my life is on fire. But when he looks at me, I wonder what it would be like if he was truly mine. If I had the dream life and dream job and the dream guy. Did I mention we can’t keep our hands off each other? I hoped the proximity would get him out of my system. Turns out sharing a bedroom wall changes hungry looks and brushes in the hall into sweaty sessions and late-night confessions. Miles keeps my secrets and sees me like no one else. Too bad the playoffs are coming up and my brother doesn’t know. The truth is going to be hard to take. Hard to Take is a pro basketball romance with banter, spice, and all the swoony vibes! It’s the second book in the Denver Kodiaks series. Miles and Brooke’s addictive story begins in Hard to Fake and concludes in Hard to Break. TROPES - teammate’s little sister - brother’s best friend - fake dating - pro athlete hero - cinnamon roll hero - he’d do anything for her - sassy heroine - college crush - only one bed Want even more Denver Kodiaks? Read the King of the Court series for Clay and Nova’s story! (It is not necessary to read King of the Court before reading Denver Kodiaks): 1.Game Changer 2. Shot Taker 3. Play Maker 4. Game Day KEYWORDS: sports romance, basketball romance, forbidden romance, Enemies to lovers romance, age gap romance book, alpha male , romance travel, strong heroine, contemporary romance, enemies to lovers, forbidden love, age gap, romantic series, women’s fiction, romance saga, romance series, romantic family saga, bestseller romance, kissing books, emotional journey, captivating romance, emotional, healing, hot, hot romance, sparks, loyalty, swoon, funny romance, modern romance, new release, forbidden romance, strong alpha, alpha hero, family business, strong female lead, strong heroine, family secrets, top romance reads, new adult, best seller. Readers also enjoyed books by: Carrie Ann Ryan, Corinne Michaels, Susan Stoker, Natasha Madison, Chelle Bliss, Christina Lauren, Colleen Hoover, Talia Hibbert, Helena Hunting, Elle Kennedy, Kristen Callihan, Melissa Foster, Bella Andre, Sarina Bowen, Vi Keeland, Winter Renshaw, Meghan March, Willow Winters, Carly Phillips, Erika Wilde, Kendall Ryan, Jillian Dodd, Melissa Foster, Nana Malone, Anna Todd, Lauren Blakely, Julia Kent, Siobhan Davis, Vivian Wood, JS Scott, LJ Shen, Louise Bay, TL Swan, Nicole Snow, MS Parker, Lucy Score, Ava Harrison, Parker S Huntington, Ivy Layne, Tia Louise and Ainsley St Claire.
Download or read book Best Contemporary Monologues for Women 18 35 written by Lawrence Harbison and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2014-11-01 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Applause Acting Series). Lawrence Harbison has selected 100 terrific monologues for women from contemporary plays, all by characters between the ages of 18 and 35 perfect for auditions or class. There are comic monologues (laughs) and dramatic monologues (no laughs). Most have a compelling present-tense action for actors to perform. A few are story monologues and they're great stories. Actors will find pieces by star playwrights such as Don Nigro, Itamar Moses, Adam Bock, and Jane Martin; by exciting up-and-comers such as Nicole Pandolfo, Peter Sinn Nachtrieb, Crystal Skillman, Greg Kalleres, and Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig; and information on getting the complete text of each play. This is a must-have resource in the arsenal of every aspiring actor hoping to knock 'em dead with her contemporary piece after bowling over teachers and casting directors alike with a classical excerpt.
Download or read book Love Letters on Hazel Lane written by Jennifer Page and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-01-04 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: **Buy SECOND CHANCES AT THE BOARD GAME CAFE, the new cosy, uplifting romance in the Board Game Cafe series, now! ** *** Scrabble fan Jo always seems to pick the wrong guys. Now she's moved to the Yorkshire village of Hebbleswick, and decided to give dating one last chance. This time, there's a catch: she will only date men whose names would score highly in her beloved word game. After Tarquin (16 points) proves just as disappointing as the rest, she meets low-scoring local doctor Ras (3 points). Her rules mean she can't date him – but when he asks her to organise a Scrabble festival with him, she can't say no. As the event draws nearer and Jo and Ras grow closer, will Jo ignore her rule and let true love blossom over the triple letter scores? *** Perfect for fans of: Small-town settings Cosy romance Slow burn *** Praise for Love Letters on Hazel Lane: 'An absolute delight from the very first page to the delicious end!' Faith Hogan 'Word perfect! I loved it!' Heidi Swain 'Another cracker from Jennifer Page! This is a hug of a book.' Caroline James 'A heart-warming romance perfect for curling up with. I absolutely loved it.' Kitty Wilson
Download or read book Funny Ex Girlfriend Quotes 100 crazy stories about ex girlfriend that made you think Turns out mine was better written by and published by Andrea Febrian. This book was released on 2024-07-05 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you tired of feeling like your ex-girlfriend was a one-of-a-kind crazy? Well, think again! “Funny Ex-Girlfriend Quotes: 100 crazy stories about ex-girlfriend that made you think 'Turns out mine was better'“ is here to prove that you're not alone in your post-breakup bewilderment. This hilarious collection of quotes, anecdotes, and funny backrgound stories is the perfect read for anyone who's ever experienced the wild ride of dating someone who's a few sandwiches short of a picnic. From the girl who could start an argument in an empty room to the one who believed she could communicate with animals, these stories will have you laughing, cringing, and thanking your lucky stars that you escaped relatively unscathed. But this book isn't just a compilation of funny ex-girlfriend quotes – it's also a treasure trove of the ridiculous, unbelievable, and downright absurd stories behind them. Each quote is accompanied by a tale so crazy, you'll wonder how these women managed to navigate life without a straightjacket. Take a look at some of the most hilarious quotes you'll find inside: “My ex-girlfriend could argue with a mirror and win.” “I thought our love was timeless; turns out it had an expiration date.” “Breaking up with my ex was like closing a book you never want to read again.” “My ex-girlfriend believed in fairytales; I just didn’t realize she was the wicked witch.” “My ex-girlfriend was a pro at finding problems in every solution.” Whether you're single, taken, or somewhere in between, this book is the perfect companion for anyone who's ever experienced the ups and downs of dating. It's a reminder that no matter how crazy your ex may have been, there's always someone out there who's had it worse. But “Funny Ex-Girlfriend Quotes” isn't just a book – it's an experience. As you flip through these pages, you'll find yourself nodding in recognition, laughing out loud, and even reflecting on your own relationship history. It's a journey through the absurd, the outrageous, and the downright unbelievable – and one that you won't soon forget. So, if you're ready to dive into a world of crazy ex-girlfriends, hilarious breakup stories, and the surprising wisdom that can come from even the most disastrous of relationships, then “Funny Ex-Girlfriend Quotes” is the book for you. Whether you're looking for a good laugh, a dose of commiseration, or just a reminder that you're not alone in your dating struggles, this collection has something for everyone. Don't wait – order your copy of “Funny Ex-Girlfriend Quotes” today and join the ranks of those who have survived the crazy and lived to laugh about it. Your future self (and your current self) will thank you.
Download or read book Love You Hard written by Abby Maslin and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-03-12 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abby Maslin shares an inspiring story of resilience and commitment in a deeply affecting new memoir. After her husband suffered a traumatic brain injury, the couple worked together as he recovered—and they learned to love again. When Abby Maslin's husband, TC, didn't make it home on August 18, 2012, she knew something was terribly wrong. Her fears were confirmed when she learned that her husband had been beaten by three men and left for dead mere blocks from home, all for his cell phone and debit card. The days and months that followed were a grueling test of faith. As TC recovered from a severe traumatic brain injury that left him unable to speak and walk, Abby faced the challenge of caring for—and loving—a husband who now resembled a stranger. Love You Hard is the raw, unflinchingly honest story of a young love left broken, and the resilience required to mend a life and remake a marriage. Told from the caregiver's perspective, this book is a daring exploration of true love: what it means to love beyond language, beyond abilities, and into the place that reveals who we really are. At the heart of Abby and TC's unique and captivating story are the universal truths that bind us all. This is a tale of living and loving wholeheartedly, learning to heal after profound grief, and choosing joy in the wake of tragedy.
Download or read book Making it Personal written by Tanya Kant and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-25 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Targeted advertisements, tailored information feeds, and recommended content are now common and somewhat inescapable components of our everyday lives. With the help of searches, browsing history, purchases, likes, and other digital interactions, technological experiences are now routinely "personalized." Companies with access to this information often downplay the fact that users' personal data serves as a key form of monetization, and their privacy policies tend to use the terms "personalization" and "customization" to legitimize the practice of tracking and algorithmically anticipating users' daily movements. In Making it Personal, Tanya Kant sheds light on the dilemmas of algorithmic personalization, exploring such key contemporary questions as: What do users really know about the algorithms that guide their online experiences and social media presence? And if personalization practices seek to act on our behalf, then how can users constitute, retain, or relinquish their autonomy and sense of self? At the heart of the book are new interviews and focus groups with web users who-through a myriad of resistant, tactical, resigned or trusting engagements-encounter algorithmic personalization as part of their lived experience on the web. Tanya Kant proposes that for those who encounter it, algorithmic personalization creates epistemic uncertainties that can emerge as trust or anxiety, produces an ongoing struggle for autonomy between user and system, and even has the power to intervene in identity constitution. In doing so, algorithmic personalization does not just generate "filter bubbles" for individuals' worldviews, but also creates new implications for knowledge production, the deployment of cultural capital as an algorithmic tactic, and, above all, formations of identity itself.
Download or read book Work Mate Marry Love written by Debora L. Spar and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2020-08-18 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A crucial guide to life before—and after—Tinder, IVF, and robots. What will happen to our notions of marriage and parenthood as reproductive technologies increasingly allow for newfangled ways of creating babies? What will happen to our understanding of gender as medical advances enable individuals to transition from one set of sexual characteristics to another, or to remain happily perched in between? What will happen to love and sex and romance as our relationships migrate from the real world to the Internet? Can people fall in love with robots? Will they? In short, what will happen to our most basic notions of humanity as we entangle our lives and emotions with the machines we have created? In Work Mate Marry Love, Harvard Business School professor and former Barnard College president Debora L. Spar offers an incisive and provocative account of how technology has transformed our intimate lives in the past, and how it will do so again in the future. Surveying the course of history, she shows how marriage as we understand it resulted from the rise of agriculture, and that the nuclear family emerged with the industrial revolution. In their day, the street light, the car, and later the pill all upended courtship and sex. Now, as we enter an era of artificial intelligence and robots, how will our deepest feelings and attachments evolve? In the past, the prevailing modes of production produced a world dominated by heterosexual, mostly-monogamous, two-parent families. In the future, however, these patterns are almost certain to be reshaped, creating entirely new norms for sex and romance, and for the construction of families and the raising of children. Steering clear of both techno-euphoria and alarmism, Spar offers a bold and inclusive vision of how our lives might be changed for the better.
Download or read book You written by Austin Grossman and published by Mulholland Books. This book was released on 2013-04-16 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Russell joins Black Arts games, brainchild of two visionary designers who were once his closest friends, he reunites with an eccentric crew of nerds hacking the frontiers of both technology and entertainment. In part, he's finally given up chasing the conventional path that has always seemed just out of reach. But mostly, he needs to know what happened to Simon, his strangest and most gifted friend, who died under mysterious circumstances soon after Black Arts' breakout hit. As the company's revolutionary next-gen game is threatened by a software glitch, Russell finds himself in a race to save his job, Black Arts' legacy, and the people he has grown to care about. The deeper Russell digs, the more dangerous the glitch appears -- and soon, Russell comes to realize there's much more is at stake than just one software company's bottom line.
