Download or read book The Swimming Pool from Another Freaking Dimension written by Tony McGowan and published by Tony McGowan. This book was released on 2021-05-10 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the world’s on fire and your garden sprinkler is not going to cut it, there’s only one thing to do: just dig. But the town’s hillbillies are laughing behind your back and your so-called mates are laying bets on you burying yourself alive and spiders are breeding in your 3D printer and those fires are inching closer every freaking day. Just dig, baby. Stranded in a mountaintop suburb monitored by military drones and plagued by wildlife and weather gone crazy, Dezzy and his teenaged neighbour, Sonia, are just trying to save their homes from the next megafires – by digging the biggest, deepest, most badass swimming pool possible. A chlorinated moat at the edge of their derelict suburb that might also provide a refreshing dip in between raging infernos. Only they dig up more than they bargained for, a hell of a lot more. Never mind the secret military base, the burn-scarred locals and their Truth Church, or those birds attacking people out of the blue, because Dezzy and Sonia have bigger things to worry about, things perhaps not of this freaking near-future reality.

Download or read book Back to Earth written by Nicole Stott and published by Seal Press. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by insights gained in spaceflight, a NASA astronaut offers key lessons to empower Earthbound readers to fight climate change When Nicole Stott first saw Earth from space, she realized how interconnected we are and knew she had to help protect our planetary home. In Back to Earth, Stott imparts essential lessons in problem-solving, survival, and crisis response that each of us can practice to make change. She knows we can overcome differences to address global issues, because she saw this every day on the International Space Station. Stott shares stories from her spaceflight and insights from scientists, activists, and changemakers working to solve our greatest environmental challenges. She learns about the complexities of Earth’s biodiversity from NASA engineers working to enable life in space and from scientists protecting life on Earth for future generations. Ultimately, Stott reveals how we each have the power to respect our planetary home and one another by living our lives like crewmates, not passengers, on an inspiring shared mission

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Download or read book THE SEVEN DIMENSIONS PART I written by Mohammed Al-Hasani and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2017-07-17 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten thousand years ago, a group of creatures living on Earth were kicked out of this planet. At present—meet Samy Zock, a carefree next-gen teenager. While he lives a normal life during the day, strange dreams of foreign creatures trying to kill him appear in his dreams every night. He finally finds out that he has an unexplored power in him and when he begins to research about it, he stumbles upon the history of the creatures that once roamed the Earth. He finds out that they had been banished into one of the seven dimensions that exist in this Universe, apart from our planet. Samy and his friends embark on an epic voyage to the other dimension in a quest to meet the creatures who haunt his dreams, and to find answers to their questions. What do they find over there? What kind of obstacles comes their way? What happens to them?

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Download or read book Technology Anthropology and Dimensions of Responsibility written by Birgit Beck and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-02-19 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “With great power comes great responsibility.” In today’s world, with our growing technological power and the knowledge about its impact, we are considered to be responsible for many instances that not long ago would have been deemed a matter of fate. At the same time, the looming options of, e.g., genome editing or neuroprosthetics, threaten traditional notions of responsibility if no longer the person but the technology involved is deemed to be responsible for a specific behaviour. The growing ethical debate on the expansion of human responsibility, e.g. when it comes to human-machine-interaction, ambient intelligence, or reproductive technologies, thus intertwines with the challenge to formulate an appropriate understanding of the concept of personal responsibility and our respective anthropological self-understanding in today’s technological world. The volume brings together both perspectives and aims at illuminating crucial dimensions of responsibility in light of technological innovation and our self-understanding as responsible beings.

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Download or read book Computer Vision Metrics written by Scott Krig and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-09-16 with total page 653 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the successful 2014 book published by Apress, this textbook edition is expanded to provide a comprehensive history and state-of-the-art survey for fundamental computer vision methods and deep learning. With over 800 essential references, as well as chapter-by-chapter learning assignments, both students and researchers can dig deeper into core computer vision topics and deep learning architectures. The survey covers everything from feature descriptors, regional and global feature metrics, feature learning architectures, deep learning, neuroscience of vision, neural networks, and detailed example architectures to illustrate computer vision hardware and software optimization methods. To complement the survey, the textbook includes useful analyses which provide insight into the goals of various methods, why they work, and how they may be optimized. The text delivers an essential survey and a valuable taxonomy, thus providing a key learning tool for students, researchers and engineers, to supplement the many effective hands-on resources and open source projects, such as OpenCV and other imaging and deep learning tools.

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