Category: Education

Latest Read: What To Do When Machines Do Everything

Post author By Don Kasprzak
Post date February 28, 2025

What To Do When Machines Do Everything: How to Get Ahead in a World of AI, Algorithms, Bots, and Big Data by Malcolm Frank, Paul Roehrig, and Ben Pring.

Malcolm holds a BA in Economics from Yale University. He is the former Chief Strategy Officer and Chief Marketing Officer of Cognizant Technology Solutions.

Paul holds a BS in journalism from the University of Florida and Doctor of Philosophy from Syracuse University. He was a Principal Analyst at Forrester Research and Global Managing Director of Cognizant’s Center for the Future of Work. Today he his Chief Strategy and Marketing Officer at Ascendion.

Ben holds a BA in Philosophy from the University of Manchester UK. He is a former Vice President at Gartner and Vice President, Head of Thought Leadership, and Director at Cognizant Technology Solutions.

There are few books that made an immediate impact upon reading them. This is one such book and I highly recommend this to anyone working or striving to understand the role of AI that is transforming the world today.

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Latest Read: Grokking Continuous Delivery

Post author By Don Kasprzak
Post date February 22, 2025

Grokking Continuous Delivery by Christie Wilson.

Christie holds a Bachelor of Technology, Data Communication, Network Administration & Security from The British Columbia Institute of Technology. Today she is a Software Engineer at Google working on Go and Python, Specializing in distributed systems, scalable and maintainable code. She co-created Tekton, a cloud-native CI/CD platform built on Kubernetes.

Grokking Continuous Delivery teaches you the design and purpose of continuous delivery systems that you can use with any language or technology stack. I have always enjoyed reading all Grokking titles. Christie outlines in fact, the basic nuts and bolts of continuous delivery. Perfect for for developers and pipeline designers. She demonstrates the proper approaches to tackle real-world challenges regarding CD pipelines.

CD is in fact, a very well written book for software engineers seeking to understand, implement, and master CD pipelines. The book is certainly practical and is a great resource for both new users seeking to understand CD and experienced engineers.

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Latest Read: The Complete Obsolete Guide to Generative AI

Post author By Don Kasprzak
Post date February 19, 2025

The Complete Obsolete Guide to Generative AI by David Clinton.

David is an AWS Solutions Architect, Linux server administrator and author of many Linux and Amazon technologies.

The Complete Obsolete Guide to Generative AI is in fact actually fun to read. Yet at the same time David is delivering a practical introduction. To be fair, beyond his humor, David acknowledges the fluid pace of change in the AI marketplace. This has pushed ChatGPT, Copilot, and Claude to evolve ever so quickly that much of what the general public learns is soon outdated. His focus is to reveal the need for a constant understanding of Generative AI’s core concepts.

So, this book is providing readers with the general, bigger picture of tools and methods for creating text, code, and imaging, touches on the strategies for writing effective prompts. He is addressing all the topics the world has been hearing about.

This also dives into data analytics, training models on local devices or clouds, building custom AI models, and even insights to establish your own large language model. Exercises will help readers learn how generative AI can transform daily work tasks and communications, making Generative AI accessible to all rather than intimidating everyone.

Tags Artificial Intelligence, David Clinton, Generative AI

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Latest Read: AI for Good

Post author By Don Kasprzak
Post date February 15, 2025

AI for Good: Applications in Sustainability, Humanitarian Action, and Health by William B. Weeks and Juan M. Lavista Ferres.

William holds a BS in Biology/ChemistryBachelor of Science from Whitman College, MD from The University of Texas Medical Branch, and PhD in Economics from Aix-Marseille University France. Today he is Director, AI for Health at Microsoft and an Adjunct Professor at NYU School of Public Health.

Juan holds a BS in computer science from the Catholic University in Uruguay, MA in Data Mining and Machine Learning from Johns Hopkins University and a PhD in AI on Healthcare from Vrije Universiteit of Amsterdam.

With a foreword by Brad Smith, Vice Chair and President of Microsoft, AI for Good is certainly addressing the exploration of how artificial intelligence is being used today to address the world’s most pressing challenges.

Readers will discover how Microsoft’s AI leaders and researchers are obviously using AI to transform the world for the better. The impact AI is making on data analytics is amazing. William and Juan are detailing their efforts so far.

Tags AI for Good, Artificial Intelligence, Innovation, trends

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Latest Read: The Growth Mindset Workbook

Post author By Don Kasprzak
Post date February 8, 2025

The Growth Mindset Workbook: CBT Skills to Help You Build Resilience, Increase Confidence, and Thrive through Life’s Challenges by Elaine Elliott Moskwa with a forward by Carol S. Dweck

The Growth Mindset Workbook by Elaine Elliott-Moskwa

Elaine holds a PhD and did postdoctoral work at the Harvard School of Education. She trained in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) at the University of Pennsylvania. She helped to establish the CBT training program at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital. Currently, she is president of the Academy of Cognitive and Behavioral Therapies.

A certainly important follow up book to Carol Dweck’s breakthrough work. This is a well received workbook providing great lessons to embrace personal growth. This workbook holds clear and actionable exercises based upon Elaine’s work as a student of Carol and clearly excels at Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

There is a mix of theory and actionable hands-on activities. This is based upon step-by-step guidance for shifting from a fixed to a growth mindset. Elaine is focusing on sustaining a growth mindset even when setbacks naturally develop. This should be recommended for anyone seeking to deepen self-awareness and develop lifelong mental skills. However to be fair Elaine is acknowledging this is not a substitute for clinical mental health treatments.

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