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Programming since 1972. I made the "mistake" of studying AI in grad school at Stanford a few decades ago; perseverance pays off :)

Sometimes an author and more often a speaker/instructor, in a lot of venues, although even more often working as an engineering director or consultant.

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	Liber 118 U.S. 394: The Battle Of Oakland it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Enterprise Data Workflows with Cascading 4.14 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2013 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Agile AI by Carlo Appugliese, Paco Nathan (Goodreads Author), William S. Roberts liked it 3.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2020	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Just Enough Math it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2014 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The State of Machine Learning Adoption in the Enterprise by Ben Lorica, Paco Nathan (Goodreads Author) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sind Unternehmen die besseren Menschen? by Paco Nathan (Goodreads Author), Oona Leganovic (Illustrator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2004	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Rich Search and Discovery for Research Datasets: Building the Next Generation of Scholarly Infrastructure by Julia I. Lane (Editor), Ian Mulvany (Editor), Paco Nathan (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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2021 NLP Industry Survey

Our 2021 NLP Industry Survey report is informed by several important contrasts: organizations with years of history deploying NLP applications in production compared to those which are exploring NLP, responses from Technical Leaders versus general practitioners, and company size. We draw insights and indicate trends based on those contrasts - now available as a free download

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The Ministry for the Future

by Kim Stanley Robinson

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The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man

by Marshall McLuhan

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