The August book news has arrived, how are you achieving your annual KPIs?
In this issue of Book News, we have prepared a 3-piece efficiency set for you. Using the popular Midjourney drawing, this book "Playing Midjourney with Zero Basics" teaches you drawing step by step, allowing your unbridled creativity to quickly come to fruition.
"Using ChatGPT for Data Analysis" accurately improves work efficiency and uses AI to free our hands.
There is also a very useful time management method - the comic version of the Pomodoro Technique, the "Comic Pomodoro Learning Method", which only takes 25 minutes and doubles your efficiency.
In addition, there is also an artificial intelligence version of "Script Killing" this month. I think you must not have tried it yet. This book "The Gate of Black and White" is worth reading.
At the top of the wave of AI, look at the development and evolution of China's artificial intelligence. "A Brief History of China's Artificial Intelligence: From 1979 to 1993" will help you clarify the context and see the future.
"There is more than one answer to mathematics." How many are there? The brainstorming triggered by 16 questions invites mathematics enthusiasts to continue exploring.
Finally, this book "Cognitive Trap" extracts 6 common thinking errors to help you break out of the thinking trap and think efficiently.
There are so many good books, let’s recharge together!
Technology
Experience is taught personally by a celebrity favored by 1 million fans, and you can easily unlock the exquisite gameplay of nearly 20 parameters and instructions in Midjourney.
"Playing Midjourney with Zero Basics—Building an AI Painting Assistant"
Little Turtle, written by Yuan Chunliang｜
This book explains how to make AI serve us based on Midjourney. It first briefly introduces how to register a Discord account, then introduces the parameters and instructions in Midjourney in detail, then discusses some advanced operations, and finally introduces actual application scenarios, such as design Cartoon IP images, expression packs, logos, posters, story picture books, etc.
The first book on the market to use ChatGPT for data analysis, a best-selling author with 100,000 copies, teaches you how to control ChatGPT first and improve the efficiency of data analysis.
"Data Analysis Using ChatGPT"
Zhang Junhong | Written by
In concise and easy-to-understand language, this book introduces in detail how to use ChatGPT to process and analyze data. It not only provides basic knowledge for beginners, but also provides new methods for experienced data analysts. The book contains detailed guidance and application cases, aiming to help readers build a data analysis process from scratch and flexibly use ChatGPT to solve problems and improve efficiency in actual work.
New work by Lin Jun, author of "Fifteen Years of Boiling" and "New Ten Years of Boiling"! The first set of works analyzing the past, present and future of China's artificial intelligence field.
"A Brief History of Artificial Intelligence in China: From 1979 to 1993"
Written by Lin Jun, Cen Feng |
Academician Gao Wen, Academician Li Guojie, and Academician Dai Qionghai wrote prefaces and recommended it. Zhang Bo, Shen Xiangyang, Yang Qiang, Zhang Zhengyou, Zhang Jianfeng, Wang Haifeng and Wang Xiaochuan jointly recommended. The first panoramic work to record the development of China's artificial intelligence for more than 40 years, it comprehensively, systematically and deeply analyzes the important figures, key technologies and milestone events in the field of China's artificial intelligence development, and presents in detail the vivid story of three generations of scientists, old, middle and young, moving forward and making continuous breakthroughs. story. Starting from the starting point of China's artificial intelligence, clarify the context and see the future.
Popular science
With 8 major sections, 35 application scenarios, and more than 240 comics, it is a time management guide for teenagers.
"The Comic Pomodoro Study Method: A Time Management Guide for Teenagers"
Steve Noteberg｜Author
Everything is a mystery｜Compilation and illustration
The Pomodoro method is your secret to achieving precise time management and efficient learning. This book will reveal to you the full picture of the Pomodoro learning method and help you better master learning skills. Through this book, you will learn how to concentrate, manage time effectively, make plans, overcome procrastination, deal with complex problems, and cope with challenges such as exams. There are 248 comics in the book, making it easy, interesting and burden-free to read. It is rich in small cases and tips, allowing you to quickly learn the Pomodoro learning method and apply it in your studies, thereby improving learning efficiency and developing good study habits.
The artificial intelligence version of "Script Killing" explains "the essence of computing" in the form of science fiction novels.
"The Gate of Black and White: A Fantasy Adventure in Formal Language and Automata"
Ai Kawazoe｜Written
Translated by Liu Tingting |
This book describes the story of an ordinary boy who becomes a disciple of a great magician. In the process of studying to become a magician, he encountered mysterious "relics" and wonderful "language" and began to explore the secrets hidden within them. This is of course a fictional story, but when reading the entire story, readers will inadvertently become familiar with a real-life academic theory—an important theory related to information science, mathematics, and cognitive science. basic concept. In the magical world that the Gate of Black and White invites you to enter, I hope you can learn and have fun.
Mathematics does not have only one answer, and mathematics pursues more than just answers.
"There's More than One Answer to Mathematics: 16 Questions to Trigger Brainstorming"
Yijun, President of the Mathematics Enthusiasts Association｜Author
Zhou Ziheng | Translated
This book considers the same mathematical problem (a total of 16 problems) from various perspectives and gives different solutions.
The 16 questions include: halve a cake, design a clock face, find the diameter of the earth, list things that violate the rules, draw a heart-shaped image, list questions with an answer of 1, trisect an angle, and prove it with the Last Theorem Some boring questions, finding pi, enumerating phenomena with irrational probabilities, finding approximate integers, enumerating "sick mathematics", proving 1=2, enumerating incredible figures, freeing up rooms in the fully occupied infinite hotel, List extremely large numbers.
These mathematical problems are all interesting, and some of them are classic problems. For example, the book gives 10 different answers to how to divide a cake into three equal parts, along with corresponding difficulty coefficients and ideas. This kind of thinking training method is of great benefit to improving mathematical thinking and comprehensive application ability.
Extract 6 common cognitive traps and use a large number of empirical cases to describe scientific thinking to help you escape from the thinking traps.
"Cognitive Traps: 6 Thinking Mistakes People Commonly Make"
Written by Thomas Kedar |
Mulan, Sun Jingbo, Zhang Jiarui | Translated
Many times, we get into trouble because we fall into thinking traps. There are various reasons for the formation of these traps. This book summarizes them and summarizes the thinking traps we often encounter into six aspects: preferring stories over data, seeking to confirm one's own ideas, ignoring the role of chance and coincidence, and misperception The world, oversimplified thinking, has false memories. This book uses a large number of seemingly bizarre but real stories to vividly demonstrate the horror of thinking traps, analyzes the reasons for their occurrence, and points out specific methods to mitigate or even eliminate the effects of these traps.
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