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NLP, Language Models, GPT, Transformers

Booklist on O'Reilly:

NLP: https://learning.oreilly.com/topics/natural-language-processing/
Building Chatbot: https://learning.oreilly.com/topics/chatbots/
Generative Models: https://learning.oreilly.com/topics/generative-models/
ChatGPT (playlist): https://learning.oreilly.com/playlists/c8ff3a91-edcd-417f-84b5-3413e89f67a7

LLM Engineer's Handbook by Paul Iusztin; Maxime Labonne; Alex Vesa; Julien Chaumond (Foreword by); Hamza Tahir (Foreword by)
Publication Date: 2024-10-22
Quick Start Guide to Large Language Models: Strategies and Best Practices for Using ChatGPT and Other LLMs by Sinan Ozdemir
Publication Date: 2023-09-21
Developing Apps with GPT-4 and ChatGPT by Olivier Caelen, Marie-Alice Blete
Publication Date: 2024-01
Quick Start Guide to Large Language Models by Sinan Ozdemir
Publication Date: 2023-10-20
What Are ChatGPT and Its Friends? by Mike Loukides
Publication Date: 2023-03
Exploring GPT-3 by Steve Tingiris; Bret Kinsella
Publication Date: 2021-08-27
Transformers for Natural Language Processing by Denis Rothman, Antonio Gulli
Publication Date: 2022-03-25
Natural Language Processing with Transformers, Revised Edition by Lewis Tunstall; Leandro von Werra; Thomas Wolf
Publication Date: 2022-07-05
Transformers for Natural Language Processing by Denis Rothman
Publication Date: 2022-03-25
Getting Started with Natural Language Processing by Ekaterina Kochmar
Publication Date: 2022-10-18
Generative AI with Python and TensorFlow 2 by Joseph Babcock; Raghav Bali
Publication Date: 2021-04-30

Python

Booklist on O'Reilly:

Python: https://learning.oreilly.com/topics/python/
Python Web Frameworks: https://learning.oreilly.com/topics/python-web-frameworks/

Python Crash Course (3rd ed.) by Eric Matthes
Publication Date: 2023-01-10
Python for Everybody by Charles Severance; Aimee Andrion (Cover Design by); Sue Blumenberg (Editor); Elliott Hauser (Editor)
Publication Date: 2016-04-09

(Request via HKALL)
Learn Python 3 the Hard Way by Zed Shaw
Publication Date: 2017-06-27
Automate the Boring Stuff with Python (2nd ed.) by Al Sweigart
Publication Date: 2019-11-12
Fluent Python by Luciano Ramalho
Publication Date: 2022-05-10
Python for DevOps by Noah Gift; Kennedy Behrman; Alfredo Deza; Grig Gheorghiu
Publication Date: 2020-01-07
Practical Statistics for Data Scientists by Peter Bruce; Andrew Bruce; Peter Gedeck
Publication Date: 2020-06-02
Python for Data Analysis (3rd ed.) by Wes McKinney
Publication Date: 2022-09-20
Python Automation Cookbook by Jaime Buelta
Publication Date: 2020-05-29
Pandas for Everyone: Python Data Analysis by Daniel Chen
Publication Date: 2022-12-30

Data Viz

Booklist on O'Reilly:

Data VIz: https://learning.oreilly.com/topics/data-visualization/
D3: https://learning.oreilly.com/topics/d3/
Tableau: https://learning.oreilly.com/topics/tableau/

Data Visualization with Python and JavaScript by Kyran Dale
Publication Date: 2023-01-17
Fundamentals of Data Visualization by Claus O. Wilke
Publication Date: 2019-04-30
Storytelling with Data by Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic
Publication Date: 2015-11-02
Interactive Data Visualization for the Web by Scott Murray
Publication Date: 2017-09-19
D3. js in Action by Elijah Meeks
Publication Date: 2017-12-07

Web Scraping

Booklist on O'Reilly:

Web Scraping: https://learning.oreilly.com/topics/web-scraping/

Web Scraping with Python by Ryan Mitchell
Publication Date: 2018-05-08
Python Web Scraping Cookbook by Michael Heydt; Jay Zeng
Publication Date: 2018-02-09
Mining the Social Web: Data Mining Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, GitHub, and More by Matthew A. Russell; Mikhail Klassen
Publication Date: 2019-01-29
Hands-On Web Scraping with Python by Anish Chapagain
Publication Date: 2019-07-15

Machine Learning, Deep Learning

Booklist on O'Reilly:

Machine Learning: https://learning.oreilly.com/topics/machine-learning/
Machine Learning Tasks: https://learning.oreilly.com/topics/machine-learning-tasks/
Machine Learning Tools: https://learning.oreilly.com/topics/machine-learning-tools/
Deep Learning: https://learning.oreilly.com/topics/deep-learning/

Generative Deep Learning by David Foster
Publication Date: 2023-06-06
Designing Machine Learning Systems by Chip Huyen
Publication Date: 2022-06-21
Deep Learning for Coders with Fastai and Pytorch by Jeremy Howard; Sylvain Gugger
Publication Date: 2020-08-11
Mathematics for Machine Learning by Marc Peter Deisenroth; A. Aldo Faisal; Cheng Soon Ong
Publication Date: 2020-04-23
Deep Learning with Python by François Chollet
Publication Date: 2021-12-21
Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn, Keras, and TensorFlow by Aurélien Géron
Publication Date: 2019-10-22

Algorithms, Computer Architecture

Introduction to Algorithms (4th ed.) by Thomas H. Cormen; Charles E. Leiserson; Ronald L. Rivest; Clifford Stein
Publication Date: 2022-04-05
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (2nd ed.) by Harold Abelson; Gerald Jay Sussman; Julie Sussman (Contribution by)
Publication Date: 1996-07-25
Design Patterns by Erich Gamma; Richard Helm; Ralph Johnson; John Vlissides
Publication Date: 1994-10-31
Fundamentals of Software Architecture by Mark Richards; Neal Ford
Publication Date: 2020-03-03
Head First Design Patterns by Eric Freeman; Elisabeth Robson
Publication Date: 2021-01-12
Software Architecture: the Hard Parts by Neal Ford; Mark Richards; Pramod Sadalage; Zhamak Dehghani
Publication Date: 2021-11-30
Dive into Algorithms by Bradford Tuckfield
Publication Date: 2021-01-25
Data Structures and Algorithms Made Easy by Karumanchi Narasimha
Publication Date: 2016-08-28

(Request via HKALL)
The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World by Pedro Domingos
Publication Date: 2015-09-22
A Common-Sense Guide to Data Structures and Algorithms in Python, Volume 1 by Jay Wengrow
Publication Date: 2024-01-09

Data Modeling, Applications

Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmann
Publication Date: 2017-05-02
Fundamentals of Data Engineering by Joe Reis; Matt Housley
Publication Date: 2022-07-26

R

R for Data Science by Garrett Grolemund; Hadley Wickham
Publication Date: 2017-01-31

SQL

SQL QuickStart Guide by Walter Shields
Publication Date: 2019-11-18

(Request via HKALL)
PHP and MySQL by Jon Duckett
Publication Date: 2022-02-15
Learning SQL by Alan Beaulieu
Publication Date: 2020-04-21
Practical SQL (2nd ed.) by Anthony DeBarros
Publication Date: 2022-01-25
SQL for Data Analysis by Cathy Tanimura
Publication Date: 2021-10-05

Java

Head First Java (3rd ed.) by Kathy Sierra; Trisha Gee; Bert Bates
Publication Date: 2022-06-21
Java: a Beginner's Guide, Eighth Edition by Herbert Schildt
Publication Date: 2018-11-02
Effective Java by Joshua Bloch
Publication Date: 2017-12-27

C, C++

A Tour of C++ by Bjarne Stroustrup
Publication Date: 2022-09-24
C++ Primer by Stanley Lippman; Josée Lajoie; Barbara Moo
Publication Date: 2012-08-06
C Programming Language by Brian Kernighan; Dennis Ritchie
Publication Date: 1988-03-22
Computer Science: a Structured Programming Approach in C by Behrouz A. Forouzan
Publication Date: 2023-02-27

Web Design

HTML and CSS by Jon Duckett
Publication Date: 2011-11-08
JavaScript and JQuery by Jon Duckett
Publication Date: 2014-06-30
JavaScript: the Definitive Guide by David Flanagan
Publication Date: 2020-06-23
Information Architecture by Louis Rosenfeld; Peter Morville; Jorge Arango
Publication Date: 2015-11-10
Designing Interfaces by Jenifer Tidwell; Charles Brewer; Aynne Valencia
Publication Date: 2020-02-18
Mapping Experiences by James Kalbach
Publication Date: 2020-12-15
Articulating Design Decisions by Tom Greever
Publication Date: 2020-08-25

General

Clean Code by Robert Martin
Publication Date: 2008-08-01
Algorithms to Live By by Brian Christian; Tom Griffiths
Publication Date: 2017-04-04

(Request via HKALL)
The Clean Coder by Robert Martin
Publication Date: 2011-05-13
The Pragmatic Programmer by David Thomas; Andrew Hunt
Publication Date: 2019-09-13
Code by Charles Petzold
Publication Date: 2022-08-07

(2nd ed. on order)
Clean Architecture by Robert Martin
Publication Date: 2017-09-10
Thinking in Systems by Donella Meadows; Diana Wright (Editor)
Publication Date: 2008-12-03

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