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"The moving memoir of a girl coming of age as an immigrant in America who finds her calling as a scientist at the forefront of the AI/Machine Learning revolution. Fei-Fei Li is known to the world as the creator of ImageNet, a key catalyst of modern artificial intelligence (AI). But her career in science was improbable from the start. Moving from China's middle class to American poverty, her family navigated the hardships of immigrant life while struggling...
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New York, 1955. Shelby Blaine and her father, an Air Force intelligence officer, are wrenched away from their life in West Germany to New York's Griffiss Air Force Base, where he has been summoned to lead the interrogation of an escaped Soviet pilot. Still in shock from the car accident that killed her mother barely a month earlier, Shelby struggles with her grief, an emotionally distant father, and having to start over in a new home. A chance meeting...
3) I cry in corners: embracing your feelings, throat-punching anxiety, and managing your emotions well
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"It's easy to get lost in all the feels. Our emotions drive so much of what we do, say, and think, even if we don't realize it. Our response to our feelings-denying they exist, letting them lead our actions unchecked, distracting ourselves to avoid feeling them-can greatly impact our lives and those around us. Emotions are essential for everyday life, but how we navigate them in the storms of life as the storms will make or break us. In I Cry in Corners,...
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"Misinformation affects all of us on a daily basis--from social media to larger political challenges, from casual conversations in supermarkets, to even our closest relationships. While we recognize the dangers that misinformation poses, the problem is complex--far beyond what policing social media alone can achieve--and too often our limited solutions are shaped by partisan politics and individual interpretations of truth. In Misbelief, preeminent...