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Why It's OK to Love Bad Movies

Why It's OK to Love Bad Movies

Most people are too busy to keep up with all the good movies they’d like to see so why should anyone spend their precious time watching the bad ones? In Why It’s OK to Love Bad Movies philosopher and cinematic bottom feeder Matthew Strohl enthusiastically defends a fondness for disreputable films. Combining philosophy of art with film criticism Strohl flips conventional notions of good and bad on their heads and makes the case that the ultimate value of a work of art lies in what it can add to our lives. By this measure some of the worst movies ever made are also among the best. Through detailed discussions of films such as Troll 2 The Room Batman & Robin Twilight Ninja III: The Domination and a significant portion of Nicolas Cage’s filmography Strohl argues that so-called bad movies are the ones that break the rules of the art form without the aura of artistic seriousness that surrounds the avant-garde. These movies may not win any awards but they offer rich opportunities for creative engagement and enable the formation of lively fan communities and they can be a key ingredient in a fulfilling aesthetic life. Key Features: Written in a humorous approachable style appealing to readers with no background in philosophy. Elaborates the rewards of loving bad movies such as forming unlikely social bonds and developing refinement without narrowness. Discusses a wide range of beloved bad movies including Plan 9 from Outer Space The Core Battlefield Earth and Freddy Got Fingered. Contains the most extensive discussion of Nicolas Cage ever included in a philosophy book. | Why It's OK to Love Bad Movies

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Why It's OK to Make Bad Choices

Why It's OK to Make Bad Choices

If we are kind people we care about others including others who tend to hurt themselves. We all have friends or family members who have potential but squander or even ruin their lives from things like drug abuse unwise spending decisions or poor dietary habits. Concern for others often motivates us to endorse laws or private interventions meant to keep people from harming themselves even if that’s what they want to do in the moment. However it is far from clear that such paternalistic measures are on net benign and they tend to violate an understanding that we should let adults make their own decisions. In this little book William Glod argues that it’s OK to allow people to make bad choices. It’s OK even if those choices risk causing a lot of harm. Most defenders of paternalism agree that some bad choices are not harmful enough to require laws to stop them. However Glod goes further. He argues that some people might want – and deserve – the freedom to make truly bad choices because such freedom is the only way they can act responsibly. He also argues that some bad choices may not even be bad even if we can't know with confidence a person's true desires. In addition the book explores choices that are bad because they might impose high monetary costs on others arguing that mandatory insurance may be a better solution than eliminating the choice. Finally it explores the potential pitfalls of paternalistic laws and policies – and how unintended costly consequences can sabotage the most well-intended plans. Key Features Introduces key concepts for understanding paternalism and freedom of choice for undergraduates and general readers Discusses how many of our preferences are not easily understood by others and shows how assumptions of what our true preferences can often backfire Explores ways in which people may want the freedom to make mistakes Examines the unintended consequences and associated problems of many paternalistic laws and regulations | Why It's OK to Make Bad Choices

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Why are the British Bad at Manufacturing?

Why are the British Bad at Manufacturing?

This book first published in 1983 offers a new explanation for the poor performance of British manufacturing since 1950. Rather than invoke orthodox economic theory or general social factors the book analyses four national conditions – enterprise control over the labour process; market structure and the composition of demand; the relation of manufacturing enterprise to financial institutions like banks and stock exchanges; and the relation of manufacturing enterprise to government. | Why are the British Bad at Manufacturing?

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Ethics for Evaluation Beyond “doing no harm” to “tackling bad” and “doing good”

Ethics for Evaluation Beyond “doing no harm” to “tackling bad” and “doing good”

In Ethics for Evaluation the diverse perspectives on ethical guidance in evaluation are untangled and ordered in a theoretical framework focusing on evaluations doing no harm tackling bad and doing good. Divided into four parts a diverse group of subject experts present a practical look at ethics utilizing practical experience to analyze how ethics have been applied in evaluations and how new approaches can shape the future of ethics. The chapters collectively create a common understanding of the potential role of ethics to infuse policy decisions and stakeholder initiatives with evaluations that provide better insight and potential solutions for problems going beyond what works to what needs to be done and what would help. The methodological scope ranges from working in contexts of fragility conflict and violence to participatory and decolonized approaches including the ethical imperatives posed by global crises such as climate change inequity and exploitative international relations. Ethics for Evaluation presents evaluators commissioners of evaluation policymakers and practitioners with inspiration for an ethical perspective on how evaluation can contribute towards solving problems. It presents a solid foundation for inclusive terminology and ethics guidance that would be the heart of a global exercise in professionalization of ethical evaluation practice. | Ethics for Evaluation Beyond “doing no harm” to “tackling bad” and “doing good”

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Maybe Teaching is a Bad Idea Why Faculty Should Focus on Learning

Maybe Teaching is a Bad Idea Why Faculty Should Focus on Learning

Deep and lasting learning results when we teach human brains in ways responsive to how they’re structured and how they function which is not how we imagine they work or wish they would work. This book proposes a radical restructuring of teaching so that it conforms to how people learn. Spence maintains that teaching cannot and should not be aimed at transferring knowledge from teacher brains into student brains. In his words: “Decades of experience have made perfectly clear that this approach frustrates teachers bores students and results in minimal learning. ”This is a book that challenges—it will poke and prod your thinking. The author writes near the end of Chapter 4 “I wanted to write a book that asked real questions and explored possible answers. I am not concerned that you agree with my answers or ideas but I fervently hope the questions I’m raising will lead you to questions about habitual teaching practices and the resulting failure of students to learn. ” | Maybe Teaching is a Bad Idea Why Faculty Should Focus on Learning

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The Good the Bad and the Data Shane the Lone Ethnographer’s Basic Guide to Qualitative Data Analysis

The Good the Bad and the Data Shane the Lone Ethnographer’s Basic Guide to Qualitative Data Analysis

Data analysis is often the most difficult task facing students and novice qualitative researchers including Shane the Lone Ethnographer—a grad student with fond visions of the Wild West—and her horse Transcriptor. In this comic-style textbook we follow Shane as she attempts to corral her data and make sense of it for publication. Shane learns how to read sort code write and assess the analysis of a qualitative study in the traditions of ethnography grounded theory discourse and narrative analysis. Along the trail she receives helpful advice from experienced researchers who explain their analytic practices in detail. Written in a friendly comic book style Shane’s Wild West adventures in data analysis will be both instructive and an enjoyable read. | The Good the Bad and the Data Shane the Lone Ethnographer’s Basic Guide to Qualitative Data Analysis

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Feminist Existentialism Biopolitics and Critical Phenomenology in a Time of Bad Health

Feminist Existentialism Biopolitics and Critical Phenomenology in a Time of Bad Health

This book explores the personal value of healthy behavior arguing that our modern tendency to praise or blame individuals for their health is politically and economically motivated and has reinforced growing health disparities between the wealthy and poor under the guise of individual responsibility. We are awash in concerns about the state of our health and recommendations about how to improve it from medical professionals public health experts and the diet-exercise-wellness industry. The idea that health is about wellness and not just preventing illness becomes increasingly widespread as we find out how various modifiable behaviors such as smoking or our diets impact our health. In a critical examination of health we find that alongside the move toward wellness as a state that the individual is responsible to in part produce there is a roll-back of public programs. This book explores how this good health imperative is not as apolitical as one might assume. The more the individual is the locus of health the less structural and historical issues that create health disparities are considered. Feminist Existentialism Biopolitics and Critical Phenomenology in a Time of Bad Health’s charts the impact of the increasing shift to a model of individual responsibility for one’s health. It will benefit readers who are interested to think critically about normalization to produce healthy bodies. In addition this book will benefit readers who understand the value of personal health but are wary of the ways in which health can be used as a tool to discriminate and fuel inequalities in health care access. This volume is primarily of interest to academics students public health and medical professionals and readers who are interested in critically examining health from philosophical perspective in order to understand how we can celebrate the value of healthy behavior without reinforcing discrimination. The Open Access version of this book available at http://www. taylorfrancis. com has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4. 0 license.

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Diplomacy in the 21st Century A Brief Introduction

Diplomacy in the 21st Century A Brief Introduction

This book provides an introduction to the theory and practice of diplomacy and its vital role in an era of increasing international uncertainty. The work employs a distinctive diplomatic perspective on international relations and argues that the experience of conducting diplomacy gives rise to a set of priorities: first the peaceful resolution of disputes; second the avoidance of unwanted conflict; and third the minimization of the intensity of violent conflict where it has become unavoidable. It argues that changes in the international system require a shift in priorities from the diplomacy of problem-solving by building institutionalized cooperation to the diplomacy of managing relationships between people. Divided into three sections the first examines what is meant when we talk about diplomacy why we need diplomats and the operations of the modern diplomatic system of states. The second discusses the three bads about which people generally worry: bad leaders bad media and bad followers. The idea of bad is considered in terms of the moral character professional competence and the consequences of what people do for us. The final section discusses diplomacy and bad diplomats reviewing what people can do to help themselves and the professionals be good diplomats. This book is intended as a primary text for courses in international diplomacy and as a supplementary text for courses on contemporary issues in international relations. | Diplomacy in the 21st Century A Brief Introduction

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Security without Obscurity A Guide to PKI Operations

Security without Obscurity A Guide to PKI Operations

Most books on public key infrastructure (PKI) seem to focus on asymmetric cryptography X. 509 certificates certificate authority (CA) hierarchies or certificate policy (CP) and certificate practice statements. While algorithms certificates and theoretical policy are all excellent discussions the real-world issues for operating a commercial or private CA can be overwhelming. Security without Obscurity: A Guide to PKI Operations provides a no-nonsense approach and realistic guide to operating a PKI system. In addition to discussions on PKI best practices the book supplies warnings against bad PKI practices. Scattered throughout the book are anonymous case studies identifying both good and bad practices. The highlighted bad practices based on real-world scenarios from the authors’ experiences illustrate how bad things are often done with good intentions but cause bigger problems than the original one being solved. This book offers readers the opportunity to benefit from the authors’ more than 50 years of combined experience in developing PKI-related policies standards practices procedures and audits as well as designing and operating various commercial and private PKI systems. | Security without Obscurity A Guide to PKI Operations

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Conspiracy Theories The Philosophical Debate

Conspiracy Theories The Philosophical Debate

Conspiracy theories have a bad reputation. In the past most philosophers have ignored the topic vaguely supposing that conspiracy theories are obviously irrational and that they can be easily dismissed. The current philosophical interest in the subject results from a realisation that this is not so. Some philosophers have taken up the challenge of identifying and explaining the flaws of conspiracy theories. Other philosophers have argued that conspiracy theories do not deserve their bad reputation and that conspiracy theorists do not deserve their reputation for irrationality. This book represents both sides of this important debate. Aimed at a broad philosophical community including epistemologists political philosophers and philosophers of history. It represents a significant contribution to the growing interdisciplinary debate about conspiracy theories. | Conspiracy Theories The Philosophical Debate

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Working Class Youth Culture

Working Class Youth Culture

First published in 1976 Working Class Youth Culture offers a much-needed alternative viewpoint to the law-and-order lobby which treats the youth question as a dreadful pest to be exterminated or caged in. The contributors describe the real conditions of life for working-class youth; how they make sense of the world; and how we can understand their perspective. The subjects discussed include Teddy Boys Mods Skinheads and the Glamrock Cult; dance-hall fights; picking up girls and going steady; how schools manufacture delinquency truancy and vandalism; how working-class kids slide from bad schools to bad jobs or to no jobs at all; Paki-bashing racism and the competition over jobs and houses; how social change in post-war Britain has influenced youth culture; and how social scientists have hidden the real character of youth troubles behind the myth of a classless society. This book will be of interest to students of sociology and anthropology.

GBP 85.00
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Protocols for Multislice Helical Computed Tomography The Fundamentals

Protocols for Multislice Helical Computed Tomography The Fundamentals

Despite the expected decline in the mid-1970s in the use of computed tomography (CT) following the excitement of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) CT has confounded its detractors and remains the imaging modality of choice particularly for the chest and abdomen. Spiral/helical CT with the development of 64-multislice variant has revolutionized diagnostic imaging: image acquistion of large body volumes are obtained in short times during a single-breath hold. Scanning protocols without contrast enhancement are not a challenge; however with intravenous contrast agents critical choices are made and bad choices inevitably produce bad scans. This handy guide provides the reader with a simple introduction to the essential ideas involved and a practical guide to the implementation of rational scanning protocols for multislice spiral instruments. Written by Peter Dawson a well-respected figure in computed tomography and radiology and a world expert on contrast agents Scanning Protocols for Multislice Helical Computed Tomography is an essential guide for all those working with CT as well as those in training. | Protocols for Multislice Helical Computed Tomography The Fundamentals

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Self-Reflection for the Opaque Mind An Essay in Neo-Sellarsian Philosophy

Self-Reflection for the Opaque Mind An Essay in Neo-Sellarsian Philosophy

This volume attempts to solve a grave problem about critical self-reflection. The worry is that we critical thinkers are all in epistemic bad faith in light of what psychology tells us. After all the research shows not merely that we are bad at detecting ego-threatening thoughts à la Freud. It also indicates that we are ignorant of even our ordinary thoughts—e. g. reasons for our moral judgments of others (Haidt 2001) and even mundane reasons for buying one pair of stockings over another! (Nisbett & Wilson 1977) However reflection on one’s thoughts requires knowing what those thoughts are in the first place. So if ignorance is the norm why attempt self-reflection? The activity would just display naivety about psychology. Yet while respecting all the data this book argues that remarkably we are sometimes infallible in our self-discerning judgments. Even so infallibility does not imply indubitability and there is no Cartesian ambition to provide a foundation for empirical knowledge. The point is rather to explain how self-reflection as a rational activity is possible. | Self-Reflection for the Opaque Mind An Essay in Neo-Sellarsian Philosophy

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Greek Tragedy

Greek Tragedy

This classic work not only records developments in the form and style of Greek drama it also analyses the reasons for these changes. It provides illuminating answers to questions that have confronted generations of students such as:* why did Aeschylus introduce the second actor?* why did Sophocles develop character drawing?* why are some of Euripides' plots so bad and others so good?Greek Tragedy is neither a history nor a handbook but a penetrating work of criticism which all students of literature will find suggestive and stimulating.

GBP 130.00
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Safety Accidents in Risky Industries Black Swans Gray Rhinos and Other Adverse Events

Safety Accidents in Risky Industries Black Swans Gray Rhinos and Other Adverse Events

This text introduces bad events (incidents and accidents) named as metaphors. The metaphors called as safety animals are named as black swan gray rhino gray swans and invisible gorilla. The book analyzes incidents and accidents from the context of the safety management system in the risky industries including aviation nuclear chemical oil and petroleum. It further uses mathematical analysis of these events (through statistics and probabilities) and presents preventive and corrective measures in dealing with the same. It comprehensively covers important topics including real-time monitoring reverse stress testing change management predictive maintenance management system contingency plans human factors behavioral safety anticipatory failure determination resilience engineering (RE) resilience management (RM) Swiss cheese model and probability distribution. Aimed at professionals working in the fields of health and safety quality engineering compliance engineering aerospace engineering occupational health and safety and industrial engineering this text: Provides an insight to safety managers in analyzing bad events and the ways to deal with them Covers randomness uncertainty and predictability in detail Explains concepts including reverse stress testing real-time monitoring and predictive maintenance in a comprehensive manner Presents mathematical analysis of incidents and accidents using statistics and probability theories | Safety Accidents in Risky Industries Black Swans Gray Rhinos and Other Adverse Events

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Systems Engineering A Systemic and Systematic Methodology for Solving Complex Problems

Systems Engineering A Systemic and Systematic Methodology for Solving Complex Problems

This book will change the way you think about problems. It focuses on creating solutions to all sorts of complex problems by taking a practical problem-solving approach. It discusses not only what needs to be done but it also provides guidance and examples of how to do it. The book applies systems thinking to systems engineering and introduces several innovative concepts such as direct and indirect stakeholders and the Nine-System Model which provides the context for the activities performed in the project along with a framework for successful stakeholder management. A list of the figures and tables in this book is available at https://www. crcpress. com/9781138387935. FEATURES• Treats systems engineering as a problem-solving methodology• Describes what tools systems engineers use and how they use them in each state of the system lifecycle• Discusses the perennial problem of poor requirements defines the grammar and structure of a requirement and provides a template for a good imperative construction statement and the requirements for writing requirements• Provides examples of bad and questionable requirements and explains the reasons why they are bad and questionable• Introduces new concepts such as direct and indirect stakeholders and the Shmemp!• Includes the Nine-System Model and other unique tools for systems engineering | Systems Engineering A Systemic and Systematic Methodology for Solving Complex Problems

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Statistical Process Control For Quality Improvement- Hardcover Version

Statistical Process Control For Quality Improvement- Hardcover Version

While the common practice of Quality Assurance aims to prevent bad units from being shipped beyond some allowable proportion statistical process control (SPC) ensures that bad units are not created in the first place. Its philosophy of continuous quality improvement to a great extent responsible for the success of Japanese manufacturing is rooted in a paradigm as process-oriented as physics yet produces a friendly and fulfilling work environment. The first edition of this groundbreaking text showed that the SPC paradigm of W. Edwards Deming was not at all the same as the Quality Control paradigm that has dominated American manufacturing since World War II. Statistical Process Control: The Deming Paradigm and Beyond Second Edition reveals even more of Deming's philosophy and provides more techniques for use at the managerial level. Explaining that CEOs and service industries need SPC at least as much as production managers it offers precise methods and guidelines for their use. Using the practical experience of the authors working both in America and Europe this book shows how SPC can be implemented in a variety of settings from health care to manufacturing. It also provides you with the necessary technical background through mathematical and statistical appendices. According to the authors companies with managers who have adopted the philosophy of statistical process control tend to survive. Those with managers who do not are likely to fail. In which group will your company be? | Statistical Process Control For Quality Improvement- Hardcover Version

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Complex Serial Drama and Multiplatform Television

Complex Serial Drama and Multiplatform Television

This book examines the creative strategies narrative characteristics industrial practices and stylistic tendencies of complex serial drama. Exemplified by shows like HBO’s The Sopranos AMC’s Mad Men and Breaking Bad Showtime’s Dexter and Netflix’s Stranger Things complex serials are distinguished by their conceptual originality narrative complexity transgressive lead characters and serial allure. As a drama form that continues to expand and diversify in today’s television HBO’s Boardwalk Empire and Game of Thrones Netflix’s Orange Is the New Black and Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale provide further examples. Dunleavy investigates the strategies that underpin the innovations influence and success of complex serial drama giving students and scholars a nuanced understanding of this contemporary TV form. | Complex Serial Drama and Multiplatform Television

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Masculinity Goes to School

Masculinity Goes to School

Originally published in 1998. This book offers a balanced overview of the issues surrounding boys and education. It looks beyond the often hysterical debate in the popular media to analyse what is happening with boys in the school system and how this can be understood. The authors argue that popular constructions of masculinity affect boys in all parts of their lives: in families peer groups and work cultures – at home at school at work and at leisure. Offering insight into key issues such as literacy sport bad behaviour sexuality race and ethnicity and popular culture this book also looks at programs and approaches to working with boys which have been successful. | Masculinity Goes to School

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Enjoyment of Laughter

Enjoyment of Laughter

Humor at its best is a somewhat fluid and transitory element but most books about it are illustrated with hardened old jokes from the comic papers or classic witticisms jerked out of their context. Max Eastman in this work avoids this catastrophe by quoting mainly from contemporary American humor. This is not an anthology in that selections have been made with a view to making a point rather than covering the field. The purpose of Eastman's fabled work is to make the reader laugh. Since his early school days it has seemed to him that textbooks are wrongly written in that they are conducted in a way which ignores the natural operation of the mind. As a result the opinion is universal and under the circumstances a fact that in order to learn anything you have to study. Since this introduction to humor is itself near to writing a textbook Eastman uses the very text he constructs to illustrate the manner in which textbooks should be written. Examination and classification of the kinds of humorous experience upon the basis of a theory is a science. As such this work offers a fair chance to illustrate a method of instruction. However the distinction between a good joke and a bad one will not prevent the reader from making bad jokes nor enable one to make good ones. There is an artistic and playful element that simply cannot be taught. Enjoyment of Laughter presents a total view of the science of laughter and draws upon some of the great American humorists to do so.

GBP 145.00
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Good Practice Guide Fees

Good Practice Guide Fees

Architects are finding the procurement landscape increasingly complex and competitive. This book shows practitioners the ways that fees are calculated negotiated and managed. It will increase your understanding of the different fee-earning roles for architects professional services contracts how to calculate sustainable fee levels and improve negotiation skills. It also includes information on how to monitor and manage fees and the resources required to deliver projects managing change in the scope of the project and related services where to add value and to highlight risk areas that may impact on sustaining the business. Case studies explain good and bad practice to illustrate effective fee management drawn from the authors’ direct experience as practitioners and investigating client complaints. | Good Practice Guide Fees

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Quality and GMP Auditing Clear and Simple

Quality and GMP Auditing Clear and Simple

This guidebook provides proven methods and techniques for performing effective audits that serve your department your company and you. Topics covered relate to the four key competencies essential for successful GMP audits. Includes the rationale for auditing as an important quality tool along with the audit cycle broken into five distinct phases. To focus the power of auditing on a particular situation several different types of audits are presented as are more than a dozen audit approaches with general questions to answer and specific items to examine. These tools will help you prepare checklists and standards so audits become more effective consistent and standardized. The book includes profiles of seasoned professionals in drug and device auditing who share their experiences (the good and the bad)! | Quality and GMP Auditing Clear and Simple

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GPU Parallel Program Development Using CUDA

GPU Parallel Program Development Using CUDA

GPU Parallel Program Development using CUDA teaches GPU programming by showing the differences among different families of GPUs. This approach prepares the reader for the next generation and future generations of GPUs. The book emphasizes concepts that will remain relevant for a long time rather than concepts that are platform-specific. At the same time the book also provides platform-dependent explanations that are as valuable as generalized GPU concepts. The book consists of three separate parts; it starts by explaining parallelism using CPU multi-threading in Part I. A few simple programs are used to demonstrate the concept of dividing a large task into multiple parallel sub-tasks and mapping them to CPU threads. Multiple ways of parallelizing the same task are analyzed and their pros/cons are studied in terms of both core and memory operation. Part II of the book introduces GPU massive parallelism. The same programs are parallelized on multiple Nvidia GPU platforms and the same performance analysis is repeated. Because the core and memory structures of CPUs and GPUs are different the results differ in interesting ways. The end goal is to make programmers aware of all the good ideas as well as the bad ideas so readers can apply the good ideas and avoid the bad ideas in their own programs. Part III of the book provides pointer for readers who want to expand their horizons. It provides a brief introduction to popular CUDA libraries (such as cuBLAS cuFFT NPP and Thrust) the OpenCL programming language an overview of GPU programming using other programming languages and API libraries (such as Python OpenCV OpenGL and Apple’s Swift and Metal ) and the deep learning library cuDNN.

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