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Humble Bundle Books: Artificial Intelligence
- randomerr 9y agoI will be getting this when I get home.
- extrememacaroni 9y agoCool.
- drumttocs8 9y agoI love humblebundle and think it's awesome for games, programs, etc, but the model seems like a hard sell for programming books. How many people need machine learning books in a dozen or more programming languages?
- baldfat 9y agoTo bad IGN bought them. I won't use them anymore since it is now a broken system. A reviewer owns the store.
- isjamesalive 9y agoDoes IGN review books now? I genuinely don't see any conflict here.
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- ocdtrekkie 9y agoI am cautious about this whole arrangement, but that's more an issue with IGN than Humble Bundle: The store is still just selling games. IGN now has a motivation to slant things in favor of their sales, which makes them less trustworthy. But as long as Humble Bundle is still selling games, it's fine. But I always worry with a big acquisition that they might change parts of the platform I like, and so that's my biggest concern.
- chrisfosterelli 9y agoNobody. However, at this price even if only 3-5 of the books of useful to you then it's still a great deal. That subset will be different for everyone, so it makes sense to offer them all imo.
- ranit 9y agoOne useful book from the bundle will make for the price of all.
- faitswulff 9y agoIt's a way to target digital hoarders, similar to Valve's game sales. Most buyers will never read the books and they have essentially zero marginal distribution costs, so they make money either way. Being a digital hoarder, myself, it's still quite tempting.
- jimnotgym 9y agoI tend to buy them and dump them in my library. I find it a really good way to see if it useful without investing £25-£50 on a print edition edit: For hoarders remember they have free books each day on Packt. They put an annoying captcha to stop you automating the download though... https://www.packtpub.com/packt/offers/free-learning https://www.packtpub.com/packt/offers/free-learning
- discussedbefore 9y agohttps://github.com/igbt6/Packt-Publishing-Free-Learning https://github.com/igbt6/Packt-Publishing-Free-Learning + anti-captcha.com
- jimnotgym 9y agoI hate Captchas so much that is the best thing I have seen in ages. Thank you so much for this
- stfwn 9y agoWow. Anti Captcha seems like a company that should not exist. I don't want to go full /r/latestagecapitalism, but this seems like a typical economic activity that lures uneducated workers from rural areas to the city for a 'real office job', only to be trapped in a low-wage, low-opportunity job where the protocol is to do what you're told or get out. Their front page literally features a superhero shooting 'bad' workers with a laser.
- icc97 9y agoI find that I've stopped buying Humble Bundle games, but I'm much more inclined to buy books now. So they've basically figured out how to extract the most amount of cash out of me possible. I am a bit skeptical about this list as there isn't a single book that I recognise, but I have read at least one decent PacktPub book, so I was willing to take the risk. You can skim through the books and at the very worst they'll just tell you what you already know. The Machine Learning with Go seems interesting as it's off the typical Python/R/C++ path.
- trentmb 9y agoI've read mixed reviews about PacktPub- can anyone comment on the quality of these?
- extrememacaroni 9y agoPeople aren't desperately throwing themselves to buy them for their full price it seems, because Packt is always there with humble programming books of any sort.
- megaman22 9y agoThey are very hit or miss. On balance, I don't bother with them, unless there's something interesting looking on their daily free book page, or it's one of these bundles where they come out to $.75 apiece. Some of the ones I've gotten don't look like they ever got near an editor, or even a spell-checker. If I'm going to spend money and time, I'd rather go to Manning and have some confidence that it'll be quality.
- rhizome31 9y agoWhen they contacted me to write for them I did a bit of research I found enough horror stories to not follow up. In fact it just confirmed the feeling I got as a reader. Go with Manning, PragProg, NoStarch or even (with some caution) O'Reilly if you want quality content.
- throwpub 9y agoAs someone who writes for Packt (Posting under a throwaway for obvious reasons), I think you made the right decision. The first title I was proud of, had good editorial control and decent technical review. The second title had an awful premise that was insisted upon and stunningly poor editorial control. Disappointingly I now feel like I have to apologise for something that carries my name. My next title will be self-published onto Github on a 'freemium' model. It'll allow me to develop the content in the open, and if people are so disposed, they can pay for an edition that carries additional explanatory text. Either way, I won't be writing for Packt again.
- TheBaku 9y agoIm scepticall of a collection of 20 books without any known name. Still for 15 bucks and a morning skiming through them maybe some random gem will show up