Novedades del último mes en ebooks de informática

Em um mundo onde os jogos permeiam cada fibra do nosso cotidiano, este livro mergulha na essência de sua existência, questionando a própria natureza do que chamamos de jogo. Por que, apesar de sua pr

John Romero was a god of gaming. He co-created Doom and Quake. So when he founded Ion Storm and announced "Daikatana," the world listened. The marketing slogan was infamous: "John Romeros about to make you his bitch." It was the height of 90s arrogance.But the game was a disaster. Delayed for years, plagued by engine switches, and marred by an AI sidekick that couldnt open doors, Daikatana destroyed Romeros reputation and his company. This book is a post-mortem of the dot-com eras excess in the gaming industry. It shows what happens when rock star egos collide with the hard reality of software development, and why hype is a debt that eventually must be paid.

Ultimate Microsoft Certified Azure AI Engineer Associate (AI-102) Certification Guide is a comprehensive and practical resource for professionals preparing for the AI-102 certification and building real-world expertise with Microsoft Azure AI services. It combines certification-focused guidance with hands-on engineering practices to help readers master both the exam, and the job role of an Azure AI Engineer. The book covers all major AI-102 domains, including planning and managing Azure AI solutions, implementing generative AI, intelligent agents, computer vision, natural language processing, speech, and knowledge mining. Each chapter aligns with the latest AI-102 skills outline and reflects modern Azure AI capabilities such as Azure AI Foundry, Azure OpenAI, agent frameworks, and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), ensuring that readers learn skills that are current and industry-relevant. Beyond exam preparation, this guide emphasizes practical implementation and enterprise-ready architectures. Readers will learn how to design, deploy, secure, monitor, and govern AI solutions on Azure using best practices and Responsible AI principles.

Generative AI is rapidly transforming how organizations create content, build intelligent systems, and automate complex tasks. Understanding how these models workand how to build themis now a career-defining skill for developers and data professionals. Mastering Generative AI Systems Engineering begins with the core foundations of generative AI. You will explore the essential mathematics, latent spaces, probability concepts, and neural network principles behind VAEs and GANs. The book then guides you through advanced systems such as CycleGANs, StyleGANs, and cutting-edge Diffusion Modelsthe engines behind todays most powerful generative tools.

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Redis is one of the worlds fastest and most versatile data platformsbut most teams use only a fraction of what it can do. Ultimate Redis for High-Performance Applications takes you far beyond basic caching and gives you the practical, production-ready knowledge needed to design, scale, and operate Redis with confidence. Hence, whether you are building microservices, streaming systems, gaming backends, AI pipelines, or large-scale distributed applications, this book shows you exactly how Redis behaves under real workloads. You will explore every essential component, such as data structures, persistence, replication, Sentinel, clustering, Lua scripting, monitoring, performance tuning, and cloud deployment, through clear explanations and hands-on examples that map directly to real-world challenges. You will also learn to diagnose bottlenecks, avoid hidden pitfalls, and build systems that stay fast, stable, and scalable under pressure. Thus, whether you are a developer, DBA, architect, or DevOps engineer, this book equips you with the knowledge to turn Redis into a reliable, mission-critical foundation for high-performance applications.

In the early days of computer graphics, rendering natural textures like fire, water, or stone was a computationally overwhelming nightmare. Programmers relied on rigid geometric patterns or pure randomness, resulting in environments that looked artificial, chaotic, and entirely unconvincing. The dream of expansive, organic virtual worlds seemed impossible due to the severe limitations of hardware memory.The breakthrough came in 1983 when Ken Perlin invented an algorithm that generated coherent, pseudo-random noise. This elegant mathematical trick simulated the chaotic yet continuous patterns found in nature, allowing computers to generate infinite clouds, mountains, and textures on the fly without consuming massive amounts of storage. Perlin Noise became the invisible foundational architecture for procedural generation, forever altering the trajectory of video games and digital cinema."Mathematical Landscapes" decodes the brilliance of procedural generation. It explores how a single mathematical function bypassed hardware limitations and empowered developers to build the limitless universes seen in modern role-playing games and simulations.Discover the invisible code that builds your favorite digital realities. Appreciate the intersection of elegant mathematics and creative engineering, and understand how simple algorithmic logic can infinitely scale the boundaries of artistic creation.

In the early days of video games, digital worlds were rigid, pre-animated, and entirely predictable. A falling object didnt actually fall; it merely played a pre-recorded sequence of frames. The illusion of reality shattered the moment a player pushed against the boundaries. Then, a few lines of complex mathematics introduced something revolutionary: actual gravity.Gravity in the Machine chronicles the invention of the physics engine, focusing on the Havok software that permanently rewired interactive entertainment. The book explores the monumental programming challenges of simulating real-world physical forcesmomentum, friction, and collisionin real-time. It reveals how giving objects genuine weight and chaotic mass transformed level design from static obstacle courses into dynamic, unpredictable playgrounds.The narrative delves into the accidental hilarity of ragdoll physics and the psychological joy players experience when a digital environment reacts exactly like the real world, allowing for emergent, unscripted gameplay that the developers never even planned.Readers will gain a deep appreciation for the invisible math that holds virtual universes together. The book demonstrates how introducing systemic rules, rather than hardcoded scripts, is the ultimate secret to building engaging, infinitely creative systems in tech and beyond.

We are living in an era where artificial intelligence can easily defeat grandmasters at chess, compose symphonies, and pass the bar exam. Yet, a multi-million-dollar robot still struggles to walk up a flight of stairs, catch a ball, or fold a simple laundry towel. This baffling contradiction is known as Moravecs Paradox: the discovery that high-level reasoning requires very little computation, but low-level sensorimotor skills demand enormous, almost impossible computational resources.This book breaks down the cognitive science and engineering hurdles behind this phenomenon. It explains why the human brain, optimized over millions of years of evolution, makes physical movement look effortless while treating abstract logic as difficult. The implications for the future of work, automation, and tech investments are massive, completely flipping our assumptions about which jobs will be replaced by machines first.Dive into the hidden mechanics of machine learning and robotics to understand why plumbers and carpenters are safer from automation than data analysts and paralegals. Learn how to navigate the AI revolution by banking on the physical world.

Why do we feel a genuine pang of guilt when we make an evil choice in a video game, even though we know it is just code and pixels? How Games Hack Our Morals dives deep into the psychological architecture of virtual worlds. We examine how game designers use ethical dilemmas to create emotional resonance and how these digital experiences influence our real-world moral compass. It is an analysis of the game played with our conscience.We investigate the neurobiological reactions to moral gray areas in interactive media. Learn how empathy is artificially generated and why the boundaries between avatar and identity often blur in the heat of play. This book offers a technical understanding of emotional manipulation through mechanics and narrative. We deconstruct the patterns of player guidance and show how virtual consequences can create a psychological burden that extends far beyond the screen. It is the forensic study of the digital soul.Become the architect of your own perception. We show you how to integrate the principles of ethics, gaming into your life to achieve a sovereignty that others only admire from afar. It is about returning to causality in a world of symptoms. Understand the mechanics behind your digital decisions and what they reveal about your true self. Knowledge of these hacking methods is the first step toward mental freedom in the game and in life. Become the master of your morals. The game is more real than you think.

In 2004, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas was the biggest entertainment product on Earth. But buried deep within its code was a deactivated minigame involving a cup of coffee and an invitation inside a girlfriends house. When a modder unlocked it, he didnt just reveal a sex scene; he triggered a political firestorm that reached the US Senate and changed the gaming industry forever.This book tells the definitive story of the "Hot Coffee" scandal. It explores the clash between artistic freedom and puritanical legislation, the disconnect between developers and executives, and how a few lines of forgotten code cost a company millions in recalls and lawsuits. It is a deep dive into the moment video games grew up and the world realized they werent just for kids anymore.

In 1995, Nintendo could do no wrong. They dominated the market with the Game Boy and SNES. Then, they released the Virtual Boy. It was a bulky, tripod-mounted headset that displayed games in only two colors: black and stinging red. It caused nausea, neck pain, and headaches within minutes. It was discontinued in less than a year."The Red Headache" is the story of Gunpei Yokoi, the legendary inventor of the Game Boy, and his tragic fall from grace. It details the rushed development of the Virtual Boy, driven by a fear of missing out on the "VR craze" of the 90s. The book explains the fatal design flaws: the decision to use cheap red LEDs to save battery life and the warning labels that terrified parents into thinking the device would permanently blind their children.This is a business cautionary tale about what happens when marketing hype overrides engineering reality. It shows how the failure of the Virtual Boy humbled Nintendo, leading to the departure of its greatest visionary and a strategic pivot that eventually birthed the modern era of gaming.

This book, Ultimate Python Polars for Data Analytics, is a hands-on guide to mastering this high-performance framework. You will begin by understanding Polars architecture, execution engine, and columnar memory modelcore concepts that drive its exceptional speed and efficiency. From there, the book moves into advanced data transformations, multi-table joins, window functions, and aggregation strategies designed for large-scale datasets. You will gain deep insight into lazy execution and query planning, learning how Polars optimizes computations before execution to minimize memory usage and maximize throughput. The book also explores seamless SQL integration, enabling hybrid workflows that combine declarative querying with DataFrame operations. For more advanced use cases, you will learn how to extend Polars using Python user-defined functions and Rust-based PyO3 plugins, unlocking performance for compute-intensive workloads. Additionally, through real-world examples spanning market data analysis, machine learning workflows, and large-scale data processing, this book equips you to design, profile, test, and optimize production-grade data pipelines!

Ultimate SQL for Relational Database Design guides readers step by step from understanding why structured data matters to building and querying fully functional relational databases. The book begins with the foundations of data organization and the relational model, establishing how tables, keys, and relationships support accurate and scalable systems. The book then walks through Normalization from Unstructured Data (UNF) to Third Normal Form (3NF), showing how to eliminate redundancy, enforce data integrity, and design databases optimized for performance. You transition into hands-on SQL developmentusing Data Definition Language (DDL) to create and modify schemas, followed by Data Manipulation Language (DML) to retrieve, insert, update, and delete data effectively. The journey concludes with intermediate SQL techniquesincluding joins, grouping, filtering, and built-in functionsbefore integrating all concepts into a comprehensive case study so that the readers can confidently design, implement, and query relational databases from scratch.

This course is intended for aspiring web designers and developers who need to comprehend HTML thoroughly as well as its straightforward overview and useful examples. Youll have all the tools you need from this course to get started using HTML and advance to a greater degree of proficiency. This book, written in the authors approachable and simple-to-read style, covers all the most recent innovations and advancements in responsive web design, such as strategies for greater accessibility, changeable fonts and font loading, and the most recent color manipulation features reaching browsers.

Un llamamiento inaplazable para poner freno a la carrera hacia la superinteligencia. «Un libro muy interesante, incluso si no estás de acuerdo con su conclusión.» Marta Peirano, periodista y escritor

Un libro imprescindible para desenmascarar las falsas promesas de la inteligencia artificial y entender cómo las grandes tecnológicas convierten su hype en un negocio a costa de nuestras vidas.¿Va a acabar la inteligencia artificial dominando el mundo? ¿Han creado los cientificos una forma de vida artificial capaz de pensar por si misma? ¿Va a quedarse con nuestros puestos de trabajo? ¿Estamos entrando en una era en la que los ordenadores son mejores que los humanos? Las doctoras Emily M. Bender y Alex Hanna responden a todas estas preguntas con un rotundo NO, con frases sarcasticas como Ya les gustaria o simplemente riendose. Estos temores no son mas que una consecuencia de la implacable promocion la IA por parte de las empresas tecnologicas para justificar el robo de datos, motivar la creacion de herramientas de vigilancia en el puesto de trabajo y devaluar la creatividad humana. En La estafa de la IA encontraremos ejemplos reales, argumentos claros y opiniones de expertos que nos proporcionaran las herramientas para detectar el hype de la IA en todas y cada una de sus manifestaciones. Ya que, al descubrir la explotacion que hay detras de su implantacion y la usurpacion de poder que pretende ocultar, seremos capaces de disipar el humo que nos intentan vender, tanto en el trabajo como en nuestra vida cotidiana.

La historia íntima de cómo un joven científico cambió para siempre nuestra forma de conectarnos al mundoEn 1989, en una pequeña oficina del CERN, un joven científico británico concibió una nueva forma de compartir informacion. Se llamaba Tim Berners-Lee, y de aquella intuicion nacio la World Wide Web, una herramienta que transformo para siempre la manera en que trabajamos, nos comunicamos y nos relacionamos con el mundo.En estas paginas, Berners-Lee cuenta por primera vez, de forma intima y directa, como se gesto la web: desde el primer servidor improvisado hasta la expansion mundial de una idea que hoy sostiene la vida cotidiana de miles de millones de personas.Sin embargo, este libro es mucho mas que unas memorias: es tambien un lucido analisis de los dilemas a los que se enfrenta internet en un presente marcado por la concentracion del poder en manos de unas pocas plataformas, la explotacion a gran escala de nuestros datos personales y la irrupcion de la inteligencia artificial.Con la autoridad de quien estuvo en el origen de todo, Berners-Lee advierte de los riesgos de un futuro gobernado por algoritmos opacos y corporaciones sin control democratico. Al mismo tiempo, nos propone una hoja de ruta para recuperar la web como un espacio de creatividad, colaboracion y libertad, fiel al espiritu que la inspiro.

A Tecnologia da Informação passou a ocupar um papel estratégico nas organizações, exigindo processos bem estruturados de gestão e governança. A partir dessa perspectiva, esta obra apresenta fundament

Flutter se ha consolidado como una de las tecnologías más potentes y versátiles para el desarrollo de aplicaciones multiplataforma. Con un único código base, es posible crear aplicaciones para Android, iOS, Windows, macOS, Linux y la Web, reduciendo tiempos de desarrollo y aumentando la eficiencia. Este libro ofrece una introduccion completa, practica y actualizada al ecosistema Flutter, combinando el lenguaje Dart y el entorno de desarrollo Android Studio como eje central del aprendizaje._x000D__x000D_A lo largo de sus capitulos, el lector aprendera desde la preparacion del entorno de desarrollo y la correcta configuracion de Android Studio, hasta el dominio de los widgets, el diseño con Material Design y Cupertino, la navegacion entre pantallas, la gestion del estado mediante Providers y el desarrollo de proyectos reales en Flutter. El contenido se apoya en 30 ejemplos ejecutables descargables desde la web del libro, analisis de proyectos demo y una explicacion progresiva._x000D__x000D_El libro cubre las versiones mas recientes de Flutter y Dart, incorporando los ultimos cambios y buenas practicas del ecosistema, y se apoya en herramientas clave como pub.dev y dartpad.dev para reforzar el aprendizaje practico._x000D__x000D_Como complemento, los lectores podran adquirir un paquete de 100 ejemplos de codigo para Flutter._x000D__x000D_El e-book de esta obra es accesible y cumple con la norma WCAG 2.2 nivel AAA.