75 Results for : cull
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The Culling , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 835min
Carl Sims, a young virologist, discovers a plot hatched by a group of international scientists to cull, in a matter of weeks, two-thirds of the world's population - some 4.5 billion people - by releasing a deadly virus. Their goal is to reduce Earth's population from an unsustainable seven billion to two billion. What is he to do? Try to stop the conspiracy, or join it?It's horrific, yes, but what if this culling could prevent the extinction of some 40 percent of the planet's flora and fauna? Or if he was certain it was the only way to prevent an even larger human die-off, incurring significantly more suffering, by the end of this century? Or if he were convinced it represented the only hope for humanity surviving at all? This is at the heart of this thriller, for these viruses do, in fact, exist.Most everything that plagues mankind today - the highest concentration of atmospheric CO₂ in three million years, escalating extinction rates, habitat loss, fishery collapses, climate change, polar and glacial ice thaws, arable land loss, desertification, aquifer depletions, ocean acidification, unprecedented air pollution, looming famine, and social unrest - stems from overconsumption which, unchecked, will lead to Earth's sixth mass extinction event. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Charles Carroll. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/006329/bk_blak_006329_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Chaos Rising: Elemental Gatherers, Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 516min
It’s been six months since I died on Earth and was brought to the kingdom of Craesti. In that time, I’ve made friends, gained a family, and begun learning how to gather and channel Aether, aka magic. I started attending Azyl Academy, the premier magic school of the city, after it was discovered that my talent was exceptionally high. I am learning alchemy, inscription, and how to fight, all with the goal of expanding the kingdom and keeping the populace safe. It hasn’t all been smooth sailing, though. I made an enemy of one of the local noble clans, and just survived an assassination attempt thanks to one of the guardian beasts of the academy I have a budding friendship with. Now I have to recover from my injuries and continue to advance. Coming soon will be our ranking tournament, where we will compete within our tiers to see who is the strongest. After the tournament, we will be divided into teams and go on an expedition into the Great Western Forest to cull beasts and harvest rare plants. Throughout all of this, though, my focus is on getting stronger; to be ready for the calamity I was warned about by Darkness, the deity that brought me here. I just hope I have enough time. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kristian Eros. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/235013/bk_acx0_235013_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Stranger Mine: The Base Branch Series, Book 3 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 318min
Base Branch operative Ryan Noble is accustomed to taking orders - whether from his commander or his overbearing mother. His best friend urged him to take control of his life, but the only thing worse than an angry woman is a teary one. He has no desire to upset his mother's fragile emotions. Losing his sister was hard enough; his mom couldn't bear losing another child - even if it is just to the other side of D.C. It's a damn good thing she doesn't know what he does for a living. On a routine mission to destroy a human-trafficking facility and exterminate its operators, Ryan blows his extraction to rescue a woman he finds chained inside. Piper Vega is caught between metal and a hard place. She needs information and it has taken far too long to cull it from her leads - also known as her captors. She finally has the facts she needs to complete her task, but it'll take a miracle to set her free and see it achieved. Santo Padre knows she never expected her good favor to come in the form of a man. Ryan takes the reins of life in his sturdy grip while Piper discovers balance in loosening hers. Through intense battles of will, both find the unexpected. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jeffrey Kafer. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/071514/bk_acx0_071514_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Crafter's Dilemma: A Dungeon Core Novel: Dungeon Crafting, Book 3 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 709min
After narrowly surviving an invasion of her dungeon by some seriously dangerous Elves, Sandra needs to recover from having all of her defending constructs destroyed in the process. With the bulk of her forces lost while shattering the Core of a Reptile Classification dungeon, the merchant-turned-Dungeon Core is feeling a little vulnerable. Luckily, she has Violet, a Gnome Apprentice Enchanter, to help her get things back to normal. With Felbar, another Gnome that has decades of experience culling Dungeon Monsters, and Echo, an Elf that mistakenly got tangled up with Sandra and her dungeon, now awake from their Visitor Bond-induced comas, she can finally work on improving her relationship with the Gnomes and Elves by providing them with much-needed supplies. Unfortunately, during her time of recovery and looking into crafting new things with her recent access to Enchanting, she neglected to keep an eye on the dungeons around her Area of Influence. With the Gnomes no longer there to cull the Undead Classification dungeon near their destroyed village, Sandra scrambles to get ahead of its rapid expansion – and potential threat to the Dwarves to the north. But even if she manages to destroy the Undead Classification Core, should she stop there? Now that is quite the dilemma….This Dungeon Core story contains LitRPG/GameLit elements such as statistics and leveling and a heavy crafting emphasis. No profanity and no harems. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Louise Cooksey. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/195166/bk_acx0_195166_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Future of the Sales Profession
The Future of the Sales Profession ab 6.99 € als epub eBook: How to Survive the Big Cull and Become One of Your Industry's Most Sought-After B2B Sales Professionals. Aus dem Bereich: eBooks, Wirtschaft,- Shop: hugendubel
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Koban: The Mark of Koban, Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1331min
Book 2 of the Koban Series Already faster and more powerful than the last 17 species that they have destroyed or subjugated, the Krall have set their sights on humankind. Aftertesting humans on their future home world of Koban and finding them worthy opponents, the Krall start a war of slow extermination with the rest of humanity. The war is intended to last generations as they apply their own version of "natural selection" to cull their weaker warriors in combat, purifying the Krall gene pool with their finest warriors for breeding. Why? The Krall desire to rule the galaxy someday, from their future home world of Koban, where the impossibly fast and powerful animals have proven to be too fast and strong for them to match. Only through the attrition of war will the Krall perfect their bloodline to become the masters of Koban. When the Krall departed Koban to start their war with humanity, they destroyed the protections that kept their prisoners safe. They left the human test subjects to fall victim to high gravity, and the deadly predators. Big mistake. The bio scientist left behind enhanced the human genome with Koban genes, forming the next generations of humans. They are becoming what the Krall sought to be. The fastest, most powerful species in the galaxy. The men and women trapped on Koban, locked in a struggle for their own survival for twenty years, return to the stars to help defend Human Space. The Krall have had their way with human worlds, killing when and where they wish. Outnumbered, the new Kobani will now take the war to the Krall. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Eric Michael Summerer. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/018702/bk_acx0_018702_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Mammoth Books Presents: Religious Cabals , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 81min
The Dead Sea Scrolls: Why was it so important these documents should not be seen? What ancient historical secret was so big that it had to be buried forever? Freemasons: Is this group of seemingly innocuous middle-aged men linked to almost every evil perpetuated? Are they really just an eccentric bunch of patriarchal do-gooders, or are they in fact sinister agents of satanic forces? The Gunpowder Plot: Why is it that we reserve particular scorn for Guy Fawkes when there were six other men involved? Knights Templar: The Knights Templar allegedly found the Holy Grail in their excavations of the temple in Jerusalem. Did they survive the cull of the 14th century and live on today as guardians of the Holy Grail? Opus Dei: If Opus Dei's only aims are charity and the 'sanctifying of work', why does it need its secretive independent status as a personal prelature? Pope John Paul I: On the 26th August 1978 a new pope was elected. 33 days later this man was found dead, leaving an alarming trail of inconsistencies and seeming lies told by the Vatican themselves. Why was there no post-mortem, and why within twenty-four hours was his body embalmed? The Priory of Sion: Does this French secret society protect the blood-line of Christ? The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion: The truth behind the book in which powerful Jews supposedly set out the secret means to rule the Christian world. The Rosicrucian's: Does this philosophical secret society seek to take over the world? Satanic Ritual Abuse: Satanists ritually abuse children and nobody has the power to prevent it due to their infiltration into the police force and politics. The Temple Mount Plot: Are Freemason's and Jews collaborating in a plot to destroy Islamic holy sites on Jerusalem's ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Peter Marinker. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/cons/000017/bk_cons_000017_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Horror Stories, Volume 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 326min
It all began with Dime Mystery Magazine in 1933. Its brand of fiction came to be called Weird Menace. The mystery-and-menace formula proved so successful that publisher Popular Publications threw all pretense to the wind and issued a companion title unashamedly dubbed Terror Tales. The slant, or formula, was simple: "Terror Tales wants the eerie atmosphere, in which the menace is centralized against one character or one group of characters, who, above all, are thoroughly terrified by their helpless situation." If you recognize the motif, it's classic Hollywood horror fare, still in vogue today. When the blood-stained Terror Tales went into the black and stayed there, Popular Publications decided to add Horror Stories. This completed the triumvirate of terror edited by Rogers Terrill that dominated the Weird menace genre all through the 1930s. As one editor told writers, "Horror Stories needs the bizarre and the horrible; monsters, torture, butchery-anything that is really horrible. The mystery angle is not so important here." In other words, damn the plot. Pour on the menace! Horror Stories debuted in 1935. It immediately ran into trouble. After the third issue, the magazine vanished from the stands for two full months. It's unclear why. But once it returned, Horror Stories kept going. The same crew who filled the pages of the other terror titles got busy keeping this offering on schedule. They comprised a Who's Who of Popular Publications pulp giants, yarn spinners such as Norvell W. Page, Frederick C. Davis, Wyatt Blassingame, Paul Ernst, Arthur Leo Zagat, Francis James, John H. Knox, and Arthur J Burks. Once again, we've combed through innumerable issues to cull the best - or should we say worst? - offerings torn from the torturous pages of Horror Stories. These terrific tales have been handed to Milton Bagby, who delivers them with gruesome gusto. Listen with the lights on. You might end up sleeping the sa ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Milton Bagby. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/026043/bk_acx0_026043_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values
Today's "machine-learning" systems, trained by data, are so effective that we've invited them to see and hear for us-and to make decisions on our behalf. But alarm bells are ringing. Recent years have seen an eruption of concern as the field of machine learning advances. When the systems we attempt to teach will not, in the end, do what we want or what we expect, ethical and potentially existential risks emerge. Researchers call this the alignment problem. Systems cull résumés until, years later, we discover that they have inherent gender biases. Algorithms decide bail and parole-and appear to assess Black and White defendants differently. We can no longer assume that our mortgage application, or even our medical tests, will be seen by human eyes. And as autonomous vehicles share our streets, we are increasingly putting our lives in their hands. The mathematical and computational models driving these changes range in complexity from something that can fit on a spreadsheet to a complex system that might credibly be called "artificial intelligence." They are steadily replacing both human judgment and explicitly programmed software. In best-selling author Brian Christian's riveting account, we meet the alignment problem's "first-responders," and learn their ambitious plan to solve it before our hands are completely off the wheel. In a masterful blend of history and on-the ground reporting, Christian traces the explosive growth in the field of machine learning and surveys its current, sprawling frontier. Readers encounter a discipline finding its legs amid exhilarating and sometimes terrifying progress. Whether they-and we-succeed or fail in solving the alignment problem will be a defining human story. The Alignment Problem offers an unflinching reckoning with humanity's biases and blind spots, our own unstated assumptions and often contradictory goals. A dazzlingly interdisciplinary work, it takes a hard look not only at our technology but at our culture-and finds a story by turns harrowing and hopeful.- Shop: buecher
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