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Paco Nathan

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San Luis Obispo, California, The United States

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Programming since 1972. I made the "mistake" of studying AI in grad school at Stanford a few decades ago; perseverance pays off :)

Sometimes an author and more often a speaker/instructor, in a lot of venues, although even more often working as an engineering director or consultant.

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	Liber 118 U.S. 394: The Battle Of Oakland it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Enterprise Data Workflows with Cascading: Streamlined Enterprise Data Management and Analysis 4.14 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2013 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Agile AI by Carlo Appugliese, Paco Nathan (Goodreads Author), William S. Roberts liked it 3.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2020	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Just Enough Math it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2014 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The State of Machine Learning Adoption in the Enterprise by Ben Lorica, Paco Nathan (Goodreads Author) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sind Unternehmen die besseren Menschen? by Paco Nathan (Goodreads Author), Oona Leganovic (Illustrator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2004	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Building Data Science Teams: Finding and Organizing the Right People 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Latent Space by Paco Nathan (Goodreads Author) (Author, Illustrator), Robin Urton (Illustrator), Chris Joseph (Illustrator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	[Enterprise Data Workflows with Cascading] [Author: Paco Nathan] [August, 2013] by Paco Nathan (Goodreads Author), Unknown Author 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Rich Search and Discovery for Research Datasets: Building the Next Generation of Scholarly Infrastructure by Julia I. Lane (Editor), Ian Mulvany (Editor), Paco Nathan (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Approximately 75 million voters in the US support having a civil war, where the far-right can settle the matter of having heteronormative male caucasian conservative christian nationalists rule over all. Put ten people in a room, and four of them want a war. What if they got their wish? How might we build AI weapons systems, regional volunteer forces, plus robust logistics networks to Read more of this blog post »

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Ratio: The Simple Codes Behind the Craft of Everyday Cooking (Ruhlman's Ratios)

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The Black Ridge: Amongst The Cuillin of Skye

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Precise Oaths (Liliana and the Fae of Fayetteville, #1)

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