by admin | Jun 23, 2025 | Historical Fiction |
A sweeping cast of real and fictional characters, The Delilah Enigma captures the triumphs and losses of everyday people serving in WW2. For fans of After Dunkirk, The Rose Code, and When Heroes Flew. “It’s a terrific read.” (Bayley Silleck, Oscar-nominated filmmaker)
London 1943. The streets teem with refugees and soldiers while double agents circulate among them. Lt. Sarah Leach, code name Delilah, a British Wren officer with MI6, and Robert Johnston, an American lawyer and her OSS counterpart, team up to trade intelligence and sex. Robert is separated from his wife and Sarah has an “understanding” with a British tank commander. At a local pub where they talk shop over wine, their chemistry is unmistakable.
As the story begins where Code Name Delilah ended, Sarah and Robert are tracking the plot among high-ranking German officers to negotiate a separate peace with the Allies while gathering intel from each other on the looming D-Day invasion to feed to their higher ups.
When an SS patrol captures Sarah working with the French Resistance in Normandy, Robert partners with associates at Bletchley Park and a Jewish refugee from Dresden to rescue her. Injured, she returns to duty and Robert but soon learns her old boyfriend, badly wounded in France, is coming home.
Sarah is faced with an even more harrowing mission: choosing between a future with her longtime beau and immediate comfort with Robert. A family tragedy hits the Johnstons, bringing Robert’s wife back to London, looking to restart their marriage. As the war ends, which relationships will endure?
“Donald de Brier’s compelling story sweeps the reader from top secret meetings in Whitehall to the battlefields of North Africa, over the bombed-out cities of Germany, and onto the beaches of Normandy.” –Bayley Silleck
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What readers are saying about The Delilah Enigma…
***** “fast-paced and engaging…truly surprising”
***** “very enjoyable and educational”
And Code Name Delilah…
***** “comprehensive and insightful…offering rich details and in-depth analysis!”
***** “an excellent read!… enlightening historically and refreshingly human”
***** “a surprising take on WW2 history”
***** “WWII history comes alive in this book”
***** “…compelling and touching”
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by Philip Eliot | Jun 17, 2025 | Business, Money & Jobs |
One day in a San Francisco lab, an AI model trained on every scientific paper ever written may ask its creators, “What theorems exist beyond human knowledge?”
This wouldn’t be a glitch. It would be a prophecy.
Our AI systems are consuming human knowledge faster than civilization can produce it. GPT-4 devoured more text than exists in all the world’s libraries. Its successors demand exponentially more. By 2026, we’ll exhaust the internet. By 2028, we’ll run out of words to feed our hungry machines.
Then what?
Then AI must teach itself.
The Absolute Zero Reasoner (AZR) represents a paradigm shift in artificial intelligence—a system that learns through pure self-play, starting with nothing but a trivial function: return x. Like a child learning to walk by falling and trying again, AZR proposes mathematical and coding challenges to itself, attempts solutions, and learns from verifiable outcomes. No textbooks. No training data. No human guidance.
Through this elegant dance of self-improvement, it discovered how to solve complex mathematical theorems and write sophisticated algorithms that would challenge PhD students—all from that single line of code.
This book unveils the revolutionary mechanics of autonomous learning, drawing parallels to AlphaZero’s mastery of chess but extending far beyond games. AZR employs three fundamental reasoning modes—deduction (predicting outputs), induction (inferring patterns), and abduction (reverse engineering inputs)—each verified through the unforgiving judge of code execution and mathematical proof.
The results shatter expectations: 83.5% accuracy on advanced coding challenges, solving 20% of problems from the American Invitational Mathematics Examination, all while surpassing systems trained on hundreds of thousands of human examples.
This isn’t incremental progress—it’s exponential self-improvement. While traditional AI hits a ceiling defined by human knowledge, self-improving systems have no limits except the laws of physics and mathematics themselves.
Through hands-on examples and breakthrough research, you’ll discover how to build systems that bootstrap their own intelligence. We reveal why self-improvement isn’t just an alternative to human training—it’s the inevitable path to artificial general intelligence.
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by admin | Jun 16, 2025 | Business, Money & Jobs |
One day in a San Francisco lab, an AI model trained on every scientific paper ever written may ask its creators, “What theorems exist beyond human knowledge?”
This wouldn’t be a glitch. It would be a prophecy.
Our AI systems are consuming human knowledge faster than civilization can produce it. GPT-4 devoured more text than exists in all the world’s libraries. Its successors demand exponentially more. By 2026, we’ll exhaust the internet. By 2028, we’ll run out of words to feed our hungry machines.
Then what?
Then AI must teach itself.
The Absolute Zero Reasoner (AZR) represents a paradigm shift in artificial intelligence—a system that learns through pure self-play, starting with nothing but a trivial function: return x. Like a child learning to walk by falling and trying again, AZR proposes mathematical and coding challenges to itself, attempts solutions, and learns from verifiable outcomes. No textbooks. No training data. No human guidance.
Through this elegant dance of self-improvement, it discovered how to solve complex mathematical theorems and write sophisticated algorithms that would challenge PhD students—all from that single line of code.
This book unveils the revolutionary mechanics of autonomous learning, drawing parallels to AlphaZero’s mastery of chess but extending far beyond games. AZR employs three fundamental reasoning modes—deduction (predicting outputs), induction (inferring patterns), and abduction (reverse engineering inputs)—each verified through the unforgiving judge of code execution and mathematical proof.
The results shatter expectations: 83.5% accuracy on advanced coding challenges, solving 20% of problems from the American Invitational Mathematics Examination, all while surpassing systems trained on hundreds of thousands of human examples.
This isn’t incremental progress—it’s exponential self-improvement. While traditional AI hits a ceiling defined by human knowledge, self-improving systems have no limits except the laws of physics and mathematics themselves.
Through hands-on examples and breakthrough research, you’ll discover how to build systems that bootstrap their own intelligence. We reveal why self-improvement isn’t just an alternative to human training—it’s the inevitable path to artificial general intelligence.
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by Philip Eliot | Jun 14, 2025 | Paranormal & Fantasy Romance |
Wooing a life mate can be hard enough for a wolf, wooing one while under the threat of a curse even more so. Wooing a mate while pretending to be her dog? Nearly impossible. After being drugged and captured by Animal Control, Max Adams is on Hoboken’s doggie death row when his life mate adopts him, takes him home, and promptly names him Fluffy. While JC, in all her new-pet-owner-ness, feeds “Fluffy” vile kibble, dresses him in mortifying dog couture, and schedules to have his manhood removed, Max’s human side gets to know JC.Especially in the biblical sense. Hopefully well enough to make her fall madly in love, mate with him under the full moon, and move with him to Cedar Glen to live happily every after forever and ever amen. And fast. Because the curse comes with a deadline…and the clock is ticking. ***Author Note: Dear readers, Please note, if you recognize this title, this book, originally published in 2006, is a rerelease and has been updated, revised and expanded.
by admin | Jun 6, 2025 | Dystopian & Apocalyptic |
From California to the east coast, it rained across most of the continental United States. From Los Angeles to New York City, residents reported an odd, whitish-grey residue that coated everything.Cats groomed the residue from their bodies, because that’s what cats do, and then they turned to their feed bowls with increasing hunger.The most deadly biological weapon ever created had been unleashed. It was one that would effectively pit most forms of animal life against mankind.Humanity was immune to the growth hormone. However, exposed to massive doses, mankind was not immune to the chemical component of the compound that triggered the hyper aggression, nor was humanity immune to the appetite enhancer. By mid-February, violent mobs of enraged hungry people were rioting in the streets of every major city in the world. In American cities, some of these riots were sparked by angry pet owners who were outraged that the government was supposedly plotting to exterminate all dogs and cats as a preemptive measure to protect the population. Pet owners viewed the mandatory registration of all dogs and cats with government officials by the end of February as a prelude to that extermination effort. Other people, generally those who didn’t own pets, were supportive of the measures. This led to protests and counter protests, which quickly turned violent as the hyper aggressive groups clashed.In the months that followed, one by one, the governments of the world collapsed under the strain of trying to maintain order. Food production ground to a halt in most of the world as the men and women who’d been feeding the human race succumbed to the effects of massive exposure to the formula.As the governments collapsed, so did the infrastructures supporting the civilization of mankind. Mass transit, power generation, and water purification were among the first to fail, but they were quickly followed by oil and gasoline production.In six months, humanity plunged from the top of the food chain to a position near the center and the world would never be the same.This is a 112,500 word book that has numerous accompanying photographs to depict the scenes.
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