Parallel

Two women. Two worlds. One goal: to stay alive. All Fara wants is to earn enough tips to pay the bills, somehow learn to stand up for herself, and eat a good cheeseburger. What she gets is a federal agent who is convinced she is hiding a dangerous device in her tiny apartment; and a new and unexplainable ability that she really could do without. All Blu wants is to restore democracy to her world, preferably without dying in the process. What she gets is the unwanted attention of two of the most lethal leaders of Jurisdiction; one who wants nothing more than to kill her, and the other...well...it's complicated. Neither woman had 'run for my life' on their to-do list, but you don't always get what you want.

What if you woke up to a new life every day? A collision of universes leaves Abby living two lives at once - and sharing them with her own double. Two worlds. Two guys. Two selves. How will she stay in control?

Western thinking is failing because it was not designed to deal with change In this provocative masterpiece of creative thinking, Edward de Bono argues for a game-changing new way to think. For thousands of years we have followed the thinking system designed by the Greek philosophers Socrates, Plato and Aristotle, based on analysis and argument. But if we are to flourish in today’s rapidly changing world we need to free our minds of these ‘boxes’ and embrace a more flexible and nimble model. Parallel Thinking is an invaluable insight into the word of creativity; de Bono unveils unique methods of brainstorming and explains preconceived ideas of what creativity involves and is. This book is not about philosophy; it is about the practical (and parallel) thinking required to get things done in an ever-changing world.

Parallel processing is not only a general topic of interest for computer scientists and researchers in artificial intelligence, but it is gaining more and more attention in the community of scientists studying natural language and its processing (computational linguists, AI researchers, psychologists). The growing need to integrate large divergent bodies of knowledge in natural language processing applications, or the belief that massively parallel systems are the only ones capable of handling the complexities and subtleties of natural language, are just two examples of the reasons for this increasing interest.

GNU Parallel is a UNIX shell tool for running jobs in parallel. Learn how to use GNU Parallel from the developer of GNU Parallel.

Dr. Ben Pritchitt, a prominent Memphis (TN) physician, is assisting elderly and terminally ill patients in dying with dignity. In the doing, he jeopardizes everything he holds dear -- his wife, family and home, his reputation and profession. Pritchitt's daughter, Assistant District Attorney Terry Mercer, is unable to sway her father from his self-destructive course. Terry's boss, politically ambitious D.A. Jeremy Bates, seeks the imprisonment of Pritchitt. Meanwhile, Pritchitt finds himself the unwilling partner of an obsessed serial killer, Simon, who kills young women who have had abortions. Simon imagines that he and Pritchitt have parallel destinies -- both messengers of death. As a web of euthanasia, murder, kidnapping and abortion is woven, the question quickly becomes: Who will entrap Pritchitt first? The police or Simon?