The Nvidia Way: Jensen Huang and the Making of a Tech Giant

Tae Kim
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Nvidia is the darling of the age of artificial intelligence: the company’s chips are powering the generative-AI revolution, and demand is insatiable. For all the current interest and attention, however, Nvidia is not of our time. Founded more than three decades ago in a Denny’s in East San Jose, for years it was known primarily in the then-niche world of computer gaming. In fact, the company’s leather-jacketed leader, Jensen Huang, is the longest-serving CEO in an industry marked by near constant turmoil and failure.

In The Nvidia Way, acclaimed tech writer Tae Kim draws on more than one hundred interviews—including Jensen (as he is known) and his cofounders, the two original venture capital investors, early former employees, and current senior executives—to show how Nvidia played the longest of long games, repeatedly creating new markets and outmaneuvering competitors, including the original semiconductor giant, Intel, which now finds itself well behind the upstart. Kim offers revelations at every step, among them:
An authoritative, myth-busting account of Nvidia’s founding in 1993.
How Nvidia managed to overcome early missteps that would have killed most start-ups.
The benefits of Nvidia’s flat organizational structure, which allows even low-level employees to contribute to the direction of the company.
How Jensen’s obsession with solving the Innovator’s Dilemma—the trend of entrenched market leaders falling to smaller, nimbler companies—drove him to reinvent his approach to corporate strategy.
How Nvidia saw the coming AI wave sooner than anyone else, and how it bet its future on a technology that had not yet arrived.

A rare view into Nvidia’s distinct culture and Jensen’s management principles, The Nvidia Way is a book for our moment as well as an instant classic of business history, with enduring lessons for entrepreneurs and managers alike.

“A captivating history of one of the world’s most important companies and what made it so great. Tae Kim deftly narrates Nvidia’s incredible achievements and instructive failures, and also captures the unique philosophies, motivations, and bets of its founders, scientists, and staffers.”—Matthew Ball, best-selling author of The Metaverse: Building the Spatial Internet

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解構滋味：香港飲食文學與文化研究論集

蕭欣浩
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★ 文學跨界文化、飲食文學、都市生活的最新研究！

飲食圍繞日常，當中文化最容易被忽略。蕭欣浩博士花十年時間，研究香港飲食文學及文化，探討飲食的相關課題，結集成《解構滋味：香港飲食文學與文化研究論集》。

本書題材從古代的甲骨文、蘇軾的詩文，到上世紀五、六十年代的粵語片、茶餐廳文化，以至香港作家也斯的創作、内地作家蘇童的小說與台灣作家劉克襄的散文，探討飲食於不同時空的文化意義。蕭欣浩博士以學者兼廚師的身分，呈現一道道美食背後，文學、電影與文化構成的人間滋味。

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Chinese Festivals: Traditions, Customs and Rituals

Wei Liming
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Festivals are the carrier of the national soul and sentiment o f the Chinese people , and are also the essence of the national affinity and cohesion. The culture of festivals roots deeply in the people, and it thus shows its enormous vitality. In spite of the change of times, it has gradually become part of the heritages of the colorful Chinese culture. Some important ones, the four major festivals (the Spring Festival, Pure Brightness Festival, Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival) in particular, are still widely celebrated among people. Chinas statutory festivals and memorial days include New Years Day, Womens Day, Tree-planting Day, Labor Day, Youth Day, Childrens Day, Armys Day, Teachers Day and National Day, and etc. Minority people in China boast various festivals and almost every nationality has her own major festivals. Typical examples are the Tibetan New Year Festival, Water-Splashing Festival for Dai people, and Torch Festival for Yi People, the Singing Carnival for Zhuang people and Nadam Fair for Mongolian people.

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私隱即權力 (Privacy is Power)

卡里莎．貝利斯 (Carissa Véliz)
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英國牛津大學副教授Carissa Véliz話題新作
深入探討科技和數據經濟對私隱權的影響

*「我同意相關的私隱條款」
*「我接受向第三者披露個人資料作促銷或宣傳用途」
*「使用本網站即表示同意接受所有cookies」
無意識的點擊背後，代表我們失去了什麼？

科技帶來社會進步的同時，也讓我們的個人資料無聲無息地外洩——社交平台、手機程式透過大數據了解我們的喜好，推送商品及服務廣告；電訊公司、銀行直接出售個人資料予第三方，宣傳我們根本沒必要的東西；演算法下大眾接觸到截然不同的新聞內容和政治訊息，於是各自活在自己的同溫層中⋯⋯我們的性格、興趣、行蹤乃至不欲人知的秘密，是否都透過科技暴露在某些人的眼皮底下？

英國牛津大學副教授Carissa Véliz深入探討科技和數據經濟對私隱權的影響，它們如何撩撥慾望、影響思考、左右決定，並造成差別化待遇，甚至社會對立？建立保護私隱的意識，就是自主的第一步。

從來沒有哪個時代如同今日人類被科技全面滲透，
而私隱則成為生活便捷性的高昂代價。

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Genius Makers: The Mavericks Who Brought AI to Google, Facebook, and the World

Cade Metz
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"This colorful page-turner puts artificial intelligence into a human perspective. Through the lives of Geoff Hinton and other major players, Metz explains this transformative technology and makes the quest thrilling." (Walter Isaacson, author of The Code Breaker)

Recipient of starred reviews in both Kirkus and Library Journal

The Untold Tech Story of Our Time

What does it mean to be smart? To be human? What do we really want from life and the intelligence we have, or might create?

With deep and exclusive reporting, across hundreds of interviews, New York Times Silicon Valley journalist Cade Metz brings you into the rooms where these questions are being answered. Where an extraordinarily powerful new artificial intelligence has been built into our biggest companies, our social discourse, and our daily lives, with few of us even noticing.

Long dismissed as a technology of the distant future, artificial intelligence was a project consigned to the fringes of the scientific community. Then two researchers changed everything. One was a 64-year-old computer science professor who didn’t drive and didn’t fly because he could no longer sit down - but still made his way across North America for the moment that would define a new age of technology. The other was a 36-year-old neuroscientist and chess prodigy who laid claim to being the greatest game player of all time before vowing to build a machine that could do anything the human brain could do.

They took two very different paths to that lofty goal, and they disagreed on how quickly it would arrive. But both were soon drawn into the heart of the tech industry. Their ideas drove a new kind of arms race, spanning Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and OpenAI, a new lab founded by Silicon Valley kingpin Elon Musk. But some believed that China would beat them all to the finish line.

Genius Makers dramatically presents the fierce conflict among national interests, shareholder value, the pursuit of scientific knowledge, and the very human concerns about privacy, security, bias, and prejudice. Like a great Victorian novel, this world of eccentric, brilliant, often unimaginably yet suddenly wealthy characters draws you into the most profound moral questions we can ask. And like a great mystery, it presents the story and facts that lead to a core, vital question:

How far will we let it go?

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透視我城：香港文學文化十二講

蔡益懷
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一個城巿有她的面相，還有內在的肌理，探究一個城巿的文化現象，除了看她的表相，還要掌握脈相，細察肌理。在這次的研究與教學中，集中探究了香港文學文化的一些熱點、焦點議題，如都巿性、現代性、本土性等，並以這些維度展開不同的扇面，對都巿文化空間、社會意識型態、集體記憶、族群意識與身份認同等現象展開論述。此外從不同的側面切入，以點帶面，探索香港文學文化的不同版塊與元素，如香港大眾文化中的忠義元素、生死愛欲、懷舊風潮、流行歌曲、居住空間、飲食文化等，以形成一張大致展現香港文學文化風貌的拼圖。

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