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The first use I could find of  "Captain Obvious" in Google Books was in a 1926 book about the activities of the U.S. Army's 302d Gas Regiment.  It's one of a long list of joke nicknames for the jolly fellows in this unit,

London - International publishing house Nimble Books LLC today announced the debut novel of Indian-British author and world peace advocate Shaheen Chishti, entitled “The Granddaughter Project”. A modern visionary and one of the newest authors of British-Indian heritage, Shaheen Chishti has written a deeply

#NFTs for book #publishing? I just created my first #nonfungibletoken, joining the latest fad or craze in cryptocurrency. The downloadable product is distributed via the blockchain and can only be owned by one (1) person. In this case, it is a "trading card" about

I have been reading a lot of half-assed articles about the possibility that a Senator will die during this Congress, triggering a switch in party control, so I thought I'd run the real numbers.  This simple spreadsheet combines the ages of all current Senators

Universal link for Kindle: getbook.at/granddaughterproject Hardcover Paperback Kindle ca de es fr it jp mx nl uk us

THE GRANDDAUGHTER PROJECT will be distributed both by Ingram, the largest U.S. distributor (hardcover) and Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing (paperback and Kindle formats).  Accordingly, it will be available from almost all online bookstores.   coming soon: "Talk With the Book" via Nimble AIThe items

(I originally published this on LinkedIn, 2015) Amazon.com has a famous practice of making its meeting time more productive by having executives sit in  a room together and begin the meeting by reading detailed six-page narratives. (See http://research.gigaom.com/2013/10/

OpenAI’s spinningup is an exemplary educational resource produced by OpenAI that makes it easier to learn about deep reinforcement learning (deep RL). It’s very thorough and comprehensive; it has well written explanations of major concepts & algorithms and links to all the

Release 1.1.0-Michener Replaces email delivery of  "Analyze This Document" with https download.  There is a maximum 120 second for report creation before timeout.  In future I will implement a proper asynchronous solution, and email delivery will return as an option. Fixes bug

Whenever you start a writing project, ask the Nimble AI for help! Coming soon...

I'm excited to announce that Nimble Books has signed a two-book contract with space warfare expert Paul Szymanski.  This is a big milestone towards my vision of helping build the publishing ecosystem around the military history of space. FUTURE PROSPECTS FOR OUTER SPACE WARFARE

RAGING TWENTIES is distributed both by Ingram, the largest U.S. distributor (hardcover) and Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing (paperback and Kindle formats).  Accordingly, it is available from almost all online bookstores.   The Wikipedia ISBN pages for the paperback and hardcover provides a super comprehensive

During my fifteen years as a publisher I am proud to have published books from every part of the political spectrum, left, right, and center. My personal politics are those of a Joe Manchin Democrat (with a generous dash of pigheaded contrarianism) but I

Images were not working for a while because of a problem with the way I had set up SSL / https.  Now they are back! Yay!

Moving from Ghost Pro to self-hosted Ghost.  If anything seems wrong, shoot me an email at wfz at nimblebooks.com.

Topline My company Nimble Books today published the first book written using OpenAI's GPT-3 generative text engine. This was a big milestone for me personally as I have been exploring algorithmic publishing for most of the last decade. For more info, see: Eccentric Dictionaries:

Over the years, the Central Intelligence Agency has released redacted versions of every President's Daily Brief from 1961 to 1977.  They are, of course, available via the CIA website, but there are thousands of PDFs and tens of thousands of pages, so there's a

New from Nimble Books: PIECES OF HISTORY: ARTIFACTS OF THE PT BOAT NAVY in hardcover, paperback, and Kindle. MTBSTC: MOTOR TORPEDO BOAT SQUADRON TRAINING CENTER first time in paperback -- much more affordable! THE GREAT SPACE FORCE DEBATE: A WAY FORWARD FROM THE PAST?

Colonel John D. Cinnamon was an early advocate for an independent Space Force, an argument he articulated in a 2012 master's thesis at the Naval Postgraduate Warfare school just republished by Nimble Books as part of my effort to accelerate the growth of the

Something different today -- a spinoff of some work I've been doing to analyze my sales statistics and prioritize new publications. This script imports publisher sales data files from Lightning Source, Inc. into a Pandas dataframe. Lightning Source is the largest US print on

It was Charlie Floto, publisher of Sextant: The Magazine for Heath/Zenith Computer Users, who gave me my first professional publishing job in 1982 and who first showed me that "Publisher" is the best and coolest of all possible job titles.  I remain grateful