One of my favorite people in ML, Jay Alammar is publishing his book(Hands-on LLMs) on Oreilly. Congratulations Mr. Jay for that.<p>On his LinkedIn, he has asked us to guess the animal that might appear on the cover and the winner gets a copy of the book once published.<p>I was able to find out that:<p>The idea of using animals on the covers of O’Reilly’s books came from Edie Freedman, a creative director who was hired by Tim O’Reilly in the late 1980s.<p>Freedman was inspired by the weird and obscure terms associated with Unix, which reminded her of Dungeons and Dragons, a game popular with geeks.
She sketched some animal illustrations based on an old engraving book and presented them to O’Reilly, who liked their quirkiness and originality.<p>The animals are chosen to match the topic, tone, and personality of each book, sometimes with humorous or symbolic connections.<p>Now, it has started that craving that I must predict that animal.<p>I am at the point where I have scraped the data of 1261 so far published books and hoping to make a prediction.<p>Should I try it and do you have any ideas about this matter?
The obvious one is a parrot, but looks like they've already used a lot of parrots: <a href="https://www.oreilly.com/animals.csp?x-search=parrot&x-sort=animal" rel="nofollow">https://www.oreilly.com/animals.csp?x-search=parrot&x-sort=a...</a> Still some room for superintelligent cephalopods <a href="https://www.oreilly.com/animals.csp?x-search=octopus&x-sort=animal" rel="nofollow">https://www.oreilly.com/animals.csp?x-search=octopus&x-sort=...</a> ...