Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Copyright and Credits -- Packt Upsell -- Foreword -- Contributors -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Getting Started -- Understanding deep learning -- Perceptron -- Activation functions -- Sigmoid -- The hyperbolic tangent function -- The Rectified Linear Unit (ReLU) -- Artificial neural network (ANN) -- One-hot encoding -- Softmax -- Cross-entropy -- Dropout -- Batch normalization -- L1 and L2 regularization -- Training neural networks -- Backpropagation -- Gradient descent -- Stochastic gradient descent -- Playing with TensorFlow playground -- Convolutional neural network -- Kernel -- Max pooling -- Recurrent neural networks (RNN) -- Long short-term memory (LSTM) -- Deep learning for computer vision -- Classification -- Detection or localization and segmentation -- Similarity learning -- Image captioning -- Generative models -- Video analysis -- Development environment setup -- Hardware and Operating Systems - OS -- General Purpose - Graphics Processing Unit (GP-GPU) -- Computer Unified Device Architecture - CUDA -- CUDA Deep Neural Network - CUDNN -- Installing software packages -- Python -- Open Computer Vision - OpenCV -- The TensorFlow library -- Installing TensorFlow -- TensorFlow example to print Hello, TensorFlow -- TensorFlow example for adding two numbers -- TensorBoard -- The TensorFlow Serving tool -- The Keras library -- Summary -- Chapter 2: Image Classification -- Training the MNIST model in TensorFlow -- The MNIST datasets -- Loading the MNIST data -- Building a perceptron -- Defining placeholders for input data and targets -- Defining the variables for a fully connected layer -- Training the model with data -- Building a multilayer convolutional network -- Utilizing TensorBoard in deep learning -- Training the MNIST model in Keras -- Preparing the dataset -- Building the model…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Working with Java Collections -- Introduction to Collections API -- The Collection Interface -- The Set Interface -- The List Interface -- The Map Interface -- The Queue and BlockingQueue Interfaces -- Adding Elements to Queues -- Removing Elements from Queues -- Utility Methods -- Arrays and Helper Methods -- Java Streams and Lambda Expressions -- Functional Approaches -- The Streams API -- Summary -- Chapter 9. …”

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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Approaches to the Book -- 00 Loading Sequence: Quick Start -- Setting up the Demo Projects -- Navigation of the Game World -- Version Control and Auto-saves -- Looking and Moving -- Views -- Bookmarks -- Moving/Looking -- In-game Actors: Finding and Changing Your First Sound -- Navigating the Assets and the Content Browser -- Filtering Results -- Navigating the Game System: Blueprints -- Preparing Assets for Import -- Editing -- Sample Rates and File Formats -- Looping -- Importing Assets -- Folder Structures and Naming Conventions -- Conclusion -- 01 Sound Part A: Ambience and Environment -- Introduction -- Ambience -- Types of Sound -- Area Loops -- Source Loops -- Filter over Distance -- Area Loops and Source Loops: Attention to Detail -- Sound Cues -- Adding Sounds to Sound Cues -- Source One-shots -- Polyphonic or Overlapping One-shots -- Player-oriented One-shots -- One-shots: Sourcing and Masking -- Embedding Source Sounds into Game Actor Blueprints -- Ambience Recap: An Artist's Approach -- Occlusion Issues -- Triggers and Switching Ambience -- Reverb -- Triggering Sounds with Key or Controller Input -- Trigger Use Events -- Conclusion -- 02 Sound Part B: Procedural Sound Design -- Introduction -- Sample Rates and Audio Compression -- Sample Rates Revisited -- Audio File Compression -- Sequenced Variation -- Time-based Variation -- Asynchronous Loops -- Random Time: Blocks -- Random Time: Fragments -- Controlling Random Events: Clusters of Activity -- Concatenation -- Concatenation for Variation in Loops -- Layered Concatenation -- Concatenation for a Chain of Events -- Concatenate Sample Rates -- Multiple Start Points -- Layered Variation -- Simple Random Combinations -- Random Combinations with Individualized Pitch and Delays…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Combinatorial optimization problems with the QUBO model -- Binary linear programming -- The Knapsack problem -- Graph coloring -- The Traveling Salesperson Problem -- Other problems and other formulations -- Summary -- Chapter 4: Adiabatic Quantum Computing and Quantum Annealing -- Adiabatic quantum computing -- Quantum annealing -- Using Ocean to formulate and transform optimization problems -- Constrained quadratic models in Ocean -- Solving constrained quadratic models with dimod -- Running constrained problems on quantum annealers -- Solving optimization problems on quantum annealers with Leap -- The Leap annealers -- Embeddings and annealer topologies -- Controlling annealing parameters -- The importance of coupling strengths -- Classical and hybrid samplers -- Classical solvers -- Hybrid solvers -- Summary -- Chapter 5: QAOA: Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm -- From adiabatic computing to QAOA -- Discretizing adiabatic quantum computing -- QAOA: The algorithm -- Circuits for QAOA -- Estimating the energy -- QUBO and HOBO -- Using QAOA with Qiskit -- Using QAOA with Hamiltonians -- Solving QUBO problems with QAOA in Qiskit -- Using QAOA with PennyLane -- Summary -- Chapter 6: GAS: Grover Adaptive Search -- Grover's algorithm -- Quantum oracles -- Grover's circuits -- Probability of finding a marked element -- Finding minima with Grover's algorithm -- Quantum oracles for combinatorial optimization -- The quantum Fourier transform -- Encoding and adding integer numbers -- Computing the whole polynomial -- Constructing the oracle -- Using GAS with Qiskit -- Summary -- Chapter 7: VQE: Variational Quantum Eigensolver -- Hamiltonians, observables, and their expectation values -- Observables -- Estimating the expectation values of observables -- Introducing VQE -- Getting excited with VQE -- Using VQE with Qiskit…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Main policy recommendations for macroeconomic policies -- Sustaining future growth -- Boosting industrial performance -- Figure 12. Value added share of industry -- Figure 13. Industrial performance and integration into global trade -- Figure 14. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Consumer Socialisation Theories -- Associative Networks -- Summary -- End of Chapter Discussion Questions -- Questions -- References -- Chapter 8 Attitude Formation and Change in Consumer Behaviour -- Learning Outcomes -- Introduction -- Defining Attitudes -- Models of Consumer Attitudes -- Tricomponent Model -- Hierarchy of Effect Model -- Balanced Theory -- Multi-attribute Models -- Attitude Towards the Ad…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Sequential variation of feature output aleatory pattern -- 11.3. Adding random elements for testing -- 11.4. Hyperspectral aleatory approaches…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contributors -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Part 1: Connecting Blue Prism to ML Models -- Chapter 1: Machine Learning as a Service: the Digital Exchange and Web APIs -- Technical requirements -- Using the DX -- Accessing the DX -- Machine learning web API fundamentals -- An overview of MLaaS on the DX -- Vendor selection -- Examples -- Example 1 - AWS Comprehend for text entity extraction, key phrase extraction, and sentiment analysis -- Example 2 - Azure Form Recognizer for invoice extraction -- Example 3 - GCP Cloud Vision batch OCR processing -- Summary -- Chapter 2: Predicting from Command Prompt and PowerShell -- Technical requirements -- Command-line basics -- Output streams -- Output redirection -- Blocking versus non-blocking execution -- Predicting from the command line using Utility - Environment -- Example 1 - Running a program using the Start Process -- Example 2 - Running a program using Run Process Until Ended -- Getting prediction results back into BP -- Example 3 - Saving STDOUT and STDERR as Data Items -- Example 4 - Redirecting an internal command (dir) to files -- Timing out long-running predictions -- Example 5 - PS script timeout -- DX VBOs - Utility - PowerShell and Script Execution VBO -- Utility - PowerShell -- Script Execution VBO -- Example 7 - Calling a Python program -- Summary -- Chapter 3: Code Stages -- Technical requirements -- Setting up ML.NET in BP -- Adding references and namespaces to BP -- Example 1 - preparation work before BP -- Porting ML.NET C# into a Code Stage -- Global Code -- Example 2 - porting the source code into BP -- Improving BP integration -- Example 3 - refactoring -- Summary -- Part 2: Designing IA Solutions -- Chapter 4: Reviewing Predictions and Human in the Loop -- Technical requirements -- Why should we review predictions?…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Putting effort into the estimates -- Being a realist (or even a pessimist) -- Team and situational factors to consider -- Project schedule changes -- Getting a project back on schedule -- Working overtime -- Reducing scope -- Adding resources -- Reallocating resources -- Identifying problem areas -- Acting as early as possible -- Office politics -- Understanding your organization's goals -- Addressing the concerns of others -- Assisting people with their goals -- Knowing when to compromise -- Being aware of cultural differences -- Software risk management -- Risk avoidance -- Transferring the risk to another party -- Risk mitigation -- Risk acceptance -- Configuration management -- Changing management -- Software product lines -- Benefits of a software product line -- Core assets of an organization -- Risks of product line engineering -- Summary -- Chapter 3: Understanding the Domain -- Developing business acumen -- Familiarity with general business topics -- Understanding your organization's business -- Domain-driven design -- Encourages and improves communication -- What is a ubiquitous language? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Managing hyperparameters and configuration parameters -- Using a JSON file to easily configure parameters -- The parameters manager -- A complete deep Q-learner to solve complex problems with raw pixel input -- The Atari Gym environment -- Customizing the Atari Gym environment -- Implementing custom Gym environment wrappers -- Reward clipping -- Preprocessing Atari screen image frames -- Normalizing observations -- Random no-ops on reset -- Fire on reset -- Episodic life -- Max and skip-frame -- Wrapping the Gym environment -- Training the deep Q-learner to play Atari games -- Putting together a comprehensive deep Q-learner -- Hyperparameters -- Launching the training process -- Testing performance of your deep Q-learner in Atari games -- Summary -- Chapter 7: Creating Custom OpenAI Gym Environments - CARLA Driving Simulator -- Understanding the anatomy of Gym environments -- Creating a template for custom Gym environment implementations -- Registering custom environments with OpenAI Gym -- Creating an OpenAI Gym-compatible CARLA driving simulator environment -- Configuration and initialization -- Configuration -- Initialization -- Implementing the reset method -- Customizing the CARLA simulation using the CarlaSettings object -- Adding cameras and sensors to a vehicle in CARLA -- Implementing the step function for the CARLA environment -- Accessing camera or sensor data -- Sending actions to control agents in CARLA -- Continuous action space in CARLA -- Discrete action space in CARLA -- Sending actions to the CARLA simulation server -- Determining the end of episodes in the CARLA environment -- Testing the CARLA Gym environment -- Summary -- Chapter 8: Implementing an Intelligent - Autonomous Car Driving Agent using Deep Actor-Critic Algorithm -- The deep n-step advantage actor-critic algorithm -- Policy gradients -- The likelihood ratio trick…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Wi-Fi 5 (IEEE 802.11ac) 164 -- 11.2.2. IEEE 802.11ad 166 -- 11.2.3. IEEE 802.11af 167 -- 11.2.4. Halow (IEEE 802.11ah) 168 -- 11.2.5. …”

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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Setting the Task Mode -- Defining Project Information -- Defining Calendars -- Defining Custom Fields -- Defining Environment Options -- Consultants' Tips -- 6 Creating Your Project Schedule -- Entering Project Tasks -- Manipulating the Task List -- Copying, Cutting, and Moving Tasks -- Defining Summary Tasks and Subtasks -- Defining Milestones -- Attaching Notes to Tasks -- Attaching Hyperlinks to Tasks -- Defining Recurring Tasks -- Creating WBS Codes -- Using Other Views to Create Tasks -- Using the Timeline View -- Consultants' Tips -- 7 Defining Task Logic -- Manipulating Your Schedule -- Linking Tasks -- Defining Constraints -- Performing Advanced Actions on Tasks -- Consultants' Tips -- 8 Defining Project Resources -- Understanding How Project Uses Resources and Costs -- Defining Resources and Resource Information -- Using the Resource Sheet View -- Defining Resource Information Using the Resource Information Dialog Box -- Using the Resource Fields to Define Resource Details -- Defining Resource Costs -- Using the Task Form View to Add Additional Resources -- Understanding Resource Constraints -- Working with Resources -- Consultants' Tips -- 9 Understanding Work Formula Basics -- Understanding Resource and Task Assignments -- Reviewing the Essential Components of Work Resource Assignments -- Understanding the Resource Assignment Fields -- Understanding the Work Formula -- Selecting Task Settings -- Schedule Modifiers That Affect the Complexity of the Scheduling Engine -- Consultants' Tips -- 10 Scheduling Single and Multiple Resource Assignments -- Mechanisms: Methods for Adding Resources -- Creation: Assigning a Single Resource -- Creation: Assigning Multiple Resources -- Maintenance: Modifying Existing Resource Assignments -- How-To's: Modifying Resource Assignments -- Consultants' Tips…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Dollarisation has helped to keep inflation and interest rates low, but credit has not fuelled growth -- Economic informality is a critical area of concern -- Value added and productivity have risen, albeit slowly -- The real economy is constrained by framework conditions -- External competitiveness is under pressure -- The role of remittances -- Partnerships -- A step change in revenue generation needs a revolution in tax culture -- Fiscal space is constrained by debt-servicing costs and the wage bill -- Debt reduction needs to be carefully managed -- Local government has a larger role to play in El Salvador's development -- Migrant workers and official flows are key sources of finance -- Peace and institutions -- The peace accords triggered a series of unprecedented reforms, but achieving the primacy of the rule of law requires further efforts -- The peace accords triggered a series of significant yet insufficient institutional changes -- Personnel-related changes have been limited in scope -- The momentum of the process was not sufficient to consolidate the cultural changes required to build peace -- The weakened institutional framework failed to prevent the spread of new forms of violence after the civil war -- The cost of violence -- Obsolete legal frameworks in certain key areas, and cumbersome mechanisms, limit the efficiency of the Salvadoran state -- El Salvador lacks effective legislation on the management of human resources in the public sector -- El Salvador has implemented initiatives to improve integrity, prevent and combat corruption, and increase transparency, but these efforts lack co-ordination -- The Salvadoran State faces great challenges in modernising and streamlining the administrative processes…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- The drafting process -- Involving all key stakeholders in drafting -- Having the Strategy peer-reviewed -- Writing in plain language -- Incorporating a regular review into the Strategy to ensure sustainability over time -- Elements to include in the Strategy -- Adding a telling subtitle -- Including an introduction and a foreword -- Defining a clear vision -- Including key definitions -- Establishing clear priorities -- Defining objectives -- Ways to cluster actions/initiatives in an Open Government Strategy -- Taking a principle-based approach -- Taking a sectorial approach -- Taking a tool-based approach -- Taking a target audience approach -- Taking an open-state approach -- Ways to design open government initiatives -- Model 1: All initiatives are included in the Open Government Strategy -- Model 2: The suggested National Open Government Committee periodically defines a whole-of-government working/action plan to implement the strategy -- Model 3: Each institution defines its own open government working plan -- Model 4: Institutions define initiatives that contribute to the achievement of the strategy's objectives at their own pace -- Adopting the Strategy -- Making the Strategy budget responsible -- Creating a dedicated online portal for the Strategy -- Conclusion -- Policy recommendations -- References -- Laws and regulations…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Using exceptions for error handling -- Using noexcept for functions that do not throw exceptions -- Ensuring constant correctness for a program -- Creating compile-time constant expressions -- Creating immediate functions -- Optimizing code in constant-evaluated contexts -- Using virtual function calls in constant expressions -- Performing correct type casts -- Implementing move semantics -- Using unique_ptr to uniquely own a memory resource -- Using shared_ptr to share a memory resource -- Consistent comparison with the operator &lt -- =&gt -- -- Comparing signed and unsigned integers safely -- Chapter 10: Implementing Patterns and Idioms -- Avoiding repetitive if-else statements in factory patterns -- Implementing the pimpl idiom -- Implementing the named parameter idiom -- Separating interfaces and implementations with the non-virtual interface idiom -- Handling friendship with the attorney-client idiom -- Static polymorphism with the curiously recurring template pattern -- Adding functionality to classes with mixins -- Handling unrelated types generically with the type erasure idiom -- Implementing a thread-safe singleton -- Chapter 11: Exploring Testing Frameworks -- Getting started with Boost.Test -- Writing and invoking tests with Boost.Test -- Asserting with Boost.Test -- Using fixtures in Boost.Test -- Controlling output with Boost.Test -- Getting started with Google Test -- Writing and invoking tests with Google Test -- Asserting with Google Test -- Using test fixtures with Google Test -- Controlling output with Google Test -- Getting started with Catch2 -- Writing and invoking tests with Catch2 -- Asserting with Catch2 -- Controlling output with Catch2 -- Chapter 12: C++ 20 Core Features -- Working with modules -- Understanding module partitions -- Specifying requirements on template arguments with concepts…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Style and format -- Simple and compound tags -- Creating a tagging strategy -- Automated tagging -- Cost allocation -- Summary -- Chapter 4: Estimating Cloud Solution Costs and Initiative Saving -- Technical requirements -- How to calculate the TCO for cloud solutions -- TCO introduction -- Cloud pricing calculators -- Pricing APIs from cloud providers and how to work with them -- Pricing APIs overview -- Estimating potential savings of cost optimization initiatives -- How to automate cost estimation -- Data sources selection -- Data consolidation -- Estimation calculation -- Change notification -- Data update -- Summary -- Chapter 5: Improving Cost Visibility with Dashboards and Reports -- Understanding cloud invoices and billing data -- Dashboards and reports -- The main differences between a report and a dashboard -- Key benefits -- Dashboards from another view - simulators -- How to prepare cost evolution reports and dashboards and their importance -- Financial basics -- Tracking savings to initiatives and adding milestones -- Unit economics -- How to prepare FinOps dashboards and reports -- Existing dashboards and reports -- Custom dashboards and reports -- Summary -- Part 3: Optimize - How to Get the Most out of Cloud Resources -- Chapter 6: Implementing IaaS Compute Optimization -- Compute optimization key concepts -- Quick wins -- Introduction to IaaS, PaaS, and serverless -- Stateless versus stateful -- IaaS optimization -- Quick win - orphaned resources -- Virtual machine version upgrades -- Virtual machine rightsizing -- Virtual machine family standardization -- Virtual machine power scheduling -- Virtual machine scaling -- Reserved Instances and Saving Plans -- Spot VMs -- Summary -- Chapter 7: Implementing PaaS and Other Compute Optimization Initiatives -- PaaS optimization -- PaaS rightsizing and workload consolidation…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Asking ChatGPT to write a poem -- Windows 365 Business and Enterprise -- Windows 365 Government -- Windows 365 Frontline -- Windows 365 and Azure Virtual Desktop - the differences -- Windows 365 license requirements -- Windows 365 Business license pre-requirements -- Windows 365 Enterprise license pre-requirements -- Windows 365 Government license requirements -- Windows 365-supported regions -- Windows Copilot - bringing the power of AI to Windows 11 -- Microsoft Intune -- Windows Autopatch -- Microsoft Dev Box -- Supported endpoints -- Summary -- Questions -- Further reading -- Part 2: Implementing and Managing Cloud PCs -- Chapter 2: Architecture -- Windows 365 architecture -- The components that Microsoft manages and the components the customer manages -- Identity - Azure Active Directory -- Networking controls - virtual network connection -- Deployment configuration - Intune app deployment and security -- User profiles -- Networking dataflow -- Connection security -- Required URLs -- Bandwidth requirements -- Optimizing the connection with RDP Shortpath -- User connection flow -- Co-management -- Business continuity and disaster recovery -- Windows 365 service availability -- Windows 365 Cloud PC backup and recovery -- User profile data resiliency -- User endpoint availability -- RBAC roles and delegation -- RBAC roles and structure -- Scope tags -- Custom roles -- Adding an additional security layer with Azure PIM -- Summary -- Questions -- Further reading -- Chapter 3: Deploying Cloud PCs…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Part 2 - pipeline workflow management platforms in Python -- Airflow -- Summary -- Part 3: Creating ETL Pipelines in AWS -- Chapter 9: A Primer on AWS Tools for ETL Processes -- Common data storage tools in AWS -- Amazon RDS -- Amazon Redshift -- Amazon S3 -- Amazon EC2 -- Discussion - Building flexible applications in AWS -- Leveraging S3 and EC2 -- Computing and automation with AWS -- AWS Glue -- AWS Lambda -- AWS Step Functions -- AWS big data tools for ETL pipelines -- AWS Data Pipeline -- Amazon Kinesis -- Amazon EMR -- Walk-through - creating a Free Tier AWS account -- Prerequisites for running AWS from your device in AWS -- AWS CLI -- Docker -- LocalStack -- AWS SAM CLI -- Summary -- Chapter 10: Tutorial - Creating an ETL Pipeline in AWS -- Technical requirements -- Creating a Python pipeline with Amazon S3, Lambda, and Step Functions -- Setting the stage with the AWS CLI -- Creating a "proof of concept" data pipeline in Python -- Using Boto3 and Amazon S3 to read data -- AWS Lambda functions -- AWS Step Functions -- An introduction to a scalable ETL pipeline using Bonobo, EC2, and RDS -- Configuring your AWS environment with EC2 and RDS -- Creating an RDS instance -- Creating an EC2 instance -- Creating a data pipeline locally with Bonobo -- Adding the pipeline to AWS -- Summary -- Chapter 11: Building Robust Deployment Pipelines in AWS -- Technical requirements -- What is CI/CD and why is it important? …”