Tabla de Contenidos: “…Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- About This Book -- Foolish Assumptions -- Icons Used in This Book -- Beyond the Book -- Where to Go from Here -- Part 1 Getting Started with Generative AI -- Chapter 1 Grasping the Basics of Generative AI -- Understanding the Different Flavors of AI -- Using AI that learns from data -- Using follow-the-rules AI -- Needing a Teacher versus Learning On Its Own -- Considering supervised learning -- Dipping into unsupervised learning -- Recognizing differences and their impact -- Grasping real-world implications -- Observing AI That Creates New Things versus AI That Sorts and Filters -- Looking at generative AI as the innovator -- Navigating discriminative AI as the organizer -- Viewing how they work together -- Thinking about the impact of AI -- Looking at the Role of Human-Technology Interaction -- Improving health care -- Transforming learning experiences in education -- Catalyzing efficiency and innovation in the workplace -- Navigating the AI-Human Partnership -- Unpacking the Mechanics of Generative AI -- Understanding neural networks -- Discovering natural language processing -- Creating text and content with AI -- Building practical applications -- Seeing How AI "Understands" Prompts -- Deploying training data -- Understanding context -- Understanding the role of relevance -- Looking at everyday examples -- Uncovering challenges in AI's understanding of prompts -- Considering the Strengths and Limitations of AI Models -- Reviewing the strengths -- Identifying the limitations -- Balancing AI's strengths and limitations -- Chapter 2 Exploring Types of Generative AI Output -- Understanding Text Generation Techniques -- The template-based method -- The freeform method -- Natural language generation -- Text summarization -- Exploring the Creation of AI Images…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- About This Book -- Foolish Assumptions -- Icons Used in This Book -- Beyond the Book -- Where to Go from Here -- Part 1 Getting Started with Business Statistics -- Chapter 1 The Art and Science of Business Statistics -- Representing the Key Properties of Data -- Analyzing data with graphs -- Histograms -- Line graphs -- Pie charts -- Scatter plots -- Defining properties and relationships with numerical measures -- Finding the center of the data -- Measuring the spread of the data -- Determining the relationship between two variables -- Probability: The Foundation of All Statistical Analysis -- Random variables -- Probability distributions -- Discrete probability distributions -- Continuous probability distributions -- Using Sampling Techniques and Sampling Distributions -- Statistical Inference: Drawing Conclusions from Data -- Confidence intervals -- Hypothesis testing -- Simple regression analysis -- Chapter 2 Pictures Tell the Story: Graphical Representations of Data -- Analyzing the Distribution of Data by Class or Category -- Frequency distributions for quantitative data -- Figuring the class width -- Observing relative frequency distributions -- Frequency distribution for qualitative values -- Cumulative frequency distributions -- Histograms: Getting a Picture of Frequency Distributions -- Checking Out Other Useful Graphs -- Line graphs: Showing the values of a data series -- Pie charts: Showing the composition of a data set -- Scatter plots: Showing the relationship between two variables -- Chapter 3 Identifying the Center of a Data Set -- Looking at Methods for Finding the Mean -- Arithmetic mean -- Calculating the sample arithmetic mean -- Calculating the population arithmetic mean -- Geometric mean -- Weighted mean -- Calculating the weighted arithmetic mean…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- About this Book -- Foolish Assumptions -- Icons Used in This Book -- Beyond the Book -- Where to Go from Here -- Part 1 Starting Your CCSP Journey -- Chapter 1 Familiarizing Yourself with (ISC)2 and the CCSP Certification -- Appreciating (ISC)2 and the CCSP Certification -- Knowing Why You Need to Get Certified -- Studying the Prerequisites for the CCSP -- Understanding the CCSP Domains -- Domain 1: Cloud Concepts, Architecture, and Design -- Domain 2: Cloud Data Security -- Domain 3: Cloud Platform and Infrastructure Security -- Domain 4: Cloud Application Security -- Domain 5: Cloud Security Operations -- Domain 6: Legal, Risk, and Compliance -- Preparing for the Exam -- Studying on your own -- Learning by doing -- Getting official (ISC)2 CCSP training -- Attending other training courses -- Practice, practice, practice -- Ensuring you're ready for the exam -- Registering for the Exam -- Taking the Exam -- Identifying What to Do After the Exam -- Chapter 2 Identifying Information Security Fundamentals -- Exploring the Pillars of Information Security -- Confidentiality -- Integrity -- Availability -- Security controls -- Threats, Vulnerabilities, and Risks . . . …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…How to Start Tapping into Community from the Get-Go -- Getting to Know Your Audience -- Find Your First Advocates -- Engage in Your Audience's Current Communities -- Start Small Initiatives to Bring Customers Together -- Involve Your Whole Organization in Early Efforts -- Create Experiences That Demonstrate Your Culture and Values -- Get Ready for the Next Phase of Community-Building -- Chapter 6 Law 2: You Have to Own the Platform: Engage Your Customers Beyond Borrowed GroundBy Kenneth Refsgaard and Nadia Nicolai -- Building a Community on a Social Platform (Like Facebook) -- Building a Community on a Collaboration Platform (like Slack) -- The Power of an Owned Platform -- Summary -- Chapter 7 Law 3: Community Should Be the Heart of the Customer Journey: Activate and Engage Your Customers at ScaleBy Aaron Hatton and Haiko Krumm -- Customer Life Cycle and Customer Journey Explained -- Journey Map to Define the Desired Customer Journey -- Community at the Heart of the Customer Journey -- Community as a Concept versus Content and Engagement Within -- Stages of the Customer Journey, from Onboarding to Pre-Sales -- Onboarding -- Adoption -- Nurturing -- Renewal/Growth -- Loyalty -- Pre-Sales -- It Starts with Valuable Content -- Chapter 8 Law 4: Create Content That Educates and Inspires: Be the Best Thought Leader You Can BeBy Remco de Vries and Kenneth Refsgaard -- The Four Pillars of Community Content -- Where to Focus Your Attention -- Types of Community Content -- Conversations -- Questions and Answers -- Articles and Blogs -- Courses and Trainings -- Feedback and Ideas -- Product Updates -- Event-Focused Content -- Social Content -- Getting Started with Community Content -- Segmenting Your Audience -- Who Creates Community Content? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- FM -- Copyright -- Contributors -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Core Cloud Concepts -- Making the Most Out of This Book - Your Certification and Beyond -- What Is Cloud Computing? -- Essential Cloud Computing Characteristics -- Cloud Stakeholders -- ISO/IEC 17789 CCRA Roles and Sub-Roles -- Cloud Service Customer -- CSP -- Cloud Service Partner -- Cloud Auditor -- NIST Cloud Computing Key Actors -- Cloud Consumer -- Cloud Provider -- Cloud Broker -- Cloud Auditor (CA) -- Cloud Carrier (CC) -- Key Cloud Computing Technologies and Building Blocks -- Summary -- Exam Readiness Drill - Chapter Review Questions -- Chapter 2: Cloud Reference Architecture -- Cloud Service Models -- Software as a Service (SaaS) -- Platform as a Service (PaaS) -- Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) -- Cloud Service Models and Categories -- Cloud Deployment Models -- Shared Responsibility Model -- Shared Considerations for Cloud Deployments -- Emerging Technologies in Cloud Computing -- Data Science -- Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML) -- Blockchain -- Internet of Things (IoT) -- Containers -- Quantum Computing -- Quantum as a Service (QaaS) -- Quantum-Enhanced Optimization and ML -- Quantum Simulation and Modeling -- Quantum Cloud-Based Software Development -- Edge Computing -- Confidential Computing -- Summary -- Exam Readiness Drill - Chapter Review Questions -- Chapter 3: Top Threats and Essential Cloud Security Concepts and Controls -- The CIA Triad-Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability -- Common Threats to Cloud Deployments -- Data Breaches -- Misconfiguration -- Insecure APIs -- Insider Threats -- Account Hijacking -- Security Control Categories and Types -- Security Control Categories/Classes -- Security Control Types and Functionality -- Summary -- Exam Readiness Drill - Chapter Review Questions…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- FM -- Copyright -- Contributors -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Connecting to Data -- Introduction to Data -- Making the Most Out of This Book - Your Certification and Beyond -- Connecting to Sources -- Data Structure -- Choosing an Appropriate Data Source Type -- Content and Quality -- Level of detail: Dimensions and Measures -- Data Quality -- Technical Requirements -- Performance: Data Size and Structure -- Microsoft Excel (.xlsx) and Comma-Separated Values (.csv) Types -- Relational Databases -- Initial Data Connections -- Connecting to Tableau Server or Tableau Cloud -- Connecting to a File -- CSV and Excel Files -- .hyper or .tde Files -- JSON -- PDF -- Spatial Files -- Statistical Files -- Connecting to Databases and Cloud Services -- Default Server Connectors -- Custom SQL Queries -- Introduction to SQL and Custom Queries in Tableau -- Live versus Extract Connections -- Live Connections -- Data Extracts -- Other Factors Affecting Performance -- Connection Management: the Datasource Pane and Data Tab -- The Datasource Window -- The Data Tab -- Making New Connections in Existing Workbooks -- Replacing Data Sources -- Notes, Caveats, and Unsupported Data Sources -- Web-Based Data Access: Drivers and APIs -- Multidimensional Systems -- Summary -- Exam Readiness Drill - Chapter Review Questions -- Chapter 2: Transforming Data -- Introduction -- Types of Fields in Tableau -- Data Types -- Data Type Conversion -- Dimensions and Measures -- Dimensions and Measure Field Conversion -- Discrete and Continuous -- Dimension, Measure, Discrete, and Continuous Combinations -- Discrete and Continuous Color Legends -- Cleaning Data -- Assessing Data Quality -- Cleaning data on Tableau Desktop -- Duplicating and Renaming a Field Updating the Aliases -- Updating the Default Properties of Fields -- Data Interpreter…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Taking the driver's seat -- Our wins - embracing outsourcing as a key enabler -- Building trust and partnership -- Educational foundations -- Documentation and pilot projects - essential tools -- Fostering quality, upskilling, and collaboration -- Choosing your approach -- Contracts and KPIs - the triple-A approach -- Navigating challenges and pitfalls -- Evolution of outsourcing and insourcing -- Outsourcing data engineering and beyond -- Embracing outsourced education and data literacy -- Data science - a selective outsourcing strategy -- Outsourcing innovation and incubations -- Achieving maximum performance - nearshore versus offshore…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…On the Traveling and Turns of Being and Becoming a Narrative Inquirer -- Abstract -- Keywords -- 1 My Personal and Professional 'Narrative Turns' -- 2 Turning from Narrative Research to Narrative Inquiry -- 3 Turning towards the World Traveling of Narrative Inquiry -- 3.1 Risten3 -- 3.2 Maria -- 4 Turning towards Embodied Experiences -- 5 Turning towards Silence and Silencing -- 6 Turning Forward -- Notes -- References -- 4. Beyond Personal and Political Boundaries: Being and Becoming a Cross-Cultural Researcher -- Abstract -- Keywords -- 1 Turning Points in Professional Formation -- 2 Threshold Encounters -- 3 Narrative Inquiry -- 4 Narratives from Threshold Encounters -- 4.1 Suffering and Sacrifices -- 4.2 Being on the Right Side -- 4.3 The Relative Relativist -- 4.4 Being an In-Betweener -- 5 Formation of a Cross-Cultural Researcher as an In-Betweener -- References…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Evaluating on test (holdout) data -- Understanding evaluation metrics -- Evaluating regression models -- R-squared -- Root mean squared error -- Mean absolute error -- When and how to use each metric -- Practical evaluation strategies -- Summarizing the evaluation of regression models -- Evaluating classification models -- Classification model evaluation metrics -- Precision, recall, and F1-Score -- Recall -- F1-score -- Methods for explaining machine learning models -- Making sense of regression models - the power of coefficients -- Decoding classification models - unveiling feature importance -- Beyond specific models - universal insights using SHAP values -- Summary -- Common Pitfalls in Machine Learning -- Understanding the complexity -- Dirty data, damaged models - how data quantity and quality impact ML -- The importance of adequate training data -- Dealing with poor data quality -- Conclusion -- Overcoming overfitting and underfitting -- Navigating training-serving skew and model drift -- Ensuring fairness -- Mastering overfitting and underfitting for optimal model performance…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Preparing the Stable Diffusion components -- Loading the training data -- Defining the training components -- Training a Stable Diffusion V1.5 LoRA -- Kicking off the training -- Verifying the result -- Summary -- References -- Chapter 22: Exploring Beyond Stable Diffusion -- What sets this AI wave apart -- The enduring value of mathematics and programming -- Staying current with AI innovations -- Cultivating responsible, ethical, private, and secure AI -- Our evolving relationship with AI -- Summary -- References -- Index -- Other Books You May Enjoy…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- FM -- Copyright -- Contributors -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Introduction to Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and Concepts -- Making the Most Out of This Book - Your Certification and Beyond -- Technical Requirements -- What Is IaC? -- Scenario -- Basic Concepts of IaC -- Declarative Approach versus Imperative Approach -- Version Control -- Idempotency -- Infrastructure Provisioning and Configuration Management -- IaC Tools in the Market -- How to Choose the Right IaC Tool -- HashiCorp Terraform -- Progress Chef -- Creating Your First Recipe -- Puppet -- Pulumi -- AWS CloudFormation -- IaC Use Cases -- Multi-Cloud Deployments -- Application Deployments, Scaling, and Monitoring Tools -- Policy Compliance and Management -- Testing Environments and Software Demos -- Benefits of IaC -- Rapid Deployments and Tool Integration -- Lower Costs and Error Reduction -- Configuration Drift Elimination -- Improved Infrastructure Consistency -- DevOps and CI/CD -- Don't Repeat Yourself (DRY) -- Creating a Simple AWS DynamoDB Table Using a CloudFormation Template -- Creating an AWS S3 Bucket Using Terraform -- Summary -- Exam Readiness Drill - Chapter Review Questions -- Chapter 2: Why Do We Need Terraform? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…CQRS and event sourcing -- One more step beyond databases - storing in memory -- Patterns of data evolution in time -- Data governance -- Progressive implementation of a unique referential -- Keeping an eye on dogma and useless complexity -- Summary -- Chapter 11: Business Processes and Low Code -- Business processes and the BPMN approach -- What is a business process? …”

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“…In the essays and lectures here titled Neganthropocene, Stiegler opens an entirely new front moving beyond the dead-end “banality” of the Anthropocene. …”