Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Summary and key takeaways -- Takeaway #1 - using the Pareto principle as your compass -- Takeaway #2 - practical application of the Pareto principle -- Takeaway #3 - case study - building a multi-billion-dollar business -- Part 3: Intelligent Future -- Chapter 9: Exploring Master Data Management -- Setting the stage -- The legacy of Microsoft Organizations -- The rise and fall of Microsoft Individuals and Organizations -- Hello Mr. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Early Baudrillard: The Consumer Society and For a Critique of the Political Economy of the Sign -- Symbolic Exchange and the Gift Economy -- The First Order of Simulacra: The Student of Prague -- The Second Order of Simulacra: The First Industrial Revolution -- The Third Order of Simulacra: Simulation and Hyperreality -- First‐Wave Digitalization as Interactive Performance -- The Fourth Order of Simulacra: Value Radiates in All Directions -- From Descartes to Baudrillard: The "Evil Demon" of Images -- Arthur C. Clarke, "The Nine Billion Names of God" -- The Trapdoor Escape Hatch Way Out of Hyperreality -- High Life: The Black Hole of Humanity's Extinction and New Hope -- Poetic Resolution in Baudrillard's Thought -- Daniel Boorstin, The Image: Hyperreality Overtakes America -- Umberto Eco, Travels in Hyperreality -- Roland Barthes, Mythologies -- Taking the Side of Objects -- Plato and the Simulacrum -- Plato as Software Designer -- Brian Gogan on Plato, Baudrillard, and Rhetoric -- Deleuze on "Plato and the Simulacrum" -- Upgrading Hyperreality and the Simulacrum for Digitalization -- Personalized Advertising -- Transdisciplinarity is Good for (Post‐)Humanity -- Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, and the Metaverse -- Baudrillard and the Situationists -- Introduction…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Digging Into the Role of the Trading Desk -- Why investment banks are into trading -- How investment banks turn pennies into billions -- The type of analysis used in trading operations -- Chapter 3 How Investment Bankers Sell Companies -- Getting Companies Ready for Sale on Public Markets…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Step 6: Creating and processing the dataset -- Step 7: Initializing the trainer -- Step 8: Pretraining the model -- Step 9: Saving the model -- Step 10: User interface to chat with the Generative AI agent -- Further pretraining -- Limitations -- Next steps -- Summary -- Questions -- References -- Further reading -- Chapter 7: The Generative AI Revolution with ChatGPT -- GPTs as GPTs -- Improvement -- Diffusion -- New application sectors -- Self-service assistants -- Development assistants -- Pervasiveness -- The architecture of OpenAI GPT transformer models -- The rise of billion-parameter transformer models -- The increasing size of transformer models -- Context size and maximum path length -- From fine-tuning to zero-shot models -- Stacking decoder layers -- GPT models -- OpenAI models as assistants -- ChatGPT provides source code -- GitHub Copilot code assistant -- General-purpose prompt examples -- Getting started with ChatGPT - GPT-4 as an assistant -- 1. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Writing and compiling code using Visual Studio for Mac -- Next steps -- Managing source code with GitHub -- Using Git with Visual Studio 2017 -- Using the Team Explorer window -- Cloning a GitHub repository -- Managing a GitHub repository -- Using Git with Visual Studio Code -- Configuring Git at the command line -- Managing Git with Visual Studio Code -- Practicing and exploring -- Exercise 1.1 - Test your knowledge -- Exercise 1.2 - Practice C# anywhere -- Exercise 1.3 - Explore topics -- Summary -- Part 1: C# 7.1 -- Chapter 2: Speaking C# -- Understanding C# basics -- Using Visual Studio 2017 -- Using Visual Studio Code on macOS, Linux, or Windows -- C# grammar -- Statements -- Comments -- Blocks -- C# vocabulary -- Help for writing correct code -- Verbs are methods -- Nouns are types, fields, and variables -- Revealing the extent of the C# vocabulary -- Building and running with Visual Studio 2017 -- Building and running with Visual Studio Code -- Adding more types with Visual Studio 2017 and Visual Studio Code -- Declaring variables -- Naming variables -- Literal values -- Storing text -- Storing numbers -- Storing whole numbers -- C# 7 improvements -- Storing real numbers -- Using Visual Studio 2017 -- Using Visual Studio Code -- Writing code to explore numbers -- Comparing double and decimal types -- Storing Booleans -- The object type -- The dynamic type -- Local variables -- Specifying the type of a local variable -- Inferring the type of a local variable -- Making a value type nullable -- Understanding nullable reference types -- The billion-dollar mistake -- Changing the defaults for nullable types in C# 8.0 -- Checking for null -- Storing multiple values in an array -- Exploring console applications further -- Displaying output to the user -- Getting input from the user -- Importing a namespace -- Simplifying the usage of the console…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Multi-Sentence Reading Comprehension (MultiRC) -- Reading Comprehension with Commonsense Reasoning Dataset (ReCoRD) -- Recognizing Textual Entailment (RTE) -- Words in Context (WiC) -- The Winograd schema challenge (WSC) -- Running downstream tasks -- The Corpus of Linguistic Acceptability (CoLA) -- Stanford Sentiment TreeBank (SST-2) -- Microsoft Research Paraphrase Corpus (MRPC) -- Winograd schemas -- Summary -- Questions -- References -- Chapter 6: Machine Translation with the Transformer -- Defining machine translation -- Human transductions and translations -- Machine transductions and translations -- Preprocessing a WMT dataset -- Preprocessing the raw data -- Finalizing the preprocessing of the datasets -- Evaluating machine translation with BLEU -- Geometric evaluations -- Applying a smoothing technique -- Chencherry smoothing -- Translation with Google Translate -- Translations with Trax -- Installing Trax -- Creating the original Transformer model -- Initializing the model using pretrained weights -- Tokenizing a sentence -- Decoding from the Transformer -- De-tokenizing and displaying the translation -- Summary -- Questions -- References -- Chapter 7: The Rise of Suprahuman Transformers with GPT-3 Engines -- Suprahuman NLP with GPT-3 transformer models -- The architecture of OpenAI GPT transformer models -- The rise of billion-parameter transformer models -- The increasing size of transformer models -- Context size and maximum path length -- From fine-tuning to zero-shot models -- Stacking decoder layers -- GPT-3 engines -- Generic text completion with GPT-2 -- Step 9: Interacting with GPT-2 -- Training a custom GPT-2 language model -- Step 12: Interactive context and completion examples -- Running OpenAI GPT-3 tasks -- Running NLP tasks online -- Getting started with GPT-3 engines -- Running our first NLP task with GPT-3…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- 8.3 Historical Returns -- 8.4 Standard Deviation as a Measure of Risk -- Normal Distributions -- 8.5 Returns in an Uncertain World (Expectations and Probabilities) -- Finance Follies "Scam of the Century": Bernie Madoff and the 50 Billion Fraud -- Determining the Probabilities of All Potential Outcomes -- 8.6 The Risk-and-Return Trade-Off -- Investment Rules -- 8.7 Diversification: Minimizing Risk or Uncertainty -- When Diversification Works -- Adding More Stocks to the Portfolio: Systematic and Unsystematic Risk -- 8.8 Beta: The Measure of Risk in a Well-Diversified Portfolio -- 8.9 The Capital Asset Pricing Model and the Security Market Line -- The Capital Asset Pricing Model -- Application of the SML -- Key Terms -- Questions -- Prepping for Exams -- Problems -- Advanced Problems for Spreadsheet Application -- Mini-Case Lawrence's Legacy: Part 2 -- Part 3: Capital Budgeting -- Chapter 9. …”

“…The figure of additional $50 billion per year, roughly the present total of ODA spent by DAC donors, is often quoted (e.g. by the Zedillo Report); it results from the sum of the fight against communicable diseases ($ 7-10 billion), primary schooling ($10 billion), infant and maternal mortality ($12 billion) and halving world poverty ($20 billion). …”

“…On current estimates, the total 2001 outflows from OECD countries amounted to USD 593 billion, with the OECD area acting as a net exporter of USD 27 billion worth of FDI in 2001 as compared with USD 12 billion in 2000. ..…”

“…The total economic costs of the barriers are estimated to exceed $475 billion per annum • Partial reform, such as envisaged in the Uruguay Round, would yield benefits of $195 billion per annum, of which over $90 billion would accrue to developing and formerly centrally planned countries • The EC, Japan, and EFTA, stand to gain most from liberalisation • Trade liberalisation will raise rural incomes in developing countries…”

“…In 2011, cultural industries had a total production of 85 billion euros with an added value of 40 billion euros. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…1 Fractions, Decimals, and Percents -- Self‐Test 14.1 -- 2 Percent Change -- Self‐Test 14.2 -- 3 Fast Percent Change -- Self‐Test 14.3 -- 4 Percent Distribution -- Self‐Test 14.4 -- 5 Tipping -- Self‐Test 14.5 -- Answers to Self‐Test 14.1 -- Answers to Self‐Test 14.2 -- Answers to Self‐Test 14.3 -- Answers to Self‐Test 14.4 -- Answers to Self‐Test 14.5 -- Chapter 15 Solving Simple Equations -- 1 The Care and Treatment of Equations -- 2 Isolating x -- 3 Addition and Subtraction with x -- Self‐Test 15.1 -- 4 Multiplication and Division with x -- Self‐Test 15.2 -- 5 Fractions and Decimals in Equations -- Self‐Test 15.3 -- 6 Negative Numbers -- Self‐Test 15.4 -- 7 Multi‐Step Equations -- Self‐Test 15.5 -- Answers to Self‐Test 15.1 -- Answers to Self‐Test 15.2 -- Answers to Self‐Test 15.3 -- Answers to Self‐Test 15.4 -- Answers to Self‐Test 15.5 -- Chapter 16 Powers and Roots -- 1 Exponents -- Self‐Test 16.1 -- 2 Roots -- Self‐Test 16.2 -- 3 Advanced Problems -- Self‐Test 16.3 -- Answers to Self‐Test 16.1 -- Answers to Self‐Test 16.2 -- Answers to Self‐Test 16.3 -- Chapter 17 Very Large and Very Small Numbers -- 1 Writing Large Numbers -- Self‐Test 17.1 -- 2 Scientific Notation -- Self‐Test 17.2 -- 3 Millions, Billions, Trillions, and Beyond -- Self‐Test 17.3 -- 4 Multiplying Large Numbers -- 5 Dividing Large Numbers -- Self‐Test 17.4 -- 6 Scientific Notation for Very Small Numbers -- Self‐Test 17.5 -- Answers to Self‐Test 17.1 -- Answers to Self‐Text 17.2 -- Answers to Self‐Test 17.3 -- Answers to Self‐Test 17.4 -- Answers to Self‐Test 17.5 -- Chapter 18 Algebra Problems -- 1 Age Problems -- Self‐Test 18.1 -- 2 Finding the Numbers -- Self‐Test 18.2 -- 3 Mixture Problems -- Self‐Test 18.3 -- Answers to Self‐Test 18.1 -- Answers to Self‐Test 18.2 -- Answers to Self‐Test 18.3 -- Chapter 19 Interest Rates -- 1 Simple Interest -- Self‐Test 19.1.…”

“…Suppose a DAC donor earmarks $1 billion of taxpayers’ money for official development assistance (ODA). …”

“…The debt stock grew rapidly from $3.4 billion in 1980 to $17.3 billion in 1985 and $32.9 billion in 1990. …”

“…In 1990-1991, worldwide military expenditure amounted to $950 billion. This bill could be reduced by the year 2000 by over $300 billion.. . …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Half title - Building the Hyperconnected SocietyIoT Research and Innovation Value Chains, Ecosystems and Markets -- Series Title -- Title page - Building the Hyperconnected SocietyIoT Research and Innovation Value Chains, Ecosystems and Markets -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Editors Biography -- Chapter 1- Introduction -- 1.1 Now Is the Time -- 1.2 The Digital Single Market and Internet of Things Transformative Technologies -- 1.3 Benefits and Challenges -- 1.4 Conclusion -- Chapter 2 - New Horizons for the Internet of Thingsin Europe -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 The IoT Is the New Age -- 2.3 The IoT Can Unleash a New Industrialand Innovation Era -- 2.4 Issues to Be Tackled -- 2.5 Building IoT Innovation Ecosystems -- 2.6 IoT Large Scale Pilots for Testing and Deployment -- 2.7 Alliance for Internet of Things Innovation -- 2.8 Conclusions -- Chapter 3 - Internet of Things beyond the Hype: Research, Innovation and Deployment -- 3.1 Internet of Things Vision -- 3.1.1 Internet of Things Common Definition -- 3.2 IoT Strategic Research and Innovation Directions -- 3.2.1 IoT Applications and Deployment Scenarios -- 3.3 IoT Smart-X Applications -- 3.3.1 Wearables -- 3.3.2 Smart Health,Wellness and AgeingWell -- 3.3.3 Smart Homes and Buildings -- 3.3.4 Smart Energy -- 3.3.5 Smart Mobility and Transport -- 3.3.6 Smart Manufacturing and Industrial Internet of Things -- 3.3.7 Smart Cities -- 3.3.7.1 Large Scale Pilots and Ecosystem for Smart Cities -- 3.3.7.2 Role of Institutions and Citizens in the Global IoT -- 3.3.8 Smart Farming and Food Security -- 3.4 Future Internet Support for IoT -- 3.4.1 Macro-Challenges for Supporting IoT Evolution -- 3.4.1.1 Billions of Devices -- 3.4.1.2 IoT Management for Robustness and Reliability -- 3.4.1.3 Intelligent Reasoning over IoT Data…”

“…According to IATA, the industry raised a profit of $8 billion in 20112 and it is forecasted to make a profit of $11 billion in 2013.3 However, these improved profit margins continue to be razor thin – in the best of times the airline industry earns only a modest 1-2% net profit margin on revenue. …”

“…With over one billion international tourist arrivals per year, forecast to rise to 1.5 billion per year by 2020, transport is an essential component of the tourism system. …”

“…Listen to this book to: understand blockchain and transaction technologies, set up and run cryptocurrency accounts, identify users of cryptocurrencies, and more.With nearly 150 billion in cryptocurrency circulating and 3 billion changing hands daily, crimes committed with or paid for with digital cash are a serious business. …”

“…Current projections suggest that the world's temperatures will rise 1.8-4.0 by 2100 and population may reach 8 billion by the year 2025 and some 9 billion by mi…”