Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Software architects are technical leaders -- Software architects perform a number of duties -- Ivory tower software architects -- What are software architects expected to know? -- Don't be overwhelmed -- Is the software architect role right for you? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright &amp -- Credits -- Contributors -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Choosing the Correct Business Process Diagram Type -- Technical requirements -- Setting the scope with context diagrams -- Starting a context diagram in Microsoft Teams -- Opening a Visio document in Microsoft Teams -- Determining who and what with a functional flow diagram -- Starting a functional flow diagram in Visio for Web -- Capturing interactions with a cross-functional diagram -- Starting and ending with rounded terminator shapes -- Defining process steps with rectangular shapes -- Highlighting decisions with diamond shapes -- Labeling swimlanes for each actor -- Starting a cross-functional diagram in desktop Visio Plan 2 -- Starting a cross-functional diagram in Visio Plan 1 -- Saving a desktop Visio document to a Teams channel -- Defining the detail with a flowchart diagram -- Knowing when to use the flowchart shapes -- Using the Off-page (reference) shape -- Summary -- Chapter 2: Choosing the Best Visio Edition for Our Needs -- Technical requirements -- Understanding the different Microsoft Visio editions -- Using Visio documents anywhere -- Comparing templates and features of Visio editions -- Getting to know the Visio user interface -- Understanding the desktop Visio user interface -- Understanding the Visio online editor user interface -- Understanding the Visio Reading View user interface -- Adding stencils to the workspace -- Searching for shapes -- Summary -- Chapter 3: Learning to Manually Create Process Flow Diagrams -- Technical requirements -- Setting the page size and orientation -- Adding basic flowchart shapes -- Using Quick Shapes and AutoConnect -- Aligning shapes with Smart Guides and Dynamic Grid -- Relating shapes to each other -- Dragging the AutoConnect arrow -- Gluing connectors to a specific position…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Don't People Already Know What Their Business Looks Like? -- How Can We Engage Employees in Change? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The labeled faces in the wild (LFW) dataset -- The YouTube faces dataset -- The CelebFaces Attributes dataset (CelebA) -- CASIA web face database -- The VGGFace2 dataset -- Computing the similarity between faces -- Finding the optimum threshold -- Face clustering -- Summary -- Chapter 7: Image Captioning -- Understanding the problem and datasets -- Understanding natural language processing for image captioning -- Expressing words in vector form -- Converting words to vectors -- Training an embedding -- Approaches for image captioning and related problems -- Using a condition random field for linking image and text -- Using RNN on CNN features to generate captions -- Creating captions using image ranking -- Retrieving captions from images and images from captions -- Dense captioning -- Using RNN for captioning -- Using multimodal metric space -- Using attention network for captioning -- Knowing when to look -- Implementing attention-based image captioning -- Summary -- Chapter 8: Generative Models -- Applications of generative models -- Artistic style transfer -- Predicting the next frame in a video -- Super-resolution of images -- Interactive image generation -- Image to image translation -- Text to image generation -- Inpainting -- Blending -- Transforming attributes -- Creating training data -- Creating new animation characters -- 3D models from photos -- Neural artistic style transfer -- Content loss -- Style loss using the Gram matrix -- Style transfer -- Generative Adversarial Networks -- Vanilla GAN -- Conditional GAN -- Adversarial loss -- Image translation -- InfoGAN -- Drawbacks of GAN -- Visual dialogue model -- Algorithm for VDM -- Generator -- Discriminator -- Summary -- Chapter 9: Video Classification -- Understanding and classifying videos -- Exploring video classification datasets -- UCF101 -- YouTube-8M -- Other datasets…”

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 Personal Finance -- Chapter 1 Improving Your Financial Literacy -- Talking Money at Home -- Identifying Unreliable Sources of Information -- Understanding the dangers of free financial content online -- Recognizing fake financial gurus -- Publishers pandering to advertisers -- Jumping over Real and Imaginary Hurdles to Financial Success -- Discovering what (or who) is holding you back -- Developing good financial habits -- Chapter 2 Measuring Your Financial Health -- Avoiding Common Money Mistakes -- Determining Your Financial Net Worth -- Adding up your financial assets -- Subtracting your financial liabilities -- Crunching your numbers -- Interpreting your net worth results -- Examining Your Credit Score and Reports -- Understanding what your credit data includes and means -- Obtaining your credit reports and score -- Improving your credit reports and score -- Getting credit report errors corrected -- Knowing the Difference between Bad Debt and Good Debt -- Consuming your way to bad debt -- Recognizing bad debt overload -- Assessing good debt: Can you get too much? …”

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 Discovering Deep Learning -- Chapter 1 Introducing Deep Learning -- Defining What Deep Learning Means -- Starting from Artificial Intelligence -- Considering the role of AI -- Focusing on machine learning -- Moving from machine learning to deep learning -- Using Deep Learning in the Real World -- Understanding the concept of learning -- Performing deep learning tasks -- Employing deep learning in applications -- Considering the Deep Learning Programming Environment -- Overcoming Deep Learning Hype -- Discovering the start-up ecosystem -- Knowing when not to use deep learning -- Chapter 2 Introducing the Machine Learning Principles -- Defining Machine Learning -- Understanding how machine learning works -- Understanding that it's pure math -- Learning by different strategies -- Training, validating, and testing data -- Looking for generalization -- Getting to know the limits of bias -- Keeping model complexity in mind -- Considering the Many Different Roads to Learning -- Understanding there is no free lunch -- Discovering the five main approaches -- Delving into some different approaches -- Awaiting the next breakthrough -- Pondering the True Uses of Machine Learning -- Understanding machine learning benefits -- Discovering machine learning limits -- Chapter 3 Getting and Using Python -- Working with Python in this Book -- Obtaining Your Copy of Anaconda -- Getting Continuum Analytics Anaconda -- Installing Anaconda on Linux -- Installing Anaconda on MacOS -- Installing Anaconda on Windows -- Downloading the Datasets and Example Code -- Using Jupyter Notebook -- Defining the code repository -- Getting and using datasets -- Creating the Application…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Incorporating visuals and other media -- Prepping for virtual presentations: The same but different -- Test your technology beforehand -- Manage your presentation space -- Use visuals wisely and keep slides clear and uncluttered -- Take advantage of the advanced features of remote presentation applications -- Leveraging the Communicative Power of Visualization -- Practicing Your Presentation to Improve Your Confidence -- Part 4 Persuading and Driving Results -- Chapter 12 Knowing the People You're Trying to Persuade -- Analyzing Your Audience -- Conducting a demographic analysis -- Digging deeper with a psychographic analysis -- Using Communication Direction to Your Advantage -- Upward communication: Finesse required -- Demonstrate respect -- Cut to the chase -- Show how your proposal will benefit the organization or individual -- Downward communication: A balancing act -- Explain your rationale -- Approach the situation with a curious mind -- Listen and be prepared to respond to complaints and excuses -- Lateral communication: Navigating peer-to-peer interactions -- Seek mutually beneficial solutions -- Acknowledge and respect your communication history -- Balance competition with cooperation -- Anticipating Possible Objections -- Researching possible objections: Conducting surveys -- Conducting an indirect survey -- Surveying actual audience members -- Preparing your responses to objections -- Remaining objective and demonstrating it -- Chapter 13 Engaging in Persuasion That Drives Results -- Sizing Up the Stakeholders -- Identifying stakeholders and their interests -- Sharing the credit to give stakeholders a sense of ownership -- Clarifying Your Goal and Aligning It with Your Audience -- Putting your goals and the needs of your audience in perspective -- Setting realistic goals and objectives…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Structure of a game concept document -- The hook or elevator pitch -- Description -- Key feature set -- Platform -- Audience -- Genre -- Business model -- Knowing your competition -- Understanding the ideation process -- Coming up with ideas -- Twisting familiar mechanics -- Creativity through constraints -- Finding the fun -- Defining fantasy -- The mood, or how the game looks and feels -- Summary -- Chapter 3: Scoping a Game Project -- The evolution of game structure -- Common game structures -- Linear -- Structured nonlinear -- Open nonlinear -- Endless and sandbox -- Notes on structure -- Game content -- Content burn -- Scoping practices -- Content lifespan -- Game flow -- Planning design work -- Estimation techniques -- Priorities and dependencies -- Summary -- Chapter 4: Creating Design Documentation -- The purpose of a GDD -- Characteristics of a good GDD -- It is modular -- It starts with goals and requirements -- It is the result of a discussion -- It is clear, brief, and concise -- It is multimedia -- It leaves space for creativity and debate -- It comes in different formats and sizes -- It is online, shareable, and accessible -- Tools for writing a GDD -- Word processors -- Wikis -- Presentations -- Note organizers -- Digital whiteboards -- Mind maps…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Getting Inside Scientists' Heads -- Engaging with scientific convention -- Trusting conjecture and refutation -- Thinking in fits and starts: Paradigm shifts -- Answers to Chapter 2's Exercises -- Pricing bats and balls -- Looking for the robber -- Astronomical wrangles -- Chapter 3 Planting Ideas in Your Head: The Sociology of Thinking -- Asking Whether You're Thinking What You Think You're Thinking -- Knowing how outside forces work on people -- Influencing people's opinions -- Consumer demand -- Emulation -- Advertising -- Thinking and Indoctrination: Propaganda -- "Here's what you think, comrade": Russia and China -- Mr. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Identifying Your Purpose -- Domain Names: Registering Your Domain Name -- Trademarks, Licensing, Copyright, and Legalities -- Trademarks -- Copyright -- Licensing -- The Basics of Branding -- Memorable Logos and Why You Need One -- All About Color and Color Schemes -- Identifying Your Target Audience: The Who, What, Where, and Why -- Knowing Your Visitors -- Usability: Novel Idea! Users Want to Actually Use Your Site -- What Is Accessibility? …”

“…Libraries and frameworks help you build web applications quickly and efficiently, but when things go wrong or performance becomes an issue, knowing how and why they work is critical. If you’re ready to go under the hood and get your hands dirty with JavaScript internals, this is your book. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Exploring the cloud computing standards -- Understanding the architecture of the cloud -- Knowing the key features of cloud computing -- Introducing IaaS solutions -- Amazon EC2 -- Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines -- Other strong IaaS offerings -- Introducing PaaS solutions -- Amazon Elastic Beanstalk -- Google App Engine -- DigitalOcean App Platform -- Open source PaaS solutions -- Introducing CaaS solutions -- Introducing the Kubernetes container orchestration solution -- Deploying containers in the cloud -- Introducing microservices -- Introducing DevOps -- Exploring cloud management tools -- Ansible -- Puppet -- Chef Infra -- Summary -- Further reading -- Chapter 15: Deploying to the Cloud with AWS and Azure -- Technical requirements -- Working with AWS EC2 -- Introducing and creating AWS EC2 instances -- Introducing AWS EC2 placement groups -- Using AWS EC2 instances -- Working with the AWS CLI -- Working with Microsoft Azure -- Creating and deploying a virtual machine -- Connecting with SSH to a virtual machine -- Managing virtual machines -- Working with the Azure CLI -- Summary -- Questions -- Further reading -- Chapter 16: Deploying Applications with Kubernetes -- Technical requirements -- Introducing Kubernetes -- Understanding the Kubernetes architecture -- Introducing the Kubernetes object model -- The anatomy of a Kubernetes cluster -- Installing and configuring Kubernetes -- Installing Kubernetes on a desktop -- Installing Kubernetes on VMs -- Working with Kubernetes -- Using kubectl -- Deploying applications -- Running Kubernetes in the cloud -- Summary -- Questions -- Further reading -- Chapter 17: Infrastructure and Automation with Ansible -- Technical requirements -- Introducing Ansible architecture and configuration management -- Understanding the Ansible architecture -- Introducing configuration management -- Installing Ansible…”

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: “…3 Leading Others -- The Job to Be Done -- Leaders-of-Others Set the Direction for Their Team -- Leaders-of-Others Empower the Team -- Leaders-of-Others Develop Their Direct Reports -- Leaders-of-Others Follow Through on the Performance of Their Direct Reports -- Leaders-of-Others Select Their Team Members -- Leaders-of-Others Build Their Team -- Leaders-of-Others Integrate Upwards and Sideways -- The Transition to the Role -- Work Values -- Time Application -- Skills -- Typical Transition Issues -- Finding More Satisfaction in One's Own Contribution Than in Team Members' Contributions -- Micromanaging Instead of Delegating -- Competing with Direct Reports About "Knowing Best" -- Avoiding Tough Conversations with Direct Reports -- Considering Questions from Direct Reports a Disturbance Rather Than Opportunities to Coach and Develop Them -- Variations of the Role -- Store Managers (Retail) -- Supervisors (Manufacturing) -- Leaders-of-Others Who Are Also Specialists -- Project Leaders -- 4 Leading Leaders -- The Job to Be Done -- Leaders-of-Leaders Translate Strategy into Operating Plans -- Leaders-of-Leaders Develop Other Leaders -- Leaders-of-Leaders Follow Through on the Performance of Other Leaders -- Leaders-of-Leaders Select Leaders -- Leaders-of-Leaders Build a Diverse Organization -- Leaders-of-Leaders Lead Across the Organization -- The Transition to the Role -- Work Values -- Time Application -- Skills -- Typical Transition Issues -- Neglecting to Develop Direct Reports into Effective Leaders -- Neglecting to Explicitly Hold Direct Reports Accountable for Leadership Performance -- Failing to Truly Empower the Leaders Reporting to Them -- Focusing Mainly on Leading Downwards but Not Much on Leading Sideways and Upwards -- Struggling with the Combination of Individual Contributors and Leaders-of-Others as Direct Reports -- Variations of the Role…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Pinning your favorite Cloud PC to the Windows taskbar -- Connection settings -- Dark mode support -- Installing from the Microsoft Store -- Deploying the Windows 365 app using Microsoft Intune -- Exploring Windows 365 Boot -- Diving into Windows 365 Switch -- Using the Windows 365 web client -- Location -- Keyboard shortcuts -- Connection details -- Transferring files to and from a Cloud PC -- Collecting user logs -- Dark mode -- Performing user actions on Windows 365 Cloud PC -- Knowing about alternate clients -- Microsoft Remote Desktop client -- Approved Linux thin clients -- Connecting from a company website or application -- Step 1 - getting the user's Cloud PCs -- Step 2 - launching the connection -- The Windows client -- Meeting endpoint requirements -- Windows -- Web browsers -- macOS and iOS -- Android -- Linux -- Delivering a premium experience -- Implementing protocol enhancements -- RDP Shortpath -- Enhancing the end user network -- Microsoft Teams -- Utilizing graphics enhancements -- RDP profiles -- Setting frame rates -- Multimedia redirection -- Summary -- Questions -- Further reading -- Chapter 6: Securing Cloud PCs -- Configuring Conditional Access - MFA -- Configuring a CA policy to enforce MFA -- Configuring the CA policy with FIDO authentication -- Compliance policies -- Creating a compliance policy -- eDiscovery mode -- Creating an Azure storage account and assigning permissions -- Placing a Cloud PC under review -- Removing a Cloud PC under review -- How to become a local administrator of your Cloud PC -- Configuring the local admin setting -- Windows Local Administrator Password Solution -- Enabling the built-in administrator -- Screen capture protection -- Watermarking -- RDP device redirection -- Microsoft Defender for Endpoint -- Enabling Defender for Endpoint in Intune -- Security baselines -- Summary -- Questions…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Copyright -- Contributors -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Getting Started with Machine Learning and Python -- An introduction to machine learning -- Understanding why we need machine learning -- Differentiating between machine learning and automation -- Machine learning applications -- Knowing the prerequisites -- Getting started with three types of machine learning -- A brief history of the development of machine learning algorithms -- Digging into the core of machine learning -- Generalizing with data -- Overfitting, underfitting, and the bias-variance trade-off -- Overfitting -- Underfitting -- The bias-variance trade-off -- Avoiding overfitting with cross-validation -- Avoiding overfitting with regularization -- Avoiding overfitting with feature selection and dimensionality reduction -- Data preprocessing and feature engineering -- Preprocessing and exploration -- Dealing with missing values -- Label encoding -- One-hot encoding -- Dense embedding -- Scaling -- Feature engineering -- Polynomial transformation -- Binning -- Combining models -- Voting and averaging -- Bagging -- Boosting -- Stacking -- Installing software and setting up -- Setting up Python and environments -- Installing the main Python packages -- NumPy -- SciPy -- pandas -- scikit-learn -- TensorFlow -- PyTorch -- Summary -- Exercises -- Chapter 2: Building a Movie Recommendation Engine with Naïve Bayes -- Getting started with classification -- Binary classification -- Multiclass classification -- Multi-label classification -- Exploring Naïve Bayes -- Bayes' theorem by example -- The mechanics of Naïve Bayes -- Implementing Naïve Bayes -- Implementing Naïve Bayes from scratch -- Implementing Naïve Bayes with scikit-learn -- Building a movie recommender with Naïve Bayes -- Preparing the data -- Training a Naïve Bayes model…”

“…Manage VMware workloads in Azure VMware Solution and enable hybrid connectivity between on-premises datacenters and Azure with this extensive guide focusing on best practices and use cases Key Features Extend or migrate your existing VMware environment to Azure VMware Solution smoothly Discover best practices that are based on real customer experiences Join the cloud revolution by conducting the most suitable migration for your workloads Book Description Organizations over the world are migrating partially or fully to the cloud, but with the whole slew of providers, tools, and platforms available, knowing where to start can be quite challenging. If you know Microsoft Azure VMware Solution, you know it is the quickest way to migrate to the cloud without needing application modernization or rework. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…3.8.1 Further reading for least confidence sampling -- 3.8.2 Further reading for margin of confidence sampling -- 3.8.3 Further reading for ratio of confidence sampling -- 3.8.4 Further reading for entropy-based sampling -- 3.8.5 Further reading for other machine learning models -- 3.8.6 Further reading for ensemble-based uncertainty sampling -- Summary -- 4 Diversity sampling -- 4.1 Knowing what you don't know: Identifying gaps in your model's knowledge -- 4.1.1 Example data for diversity sampling -- 4.1.2 Interpreting neural models for diversity sampling -- 4.1.3 Getting information from hidden layers in PyTorch -- 4.2 Model-based outlier sampling -- 4.2.1 Use validation data to rank activations -- 4.2.2 Which layers should I use to calculate model-based outliers? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- 31.2 More Similar Errors -- 31.3 Wrong Material Delivered -- 31.4 Packaged Deals -- 31.5 "Draftsmen's Delusions -- 31.6 Same Plant and Product, but No Communication -- 31.7 A Failure at the Design/Construction Interface -- 31.8 Failure of Communication between Marketing and Technology -- 31.9 Too Much Communication -- 31.10 No One Told the Designers -- 31.11 Conclusions -- Chapter 32. I Did Not Know... -- 32.1 ... That Metals Can Burn -- 32.2 ... …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Other Stuff You'll Want to Know: All That Other Stuff? It's in This Chapter…”