Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Mapping strategic intentions -- Unified operations - one set of tools and processes -- Key impacts -- Thinking about workloads and architecture -- Use cases and technical considerations -- Looking at efficiency, reliability, security, and compliance -- Microsoft Azure reference architectures -- Important operational considerations -- Design, build, and orchestrate with modern practices -- Utilize monitoring and analytics for operational insights -- Testing -- Summary -- Chapter 3: Migration and Modernization -- Benefits of modernization and migration to the cloud -- Reasons for choosing Azure -- The three stages of migration and modernization -- Two versatile frameworks for cloud adoption -- Maximizing the value of your cloud investment -- Additional tools for maximizing your cloud investment…”

“…Alan Rogers looks at learning (formal, nonformal and informal) and examines the hidden world of informal (unconscious, unplanned) learning. …”

“…It also gives a 'behind the scenes' look at the social lives of datasets, data infrastructures, and data stories in newsrooms, media organizations, startups, civil society organizations and beyond. …”

“…A thought-provoking look at statistical learning theory and its role in understanding human learning and inductive reasoning A joint endeavor from leading researchers in the fields of philosophy and electrical engineering, An Elementary Introduction to Statistical Learning Theory is a comprehensive and accessible primer on the rapidly evolving fields of statistical pattern recognition and statistical learning theory. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…9.2.1 Message compression9.2.2 Message aggregation; 9.3 Dead Reckoning; 9.3.1 Prediction; 9.3.2 Convergence; 9.4 Local Perception Filters; 9.4.1 Linear temporal contour; 9.4.2 Adding bullet time to the delays; 9.5 Synchronized Simulation; 9.6 Area-of-interest Filtering; 9.7 Summary; Exercises; 10 Cheating Prevention; 10.1 Technical Exploitations; 10.1.1 Packet tampering; 10.1.2 Look-ahead cheating; 10.1.3 Cracking and other attacks; 10.2 Rule Violations; 10.2.1 Collusion; 10.2.2 Offending other players; 10.3 Summary; Exercises; A Pseudo-code Conventions; A.1 Changing the Flow of Control…”

“…In 14 contributions that look at Steuermann from very different angles – discussing his life, his family and artistic ties, his music-making and composing, his work as a teacher and witty author – the view of the breadth of his work is widened on the basis of numerous previously unexplored materials, and the portrait of an artist who, according to Adorno, embodied the "conscience" of music itself is drawn Eduard Steuermann (1892–1964), österreichisch-polnisch-jüdischer Pianist aus Galizien, Schüler Busonis, Lehrer und Freund Adornos, Exil-Amerikaner, gefragter Solist und Pädagoge zwischen Wien, New York und Darmstadt, hat zeitlebens das "beinahe Unmögliche" gesucht: in kompromissloser "Hingabe an die Musik" Wahrheit und Schönheit zu versöhnen. …”

“…The 15th Edition attempts to capture the rapid evolution of our global marketplace, taking a closer look at the types of organisations that permeate the widespread arena, competition, and opportunities in emerging markets, and how financial leadership can integrate the strategic and financial challenges that global businesses face today…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- ANNs and the backpropagation algorithm -- Weight optimization -- Stochastic gradient descent -- Neural network architectures -- Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) -- Multilayer perceptron -- Deep Belief Networks (DBNs) -- Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) -- AutoEncoders -- Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) -- Emergent architectures -- Deep learning frameworks -- Summary -- Chapter 2: A First Look at TensorFlow -- A general overview of TensorFlow -- What's new in TensorFlow v1.6? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- The Internet of Things and You -- IoT Is More Than Just Connected to the Internet -- IoT Services -- A Brief Look at IoT Solutions -- Sensor Networks -- Medical Applications -- Automotive IoT Solutions -- Fleet Management -- IoT and Security -- Security Begins at Home -- Secure Your Devices -- Use Encryption -- Security Doesn't End at the Cloud -- Introducing Windows 10 -- Overview of Windows 10 Features -- The Return of the Desktop -- Compatibility -- Notifications and Action Center -- Windows 10 and the IoT -- Summary -- Chapter 2: Introducing the Windows 10 IoT Core -- Things You Will Need -- Windows 10 IoT Core -- Interacting with Hardware -- Video Support -- One Platform, Many Devices -- Windows 10 IoT Hardware -- Raspberry Pi -- Arrow DragonBoard 410c -- Which One Should I Choose? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…6.2.2 Unique -- 6.2.3 Permanent -- 6.2.4 Fast and easy to generate -- 6.2.5 Unpredictable -- 6.2.6 Readable, shareable, and verifiable -- 6.2.7 Informationally dense -- 6.3 What does a good identifier look like? -- 6.3.1 Data type -- 6.3.2 Character set -- 6.3.3 Identifier format -- 6.3.4 Checksums -- 6.3.5 Resource type -- 6.3.6 Hierarchy and uniqueness scope -- 6.4 Implementation -- 6.4.1 Size -- 6.4.2 Generation -- 6.4.3 Tomb-stoning -- 6.4.4 Checksum -- 6.4.5 Database storage -- 6.5 What about UUIDs? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Using different types of Directives -- The init directive -- The wrap directive -- Different configuration options -- Top-level configuration options -- Flowcharts -- Sequence Diagrams -- Gantt charts -- User Journey diagrams -- ER diagrams -- Pie charts -- State diagrams -- Setting configuration options using initialize -- Setting up the site configuration -- Summary -- Chapter 5: Changing Themes and Making Mermaid Look Good -- Selecting a theme -- Changing the theme for a whole site -- Changing the theme for only one diagram -- Different pre-built theme options for Mermaid -- Customizing a theme using theme variables -- Color theory -- Selecting colors -- Finalizing the new theme -- Variables for modifying a theme -- Summary -- Section 2: The Most Popular Diagrams -- Chapter 6: Using Flowcharts -- Technical requirements -- Getting started with flowcharts -- Shapes and types of shapes -- The rectangle shape -- The diamond shape -- The rounded rectangle shape -- The stadium shape -- The circle shape -- The hexagon shape -- The parallelogram shape -- The alternate parallelogram -- The asymmetric shape -- The trapezoid shape -- The alt trapezoid shape -- The subroutine shape -- The database shape -- Configuring lines between nodes -- Chaining -- Types of edges -- Thickness -- Setting the length of an edge -- Text on edges -- Subgraphs -- Setting a rendering direction in subgraphs -- Special words and characters within labels -- Interaction and styling -- Interaction -- Styling nodes and edges in your flowchart -- Theming -- mainBkg -- nodeBorder -- clusterBkg -- clusterBorder -- titleColor -- lineColor -- edgeLabelBackground -- Summary -- Chapter 7: Creating Sequence Diagrams -- Technical requirements -- Core elements in Sequence Diagram…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Decide on a Type of Computer -- Choose a Display Type -- Evaluate Your Storage Options -- Consider How You Will Get Online -- Where to Shop for Your New PC -- Chapter 2 Setting Up Your Computer -- Out of the Box: Set Up Your New PC -- Set Up Windows -- Take a First Look at Windows -- Use a Mouse, Trackball, or Touchscreen -- Get Familiar with the Start Menu -- Sign Out and In -- Switch Accounts -- Lock Windows while You're Away -- Restart Windows -- Place the Computer in Sleep Mode -- Shut Down Your Computer -- Create Additional User Accounts -- Change an Account's Type -- Manage Family Settings -- Chapter 3 Buying and Setting Up a Printer -- Do You Need a Printer? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Intro -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Executive Summary -- 1 The economic impacts of environmental policies: Key findings and policy implications -- Introduction -- Environmental policies and competitiveness concerns -- Evidence from OECD studies -- Is looking at past experience helpful with regard to future environmental policies? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…How It Works -- Running the Script -- The Results -- Hacking the Script -- Chapter 4: Tweaking Unix -- #27 Displaying a File with Line Numbers -- The Code -- How It Works -- Running the Script -- The Results -- Hacking the Script -- #28 Wrapping Only Long Lines -- The Code -- How It Works -- Running the Script -- The Results -- #29 Displaying a File with Additional Information -- The Code -- How It Works -- Running the Script -- The Results -- #30 Emulating GNU-Style Flags with quota -- The Code -- How It Works -- Running the Script -- The Results -- #31 Making sftp Look More Like ftp -- The Code -- How It Works -- Running the Script -- The Results -- Hacking the Script -- #32 Fixing grep -- The Code -- How It Works -- Running the Script -- The Results -- Hacking the Script -- #33 Working with Compressed Files -- The Code -- How It Works -- Running the Script -- The Results -- Hacking the Script -- #34 Ensuring Maximally Compressed Files -- The Code -- How It Works -- Running the Script -- The Results -- Chapter 5: System Administration: Managing Users -- #35 Analyzing Disk Usage -- The Code -- How It Works -- Running the Script -- The Results -- Hacking the Script -- #36 Reporting Disk Hogs -- The Code -- How It Works -- Running the Script -- The Results -- Hacking the Script -- #37 Improving the Readability of df Output -- The Code -- How It Works -- Running the Script -- The Results -- Hacking the Script -- #38 Figuring Out Available Disk Space -- The Code -- How It Works -- Running the Script -- The Results -- Hacking the Script -- #39 Implementing a Secure locate -- The Code -- How It Works -- Running the Script -- The Results -- Hacking the Script -- #40 Adding Users to the System -- The Code -- How It Works -- Running the Script -- The Results -- Hacking the Script -- #41 Suspending a User Account -- The Code -- How It Works…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Summary -- Chapter 2: Types of Data -- Flavors of data -- Why look at these distinctions? -- Structured versus unstructured data -- Example of data preprocessing -- Word/phrase counts -- Presence of certain special characters -- Relative length of text -- Picking out topics -- Quantitative versus qualitative data -- Example - coffee shop data -- Example - world alcohol consumption data -- Digging deeper -- The road thus far... -- The four levels of data -- The nominal level -- Mathematical operations allowed -- Measures of center -- What data is like at the nominal level -- The ordinal level -- Examples -- Mathematical operations allowed -- Measures of center -- Quick recap and check -- The interval level -- Example -- Mathematical operations allowed -- Measures of center -- Measures of variation -- The ratio level -- Examples -- Measures of center -- Problems with the ratio level -- Data is in the eye of the beholder -- Summary -- Chapter 3: The Five Steps of Data Science -- Introduction to Data Science -- Overview of the five steps -- Ask an interesting question -- Obtain the data -- Explore the data -- Model the data -- Communicate and visualize the results -- Explore the data…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Visualizing the goodness of fit -- Computing MSE and median absolute error -- Evaluating clusters with the mean silhouette coefficient -- Comparing results with a dummy classifier -- Determining MAPE and MPE -- Comparing with a dummy regressor -- Calculating the mean absolute error and the residual sum of squares -- Examining the kappa of classification -- Taking a look at the Matthews correlation coefficient -- Chapter 11: Analyzing Images -- Introduction -- Setting up OpenCV -- Applying Scale-Invariant Feature Transform (SIFT) -- Detecting features with SURF -- Quantizing colors -- Denoising images -- Extracting patches from an image -- Detecting faces with Haar cascades -- Searching for bright stars -- Extracting metadata from images -- Extracting texture features from images -- Applying hierarchical clustering on images -- Segmenting images with spectral clustering -- Chapter 12: Parallelism and Performance -- Introduction -- Just-in-time compiling with Numba -- Speeding up numerical expressions with Numexpr -- Running multiple threads with the threading module -- Launching multiple tasks with the concurrent.futures module -- Accessing resources asynchronously with the asyncio module -- Distributed processing with execnet -- Profiling memory usage -- Calculating the mean, variance, skewness, and kurtosis on the fly -- Caching with a least recently used cache -- Caching HTTP requests -- Streaming counting with the Count-min sketch -- Harnessing the power of the GPU with OpenCL -- Appendix A: Glossary -- Appendix B: Function Reference -- IPython -- Matplotlib -- NumPy -- pandas -- Scikit-learn -- SciPy -- Seaborn -- Statsmodels -- Appendix C: Online Resources -- IPython notebooks and open data -- Mathematics and statistics -- Appendix D: Tips and Tricks for Command-Line and Miscellaneous Tools -- IPython notebooks -- Command-line tools…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Button switcher -- Example and implementation -- Summary -- Chapter 9: Advanced Dashboard Customization -- Layout customization -- Panel width -- Example -- Implementation -- Grouping -- Example -- Implementation -- Panel toggle -- Example -- Implementation -- Image overlay -- Example -- Implementation -- Custom look and feel -- Example and implementation -- The custom alert action -- What is alerting? …”

“…The methodology is complemented by case studies to create a versatile reference book, allowing readers to look for specific methods as well as for specific applications. …”

“…This comprehensive guide looks at networking from an attacker's perspective to help you find, exploit, and ultimately protect vulnerabilities. …”

“…The volume collects essays that reconsider the pasticcio, contextualize it, define its preconditions, look at its material aspects and uncover its aesthetical principles…”