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Tabla de Contenidos: “…The Paradox of Power The PowerShell Language; A Brief Introduction Using a Script; Operators and Operands; Cmdlets; Variables; Cmdlet Output; Strings; Basic Strings; Here Strings; String Manipulation; Regular Expressions; Editing Strings Using Regular Expressions; Files; Control Flow; If/Elseif/Else; Switch; For Loop; For Each; While; Script Blocks; Arrays; Associative Arrays; Summary; Chapter 3: Advanced Programming; Passing Parameters; Functions; It's All about Objects; A Real-World Use of PowerShell Objects for ETL; Remember the Pipeline…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- The role of OSINT -- Case study: OSINT in a real-world cybersecurity incident -- Summary -- Chapter 7: Protecting Your Identity and Organization from Cyber Threats -- Understanding the role of OSINT in protecting your identity and organization -- The advantages of proactive OSINT research for cybersecurity -- Personal digital hygiene and OSINT -- Identifying and mitigating risks from your online presence -- Enhancing your privacy and security -- Assessing and strengthening organizational security with OSINT -- Identifying potential vulnerabilities -- Identifying and responding to cyber threats such as ransomware -- Detecting phishing and social engineering attempts -- It's Exotic Lily story time -- The Cobalt Dickens group and their tricky spear-phishing attacks -- Investigating cyber incidents and breaches -- Uncovering the source, scope, and impact of cyber incidents -- Building a resilient cyber defense with OSINT -- Collaborating with the cybersecurity community -- Adapting to the evolving threat landscape -- Updating your OSINT-driven cybersecurity strategy as needed…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Part 2:Practical Machine Learning with LightGBM -- Chapter 5: LightGBM Parameter Optimization with Optuna -- Technical requirements -- Optuna and optimization algorithms -- Introducing Optuna -- Optimization algorithms -- Pruning strategies -- Optimizing LightGBM with Optuna -- Advanced Optuna features -- Summary -- References -- Chapter 6: Solving Real-World Data Science Problems with LightGBM -- Technical requirements -- The data science life cycle -- Defining the data science life cycle -- Predicting wind turbine power generation with LightGBM -- Problem definition -- Data collection -- Data preparation -- EDA -- Modeling -- Model deployment -- Communicating results -- Classifying individual credit scores with LightGBM -- Problem definition -- Data collection -- Data preparation -- EDA -- Modeling -- Model deployment and results -- Summary -- References -- Chapter 7: AutoML with LightGBM and FLAML -- Technical requirements -- Automated machine learning -- Automating feature engineering -- Automating model selection and tuning -- Risks of using AutoML systems -- Introducing FLAML -- Cost Frugal Optimization -- BlendSearch -- FLAML limitations -- Case study - using FLAML with LightGBM -- Feature engineering -- FLAML AutoML -- Zero-shot AutoML -- Summary -- References -- Part 3:Production-ready Machine Learning with LightGBM -- Chapter 8: Machine Learning Pipelines and MLOps with LightGBM -- Technical requirements -- Introducing machine learning pipelines -- Scikit-learn pipelines -- Understanding MLOps -- Deploying an ML pipeline for customer churn -- Building an ML pipeline using scikit-learn -- Building an ML API using FastAPI -- Containerizing our API -- Deploying LightGBM to Google Cloud -- Summary -- Chapter 9: LightGBM MLOps with AWS SageMaker -- Technical requirements -- An introduction to AWS and SageMaker -- AWS -- SageMaker…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The Entrepreneurial Engineer; Contents; Foreword; Preface; 1 Entrepreneurial Engineer: Ready for the 21st Century; 1.1 21st-Century Engineers Moving at Internet Time; 1.2 Engineering Education, Common Sense, and the Real World; 1.3 Ten Competencies for the Entrepreneurial Engineer; 1.4 Three Principles; 1.5 Three Cautions; Exercises; 2 The Joy of Engineering; 2.1 A Joyous Confession; 2.2 Engineering as Liberal Education, Launchpad, and Lifelong Love; 2.2.1 Who Is Getting a "Liberal Arts" Education Today?…”