Tabla de Contenidos: “…Putting it all together -- Training -- Inference -- Loading data -- Creating reverse indices -- Loading models -- Translating a sequence -- Decoding a sequence -- Example translations -- Summary -- Chapter 12: Using Deep Reinforcement Learning -- Reinforcement learning overview -- Markov Decision Processes -- Q Learning -- Infinite state space -- Deep Q networks -- Online learning -- Memory and experience replay -- Exploitation versus exploration -- DeepMind -- The Keras reinforcement learning framework -- Installing Keras-RL -- Installing OpenAI gym -- Using OpenAI gym -- Building a reinforcement learning agent in Keras -- CartPole -- CartPole neural network architecture -- Memory -- Policy -- Agent -- Training -- Results -- Lunar Lander -- Lunar Lander network architecture -- Memory and policy -- Agent -- Training -- Results -- Summary -- Chapter 13: Generative Adversarial Networks -- An overview of the GAN -- Deep Convolutional GAN architecture -- Adversarial training architecture -- Generator architecture -- Discriminator architecture -- Stacked training -- Step 1 - train the discriminator -- Step 2 - train the stack -- How GANs can fail -- Stability -- Mode collapse -- Safe choices for GAN -- Generating MNIST images using a Keras GAN -- Loading the dataset -- Building the generator -- Building the discriminator -- Building the stacked model -- The training loop -- Model evaluation -- Generating CIFAR-10 images using a Keras GAN -- Loading CIFAR-10 -- Building the generator -- Building the discriminator -- The training loop -- Model evaluation -- Summary -- Other Books You May Enjoy -- Index…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- About This Book -- The Future -- References -- Software analytics and its application in practice -- Six Perspectives of Software Analytics -- Experiences in Putting Software Analytics into Practice -- References -- Seven principles of inductive software engineering: What we do is different -- Different and Important -- Principle #1: Humans Before Algorithms -- Principle #2: Plan for Scale -- Principle #3: Get Early Feedback -- Principle #4: Be Open Minded -- Principle #5: Be smart with your learning -- Principle #6: Live With the Data You Have -- Principle #7: Develop a Broad Skill Set That Uses a Big Toolkit -- References -- The need for data analysis patterns (in software engineering) -- The Remedy Metaphor -- Software Engineering Data -- Needs of Data Analysis Patterns -- Building Remedies for Data Analysis in Software Engineering Research -- References -- From software data to software theory: The path less traveled -- Pathways of Software Repository Research -- From Observation, to Theory, to Practice -- References -- Why theory matters -- Introduction -- How to Use Theory -- How to build theory -- Constructs -- Propositions -- Explanation -- Scope -- In Summary: Find a Theory or Build One Yourself -- Further Reading -- Success stories/applications -- Mining apps for anomalies -- The Million-Dollar Question -- App Mining -- Detecting Abnormal Behavior -- A Treasure Trove of Data -- ... …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Repaying your debt -- Indulging responsibly in fun and recreation -- Lowering your phone bills -- Technology: Spending wisely -- Curtailing personal care costs -- Paring down professional expenses -- Managing medical expenses -- Eliminating costly addictions -- Keeping an eye on insurance premiums -- Trimming your taxes -- Chapter 7 Trimming Your Taxes -- Understanding the Taxes You Pay -- Focusing on your total taxes -- Recognizing the importance of your marginal tax rate -- Defining taxable income -- Being mindful of the second tax system: Alternative minimum tax -- Analyzing the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act -- Trimming Employment Income Taxes -- Contributing to retirement plans -- Shifting some income -- Increasing Your Deductions -- Choosing standard or itemized deductions -- Purchasing real estate -- Trading consumer debt for mortgage debt -- Contributing to charities -- Remembering auto registration fees and state insurance -- Deducting self-employment expenses -- Reducing Investment Income Taxes -- Investing in tax-free money-market funds and bonds -- Selecting other tax-friendly investments -- Making your profits long term -- Does funding retirement accounts still make sense? …”

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: “…DAC members' bilateral development finance institutions -- Notes -- 9 In my view: Reinventing official development assistance: From an Arlequin tapestry to a more inspiring Kandinsky-Kasse moment -- References -- Notes -- 10 In focus: Aid effectiveness in Afghanistan, Mali and South Sudan -- Key messages -- Aid did not make extremely fragile contexts more stable, capable or better governed -- Donors overestimate capacity and underestimate resistance by entrenched elites -- Development co-operation providers must mind the opportunity costs -- Rethink, reset and be realistic about what aid can truly achieve in fragile settings -- Note -- 11 In my view: Funding more proximately is not risky but not doing so is -- In ignoring local resources, the aid system disempowers the very communities it targets -- References -- Notes -- 12 In focus: Enablers of locally led development -- Key messages -- Stronger evidence on the benefits and challenges of locally led development is needed -- Long-term core funding is more likely to foster sustainable outcomes and local ownership -- Localisation also calls for support for diverse partnerships tailored to local conditions -- Providers need to reframe risks, shift institutional culture and build internal capacities -- Some providers are starting to progressively redress power imbalances -- Anticipating how localisation may shift local political and economic dynamics can help avoid common pitfalls…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Starting over - reconstructing a far better business model -- Step 1 (our starting point) - first principles and trends -- Step 2 - building out our new business model options -- The "secret formula" that we must always keep in mind -- The tools - using them -- Stress testing our options -- Developing our customer scenarios -- Running our (simulated) stress tests -- What we're looking for -- Rinse and repeat -- Finished - at least for the moment -- What really matters -- What if this doesn't work and we don't find a winner? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Regions and Cities Must Lead the Way -- False Narratives and Tackling Climate Change -- The Luntz Memo's Deleterious Effect -- Beware the Danger of False Narratives and Rabbit Holes -- Social Media and Amoral, Unthinking Algorithms -- Talk About It: How Conversations Can Change Minds and Advance the Green Consensus -- Sewerage, Libraries, and Taxation -- Pension Demographics and Longevity -- Scotland's Big Climate Conversation -- Talking Together Changes Our Story and Our Outcomes -- Create Narratives That Resonate With a Locale and With Your Community -- Narrative Shifts Can Be Slow Until They Are Sudden -- The Greta Effect -- Extinction Rebellion's Direct Effect -- Climate Change Narratives Are Also Spiritual -- Declaring an Emergency Shifts the Narrative -- Americans Are Changing Their Climate Story -- The End of the Luntz Effect -- The Biden Administration Policy Shift Supports a Global Climate Break Point -- Devolution of the Climate Change Dialogue and the Ability to Act -- The UK Example -- Cities as Hubs of Green Innovation and Sustainable Liveability -- Cities and the Built Environment -- Transport, Mobility, and Our Cityscapes -- Powering Our Communities -- A Better, Localized, Green, Sustainable, Liveable Future -- Constructing New Tales and Travelling With Them Into the Future -- References -- 8 On Decarbonization, Economic Growth, and a Just Transition -- Growth Or No Growth -- Optimism Or Doom and Disaster - a False Choice -- New Contours for a Green Tomorrow -- Constructing Green Globalization 2.0 -- Green New Deals for All of Us -- Governments Can Afford to Invest in Green Reseeding -- A Greener, More Productive Economy -- But What of the Cost of GNDs? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Integration with Spark -- Scala compatibility -- Serialization issues -- Creating a scalable, production-ready library -- Build once, read many -- Exception handling -- Performance tuning -- Named entity recognition -- Scala libraries -- NLP walkthrough -- Extracting entities -- Abstracting methods -- Building a scalable code -- Build once, read many -- Scalability is also a state of mind -- Performance tuning -- GIS lookup -- GeoNames dataset -- Building an efficient join -- Offline strategy - Bloom filtering -- Online strategy - Hash partitioning -- Content deduplication -- Context learning -- Location scoring -- Names de-duplication -- Functional programming with Scalaz -- Our de-duplication strategy -- Using the mappend operator -- Simple clean -- DoubleMetaphone -- News index dashboard -- Summary -- Chapter 7: Building Communities -- Building a graph of persons -- Contact chaining -- Extracting data from Elasticsearch -- Using the Accumulo database -- Setup Accumulo -- Cell security -- Iterators -- Elasticsearch to Accumulo -- A graph data model in Accumulo -- Hadoop input and output formats -- Reading from Accumulo -- AccumuloGraphxInputFormat and EdgeWritable -- Building a graph -- Community detection algorithm -- Louvain algorithm -- Weighted Community Clustering (WCC) -- Description -- Preprocessing stage -- Initial communities -- Message passing -- Community back propagation -- WCC iteration -- Gathering community statistics -- WCC Computation -- WCC iteration -- GDELT dataset -- The Bowie effect -- Smaller communities -- Using Accumulo cell level security -- Summary -- Chapter 8: Building a Recommendation System -- Different approaches -- Collaborative filtering -- Content-based filtering -- Custom approach -- Uninformed data -- Processing bytes -- Creating a scalable code -- From time to frequency domain -- Fast Fourier transform…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The quick way - Upload and unzip -- Uploading and decompressing the ZIP file on the server -- Installation step 4 - Creating an empty database -- Installation step 5 - Creating the (moodledata) data directory -- Creating the database -- Installation step 6 - Installing Moodle -- Web-based installer -- Installation step 7 - Final configuration -- MoodleCloud basics -- Getting started with MoodleCloud -- MoodleCloud options -- Summary -- Chapter 3: Configuring Your Site -- Being mindful of user experience -- On-premise versus MoodleCloud -- Preparing to experiment -- Creating test accounts -- Installing several browsers -- Exploring the site administration menu -- Configuring authentication methods -- Manual accounts and no login methods -- Manually creating a new user -- Suspending a user's account -- Enabling email-based self-registration -- Authenticating against an external source -- Connecting to an external database or server -- What happens when users are deleted from the external database? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…William James' interpretation of conversion -- 5.3. Accessing the mind -- 6. Stories -- 6.1. Selves, bodies, names -- 6.2. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The concepts of body schema and body image, and the problem about the mind/brain/body interface(s) -- 2. The concept of body schema -- 2.1. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Leading a Successful Panel Interview -- Mastering the Art of Q&amp -- A -- Have a focus -- Make every question count -- Pay attention -- Don't hesitate to probe -- Give candidates ample time to respond -- Suspend judgments -- Take notes -- Vary the style of questions -- Closed-ended -- Open-ended -- Hypothetical -- Leading -- Off-the-wall -- Recognizing What to Ask (and Not to Ask) -- National origin -- Citizenship status -- Address -- Age -- Family status -- Religion -- Health and physical condition -- Name -- Language -- Asking Solid Questions and Knowing How to Interpret the Answers -- End Game: Closing on the Right Note -- Chapter 9 Making the Hiring Decision -- Coming to Grips with the Decision-Making Process -- Utilizing the Tools of the Trade -- Past experience -- Interview impressions -- Test/assessment results -- Firsthand observation -- Selecting Your Candidate: You Need a System -- Knowing what to rely on -- Setting up your own protocol - creating a scorecard -- Factoring in the intangibles -- Creative problem-solving and innovation -- Time management -- Growth mindset -- Collaboration -- Emotional intelligence -- Dealing with Common Challenges in the Hiring Decision -- Anchor yourself to the hiring criteria -- Take your time -- Cross-verify whenever possible -- Get help, but avoid the "too many cooks" syndrome -- Don't force the issue -- Avoid the "top of mind" syndrome -- Getting a Broader View: Employment Reference Checks -- Checking hard-to-check references -- Using your own network for checking -- Online reference checking: Proceed with caution -- Discovering the Truth about Background Checks -- Understanding the basics: Background checks 101 -- Recognizing the different types of checks -- Wading through the murkiness of background checks -- Conducting background checks: Yes or no? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…6.6 The Oven -- 6.7 The Archaeological Material -- 6.8 The Gold Jewelry -- 6.9 Conclusions -- Bibliography -- 7 Towards the Theory of Social Status: Cultural Parameters of Secure Social Status in Prehistory (a -- 7.1 Setting -- 7.2 Towards the Sociological Theory of Social Status -- 7.2.1 Social Position and Social Status -- 7.2.2 Formal and Non-formal Social Status -- 7.2.3 Social Status is Mobile -- 7.2.4 Social Status and Social Class -- 7.2.5 Segmentation and Stratification, Ordinary and Elite -- 7.2.6 Theoretical Synthesis -- 7.3 Towards the Cultural Parameters of Secure Social Status in Prehistory -- 7.3.1 Houses and Secure Status -- 7.3.2 Burials in Settlements as Accumulation of Wealth -- 7.3.3 Prehistoric Figurines and Secure Status -- 7.3.4 Metal and Accumulation of Wealth -- 7.3.5 Sedentarization and Mobility, and Secure Status -- 7.3.6 Wealth and Secure Status -- 7.3.7 Health and Social Status -- 7.3.8 The Wealth of Learning -- 7.3.9 The Social Mind and Security -- 7.4 Social Complexity and Social Status: Yunatsite Culture Case Study -- 7.5 Conclusive Summary -- Bibliography -- 8 The Bronze and Early Iron Age Settlements in Romanian Dobroudja -- 8.1 The Early Bronze Age -- 8.2 The Middle and Late Bronze Age: The Coslogeni Culture -- 8.2.1 The Range -- 8.2.2 The Origin -- 8.2.3 The Evolution -- 8.2.4 The Habitats -- 8.2.4.1 The Settlements -- 8.2.4.1.1 The Types of Settlements -- 8.2.4.1.2 The Location of the Settlements -- 8.2.4.1.3 Size -- 8.2.4.2 The Houses -- 8.2.4.2.1 Types of Houses -- 8.2.4.2.2 The Fire Installations -- 8.2.4.2.2.1 Hearths -- 8.2.4.2.3 The Metallurgical Installations -- 8.2.4.3 The Pits -- 8.2.4.3.1 Domestic and Storage Pits -- 8.2.4.3.2 Ritual Pits -- 8.3 The Iron Age. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Knowing your target audience -- Planning the edit with the target audience in mind -- Creating storyboards -- Planning for different types of videos -- Documentary videos -- Interviews -- Wedding videos -- Social media videos -- Instructional videos -- Summary -- Chapter 4: Pre-Editing a Rough Cut -- The steps from importing to rough cut -- Steps in video post-production -- Who does what? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Chapter 10 Business Owner Basics -- Minding the Details of Business Ownership -- Buying insurance -- Liability insurance -- Workers' compensation insurance -- Paying federal, state, and local taxes -- Negotiating leases -- Maintaining employee records -- Getting licenses and permits -- Signing the checks -- Outsourcing: Focus on What You Do Best -- Surveying the most commonly outsourced tasks -- Figuring out what to outsource -- Simplifying Your Accounting -- Introducing some common systems -- Manual bookkeeping systems -- Computer-based systems -- Choosing the system that's right for you -- Controlling Your Expenses -- Looking at fixed and variable expenses -- Understanding zero-based budgeting -- Managing Vendor Relationships -- Dealing with Bankers, Lawyers, and Other Outsiders -- Bankers -- Lawyers -- Tax advisors -- Consultants -- Governments -- Chapter 11 Handling Regulatory and Legal Issues -- Navigating Small-Business Laws -- Complying with Small-Business Regulations -- Complying through licensing, registrations, and permits -- The realities of compliance -- Local regulations: Taxes, zoning, and health -- State regulations: More taxes, licensing, insurance, and the environment -- Federal regulations: Still more taxes, licenses, and requirements -- Selection of a business entity -- Protecting ideas: Nondisclosures, patents, trademarks, and copyrights -- General tips for protecting your ideas -- Nondisclosure agreements (NDAs) -- Patents, trademarks, and copyrights -- A business prenup: Contracts with customers and suppliers -- Laboring over Employee Costs and Laws -- Part 5 Creating a Growth Trajectory -- Chapter 12 Keeping and Attracting Superstar Employees -- Motivating Top Performers to Stay -- Revisiting the Compensation Plan -- Reviewing the types of compensation -- Creating a compensation plan that works for your business…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…DevOps is more than just tools and processes -- Adopting the CALMS approach -- Culture -- Automation -- Lean -- Measurement -- Sharing -- What to keep in mind when adopting CALMS for DevOps -- It takes time to develop a DevOps mindset -- Summary -- Questions -- Chapter 10: What Does Receiving Support from Leadership and Stakeholders Look Like? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Chapter 11 Quiz -- Answers to Chapter 11 Quiz -- Unit 4: Identities and Special Triangles -- Chapter 12: Identifying with Trig Identities: The Basics -- Keeping the End in Mind: A Quick Primer on Identities…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Being "in the now" -- Setting the scene -- Handling surprise situations -- Keeping Time with the Programming Elements -- Announcing legal identifiers -- Reading the news -- Breaking events -- Public affairs -- Equal airtime -- Making public service announcements -- Reading out promos -- Detailing an events calendar -- Hosting On-Air Guests -- Minding Studio Etiquette -- Chapter 12 Forming the Band: Building Your Crew -- Developing the Station CORE -- Recruiting and Training Your On-Air Team -- Thinking about the schedule -- Handling applications -- Vetting new recruits…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Part 2 The Write Stuff -- Chapter 4 Discovering All You Can About Your Reader -- Using AI as Your Assistant to Understanding the Audience -- Kick-Starting Your Writing Success -- Bridging Generational Differences -- Looking at a Case Study -- Scenario -- Problem -- Fix -- Result -- Chapter 5 Taking Your Reader on a Storied Journey -- Using AI as Your Assistant to Craft Compelling Stories -- Understanding the Power of the Narrative -- Generating Precise Prompts -- Creating Tales of Success and Transformation -- Realizing that everyone has a story -- Starting with paper and pencil (or pen) -- Forming connections and creating a list -- Making Readers Part of the Journey -- Including the Four Pillars of Storytelling -- Creating the Story Arc -- Sharing Stories in the First Person, Present Tense -- Embellishing Stories -- Infusing Your Docs with a Dash of Personality -- Chapter 6 Demystifying Writer's Block and Writing a Draft -- Using AI as Your Assistant to Chop Through Writer's Block and Write a Draft -- Venturing Beyond Chatbots -- Karate Chopping Through Writer's Block without AI -- Freewriting -- Brainstorming and mind mapping -- Outlining -- Unleashing the Power of WI -- Jumping in and Writing the Draft -- Get ready, get set . . . -- Don't get it right - get it written -- Sequencing for Maximum Impact -- Polishing the Draft -- Chapter 7 Designing Visuals to Enhance the Reader's Experience -- Using AI as Your Assistant for Dynamic Visuals -- Generating Precise Prompts -- Peeking Into the World of Infographics -- Adding Tables and Charts -- Table that thought -- Chart your course -- Coloring Your Way to Clarity -- Digging into Visuals Beyond Graphics -- Including white space -- Limiting paragraph and sentence length -- Preparing strong headlines that tell a story -- Putting it on the list -- Using bulleted lists -- Using numbered lists…”