Tabla de Contenidos: “…Operating Model -- Hedging and Trading -- Comingling of Sourcing, Sales, Trading, and Hedging -- Strategic Risk Management -- Risk Strategy (What Risks to Own) -- Risk Capacity (Metrics and Targets) -- Objectives, Exposures, and Tactics -- Hedge Horizon, Hedge Ratio, and Instruments -- Business Models for Trading -- Hedging and Trading Operating Model -- Performance Measurement in Trading -- Notes -- Glossary of Terms -- Other Useful Links -- Works Cited -- About the Author -- Index -- EULA…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…127 Real Life in the C-Suite 130 Chapter 9: Control over Operational Performance 133 IT Controls 134 Societe Generale 135 Washington Mutual 139 Countrywide Financial Corporation 143 The Foreclosure Fiasco 144 Chapter 10: Boards of Directors' Focus 153 A Focus on the Rules 155 Truly Effective Boards 156 A Public Watchdog? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Utility Types -- Record&lt -- Keys, Type&gt -- -- Pick&lt -- Type, Keys&gt -- -- Omit&lt -- Type, Keys&gt -- -- Partial&lt -- Type&gt -- -- Required&lt -- Type&gt -- -- Readonly&lt -- Type&gt -- -- Exclude&lt -- Type, Keys&gt -- -- Extract&lt -- Type, Keys&gt -- -- Parameters&lt -- FunctionType&gt -- -- ConstructorParameters&lt -- ClassType&gt -- -- ReturnType&lt -- FunctionType&gt -- -- Conditional Types -- extends Keyword -- infer Keyword -- Extracting Inferred Types -- Distributive and Nondistributive Conditional Types -- Conditional Types via Property Accessors -- Mapped Types -- Changing the Type of Fields -- Adding and Removing Fields -- Renaming Fields -- Recursive Types -- Recursion Within an Object Type -- Recursion over a Tuple Type -- Template Literals -- Summary -- Chapter 6: Advanced Usage -- Introduction -- Expect and IsEqual -- Compute -- JsonOf -- Flatten -- UrlParameters -- UrlParameters with Optional Params -- Further Reading -- Summary -- Chapter 7: Performance -- Introduction -- Reducing Inline Types -- Reducing Inferred Types -- Inline Caching Using Conditional Types -- Reduce Intersections -- Reduce Union Types -- Partition Using Packages and Projects -- Partitioning Using Packages -- Partitioning Using Projects -- Other Performance Tweaks -- Debugging Performance Issues -- Using the @typescript/analyze-trace NPM Package -- Using a Trace Viewer Within Your Browser -- Summary -- Chapter 8: Build -- Introduction -- Compiler Options -- Recommended tsconfig.json Settings -- Targeting Modern Browsers -- Prevent Optional Errors -- Display Complete Errors -- Enable Widest Range of Safe Interoperability -- Project Structure and Build Output -- Other Options -- Linting -- Installing ESLint -- Ideal Ruleset -- Additional Strict Errors -- Additional Strict Warnings -- Removed Rules…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…High-Level Language Virtual Machine Implementation; 6.1 Dynamic Class Loading; 6.2 Implementing Security; 6.3 Garbage Collection; 6.4 Java Native Interface; 6.5 Basic Emulation; 6.6 High-Performance Emulation; 6.7 Case Study: The Jikes Research Virtual Machine; 6.8 Summary; Chapter Seven. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…. -- 3.2 Signal Models and Blind Multiuser Detectors for Fading Channels. -- 3.3 Performance of Blind Multiuser Detectors. -- 3.4 Bayesian Multiuser Detection for Long-Code CDMA. -- 3.5 Multiuser Detection for Long-Code CDMA in Fast-Fading Channels. -- 3.6 Transmitter-Based Multiuser Precoding for Fading Channels. -- 3.7 Conclusion. -- References. -- 4 Performance with Random Signatures (Matthew J. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…4.6 OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE4.7 HIGH-PERFORMANCE REAL-TIME SYSTEMS; 4.8 SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE AND SYSTEM EVOLUTION; 4.9 IT'S A WRAP-A FEW FINAL WORDS; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 5 Reliability and Scalability Methods; 5.0 INTRODUCTION TO HIGH-AVAILABILITY SYSTEMS; 5.1 HDD RELIABILITY METRICS; 5.2 METHODS FOR HIGH-AVAILABILITY DESIGN; 5.3 ARCHITECTURAL CONCEPTS FOR HA; 5.4 SCALING AND UPGRADING SYSTEM COMPONENTS; 5.5 IT'S A WRAP-SOME FINAL WORDS; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 6 Networking Basics for A/V; 6.0 INTRODUCTION; 6.1 THE SEVEN-LAYER STACK; 6.2 VIRTUAL LANS; 6.3 TCP/IP PERFORMANCE…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…3.7 Remote Sensing Satellites3.8 Architecture of Satellite Command and Control; 3.9 The Communications Payload Transponder; 3.9.1 Bent-Pipe Transponders; 3.9.2 Digital Transponders; 3.9.3 Regenerative Repeater; 3.10 Satellite Functional Requirements; 3.10.1 Key Performance Concepts: Coverage, Frequency Allocations; 3.10.2 Architecture of the Communications Payload; 3.10.3 Satellite Communications System Performance Requirements; 3.11 The Satellite Link Equation; 3.12 The Microwave Transmitter Block; 3.12.1 Intercept Point; 3.12.2 Output Backoff; 3.12.3 The Transmit Antenna and EIRP…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- About the Authors -- Acknowledgements -- How to Read this Book -- Part I Setting the Scene -- Chapter 1 A Brief Introduction -- 1.1 The Systems Engineering Approach to Artificial Intelligence (AI) -- 1.2 Chapter Summary -- Questions -- Chapter 2 Defining a Neural Network -- 2.1 Biological Networks -- 2.2 From Biology to Mathematics -- 2.3 We Came a Full Circle -- 2.4 The Model of McCulloch‐Pitts -- 2.5 The Artificial Neuron of Rosenblatt -- 2.6 Final Remarks -- 2.7 Chapter Summary -- Questions -- Sources -- Chapter 3 Engineering Neural Networks -- 3.1 A Brief Recap on Systems Engineering -- 3.2 The Keystone: SE4AI and AI4SE -- 3.3 Engineering Complexity -- 3.4 The Sport System -- 3.5 Engineering a Sports Club -- 3.6 Optimization -- 3.7 An Example of Decision Making -- 3.8 Futurism and Foresight -- 3.9 Qualitative to Quantitative -- 3.10 Fuzzy Thinking -- 3.11 It Is all in the Tools -- 3.12 Chapter Summary -- Questions -- Sources -- Part II Neural Networks in Action -- Chapter 4 Systems Thinking for Software Development -- 4.1 Programming Languages -- 4.2 One More Thing: Software Engineering -- 4.3 Chapter Summary -- Questions -- Source -- Chapter 5 Practice Makes Perfect -- 5.1 Example 1: Cosine Function -- 5.2 Example 2: Corrosion on a Metal Structure -- 5.3 Example 3: Defining Roles of Athletes -- 5.4 Example 4: Athlete's Performance -- 5.5 Example 5: Team Performance -- 5.5.1 A Human‐Defined‐System -- 5.5.2 Human Factors -- 5.5.3 The Sports Team as System of Interest -- 5.5.4 Impact of Human Error on Sports Team Performance -- 5.5.4.1 Dataset -- 5.5.4.2 Problem Statement -- 5.5.4.3 Feature Engineering and Extraction -- 5.5.4.4 Creation of Computed Columns -- 5.5.4.5 Explorative Data Analysis (EDA) -- 5.5.4.6 Extension ‐ Sampling Method for an Imbalanced Dataset…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…. -- KUWI-Vortragsreihe „Performativität in den Künsten“ und Ausstellung „Performance Now“ / KUWI Lecture Series “Performativity in the Arts” and the Exhibition “Performance Now” -- VoxelStage. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Is There a Basic Test to Gauge a Company's Financial Performance? -- Do Financial Statements Report the Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing but the Truth? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The LWMA and action research -- Implications for new pathways for digital talent -- Demographic shifts in talent resources -- Economic sustainability -- Integration and trust -- Global implications for sources of talent -- Conclusion -- Chapter 12: Toward best practices -- Introduction -- Chief IT executive -- Definitions of maturity stages and dimension variables in the chief IT executive best practices arc -- Maturity stages -- Performance dimensions -- Chief executive officer -- CIO direct reporting to the CEO -- Outsourcing -- Centralization versus decentralization of IT -- CIO needs advanced degrees -- Need for standards -- Risk management -- The CEO best practices technology arc -- Definitions of maturity stages and dimension variables in the CEO technology best practices arc -- Maturity stages -- Performance dimensions -- Middle management -- The middle management best practices technology arc -- Definitions of maturity stages and dimension variables in the middle manager best practices arc -- Maturity stages -- Performance dimensions -- Summary -- Ethics and maturity -- Note -- Chapter 13: Conclusion -- Introduction -- Glossary -- References -- Index…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…TopoJSON basics -- TopoJSON command-line tips -- Simplification -- Merging files -- Summary -- Chapter 7: Testing -- Code organization and reusable assets -- Project structure -- Exploring the code directory -- Other administrative files -- Writing testable code -- Keeping methods/functions small -- Preventing side effects -- An example with viz.js -- Unit testing -- Creating resilient visualization code -- Adding a new test case -- Summary -- Chapter 8: Drawing with Canvas and D3 -- Introducing Canvas -- Drawing with Canvas -- The three drawing steps of every Canvas visual -- Drawing various shapes with Canvas -- Animating the Canvas -- Animating the Canvas way -- Getting a general overview -- Preparing the rain data -- Updating each drop -- Drawing frame by frame -- Canvas and D3 -- Getting an overview of our experiment -- The data -- Updating each drop -- Binding the data -- Drawing the data -- Running the app -- Summary -- Chapter 9: Mapping with Canvas and D3 -- Choosing Canvas or SVG -- Reasons to choose SVG -- Reasons to choose Canvas -- Visualizing flight paths with Canvas and D3 -- The data -- Building the flight path map in SVG -- Measuring the performance -- Building the flight path map in Canvas -- Setting up the map -- Drawing the map and listening for user input -- Preparing and drawing with Canvas -- Drawing the background scene -- Defining the planes -- Calculating the plane's positions -- Animating the plane -- Measuring the performance -- Optimizing performance -- Continuing with measuring performance -- Summary -- Chapter 10: Adding Interactivity to Your Canvas Map -- Why Canvas interaction is different -- Drawing the world on a Canvas -- Setting up -- Drawing the world -- Making the world move -- Setting up the behavior -- Handling zoom and rotation -- Finding the Canvas object under the mouse - Picking -- Picking, the theory…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- vSphere features to help with latency, contention, placement, and compliance -- Profile-Driven Storage -- Storage DRS for performance -- SCSI reservation conflicts -- Monitoring SCSI reservation conflicts with esxtop -- Resolving excessive SCSI resolutions -- Storage queuing in vSphere -- OS queue -- Adapter queue -- Per-LUN queue -- Viewing queues in ESXi -- vSphere Storage I/O Control -- Configuring Storage I/O Control -- Troubleshooting NAS/iSCSI storage performance -- iSCSI port binding and Round Robin path policy -- Jumbo Frames and MTU size -- Summary -- 5. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Case Study: Server Health for Virtual Hosting -- Case Study: HTTP and HTTPS -- Summary -- Chapter 18 Session Tracking and Cookies -- What a Session Is and Why It Matters -- Cookies -- How Servers Track User Sessions -- Session Persistence for Server Clusters -- Summary -- For Further Reading -- Chapter 19 Persistence Mechanisms on Load Balancers -- The Concept of Session Persistence -- Persistence Considerations for Clients Using Proxy Servers -- Persistence Using Session Sharing Servers -- Session Persistence Mechanisms -- Source IP Sticky -- Cookie Sticky -- URL Sticky -- HTTP Redirection Sticky -- SSL Sticky -- Case Study -- Summary -- Part V: Data Center Design -- Chapter 20 Designing the Data Center Infrastructure -- Topology Overview -- Switching Paths -- Using VLANs to Virtualize the Physical Data Center Infrastructure -- Link Redundancy and Load Distribution -- Spanning-Tree Considerations -- Internal Redundancy Considerations -- Layer 2 Data Center Design -- Layer 3 Data Center Design -- Summary -- Chapter 21 Integrating Security into the Infrastructure -- Defining Security Zones -- Internet Edge -- Campus Core -- Intranet Server Farms -- Server-Farm Design Alternatives -- Management Network -- Summary -- Chapter 22 Performance Metrics of Data Center Devices -- Traffic Patterns Overview -- Performance Metrics Overview -- Load Balancer and SSL Offloader Metrics -- Testing Performance Metrics -- Summary -- Part VI: Appendixes -- Appendix A: Character Sets -- Appendix B: HTTP Header Fields -- Appendix C: Video Encoding Mechanisms -- Appendix D: Loopback Interface Configuration Procedures -- Appendix E: Configuring Servers to Insert Cookies -- Appendix F: Client-Side and Server-Side Programming -- Index…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- 1.3 Defects Are Not "Bugs" -- 1.4 Quality Is a Journey That Never Ends -- 1.5 Start by Defining Your Goal -- Sources -- Chapter 2 Planning for High-Quality Projects -- 2.1 The Hardest Time to Make a Plan Is When You Need It Most -- 2.2 Make Two Kinds of Plans: Period and Product -- 2.3 Make Product Plans for Every Major Task -- 2.4 Review Detailed Plans with Your Management -- 2.5 Everyone Loses with Incompetent Planning -- 2.6 Plans Must Meet Five Basic Requirements -- 2.7 When You Can't Plan Accurately, Plan Often -- 2.8 Plans Must Be Maintained -- Sources -- PART II: MANAGING YOUR TEAMS -- Chapter 3 Elements of Effective Teams -- 3.1 Teams Commit to Common Goals -- 3.2 Teams Can Perform Better Than Individuals Do Alone -- 3.3 Teams Often Face Seven Common Problems -- 3.4 Four Reasons That Teams Fail -- 3.5 The Jelled Team -- 3.6 Four Things Effective Teams Need -- 3.7 Teams Develop Over Time -- 3.8 Three Elements of Team Communication -- 3.9 Forming-Storming-Norming-Performing -- 3.10 The Best Kind of Group -- 3.11 Teams Adopt Various Working Styles -- 3.12 Properties of Self-Directed Teams -- Sources -- Chapter 4 Being an Effective Team Member -- 4.1 Good Team Members Do Whatever Is Needed -- 4.2 Commitment Is an Ethic That Must Be Learned -- 4.3 A Goal Is Something You Want to Achieve -- 4.4 Every New Idea Starts as a Minority of One -- 4.5 All Team Members Should Contribute What They Know -- 4.6 Team-Building Requires Active Involvement of All Team Members -- 4.7 Good Negotiators Have an Effective Strategy -- 4.8 One Non-Participant Will Reduce Everyone's Performance -- 4.9 Ask for Help and Offer Yours -- Sources…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…in SageMaker Studio -- Demystifying SageMaker Studio notebooks, instances, and kernels -- Using the SageMaker Python SDK -- Summary -- Part 2 - End-to-End Machine Learning Life Cycle with SageMaker Studio -- Chapter 3: Data Preparation with SageMaker Data Wrangler -- Technical requirements -- Getting started with SageMaker Data Wrangler for customer churn prediction -- Preparing the use case -- Launching SageMaker Data Wrangler -- Importing data from sources -- Importing from S3 -- Importing from Athena -- Editing the data type -- Joining tables -- Exploring data with visualization -- Understanding the frequency distribution with a histogram -- Scatter plots -- Previewing ML model performance with Quick Model -- Revealing target leakage -- Creating custom visualizations -- Applying transformation -- Exploring performance while wrangling -- Exporting data for ML training -- Summary -- Chapter 4: Building a Feature Repository with SageMaker Feature Store -- Technical requirements -- Understanding the concept of a feature store…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Considerations -- Individual performance approaches -- Research findings -- Considerations -- Knowledge of results and impact -- Research findings -- Considerations -- Impact: Organisational level -- Organisational performance monitoring and evaluation -- Research findings -- Considerations -- Perceived impact -- Research findings -- Considerations -- Impact - Systems level -- Performance, evaluation and legitimacy mechanisms -- Research findings -- Considerations -- Research findings -- Considerations -- System level innovative evaluation capacity -- Research findings -- Considerations -- Summary -- References -- Notes -- 4 Systemic insights -- Systemic Insights -- How the systemic insights were identified and validated -- 1. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Vertical scaling - enhancing capacity within existing infrastructure -- InnoDB Cluster for MySQL -- Sharding and resharding -- Future trends and emerging challenges in database scaling -- Serverless databases -- Summary -- Part 5: Best Practices and Future Trends -- Chapter 7: Best Practices for Building and Maintaining Your Database -- Designing for performance - optimizing database efficiency -- Schema design -- Query optimization -- Advanced query optimization techniques -- Using subqueries and JOIN clauses wisely -- Utilizing temporary tables -- Optimizing aggregates and GROUP BY clauses -- Using an index to assist GROUP BY clauses -- Iterative process and analysis -- Understanding database scaling -- Vertical scaling -- Horizontal scaling -- Replication in PostgreSQL -- MySQL replication -- Ensuring database security -- Access control -- Implementing robust authentication mechanisms -- Permission models -- PostgreSQL permission model -- Roles and privileges -- Example setup in PostgreSQL -- MySQL permission model -- Privileges and levels -- Example setup in MySQL -- Management and flexibility -- Exploring data encryption -- Protecting data at rest -- Protecting data in transit -- Monitoring and auditing -- Data quality and governance - maintaining high standards -- Learning about data cleaning -- Data governance frameworks -- Compliance -- Collaboration and documentation -- Effective communication -- Documentation practices -- Advanced topics in database management -- Backup and recovery -- Tools for monitoring PostgreSQL -- MySQL performance monitoring tools -- Strategies for regular performance analysis -- Summary -- Chapter 8: The Future of Databases and Their Designs -- Understanding vectorized search -- MySQL enhancements and innovations -- MySQL HeatWave -- Prospects of use cases of HeatWave…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- FM -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Introduction to Machine Learning with TensorFlow -- Introduction -- Implementing Artificial Neural Networks in TensorFlow -- Advantages of TensorFlow -- Disadvantages of TensorFlow -- The TensorFlow Library in Python -- Exercise 1.01: Verifying Your Version of TensorFlow -- Introduction to Tensors -- Scalars, Vectors, Matrices, and Tensors -- Exercise 1.02: Creating Scalars, Vectors, Matrices, and Tensors in TensorFlow -- Tensor Addition -- Exercise 1.03: Performing Tensor Addition in TensorFlow -- Activity 1.01: Performing Tensor Addition in TensorFlow -- Reshaping -- Tensor Transposition -- Exercise 1.04: Performing Tensor Reshaping and Transposition in TensorFlow -- Activity 1.02: Performing Tensor Reshaping and Transposition in TensorFlow -- Tensor Multiplication -- Exercise 1.05: Performing Tensor Multiplication in TensorFlow -- Optimization -- Forward Propagation -- Backpropagation -- Learning Optimal Parameters -- Optimizers in TensorFlow -- Activation functions -- Activity 1.03: Applying Activation Functions -- Summary -- Chapter 2: Loading and Processing Data -- Introduction -- Exploring Data Types -- Data Preprocessing -- Processing Tabular Data -- Exercise 2.01: Loading Tabular Data and Rescaling Numerical Fields -- Activity 2.01: Loading Tabular Data and Rescaling Numerical Fields with a MinMax Scaler -- Exercise 2.02: Preprocessing Non-Numerical Data -- Processing Image Data -- Exercise 2.03: Loading Image Data for Batch Processing -- Image Augmentation -- Activity 2.02: Loading Image Data for Batch Processing -- Text Processing -- Exercise 2.04: Loading Text Data for TensorFlow Models -- Audio Processing -- Exercise 2.05: Loading Audio Data for TensorFlow Models -- Activity 2.03: Loading Audio Data for Batch Processing -- Summary…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Continuing the Shader Code Journey -- Shader Programming with the Node Material Editor -- Using the NME to Build the Planet Earth Material -- Procedural Textures and the NME -- Developing Post-Processes with the NME -- Summary -- Extended Topics -- Chapter 12: Measuring and Optimizing Performance -- Technical Requirements -- Knowing What To Measure -- General Guidelines -- Performance-Related Terminology -- Measuring Performance and Identifying Bottlenecks -- Inspecting the Performance of Route Planning -- Real-Time Performance Viewer Metrics -- Defining the Testing Procedure -- Viewing and Analyzing a Captured Profile -- Improving Runtime Performance with the Scene Optimizer…”