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“…With this useful guidebook, you can Objectively assess whether the consultant’s life makes sense for you Break into the business and build a career path that works Avoid the Seven Deadly Firms by identifying unscrupulous technology consultancies and avoiding their traps and pitfalls Understand the business models and mechanics that virtually all consulting firms use Master secret consulting success tips that are typically left unstated or overlooked Gain a competitive advantage by adding more value than your competitors Continue your professional development so you stay billable even during bad times Profit from both fixed-bid and time-and-materials projects Build a personal brand that improves your resiliency no matter what happens About the Author xiii About the Annotators xv Acknowledgments xix Foreword xxi Preface xxv Chapter 1: Why Consulting? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Copyright -- Credits -- About the Authors -- About the Reviewers -- www.PacktPub.com -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Display of Textual Data -- Introduction -- Rounding numbers for display -- Padding numbers -- Displaying metric and imperial measurements -- Displaying formatted dates in the user's time zone -- Displaying the dynamic time that has elapsed -- Displaying Math -- Creating an endless scrolling list -- Creating a sortable paginated table -- Creating multiple-choice filters -- Creating range filters -- Creating combined complex filters -- Displaying code in HTML -- Rendering Markdown -- Auto updating fields -- Chapter 2: Display of Graphical Data -- Introduction -- Creating a line chart -- Creating a bar chart -- Creating a pie chart -- Creating an area chart -- Displaying combined charts -- Creating a bubble chart -- Showing a map with a marked location -- Showing a map with a path -- Displaying gauges -- Displaying a tree -- LED scoreboard using web fonts -- Chapter 3: Animated Data Display -- Introduction -- Making a motion chart -- Displaying a force directed graph -- Making a live range chart filter -- Making an image carousel -- Zooming and panning a chart -- Using the web notifications API -- Creating interactive Geo charts from a dataset -- Chapter 4: Using HTML5 input components -- Introduction -- Using the text input field -- Using text area -- Inputting dates -- Inputting time -- Telephone input -- Range input field -- Color picker input -- Using single-choice dropdowns -- Using multiple-choice select lists -- Getting geographical location input -- Using file inputs on the client side -- Using a drag-and-drop file area -- Chapter 5: Custom Input Components -- Introduction -- Using contentEditable for basic rich text input -- Advanced rich text input -- Creating a drop-down menu -- Creating…”

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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Copyrights -- Credits -- About the Authors -- About the Reviewers -- www.PacktPub.com -- Customer Feedback -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Beginning Your Kotlin Adventure -- Say hello to Kotlin -- Awesome Kotlin examples -- Dealing with Kotlin code -- Kotlin Playground -- Android Studio -- Configuring Kotlin for the project -- Using Kotlin in a new Android project -- Java to Kotlin converter (J2K) -- Alternative ways to run Kotlin code -- Kotlin under the hood -- The Kotlin standard library -- More reasons to use Kotlin -- Summary -- Chapter 2: Laying a Foundation -- Variables -- Type inference -- Strict null safety -- Safe call -- Elvis operator -- Not-null assertion -- The let function -- Nullability and Java -- Casts -- Safe/unsafe cast operator -- Smart casts -- Type smart casts -- Non-nullable smart cast -- Primitive data types -- Numbers -- Char -- Arrays -- The Boolean type -- Composite data types -- Strings -- String templates -- Ranges -- Collections -- Statements versus expressions -- Control flow -- The if statement -- The when expression -- Loops -- The for loop -- The while loop -- Other iterations -- Break and continue -- Exceptions -- The try... catch block -- Compile-time constants -- Delegates -- Summary -- Chapter 3: Playing with Functions -- Basic function declaration and usage -- Parameters -- Returning functions -- Vararg parameter -- Single-expression functions -- Tail-recursive functions -- Different ways of calling a function -- Default argument values -- Named arguments syntax -- Top-level functions -- Top-level functions under the hood -- Local functions -- Nothing return type -- Summary -- Chapter 4: Classes and Objects -- Classes -- Class declaration -- Properties -- Read-write versus read-only -- Property access syntax between Kotlin and Java -- Increment and decrement operators…”

“…What you will learn Develop an agent to play CartPole using the OpenAI Gym interface Discover the model-based reinforcement learning paradigm Solve the Frozen Lake problem with dynamic programming Explore Q-learning and SARSA with a view to playing a taxi game Apply Deep Q-Networks (DQNs) to Atari games using Gym Study policy gradient algorithms, including Actor-Critic and REINFORCE Understand and apply PPO and TRPO in continuous locomotion environments Get to grips with evolution strategies for solving the lunar lander problem Who this book is for If you are an AI researcher, deep learning user, or anyone who wants to learn reinforcement learning from scratch, this book is for you. …”

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“…What you will learn Understand core RL concepts including the methodologies, math, and code Train an agent to solve Blackjack, FrozenLake, and many other problems using OpenAI Gym Train an agent to play Ms Pac-Man using a Deep Q Network Learn policy-based, value-based, and actor-critic methods Master the math behind DDPG, TD3, TRPO, PPO, and many others Explore new avenues such as the distributional RL, meta RL, and inverse RL Use Stable Baselines to train an agent to walk and play Atari games Who this book is for If you're a machine learning developer with little or no experience with neural networks interested in artificial intelligence and want to learn about reinforcement learning from scratch, this..…”

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