“…The iOS 5 Developer’s Cookbook, Third Edition is packed with ready-made code solutions for the iOS 5 development challenges you’re most likely to face, eliminating trial-and-error and helping you build reliable apps from the very beginning. Sadun teaches each new concept and technique through robust code that is easy to reuse and extend. …”

“…And Ilana Edelstein was there from the beginning and delivers an inside view of the story." …”

“…"Create end-to-end systems that can power robots with artificial vision and deep learning techniques Key Features Study ROS, the main development framework for robotics, in detail Learn all about convolutional neural networks, recurrent neural networks, and robotics Create a chatbot to interact with the robot Book Description Artificial Vision and Language Processing for Robotics begins by discussing the theory behind robots. You'll compare different methods used to work with robots and explore computer vision, its algorithms, and limits. …”

“…References to Hortonworks as a business entity in this publication are now referring to the merged company. Product names beginning with Hortonworks continue to be marketed and sold under their original names…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The specialization of effect types -- An application with multiple side effects -- Asynchrony -- The side effect of errors -- Monad Transformers -- Generalizing the pattern -- Tagless Final -- Programming to capabilities -- Implementations -- Execution semantics abstraction -- Computation as a value -- Free Monad -- Type-level programming -- A naive implementation of the heterogeneous list -- Type-level solution to the heterogeneous list problem -- Reclusive implicit resolution -- Debugging type-level computations -- Libraries for type-level programming -- Summary -- Questions -- Chapter 11: Introduction to the Actor Model -- Overview of parallelism solutions -- Traditional model synchronization on monitors -- Synchronization -- Problems with the traditional model - race conditions and deadlocks -- The actor model as a replacement for the traditional model -- Deadlock example revisited -- Summary -- Questions -- Chapter 12: The Actor Model in Practice -- Akka overview -- Principles of Akka -- Encapsulation -- Messaging -- No leaking of mutable state -- Fault-tolerance and supervision -- Messaging guarantees -- Asynchrony -- Defining, creating, and messaging actors -- Callbacks -- Supervision -- Context and references -- Managing the actor hierarchy -- Managing the life cycle -- Supervision -- Creating actors -- Actor parameters -- Working with actor systems -- Task specification -- Implementation -- Summary -- Questions -- Chapter 13: Use Case - A Parallel Web Crawler -- Problem statement -- The graph structure of the web -- Collecting information from the graph -- Parallel nature of the task -- Sequential solution -- A parallel solution with Akka -- Strategy -- Implementation -- Caveats -- Visited links -- Fault tolerance -- Counting the responded actors -- Real-world side effects -- Summary -- Appendix A: Introduction to Scala…”

“…With its constantly growing community and plethora of packages, R offers the functionality to deal with a truly vast array of problems. The book begins with a dedicated chapter on the language of models and the predictive modeling process. …”

“…This book will be your companion in designing Serverless architecture for your applications using the .NET runtime, with Microsoft Azure as the cloud service provider. You will begin by understanding the concepts of Serverless architecture, its advantages and disadvantages. …”

“…Key Features Get to grips with Delphi to build and deploy various cross-platform applications Design and deploy real-world apps by implementing a single source codebase Build robust and optimized GUI applications with ease Book Description Delphi is a cross-platform integrated development environment (IDE) that supports rapid application development on different platforms, saving you the pain of wandering amid GUI widget details or having to tackle inter-platform incompatibilities. Delphi Cookbook begins with the basics of Delphi and gets you acquainted with JSON format strings, XSLT transformations, Unicode encodings, and various types of streams. …”

“…This will help you complete complex problems in the real world. You will begin with a brief understanding of the nature of data and e..…”

“…It is a comprehensive guide that begins with very small infrastructure templates and takes you all the way to managing complex systems, all using concrete examples that evolve over the course of the book. …”

“…What You Will Learn Cleanse, stage, and integrate your data sources with Power BI Abstract data complexities and provide users with intuitive, self-service BI capabilities Build business logic and analysis into your solutions via the DAX programming language and dynamic, dashboard-ready calculations Take advantage of the analytics and predictive capabilities of Power BI Make your solutions more dynamic and user specific and/or defined including use cases of parameters, functions, and row level security Understand the differences and implications of DirectQuery, Live Connections, and Import-Mode Power BI datasets and how to deploy content to the Power BI Service and schedule refreshes Integrate other Microsoft data tools such as Excel and SQL Server Reporting Services into your Power BI solution In Detail Microsoft Power BI is a business intelligence and analytics platform consisting of applications and services designed to provide coherent, visual and interactive insights of data. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Credits -- About the Author -- About the Reviewer -- www.PacktPub.com -- Customer Feedback -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Different Problems Require Different Solutions -- A brief history of and solutions to game AI -- Enemy AI in video games -- From simple to smart and human-like AI -- Visual and audio awareness -- Summary -- Chapter 2: Possibility and Probability Maps -- Game states -- Possibility maps -- How to use possibility maps -- Preparing a possibility map (FPS) -- Creating a possibility map (FPS) -- Defining the states -- DEFENSIVE state -- AGGRESSIVE state -- Possibility map conclusion -- Probability maps -- How to use probability maps -- Where to go from here -- Summary -- Chapter 3: Production System -- Automated finite-state machines (AFSMs) -- Calculating chances -- Utility-based functions -- Dynamic game AI balancing -- Summary -- Chapter 4: Environment and AI -- Visual interactions -- Basic environment interactions -- Moving environment objects -- Obstructive environment objects -- Breaking down the environment by area -- Advanced environment interactions -- Adapting to unstable terrain -- Using raycast to evaluate decisions -- Summary -- Chapter 5: Animation Behaviors -- 2D animation versus 3D animation -- 2D animation - sprites -- 3D animation - bone structure -- The main differences -- Animation state machines -- Smooth transitions -- Summary -- Chapter 6: Navigation Behavior and Pathfinding -- Navigation behavior -- Choosing a new direction -- Avoid walking against walls -- Choosing an alternative path -- Point to point movement -- Tower defense genre -- Racing genre -- MOBA genre -- Point to point movement and avoiding dynamic objects -- Summary -- Chapter 7: Advanced Pathfinding -- Simple versus advanced pathfinding -- A* search algorithm -- How it works -- Disadvantages of using A*…”

“…With its collection of engaging recipes, Bash Cookbook takes you through a series of exercises designed to teach you how to effectively use the Bash shell in order to create and execute your own scripts. …”

“…This book opens up the world of high-performance Unix system applications to the beginning Go programmer. It does not get stuck on single systems or even system types, but tries to expand the original teachings from Unix system level programming to all types of servers, the cloud, and the web. …”

“…This book presents the different patterns and tools that you can use to provision and configure an infrastructure in the cloud. You'll begin by understanding DevOps culture, the application of DevOps in cloud infrastructure, provisioning with Terraform, configuration with Ansible, and image building with Packer. …”

“…He describes his three-step process for composing a photograph and shows how good composition is an organic process that begins with rules but ultimately transcends them. …”

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“…This book focuses on a delineated and structured methodology that will help you analyze requirements and write comprehensive, verifiable specifications. …”

“…What you will learn Use OpenAI Gym as a framework to implement RL environments Find out how to define and implement reward function Explore Markov chain, Markov decision process, and the Bellman equation Distinguish between Dynamic Programming, Monte Carlo, and Temporal Difference Learning Understand the multi-armed bandit problem and explore various strategies to solve it Build a deep Q model network for playing the video game Breakout Who this book is for If you are a data scientist, machine learning enthusiast, or a Python developer who wants to learn basic to advanced deep reinforcement learning algorithms, this workshop is for you. …”

“…You'll then get up to speed with performing analytics by building a metrics pipeline, defining queries, and using Kibana for intuitive visualizations that help provide decision-makers with better insights. …”