Название: MATLAB Object Oriented Programming (R2025a)
Автор: MathWorks
Издательство: The MathWorks, Inc.
Год: March 2025
Страниц: 652
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true), epub
Размер: 10.1 MB

Object-oriented programming is a design approach that enables you to programmatically define structures called objects that combine data (properties) together with functions that operate on that data (methods). In MATLAB, you can create objects that model the behavior of devices and systems in the real world. Those objects can then be used as building blocks in applications used to simulate and analyze complex systems.

Название: Build a Text-to-Image Generator (from Scratch): With transformers and diffusions (MEAP v3)
Автор: Mark Liu
Издательство: Manning Publications
Год: 2025
Страниц: 173
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf, epub
Размер: 15.5 MB

Build your own vision transformer and diffusion models for text-to-image generation–from scratch! Build a Text-to-Image Generator (from Scratch) takes you step-by-step through creating your own AI models that can generate images from text. You’ll explore two methods of image generation—vision transformers and diffusion models—and learn vital AI development techniques as you go. This book is designed for those who have a solid command of Python and a basic understanding of Machine Learning, especially neural networks in PyTorch. It aims to guide you through the creation of text-to-image generative models from the ground up. You’ll explore two distinct methods, learning how transformers turn images into sequences of patches, and how diffusion models refine noise into coherent images. By the time you’re done, you’ll have a deep understanding of how image generation AI works—and the satisfaction of building your text-to-image models! You're also invited to replicate the Python code and Jupyter notebooks available on the book's GitHub repository and engage with exercises in each chapter. For Machine Learning enthusiasts and data scientists with intermediate Python skills.

Название: Fight Fraud with Machine Learning (MEAP V15)
Автор: Ashish Ranjan Jha
Издательство: Manning Publications
Год: 2025
Страниц: 453
Язык: английский
Формат: epub
Размер: 60.0 MB

Financial and corporate fraud happen every day, and the fraudsters inevitably leave a digital trail. Machine Learning techniques, including the latest generation of LLM-driven AI tools, help identify the telltale signals that a crime is taking place. Fight Fraud with Machine Learning teaches you how to apply cutting edge ML to identify fraud, find the fraudsters, and possibly even catch them in the act. In this cutting-edge book you’ll develop scalable and tunable models that can spot and stop fraudulent activity in online transactions, data stores, even in digitized paper records. You’ll use Python to battle common scams like phishing and credit card fraud, along with new and emerging threats like voice spoofing and deepfakes. Examples and exercises help you practice identifying credit card fraud with logistic regression, using decision trees and random forests to identify fraudulent online transactions, and detecting fake insurance claims through gradient boosted trees. You’ll deploy neural networks to tackle Know Your Customer fraud, spot social network bots, catch deepfakes, and more! For fraud detection product managers, data scientists, and Machine Learning engineers confident with Python programming.

Название: Latency: Reduce delay in software systems (MEAP v8)
Автор: Pekka Enberg
Издательство: Manning Publications
Год: 2025
Страниц: 279
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf, epub
Размер: 18.1 MB

Practical techniques for delivering low latency software. Slow responses can kill good software. Whether it’s recovering microseconds lost while routing messages on a server or speeding up page loads that keep users waiting, finding and fixing latency can be a frustrating part of your work as a developer. This one-of-a-kind book shows you how to spot, understand, and respond to latency wherever it appears in your applications and infrastructure. Latency shows you how to troubleshoot latency issues in existing systems, and how to create low latency systems from the ground up. You’ll discover how your code runs differently on distributed systems, databases, and operating systems, and understand the common latency-causing issues in each situation. Hands-on projects help you apply what you learn. You’ll write a latency benchmark harness to measure and visualize latency; and use colocation, partitioning, and caching to reduce latency in a REST API. For software engineers with a working knowledge of backends. Examples in Rust.

Название: Build an LLM Application (from Scratch) (MEAP v2)
Автор: Hamza Farooq
Издательство: Manning Publications
Год: 2025
Страниц: 161
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf, epub
Размер: 13.1 MB

Create your own LLM applications without using a framework like LlamaIndex or LangChain. In Build an LLM Application (from Scratch), you'll learn to create applications powered by large language models (LLM) from the ground up. In this practical book, you'll build several fully functioning, real-world AI tools—including a search engine, semantic caching for RAG, and autonomous AI agents. Build an LLM Application (from Scratch) shows you just how customizable LLM applications can be when you create your own without using opinionated tools like LangChain and LlamaIndex. You'll learn the fundamentals of AI development hands-on, all without any proprietary tools. Soon you'll have the skills you need to build LLM applications, tailor them to your specific needs, and ensure you have control over your entire system. Build an LLM Application (from Scratch) is a practical and comprehensive handbook for creating custom LLM applications without relying on premade frameworks. You'll start by mastering the fundamentals of search systems and RAG. For software engineers and data scientists confident with Python and NLP basics.

Название: Topology Optimization Via L-systems and Genetic Algorithms: Bioinspired Encoding for Generative Design
Автор: Brent R. Bielefeldt, Darren J. Hartl, Marcelo H. Kobayashi
Издательство: Cambridge University Press
Год: 2025
Страниц: 303
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf
Размер: 11.3 MB

Providing a succinct overview of Lindenmayer system (L-system) topology optimization, this book focuses on the methods and theory underlying this novel bioinspired approach. Starting from basic principles, the book outlines how topology optimization can be utilized at the conceptual design stage and shows how it offers straightforward applicability to multi-objective and/or multi-physical industrial problems. Design strategies are clearly demonstrated using a host of case studies and real-world examples, and their potential challenges and solutions are discussed. Written from an optimization and design perspective, the authors both summarize the latest advances in this field and suggest potential avenues of research and development for future work. This will be the ideal resource for engineering practitioners, researchers, and students wanting to gain a new perspective on using topology optimization to improve product design. Evolutionary algorithms in general are applied to a wide range of application areas from engineering, to art, to biology, to physics, and others. In the field of structural topology optimization, these algorithms have been used to improve the exploration of complex search spaces.

Название: AI Engineering in Practice (MEAP v2)
Автор: Richard Davies
Издательство: Manning Publications
Год: 2025
Страниц: 126
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true)
Размер: 21.1 MB

Write, refine, organize, and optimize AI prompts that generate relevant and useful text and images! Generative AI models such as ChatGPT, Stable Diffusion, and Gemini can produce amazingly “human-like” news articles, document summaries, images, computer code, and more—if you know how to write effective prompts. This book will teach you the prompt design and authoring skills you need to get useful and relevant responses from AI models, along with advanced prompting techniques for Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), building autonomous agents, and data privacy. Prompt engineering is the discipline of writing instructions for AI models to generate relevant, accurate, and usable completions. AI Engineering in Practice shows you how to engineer prompts that ensure the outputs of LLMs and other generative AI models exactly match your requirements. You’ll learn how to structure your objectives, take advantage of contextual details, and even pick the right model for your task. No special skills with AI or Machine Learning required. Code examples are in Python.

Название: AI Applications Made Easy: RAG, agents, and other GenAI solutions (MEAP v2)
Автор: Andrea De Mauro
Издательство: Manning Publications
Год: 2025
Страниц: 83
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true)
Размер: 33.1 MB

A fully illustrated guide to building generative AI apps! In AI Applications Made Easy you’ll learn how to create your own AI applications from scratch using free low-code tools like Langflow and KNIME. This fully-illustrated book guides you step by step on your journey from AI user to AI maker. Generative AI applications can be complex to understand and create. This book strips away the low level geekery and shows you exactly how to build Q&A systems, agents, and other powerful AI applications using low code tools. Along the way, you’ll gain an intuition for how generative AI works, including core components like large language models, retrieval augmented generation, model context protocol, and more. AI Applications Made Easy is written for everyone. Use prompt engineering to create a healthy recipe generator, use RAG to build automated customer support chatbots, craft marketing assistants that know brand guidelines, and even design a web-enabled financial researcher—all using free low-code tools like Langflow and KNIME. For readers of all levels who want to create AI applications.

Название: Enterprise RAG: Scaling Retrieval Augmented Generation (MEAP v2)
Автор: Tyler Suard, Darshil Modi
Издательство: Manning Publications
Год: 2025
Страниц: 183
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf, epub
Размер: 12.1 MB

Securely blend advanced LLM with your own databases, documentation, and code repos using these techniques for enterprise-quality retrieval augmented generation. Retrieval Augmented Generation, or RAG, is the gold standard for using domain-specific data, such as internal documentation or company databases, with large language models (LLMs). Creating trustworthy, stable RAG solutions you can deploy, scale, and maintain at the enterprise level means establishing data workflows that maximize accuracy and efficiency, addressing cost and performance problems, and building in appropriate checks for privacy and security. This book shows you how. Enterprise RAG goes beyond the theory and proof-of-concept examples you find in most books and online discussions, digging into the real issues you encounter deploying and scaling RAG in production. For software developers proficient in Python.

Название: Go in Action, Second Edition (MEAP v5)
Автор: Joel Holmes, Andrew Walker, William Kennedy
Издательство: Manning Publications
Год: 2025
Страниц: 244
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf, epub
Размер: 10.1 MB

Master Go language fundamentals, learn how to structure Go projects effectively, and deliver high-performance code using Go’s powerful concurrency model. Go in Action, Second Edition has been fully updated to cover all the new features and idioms of the latest version of Go. In it, you’ll dive into Go's unique features and quickly get started writing real-world applications, such as websites and network servers. Designed by Google with productivity in mind, Go excels in modern, highly-dynamic environments. This modern language has all its concurrency primitives baked in, so Go users can handle problems like real-time performance with no additional tools required. Its simple-but-powerful type system includes generics and interfaces as first-class citizens. Best of all, because Go was designed to be simple, with a small number of keywords and an efficient standard library, it’s really easy to learn! In a cloud-first world, it’s easy to see why Go has quickly become a must-have skill. For programmers proficient in at least one OO programming language.