Название: Programs as Diagrams: From Categorical Computability to Computable Categories
Автор: Dusko Pavlovic
Издательство: Springer
Год: 2023
Страниц: 261
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true)
Размер: 10.1 MB

It is not always clear what computer programs mean in the various languages in which they can be written, yet a picture can be worth 1000 words, a diagram 1000 instructions. In this unique textbook/reference, programs are drawn as string diagrams in the language of categories, which display a universal syntax of mathematics (Computer scientists use them to analyze the program semantics; programmers to display the syntax of computations). Here, the string-diagrammatic depictions of computations are construed as programs in a single-instruction programming language. Such programs as diagrams show how functions are packed in boxes and tied by strings. Readers familiar with categories will learn about the foundations of computability; readers familiar with computability gain access to category theory. Additionally, readers familiar with both are offered many opportunities to improve the approach. While programmers program computers in a great variety of languages, mathematicians study mathematics in a great variety of completely different languages. A great variety of languages is a good thing, provided that the languages do not isolate but diversify the views of the world and that there are multi-lingual communities to connect them. Many mathematicians speak programming languages; many programmers are conversant with mathematics. The language of categories seems convenient for both, and to some extent connects the communities.

Название: R for Photobiology: Theory and recipes for common calculations
Автор: Pedro J. Aphalo, T. Matthew Robson, Titta Kotilainen
Издательство: Leanpub
Год: 16 April 2022
Страниц: 388
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true)
Размер: 10.1 MB

Photobiology is the branch of science that studies the interactions of living organisms with visible and ultraviolet radiation. This book first presents the theory behind calculations related to research in photobiology and describes how to use R as a tool for carrying out these calculations. This handbook describes how to use R as a tool for doing calculations related to research in photobiology. Photobiology is the branch of science that studies the interactions of living organisms with visible and ultraviolet radiation. Many of the most frequently used calculations are either related to the characterization of radiation and of the responses of organisms to radiation. We emphasize the first of these aspects related to radiation quantification and the position of the sun. These include acquisition, processing and summarising of spectral data including the calculation of non-weighted and biologically effective exposures. The text and examples assume some familiarity with R and/or programming, but guides those readers new to the language to tutorials and books that will help them learn enough to follow, use and modify the code examples included in the book.

Название: Full Stack Web Development: The Comprehensive Guide
Автор: Philip Ackermann
Издательство: Rheinwerk Publishing
Год: 2023
Страниц: 800
Язык: английский
Формат: epub (true)
Размер: 20.1 MB

Full stack web developers are always in demand—do you have the skillset? Between these pages you’ll learn to design websites with CSS, structure them with HTML, and add interactivity with jаvascript. You’ll master the different web protocols, formats, and architectures and see how and when to use APIs, PHP, web services, and other tools and languages. With information on testing, deploying, securing, and optimizing web applications, you’ll get the full frontend and backend instructions you need! HTML, CSS, jаvascript, web services, databases, DevOps—are now requirements for all full stack developers. Of course, deciding where to start and what exactly to focus on can be difficult. This book is intended to serve as both a roadmap and a guidebook for you. The book is aimed primarily for newcomers to web development who want to gain a comprehensive overview of full stack development. Thus, you don’t need previous knowledge of HTML, CSS, and or programming. This book is designed to guide you on the path to becoming a full stack developer and effectively teach you the important technologies.

Название: Software Architecture and Decision-Making: Leveraging Leadership, Technology, and Product Management to Build Great Products (Early Release)
Автор: Srinath Perera
Издательство: Addison-Wesley Professional/Pearson
Год: 2023
Страниц: 234
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf, epub, mobi
Размер: 10.2 MB

Leverage leadership knowledge to make better software architecture decisions. Think deeply but implement slowly. The overarching goal of software systems (hence, for software architecture) is to build systems that meet quality standards and that provide the highest return on investment (ROI) in the long run or within a defined period of time. A great product requires a combination of technology, leadership, and product management (including UX). Leadership is primarily about managing uncertainty and making the right judgment. To build great products, technical leaders need to combine technology, leadership, and product management knowledge, and make the right decisions. Many technical mistakes come from the gap between knowledge about these three items and judgment. In Software Architecture and Decision-Making, Srinath Perera explains principles and concepts that software architects must understand deeply and how to employ those principles to manage uncertainty. The questions and principles discussed in this book help manage uncertainty while building software architecture and provide a framework for making decisions.

Название: How AI Works: From Sorcery to Science
Автор: Ronald T. Kneusel
Издательство: No Starch Press
Год: 2024
Страниц: 240
Язык: английский
Формат: epub
Размер: 19.3 MB

AI isn’t magic. How AI Works demystifies the explosion of Artificial Intelligence by explaining—without a single mathematical equation—what happened, when it happened, why it happened, how it happened, and what AI is actually doing "under the hood." Artificial Intelligence is everywhere—from self-driving cars, to image generation from text, to the unexpected power of language systems like ChatGPT—yet few people seem to know how it all really works. How AI Works unravels the mysteries of Artificial Intelligence, without the complex math and unnecessary jargon. Many books teach you how to do Artificial Intelligence (AI). Similarly, many popular books tell you about AI. However, what seems to be missing is a book that teaches you how AI works at a conceptual level. AI isn’t magic; you can understand what it’s doing without burying yourself in complex mathematics. This book fills that void with a math-free explanation of how AI works. While some books are down in the weeds and others offer a bird’s-eye view, this book is at treetop level. It aims to provide you with enough detail to understand the approach without getting bogged down in nitty-gritty mathematics.

Название: The Fundamentals of Telemetry Pipelines: And How They Are Used to Maintain Application Performance
Автор: Russ Miles
Издательство: O’Reilly Media
Год: 2023-09-19
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf, epub, mobi
Размер: 10.1 MB

If you're a DevOps engineer, SRE, or security engineer struggling under a deluge of telemetry data, this report is for you. High-quality metrics, traces, and logs are all essential for observing and working with modern systems, but when they're applied to a complex cloud-based system the result can be a confusing mess. Telemetry pipelines give you the tools to navigate this mess, providing the ways and means to extract so much more from your data. In this report, you’ll learn what the promise of telemetry pipelines is and how it feels to be able to use telemetry pipeline tools to master your flood of telemetry data. From there, we dive into the key concepts you’ll need when you build your own telemetry pipelines and look at some real-world examples. By the end of this report, you’ll understand how investing in your own telemetry pipelines can help you go even further, implementing valuable business cases, such as compliance and cost management.

Название: Effective Haskell: Solving Real-World Problems with Strongly Typed Functional Programming
Автор: Rebecca Skinner
Издательство: Pragmatic Bookshelf
Год: July 2023 (Book version: P1.0)
Страниц: 663
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true)
Размер: 10.2 MB

Put the power of Haskell to work in your programs, learning from an engineer who uses Haskell daily to get practical work done efficiently. Leverage powerful features like Monad Transformers and Type Families to build useful applications. Realize the benefits of a pure functional language, like protecting your code from side effects. Manage concurrent processes fearlessly. Apply functional techniques to working with databases and building RESTful services. Don't get bogged down in theory, but learn to employ advanced programming concepts to solve real-world problems. Don't just learn the syntax, but dive deeply into Haskell as you build efficient, well-tested programs. Haskell is a pure functional programming language with a rich ecosystem of tools and libraries. Designed to push the boundaries of programming, it offers unparalleled power for building reliable and maintainable systems. But to unleash that power, you need a guide. Effective Haskell is that guide. Written by an engineer who understands how to apply Haskell to the real world and uses it daily to get practical work done, it is your ticket to Haskell mastery. Gain deep understanding of how Haskell deals with IO and the outside world by writing a complete Haskell application that does several different kinds of IO. Reinforce your learnings with practice exercises in every chapter.

Название: Fuzzy Petri Nets for Knowledge Representation, Acquisition and Reasoning
Автор: Hua Shi, Hu-Chen Liu
Издательство: Springer
Год: 2023
Страниц: 476
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true)
Размер: 12.2 MB

With the development of Artificial Intelligence, developing expert systems to simulate human thinking has become a hot research topic nowadays. Expert system is an intellectual programming system that uses the knowledge captured from experts to solve specific problems reaching the level of experts. The crucial issues in developing an expert system are the representation of the obtained expert knowledge, the acquisition of experts’ professional knowledge, and the reasoning process of knowledge rules. So far, many knowledge representation methods have been introduced in the literature. Among them, the fuzzy Petri nets (FPNs) are a promising modelling tool for expert systems and have a couple of attractive advantages. Combining fuzzy sets and Petri nets, the FPNs are a graphical and mathematical model tool for representing imprecise information and supporting fuzzy reasoning in expert systems. An FPN is a marked graphical system containing places and transitions, where graphically circles represent places, bars depict transitions, and directed arcs denote the relationships between places and transitions. The main features of an FPN are that it supports visualized representation of information and provides a unified form to deal with imprecise and uncertain knowledge information. Due to these characteristics, the FPN method has been applied to many industrial fields for knowledge representation and reasoning in expert systems.

Название: Accelerating Unity Through Automation: Power Up Your Unity Workflow by Offloading Intensive Tasks
Автор: Simon Jackson
Издательство: Apress
Год: 2023
Страниц: 312
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf
Размер: 10.8 MB

Building games with Unity is hard enough without having to stand up and go and make a coffee each time you want to just build your project or find out days/weeks down the line that some change you made while building your dream has incurred a debt that means your project cannot be built for one of your target platforms without a lot of rework. Through automation, many of these hardships can be detected early and free up time and stress by monitoring your project as it is being created, identify risks and issues as you write the code, and free up your machine while lengthy build processes are running. The change might be hard, but once setup, it will give you peace of mind that everything you create will run, updates will be automatically managed, and your players are less likely to be drafting one-star reviews on your next publication. Automation, often seen as a dark art or long-lost treasure that is hard to seek and even harder to find, can save you countless hours of repetitive tasks and look ahead to help avoid troubles on the road before you plummet off the cliff of despair, such as when Apple suddenly does not accept builds with feature X, because Unity… For developers having experience with Unity and interested in learning about (with no foreknowledge in) automation will greatly benefit from this book.

Название: Шпаргалка начинающего тестировщика
Автор: Наталия Матвеева
Издательство: Интернет-издание
Год: 2022 (Версия 28766790.008)
Язык: русский
Формат: pdf
Размер: 11,7 MB

Шпаргалка является компиляцией информации из множества источников, как с рунета, так и с англоязычных сайтов. Создавала её, в первую очередь, для себя любимой. Цель была структурировать полученные знания, а также, иметь возможность быстро найти ответы на вопросы. Девиз, под эгидой которого я её создавала – «Не истина в последней инстанции, но триггер вам в помощь». Тестирование (Software Testing) – проверка соответствия реальных и ожидаемых результатов поведения программы, проводимая на конечном наборе тестов, выбранном определённым образом. Цели тестирования: • Выявление дефектов до того, как их обнаружат пользователи; • Предоставление актуальной информации о состоянии продукта на данный момент; • Проверка на соответствие ПО всем заявленным требованиям.