Название: Lua Mini Reference 2022: A Quick Guide to the Lua Scripting Language for Busy Coders
Автор: Harry Yoon
Издательство: Coding Books Press
Год: November 9, 2022
Страниц: 196
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf, epub, mobi
Размер: 10.1 MB

Learn Lua Programming in a Weekend! This book is a mini language reference on the Lua programming language. Lua is one of the "smallest" and simplest programming languages, and it is widely used as a scripting language in many applications, including various game engines such as Roblox. Lua is a "beginner-friendly" programming language. We go through all important features of Lua, as a standalone coding language in this book. Although the book is written as a reference, you can read it more or less from beginning to end and you should be able to get the overall picture of the Lua language if you are familiar with some basic syntax of Lua. The book also includes all essential builtin functions and the standard library functions. Lua is one of the simplest general purpose programming languages, and it is easy to learn and easy to use. Lua is dynamically typed, and it supports automatic memory management.

Название: Machine Learning for High-Risk Applications: Techniques for Responsible AI (10th Early Release)
Автор: Patrick Hall, James Curtis, Parul Pandey
Издательство: O’Reilly Media, Inc.
Год: 2023-01-11
Страниц: 350
Язык: английский
Формат: epub
Размер: 21.3 MB

Today, Machine Learning (ML) is the most commercially viable sub-discipline of Artificial Ontelligence (AI). ML systems are used to make high-risk decisions in employment, bail, parole, lending, security and in many other high-impact applications throughout the world’s economies and governments. In a corporate setting, ML systems are used in all parts of an organization — from consumer-facing products, to employee assessments, to back-office automation, and more. Indeed, the past decade has brought with it even wider adoption of ML technologies. But it has also proven that ML presents risks to it’s operators, consumers, and even the general public. Machine Learning for High-Risk Applications will arm practitioners with a solid understanding of model risk management processes and new ways to use common Python tools for training explainable models and debugging them for reliability, safety, bias management, security and privacy issues.

Название: Managing Machine Learning Projects (MEAP v8)
Автор: Simon Thompson
Издательство: Manning Publications
Год: 2022
Страниц: 361
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf, epub
Размер: 10.2 MB

Guide Machine Learning projects from design to production with the techniques in this unique project management guide. No ML skills required! Managing Machine Learning Projects is a comprehensive guide to delivering successful Machine Learning projects from idea to production. The book is laid out as a series of fictionalized sprints that take you from pre-project requirements and proposal development all the way to deployment. You’ll discover battle-tested techniques for ensuring you have the appropriate data infrastructure, coordinating ML experiments, and measuring model performance. With this book as your guide, you’ll know how to bring a project to a successful conclusion, and how to use your lessons learned for future projects. As you will find out, running an ML project is hard. ML algorithms produce unpredictable results, and using them introduces risk into a project. ML projects must handle large and complex data resources and will produce a lot of models that all must be evaluated.

Название: Python Programming Language For Beginners: A Modern Approach
Автор: Hong Lei
Издательство: Independently published
Год: 2021
Страниц: 250
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true), epub (true)
Размер: 10.2 MB

Python is a general-purpose interpreted, interactive, object-oriented, and high-level programming language. It was created by Guido van Rossum during 1985- 1990. Like Perl, Python source code is also available under the GNU General Public License (GPL). This book gives enough understanding on Python programming language. Python is a high-level, interpreted, interactive and object-oriented scripting language. Python is designed to be highly readable. It uses English keywords frequently where as other languages use punctuation, and it has fewer syntactical constructions than other languages. Python is a MUST for students and working professionals to become a great Software Engineer specially when they are working in Web Development Domain.

Название: Learning C++ (MEAP v3)
Автор: Michael Haephrati, Ruth Haephrati
Издательство: Manning Publications
Год: 2022
Страниц: 201
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf, epub
Размер: 16.7 MB

C++ is a serious programming language for important software. This friendly book makes it easy (and FUN!) to get started as a C++ programmer! Start here, and you’ll quickly be writing code, solving problems, and building real projects. Written for readers with only a beginning knowledge of computer programming, Learning C++ is the perfect way to get started with C++, including the new features of C++20. This engaging book eases the steep learning curve of C++ by using graphics, visual aids, and real-life analogies. Nothing is assumed. Authors Ruth and Michael Haephrati set a gentle pace perfect for easy learning. You’ll discover universal computer science principles that other learning resources often skip over. Start from the absolute basics, and you’ll steadily build strong programming skills step by step. C++ is one of the hardest programming languages to master, but the rewards are well worth it! C++ is fast and scales to projects of any size. It's used for business software, banking, security, and graphics, and it’s the gold standard for professional game development and low-level hardware programming.

Название: Decision Support System: Tools and Techniques
Автор: Susmita Bandyopadhyay
Издательство: CRC Press
Год: 2023
Страниц: 395
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true)
Размер: 26.0 MB

This book presents different tools and techniques used for Decision Support Systems (DSS), including decision tree and table, and their modifications, multi-criteria decision analysis techniques, network tools of decision support, and various case-based reasoning methods supported by examples and case studies. Latest developments for each of the techniques have been discussed separately, and possible future research areas are duly identified as intelligent and spatial DSS. This book aims at describing different tools and techniques in order to assist the decision making in all levels of management. The field of AI includes several concepts such as, Machine Learning, natural language processing (NLP), Deep Learning, expert system, artificial general intelligence, speech recognition, problem-solving, fuzzy logic, cognitive computing, and nature-based techniques. The subsequent section is going to discuss different nature-based algorithms (genetic algorithm (GA), particle swarm optimization (PSO), ant colony optimization (ACO), artificial immune algorithm (AIA), differential evolution (DE), simulated annealing (SA), etc).

Название: Akka in Action, Second Edition (MEAP V11)
Автор: Francisco Lopez-Sancho
Издательство: Manning Publications
Год: 2023
Страниц: 472
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf, epub
Размер: 13.1 MB

Use Akka to solve the big problems of distributed systems—from multithreading and concurrency, to handling scalability and failure. Akka in Action, Second Edition teaches you to use the latest version of Akka to solve common problems of distributed systems. Akka contributor Francisco Lopez-Sancho demonstrates Akka’s complex concepts through real-world use cases, including clustering, sharding, persistence, and deploying to Kubernetes. Discover the power of the Actor model, and how to leverage most of the Akka modules to create microservices that are reliable and fault tolerant. Akka is a toolkit of libraries that make it easy to implement distributed applications in Scala and Java. Akka’s Actor model avoids many of the complexities of multithreading, while making systems elastic and resilient, and provides strong consistency. Akka gives you a single abstraction to deal with concurrency and scalability--the Actor Model, which is coherent semantics that let you work on your business logic without worrying about whether your program needs to run on a thousand servers or just one.

Название: MATLAB Image Processing Toolbox User’s Guide (R2022b)
Автор: MathWorks
Издательство: The MathWorks, Inc.
Год: September 2022
Страниц: 1692
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true)
Размер: 71.9 MB

Perform image processing, visualization, and analysis.

Image Processing Toolbox provides a comprehensive set of reference-standard algorithms and workflow apps for image processing, analysis, visualization, and algorithm development. You can perform image segmentation, image enhancement, noise reduction, geometric transformations, and image registration using deep learning and traditional image processing techniques. The toolbox supports processing of 2D, 3D, and arbitrarily large images. Image Processing Toolbox apps let you automate common image processing workflows. You can interactively segment image data, compare image registration techniques, and batch-process large datasets. Visualization functions and apps let you explore images, 3D volumes, and videos; adjust contrast; create histograms; and manipulate regions of interest (ROIs). You can accelerate your algorithms by running them on multicore processors and GPUs. Many toolbox functions support C/C++ code generation for desktop prototyping and embedded vision system deployment.

Название: Business-Friendly DSLs (MEAP v9)
Автор: Meinte Boersma
Издательство: Manning Publications
Год: 2022
Страниц: 508
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true)
Размер: 29.6 MB

Written for developers who need to create user-facing Domain-Specific Languages (DSLs), Business-Friendly DSLs unlocks clear and practical methods to create DSLs with easy-to-use interfaces. Imagine if your non-technical clients could safely produce software without the need for anyone to manually write code. Domain-specific languages are purpose-built programming interfaces that make that possible—no programming experience required. Written for developers who need to create user-facing DSLs, Business-Friendly DSLs unlocks clear and practical methods to create DSLs with easy-to-use interfaces. Author Meinte Boersma lays out an iterative process for creating languages accessible to domain experts such as operations specialists, data analysts, and financial experts. You'll start with an overview of software language engineering before diving into the unique projectional editing paradigm that makes it easy to produce DSLs for business.

Название: Natural Language Processing in Action, Second Edition (MEAP v7)
Автор: Hobson Lane, Maria Dyshel
Издательство: Manning Publications
Год: 2022
Страниц: 479
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf, epub
Размер: 21.8 MB

Develop your NLP skills from scratch! This revised bestseller now includes coverage of the latest Python packages, Transformers, the HuggingFace packages, and chatbot frameworks. Natural Language Processing in Action has helped thousands of data scientists build machines that understand human language. In this new and revised edition, you’ll discover state-of-the art NLP models like BERT and HuggingFace transformers, popular open-source frameworks for chatbots, and more. As you go, you’ll create projects that can detect fake news, filter spam, and even answer your questions, all built with Python and its ecosystem of data tools. Natural Language Processing in Action, Second Edition is your guide to building software that can read and interpret human language. This new edition is updated to include the latest Python packages and comes with full coverage of cutting-edge models like BERT, GPT-J and HuggingFace transformers.