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AI for Humanity: Building a Sustainable AI for the Future
By Andeed Ma, James Ong, Siok Siok Tan. 2024
Capture the value of cutting-edge AI while mitigating its most salient risks AI For Humanity: Building a Sustainable AI for…
the Future delivers an incisive and timely discussion of how to design, build, and implement cutting-edge AI in for-profit firms and other organizations in a responsible, sustainable, and ethical way. The book walks you through the three pillars of human-focused AI development—governance, technology, and commercialization—and dives deep into each one, showing you how to create AI products and services that better humanity and advance universally held values. You'll find methodologies and frameworks that mitigate against some of the most profound and unsettling risks of unchecked artificial intelligence development, and roadmaps to help you avoid the numerous pitfalls and traps awaiting unsuspecting companies, managers, and executives. You'll also discover: Real-world case studies, from companies including SAP, Huawei, and Tencent, demonstrating the actual dilemmas and questions firms face when developing and implementing this extraordinary tech Actionable commitments you can make to help ensure you and your company avoid the ethical and reputational risks associated with AI Strategies for AI product and service development consistent with sustainable growth Perfect for managers, executives, directors, and other business leaders with a stake in responsible artificial intelligence design, development, and implementation, AI For Humanity will also interest regulators, academics, thought leaders, and policy makers doing their best to capture AI's substantial potential value while mitigating its most serious risks.Are you tired of feeling overwhelmed by your finances? Do you wish there was a clear path towards financial well-being?…
Look no further than Make Your Money Smile, the groundbreaking new book by bestselling author Jason Vitug, winner of the prestigious 2023 Plutus Award. Make Your Money Smile covers every essential aspect of personal finance with precision and compassion. Jason acts as your guide, sharing lessons and steps, and giving you knowledge and tools to conquer your financial challenges once and for all. In this book, you'll learn to: Manage Money: Elevating your banking relationships and going beyond budgeting to cash flow mastery. Earn Money: Optimizing your paycheck and discovering the many ways to multiply and diversify your income streams. Grow Money: Making money work for you, contributing to retirement accounts, and investing for financial independence. Borrow Money: Using credit to build wealth, enhancing your credit report and score, and eliminating debt once and for all. Protect Money: Safeguarding your identity, insuring your most valuable assets, and protecting your wealth through tax strategy and estate planning. Don't let financial uncertainty hold you back any longer. Take a step toward a happier future. With insightful commentary and practical exercises, Make Your Money Smile is your indispensable companion on your journey to financial success. This book will empower you to take control of your finances and chart your course to your dream lifestyle.Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation
By Parker J. Palmer. 2024
The 25th Anniversary Edition of a modern classic, with a new Introduction by its celebrated author “Is the life I…
am living the same as the life that wants to live in me?” With this searching question, bestselling author Parker J. Palmer begins his insightful and moving meditation on finding our way toward meaning and purpose. As readers of many ages, backgrounds and walks of life will attest, Let Your Life Speak is an elegant and openhearted gift to all who seek to live authentically. We find a path that's right for us by embracing what gives us life and rejecting what diminishes us, listening more closely to the voice of “true self” than to what others expect or demand of us. As we live more deeply into our own identity and integrity, we find both personal fulfillment and our place in the community to which we belong. As always, Palmer writes honestly and vulnerably about his own life, including the fumbles and failures that have marked his unconventional vocational journey. He chronicles his deep dives into depression, and his quest for “an undivided life” that would allow him to offer his best gifts to the world. The details of his story are unique, but the insights he draws from it are universal. Let Your Life Speak offers no simplistic formulas for finding a meaningful path through life's complexities. Instead, it offers real-life experience, thoughtfully mined for insight and wisdom: Learn how to listen to your inner teacher and follow its guidance toward a sense of meaning and purpose Reframe your life as a series of “experiments with truth,” learning from those that fail as well as those that work Understand that the doors that close behind you can offer as much guidance as those that open up Gain inspiration and resolve from the lives of seekers who have walked this path before you Enjoy the wisdom, compassion, gentle humor and companionship of a master teacher in a beloved book that has helped hundreds of thousands of people find their way toward meaning and purpose.Skateboarding For Dummies
By Daewon Song. 2024
A beginner’s guide to skating for fun, fitness, and self-expression Skateboarding For Dummies teaches you the basics of the fun…
and popular sport of skateboarding, so you can start shredding. Author Daewon Song has been a pro skateboarder for 30 years and is considered to be the most technically gifted skateboarder of all time. He is passionate about the sport and shares his enthusiasm and experience in this easy-to-read guide. Skateboarding is a fun, challenging, and inclusive sport that can also be a powerful outlet for self-expression. With this book, you’ll learn cool tricks, safe skating, and skatepark etiquette. Plus, you’ll discover how skateboarding can bring positivity to your life, building your confidence and self-esteem. Shop for your first skateboard and essential accessories Learn the basics of riding a skateboard at a skatepark Get step-by-step instructions for performing classic tricks Discover the history of skateboardingSkateboarding is for everyone, regardless of age or background, and Skateboarding For Dummies is for anyone who wants to give this sport a try.In today's data-driven world, understanding statistical models is crucial for effective analysis and decision making. Whether you're a beginner or…
an experienced user, this book equips you with the foundational knowledge to grasp and implement statistical models within Tableau. Gain the confidence to speak fluently about the models you employ, driving adoption of your insights and analysis across your organization.As AI continues to revolutionize industries, possessing the skills to leverage statistical models is no longer optional—it's a necessity. Stay ahead of the curve and harness the full potential of your data by mastering the ability to interpret and utilize the insights generated by these models.Whether you're a data enthusiast, analyst, or business professional, this book empowers you to navigate the ever-evolving landscape of data analytics with confidence and proficiency. Start your journey toward data mastery today.In this book, you will learn:The basics of foundational statistical modeling with TableauHow to prove your analysis is statistically significantHow to calculate and interpret confidence intervalsBest practices for incorporating statistics into data visualizationsHow to connect external analytics resources from Tableau using R and PythonApache Iceberg: The Definitive Guide
By Tomer Shiran, Jason Hughes, Alex Merced. 2024
Traditional data architecture patterns are severely limited. To use these patterns, you have to ETL data into each tool—a cost-prohibitive…
process for making warehouse features available to all of your data. The lack of flexibility with these patterns requires you to lock into a set of priority tools and formats, which creates data silos and data drift. This practical book shows you a better way.Apache Iceberg provides the capabilities, performance, scalability, and savings that fulfill the promise of an open data lakehouse. By following the lessons in this book, you'll be able to achieve interactive, batch, machine learning, and streaming analytics with this high-performance open source format. Authors Tomer Shiran, Jason Hughes, and Alex Merced from Dremio show you how to get started with Iceberg.With this book, you'll learn:The architecture of Apache Iceberg tablesWhat happens under the hood when you perform operations on Iceberg tablesHow to further optimize Apache Iceberg tables for maximum performanceHow to use Iceberg with popular data engines such as Apache Spark, Apache Flink, and DremioHow Apache Iceberg can be used in streaming and batch ingestionDiscover why Apache Iceberg is a foundational technology for implementing an open data lakehouse.Wheeling through Toronto: A History of the Bicycle and Its Riders
By Albert Koehl. 2024
Highlighting an important yet often ignored part of Toronto’s transportation story, Wheeling through Toronto chronicles the history of the bicycle…
and reveals a way forward for a world in climate crisis. Throughout its history in Toronto, the bicycle’s place on the roads and in public esteem has fluctuated wildly: flaunted as fashionable, disparaged and derided, rescued from looming obscurity, and promoted as a way to respond to the challenges of the day. What is it about the simple bicycle that it can be so loved by some yet despised and detested by others? Wheeling through Toronto offers a 130-year ride from the 1890s to the present to help answer this question. Albert Koehl, a Toronto lawyer and leading cycling advocate, chronicles the tumultuous history of this mode of transportation from the bicycle craze at the turn of the century, to the rise of the car and the motorway in the 1950s, to the intensifying cry for active transportation in the 1990s and into pandemic times. In an era of catastrophic climate events, Wheeling through Toronto highlights how the bicycle should be celebrated not only as hope for the future, but also for its affordability, for its contribution to clean and healthy mobility, and because it brings happiness and joy to so many. Drawing on archival materials, newspapers, and personal interviews, and full of fascinating vignettes, this book presents the story of how we got here and what Torontonians need to know as we pedal forward.Drive: The Lasting Legacy of Tiger Woods
By Bob Harig. 2024
Bob Harig's latest deep-dive into Tiger Woods' thrilling career, as seen through his iconic 2019 Masters comeback and win. In…
April of 1997, the world of golf was forever changed. At the age of 21, a young Tiger Woods won the most prestigious golf tournament in the world, the Masters, by a record of 12 strokes. Woods became the youngest golfer ever to win the Masters and the first African or Asian-American player to win a major. History had been made - and would continue to be made over the next 15 years.Woods transformed the game, turning golf geeks into keen observers, casual golf fans into ardent followers and even indifferent sports fans into curiosity mavens. He will undoubtedly be known for the raw numbers: 82 PGA Tour titles, 15 major championships, and according to Forbes, a billionaire who amassed more than $110-million in official PGA Tour earnings. Woods has proven to be a complicated figure through his decades in the spotlight. Plagued by marital scandal, a DUI arrest, and severe back injuries that resulted in what even he believed would be a career-ending spinal fusion surgery in 2017, Woods’ career finally seemed to be coming to an end. That all changed through 2018 and into 2019 as Woods returned slowly from the surgery. In 2019, on the same course where he won for the first time in 1997, Tiger Woods made history once again, winning the Masters one final time. The 2019 Masters brought together all the qualities that ultimately make up someone who has been an enduring figure for 30 years.In this captivating and emotional portrait of one of the most famous figures in sports, Bob Harig brings readers the true story of the grit and perseverance of Tiger Woods in the final years of his career. Drive will show that Woods’ true legacy is one of resolve and redemption.Reliable and Intelligent Optimization in Multi-Layered Cloud Computing Architectures
By Madhusudhan H. S., Satish Kumar T., Punit Gupta, Dinesh Kumar Saini, Kashif Zia. 2024
One of the major developments in the computing field has been cloud computing, which enables users to do complicated computations…
that local devices are unable to handle. The computing power and flexibility that have made the cloud so popular do not come without challenges. It is particularly challenging to decide which resources to use, even when they have the same configuration but different levels of performance because of the variable structure of the available resources. Cloud data centers can host millions of virtual machines, and where to locate these machines in the cloud is a difficult problem. Additionally, fulfilling optimization needs is a complex problem.Reliable and Intelligent Optimization in Multi-Layered Cloud Computing Architectures examines ways to meet these challenges. It discusses virtual machine placement techniques and task scheduling techniques that optimize resource utilization and minimize energy consumption of cloud data centers. Placement techniques presented can provide an optimal solution to the optimization problem using multiple objectives. The book focuses on basic design principles and analysis of virtual machine placement techniques and task allocation techniques. It also looks at virtual machine placement techniques that can improve quality-of-service (QoS) in service-oriented architecture (SOA) computing. The aims of virtual machine placement include minimizing energy usage, network traffic, economical cost, maximizing performance, and maximizing resource utilization. Other highlights of the book include: Improving QoS and resource efficiency Fault-tolerant and reliable resource optimization models A reactive fault tolerance method using checkpointing restart Cost and network-aware metaheuristics. Virtual machine scheduling and placement Electricity consumption in cloud data centers Written by leading experts and researchers, this book provides insights and techniques to those dedicated to improving cloud computing and its services.Game Design Deep Dive: Soulslike
By Joshua Bycer. 2024
Game Design Critic Joshua Bycer is back with another entry in the Game Design Deep Series to focus on the…
youngest genre yet: soulslikes. Over a decade, From Software defined a new genre that has led to studios chasing after them hit after hit. In this book, Josh will cover the history of the genre and popular soulslike games of the 2010s and discuss what aspects of design make a game a soulslike. The first book looking at the history of the genre A breakdown of both action and RPG design for fans and designers of both A lesson on difficulty in games and why harder doesn’t mean betterThe third volume in a new series exploring the basics of Raspberry Pi Operating System administration, this installment builds on…
the insights from Volumes 1 and 2 to provide a compendium of easy-to-use and essential guidance for Raspberry Pi system administration for novice users, with specific focus on Text Editors, git/ GitHub, and LXC/LXD.The overriding idea behind system administration of a modern, 21st-century Linux system, such as the Raspberry Pi OS, is the use of systemd to ensure that the Linux kernel works efficiently and effectively to provide these three foundation stones of computer operation and management: computer system concurrency, virtualization, and secure persistence. This third volume includes a beginner’s compendium of essential text-based Linux commands, a complete tutorial on the most important Raspberry Pi OS Text Editors, a description of uses of the git command, and a thorough explication of container virtualization with LXC/LXD and Docker.This book is aimed at students and practitioners looking to maximize their use of the Raspberry Pi OS. With plenty of practical examples, projects, and exercises, this volume can also be adopted in a more formal learning environment to supplement and extend the basic knowledge of a Linux operating system.The Zero Trust Framework and Privileged Access Management (PAM)
By Ravindra Das. 2024
This book is about the Zero Trust Framework. Essentially, this is a methodology where the IT/Network Infrastructure of a business…
is segmented into smaller islands, each having its own lines of defense. This is primarily achieved through the use of Multifactor Authentication (MFA), where at least three more authentication layers are used, preferably being different from one another.Another key aspect of the Zero Trust Framework is known as Privileged Access Management (PAM). This is an area of Cybersecurity where the protection of superuser accounts, rights, and privileges must be protected at all costs from Cyberattackers. In this regard, this is where the Zero Trust Framework and PAM intertwine, especially in a Cloud-based platform, such as Microsoft Azure.However, as it has been reviewed in one of our previous books, the use of passwords is now becoming a nemesis, not only for individuals but for businesses as well. It is hoped that by combining the Zero Trust Framework with PAM, password use can be eradicated altogether, thus giving rise to a passwordless society.Practical Web Accessibility: A Comprehensive Guide to Digital Inclusion
By Ashley Firth. 2024
Everyone deserves to use the Internet. An estimated 1.3 billion people experience significant disability. That’s 16percent of the world’s population,…
or one in six of us. At the same time, over 96 percent of the one million most popular websites have an accessibility issue. Add to this the massive rise in legal cases around sites not being accessible, including Beyoncé, Disney, and Netflix, and you have an important topic that more and more people are starting to engage with.In this updated and revamped second edition of the Amazon technology chart-topping Practical Web Accessibility, you’ll be guided through a broad range of disabilities and access needs. You’ll understand the ways these users typically engage with the web, the barriers they often face, and practical advice on how your websites and content can be compliant, but more than that, inclusive and enjoyable to use. There’s also a new chapter on “Outsourcing Accessibility,” exploring third party “bolt-on” tools, “build your own website” platforms like Wix, and popular design systems. You‘ll explore whether they’re helpful or detrimental in the fight to make the web more accessible.Throughout this book you’ll learn to test for, spot, and fix web accessibility issues for a wide range of physical and mental impairments. Featuring content from the latest compliance frameworks, including the newly released WCAG 2.2 and exploratory concepts in WCAG 3, you’ll see how to go beyond the basic requirements in order to help your users. You’ll also learn that an accessible approach won’t just help people with disabilities, it will improve your website for everyone.This book comes complete with practical examples you can use in your own sites, along with a brand-new approach to auditing and improving a website’s accessibility, and a team’s approach to it, based on tools created by the author and refined over years as a consultant — The FAIR framework and ACCESS checklist. With these tools, you can set up processes for yourself and your team that will drastically improve the accessibility of your sites and, importantly, keep them that way in the future. Suitable for those of any profession or experience level, Practical Web Accessibility gives you all the information you need to ensure that your sites are truly accessible for the modern, inclusive web. If you would like to learn about web accessibility in a clear and actionable way, this book is for you.What You Will LearnA greater understanding of a vast range of disabilities that have online access needs, and the issues they typically face accessing content online.Ways to apply the practical steps required to cater for those needs.How to take your sites, and colleagues, on a journey from being inaccessible to accessible.The importance of accessibility in your designs, code, content, and more.The best ways to test andimprove your sites, so you can be compliant, and truly accessible. Who This Book Is For Anyone, regardless of what they do, who wants to learn how to make websites and their content more accessible for those with disabilities. In the world of web, the book has been used by front and backend developers, designers, product and project managers, team and business leaders.Data-Centric Business and Applications: Modern Trends in Financial and Innovation Data Processes 2023. Volume 2 (Lecture Notes on Data Engineering and Communications Technologies #194)
By Andriy Semenov, Iryna Yepifanova, Jana Kajanová. 2024
This book examines aspects of financial and investment processes, as well as the application of information technology mechanisms to business…
and industrial management, using the experience of the Ukrainian economy as an example. An effective tool for supporting business data processing is combining modern information technologies and the latest achievements in economic theory. The variety of industrial sectors studied supports the continuous acquisition and use of efficient business analysis in organizations. In addition, the book elaborates on multidisciplinary concepts, examples, and practices that can be useful for researching the evolution of developments in the field. Also, in this book, there is a description of analysis methods for making decisions in business, finance, and innovation management.Limits of AI - theoretical, practical, ethical (Technik im Fokus)
By Klaus Mainzer, Reinhard Kahle. 2024
Artificial intelligence is a key technology with great expectations in science, industry, and everyday life. This book discusses both the…
perspectives and the limitations of this technology. This concerns the practical, theoretical, and conceptual challenges that AI has to face. In an early phase of symbolic AI, AI focused on formal programs (e.g., expert systems), in which rule-based knowledge was processed with the help of symbolic logic. Today, AI is dominated by statistics-based machine learning methods and Big Data. While this sub-symbolic AI is extremely successful (e.g., chatbots like ChatGPT), it is often not transparent. The book argues for explainable and reliable AI, in which the logical and mathematical foundations of AI-algorithms become understandable and verifiable.Advancements in Smart Computing and Information Security: Second International Conference, ASCIS 2023, Rajkot, India, December 7–9, 2023, Revised Selected Papers, Part I (Communications in Computer and Information Science #2037)
By Sridaran Rajagopal, Kalpesh Popat, Divyakant Meva, Sunil Bajeja. 2024
This 4-volume CCIS post-conference set represents the proceedings of the Second International Conference on Advances in Smart Computing and Information…
Security, ASCIS 2023, in Rajkot, Gujarat, India, December 2023. The 91 full papers and 36 short papers in the volume were carefully checked and selected from 432 submissions. Various application areas were presented at the conference, including healthcare, agriculture, automotive, construction and engineering, pharmaceuticals, cybercrime and sports.Advancements in Smart Computing and Information Security: Second International Conference, ASCIS 2023, Rajkot, India, December 7–9, 2023, Revised Selected Papers, Part III (Communications in Computer and Information Science #2039)
By Sridaran Rajagopal, Kalpesh Popat, Divyakant Meva, Sunil Bajeja. 2024
This 4-volume CCIS post-conference set represents the proceedings of the Second International Conference on Advances in Smart Computing and Information…
Security, ASCIS 2023, in Rajkot, Gujarat, India, December 2023. The 91 full papers and 36 short papers in the volume were carefully checked and selected from 432 submissions. Various application areas were presented at the conference, including healthcare, agriculture, automotive, construction and engineering, pharmaceuticals, cybercrime and sports.Decision Support Systems XIV. Human-Centric Group Decision, Negotiation and Decision Support Systems for Societal Transitions: 10th International Conference on Decision Support System Technology, ICDSST 2024, Porto, Portugal, June 3–5, 2024, Proceedings
By Sérgio Pedro Duarte, António Lobo, Boris Delibašić, Daouda Kamissoko. 2024
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Decision Support Systems Technologies, ICDSST 2024, held in June…
2024. The EWG-DSS series of International Conference on Decision Support System Technology (ICDSST) is planned to consolidate the tradition of annual events organized by the EWG-DSS in offering a platform for European and international DSS communities, comprising the academic and industrial sectors, to present state-of-the-art DSS research and developments, to discuss current challenges that surround decision-making processes, to exchange ideas about realistic and innovative solutions, and to co-develop potential business opportunities. This year the main topic was: Human-Centric Group Decision, Negotiation and Decision Support Systems for Societal Transitions. The 10 full papers included in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 29 submissions. They have been organized in topical sections as follows: Decision support tools and methods; and decision factors.Advancements in Smart Computing and Information Security: Second International Conference, ASCIS 2023, Rajkot, India, December 7–9, 2023, Revised Selected Papers, Part II (Communications in Computer and Information Science #2038)
By Sridaran Rajagopal, Kalpesh Popat, Divyakant Meva, Sunil Bajeja. 2024
This 4-volume CCIS post-conference set represents the proceedings of the Second International Conference on Advances in Smart Computing and Information…
Security, ASCIS 2023, in Rajkot, Gujarat, India, December 2023. The 91 full papers and 36 short papers in the volume were carefully checked and selected from 432 submissions. Various application areas were presented at the conference, including healthcare, agriculture, automotive, construction and engineering, pharmaceuticals, cybercrime and sports.Advancements in Smart Computing and Information Security: Second International Conference, ASCIS 2023, Rajkot, India, December 7–9, 2023, Revised Selected Papers, Part IV (Communications in Computer and Information Science #2040)
By Sridaran Rajagopal, Kalpesh Popat, Divyakant Meva, Sunil Bajeja. 2024
This 4-volume CCIS post-conference set represents the proceedings of the Second International Conference on Advances in Smart Computing and Information…
Security, ASCIS 2023, in Rajkot, Gujarat, India, December 2023. The 91 full papers and 36 short papers in the volume were carefully checked and selected from 432 submissions. Various application areas were presented at the conference, including healthcare, agriculture, automotive, construction and engineering, pharmaceuticals, cybercrime and sports.