Now that storage and collection technologies are cheaper and more precise, methods for extracting relevant information from large datasets is within the reach any experienced programmer willing to crunch data. With this book, you'll learn machine learning and statistics tools in a practical fashion, using black-box solutions and case studies instead of a traditional math-heavy presentation. By exploring each problem in this book in depth - including both viable and hopeless approaches - you'll learn to recognize when your situation closely matches traditional problems. Then you'll discover how to apply classical statistics tools to your problem. Machine Learning for Hackers is ideal for programmers from private, public, and academic sectors.
Language: English, Binding: Paperback, Number of pages: 304, Publishers: Bang Laugh Love LLC, Author: Lili Valente, ISBN-13: 9781955930352, Date of issue: 2019
This collection contains four of the most cherished Tibetan Buddhist commentaries on the practices of visualization, mantra recitation, and meditative absorption--elements that form the core of development stage meditation, one of the most important practi
The purpose of this book is to show historically that the Israelites, going all the way back to Adam and Eve, not only honored a Triune Godhead which included a feminine Holy Spirit, but also knew without question that the Son of God as Savior Messiah, wou
Was wäre die Weihnachtszeit ohne Musik? In diesem liebevoll illustrierten Buch sind die schönsten und beliebtesten Weihnachtslieder für die ganze Familie gesammelt. Die Noten und Akkordangaben laden zum gemeinsamen Singen und Musizieren ein.
America's prairies are home to some of the most abundant and beautiful wildflowers in the country. Now, with Prairie Wildflowers, readers will be able to locate and identify the many gorgeous flowering species blooming in America's heartland.
Der "Frauendienst" Ulrichs von Liechtenstein gehört als Gattungshybrid und mehr oder weniger fiktive Minnedienerautobiographie zu den innovativsten Texten des 13. Jahrhunderts. Zugleich handelt es sich um die einzige vom Autor selbst angelegte Minneliedüberlieferung, die wir aus dieser Zeit haben. Die kritische Edition richtet sich an ein wissenschaftliches Publikum, öffnet den Text zugleich aber durch eine neuhochdeutsche Übersetzung, einen ausführlichen Sachkommentar und ein Nachwort mit zentralen Forschungsfragen für den akademischen Unterricht und einen breiteren Kreis. Der mittelhochdeutsche Text folgt dem cgm 44, ergänzt durch die Liedüberlieferung in der Manessischen Liederhandschrift und die beiden Frauendienst-Fragmente. Der Stellenkommentar ist neben den üblichen Sacherklärungen vor allem kulturwissenschaftlich/historisch ausgerichtet, um die zahlreichen Anspielungen auf die österreichische Landespolitik und das im "Frauendienst" dokumentierte Netz historischer Personen zugänglich zu machen.
Este estuche reúne los tres libros de la trilogía más romántica de Mercedes Ron, la autora Nº1 que ha seducido a más de 1.000.000 lectores con Culpa mía. ENAMÓRATE DE LOS HERMANOS DI BIANCO. TUS MEJORES AMIGOS. TU MAYOR PERDICIÓN. Dímelo bajito (Dímelo 1) Kamila Hamilton lo tenía todo bajo control... o eso creía: no entraba en sus planes que los hermanos Di Bianco volviesen de nuevo para poner su mundo al revés. Thiago fue quien le dio su primer beso. Taylor el que siempre la protegió. El regreso de los hermanos hace que la vida aparentemente perfecta de Kami se tambalee. Ella ya no es la niña inocente que conocieron: desde que se fueron, parece que nadie puede acceder realmente a ella... nadie excepto ellos. ¿Podrá resistirse Kami a la simple presencia de Thiago? _______________________________ Dímelo en secreto (Dímelo 2) Kamila Hamilton vuelve a tener a sus dos mejores amigos en su vida. El problema es que Taylor y Thiago Di Bianco ya no son simples amigos. Ahora son mucho más. Thiago y sus ojos verdes la dejan sin respiración. Taylor y sus ojos azules jamás la decepcionarán. Los hermanos han crecido y junto a ellos lo que siente Kamila. Y ahora que su vida se desmorona por momentos, su familia se desintegra y sus amigas le dan la espalda, los necesitará más que nunca... a los dos. ¿Cómo reaccionará Kami cuando Thiago bese otros labios? ______________________________ _ Dímelo con besos (Dímelo 3) Kamila Hamilton debe decidir entre los dos hermanos Di Bianco: Thiago o Taylor... Taylor o Thiago. Escoger a uno significa renunciar al otro, pero ¿cómo puede dejar atrás una parte de sí misma? Thiago hace que toque el cielo con los dedos. Taylor sabe que jamás va a soltar su mano. Pero cuando Kami cree que por fin su corazón ha decidido, la pesadilla más real está a punto de comenzar. Los lectores han dicho...«La historia te atrapa desde el primer segundo.» «Un triángulo amoroso que te vuelve loca... de amor.» «Cuando crees que ya sabes lo que va a pasar, Mercedes Ron siempre te sorprende.» «Team Thiago o Team Taylor... no podrás escoger, como la protagonista.» «Cinco estrellas es poco para esta saga.» «Mercedes confirma con #Dímelo# que es una de las mejores autoras.» «La autora se ha superado con #Dímelo#.» «No solo tiene amor... el suspense también te deja sin respiración.» «Te deja con el cuerpo pidiendo más.»
Understand your real value - you're worth more than you think! Anyone can look successful with the right watch on their wrist or car parked in the driveway - but what is real success, and how much are you really worth? In this fascinating, liberating book bestselling author and Rob Moore takes you back to basics and examines how to realise your real value - your self esteem, your ambitions, your reputation and your income. No longer will you doubt your self, make self-defeating comparisons or make assumptions about how others see you - instead you will maximise your opportunities and love yourself for who you really are. Rob will show you that no matter what you think you're worth, you're worth more. Autorid: Rob Moore
Describes the experience of a young boy whose chronic ear infections are affecting his hearing, until he goes into the hospital for a simple operation. Chris Gets Ear Tubes explains what happens before, during, and after the surgery in language a child understands. It takes away the childs natural fear of the unknown. The charming full-color illustrations familiarize the child with the hosptial procedures. Autorid: Betty Pace
La met fora de la noche oscura de Juan de la Cruz nos recuerda que la experiencia del amor de Dios no es siempre una experiencia punta de la uni n de toda la creaci n. En la noche oscura el amor de Dios se acerca de una manera que parece negarnos. En la no
Nanami weiß nicht, wo ihr der Kopf steht, seitdem Tomoe sie unversehens geküsst hat - und das nur, um den Göttervertrag zu erneuern. Denn wenig später, bei der Mondschau der Sumpfprinzessin, macht er ihr unverblümt klar, dass keine Gefühle im Spiel sind. Sich in einen Menschen zu verlieben käme für Tomoe doch niemals infrage! Doch die Begegnung mit einer weißen Schlange wirft alles in die Waagschale ... Band 2 der langersehnten Neuauflage von "Kamisama Kiss" ist da! Mit Farbseiten im Innenteil und einem Buchrückenmotiv über alle 13 Bände! Und mit ShoCo Card in der Erstauflage!
Nachdem Akira wegen der Intrige des Königs aus dem Schloss fliehen musste, kämpft er sich durch die Ebenen des Dungeons. Dabei macht er Bekanntschaft mit dem Elfenmädchen Amelia, die ihm anbietet, ihn bei der Kontrolle seiner Fähigkeiten zu unterstützen. Währenddessen versucht Tsukasa unter seinen Schulkameraden Mitstreiter zu finden, die sich seiner Suche nach Akira anschließen.
Fascinating discourse (that] travels through anatomy, paleontology, anthropology, the arts, the zoo, museums, medicine, murder and more. . . . Superb."Wall Street Journal A 300-million-year tour of the prominent role of the neck in animal evolution and human culture. Humans give a lot of attention to the neck. We decorate it with jewelry and ties, kiss it passionately, and use it to express ourselves in word and song. Yet, at the neck, people have also shackled their prisoners, executed their opponents, and slain their victims. Beyond the drama of human culture, animals have evolved their necks into a staggering variety of shapes and uses vital to their lifestyles. The Neck delves into evolutionary time to solve a living paradoxwhy is our neck so central to our survival and culture, but so vulnerable to injury and disease? Biologist Kent Dunlap shows how the neck's vulnerability is not simply an unfortunate quirk of evolution. Its weaknesses are intimately connected to the vessels, pipes, and glands that make it so vital to existence. Fun and far-reaching, The Neck explores the diversity of forms and functions of the neck in humans and other animals and shows how this small anatomical transition zone has been a locus of incredible evolutionary and cultural creativity. Autorid: Kent Dunlap
A hilarious, highly original collection of essays based on the Botswana truism: "only food runs!" With a new introduction and new material from the authorIn the tradition of Bill Bryson, a new writer brings us the lively adventures and biting wit of an African safari guide. Peter Allison gives us the guide's-eye view of living in the bush, confronting the world's fiercest terrain of wild animals and, most challenging of all, managing herds of gaping tourists. Passionate for the animals of the Kalahari, Allison works as a top safari guide in the wildlife-rich Okavango Delta. As he serves the whims of his wealthy clients, he often has to stop the impulse to run as far away from them as he can, as these tourists are sometimes more dangerous than a pride of lions. No one could make up these outrageous-but-true tales: the young woman who rejected the recommended safari-friendly khaki to wear a more "fashionable" hot pink ensemble; the lost tourist who happened to be drunk, half-naked, and a member of the British royal family; establishing a real friendship with the continent's most vicious animal; the Japanese tourist who requested a repeat performance of Allison's being charged by a lion so he could videotape it; and spending a crazy night in the wild after blowing a tire on a tour bus, revealing that Allison has as much good-natured scorn for himself. The author's humor is exceeded only by his love and respect for the animals, and his goal is to limit any negative exposure to humans by planning trips that are minimally invasiveunfortunately it doesn't always work out that way!New story: People often ask safari guides about the experience that frightened them the most. In this story Peter Allison tells of the time he became aware of unseen danger, and knew that somewhere within meters of him was a hunting lioness. Peter Allison is originally from Sydney, Australia. His safaris have been featured in National Geographic, Conde Nast Traveler, and on television programs such as Jack Hanna's Animal Adventures. He travels frequently to speaking appearances, and splits most of his time between Botswana, Sydney, and San Francisco. Autorid: Peter Allison
The adventure-laden tales of a sailboat delivery skipper, in his own words. Consistently captivating, John Kretschmer's stories are alternately funny and harrowing.Over the course of twenty years of delivering sailboats to far-flung quaysides, John Kretschmer has had innumerable adventures, both humorous and terrifying. in Flirting with Mermaids, he recounts the most memorable of them.He crosses the Western Caribbean with a crew of eccentric Swedes researching ancient Mayan mariners, lands in Aden at the outbreak of civil war, and endures a North Atlantic crossing during which he disocvers the existence of Force 13 winds. Approaching Japan at the end of a particularly trying delivery, he finds himself sailing in "a high impact debris zone," but his resolve is unshaken. "If a piece of rocketship jetsam fell out of the sky and sank (me] after encounters with Hurricane Floyd, General Noriega,a tsunami, an erupting volcano, and Typhoon Roy, then it was meant to be." Autorid: John Kretschmer
Mit dem Sieg über die rechte Hand des Dämonenkönigs scheinen Akira und Amelia den Cantinen-Dungeon bezwungen zu haben. Ein magischer Teleportkreis erscheint, der sie an jeden gewünschten Ort bringen kann. Ist das die erste Gelegenheit für Akira, in seine eigene Welt zurückzukehren? Doch es kommt anders, als die Gefährten denken, und plötzlich muss sich Amelia den Dingen stellen, vor denen sie eigentlich fliehen wollte.
When Joe Hutto began his experiment in imprinting two dozen wild turkey-in the tradition of the great animal behaviorist, Konrad Lorenz-he had no idea that it would change his life. Told with skill and humor, and vibrating with the natural wonders of the F
Offers a source of detailed information on techniques for restoring, maintaining and monitoring lowland heathland habitats, a landscape that has been in decline for decades, with many vulnerable species. This guide covers a range of management issues affecting dry heath, wet heath, mire and associated grassland and open water habitats in Britain. Autorid: John C. Day, Nigel Symes
First published in France in 2012 to critical and popular acclaim, this is the first book about the remarkable American actress and filmmaker Barbara Loden. Loden's 1970 film Wanda is a masterpiece of early cinéma vérité, an anti-Bonnie-and-Clyde road movie about a young woman, adrift in rust-belt Pennsylvania in the early 1960s, who embarks on a crime spree with a small-time crook. How to paint a life, describe a personality? Inspired by the film, a researcher seeks to piece together a portrait of its creator. In her soul-searching homage to the former pin-up girl famously married to Hollywood giant Elia Kazan, the biographer's evocative powers are put to the test. New insights into Loden's sketchy biography remain scarce and the words of Marguerite Duras, Georges Perec, Jean-Luc Godard, Sylvia Plath, Kate Chopin, Herman Melville, Samuel Beckett and W.G. Sebald come to the narrator's rescue. As remembered scenes from Wanda alternate with the droll journal of a flailing research project, personal memories surface, and with them, uncomfortable insights into the inner life of a singular woman who is also, somehow, every woman. Autorid: Nathalie Léger, Natasha Lehrer, Cécile Menon
In December 2010, scientists discovered a fragment of a finger bone in the remote, isolated Denisova Cave in Siberia. To their surprise, the bone contained neither Homo sapiens nor Neanderthal DNA. Rather, the fast-advancing science of paleogenetics revealed that the DNA came from a previously unknown species of hominidsthe Denisovans (as they almost immediately came to be called)who shared a common ancestor with both Neanderthals and Homo sapiens. This first and subsequent Denisovan fossil discoveries required paleoanthropologists, including world-leading researcher and author Silvana Condemi, to reconsider their understanding of our ancestors and their successive prehistoric migrations out of Africa and into and throughout Eurasia tens of thousands of years ago. Leading us through the excavation of Denisova Cave, the sequencing of the Denisovan genome, and recent fossil research, Condemi and her coauthor, science journalist François Savatier, explore how the Denisovans migrated throughout Asia and with whom they interacted along the way, as well as the comparisons and divergences between the evolutionary processes of Denisovans and our other ancestor cousins, Neanderthals. They help us to understand and appreciate how todays inhabitants of East Asiafrom Siberia to the Philippinescarry up to 5 percent of Denisovan DNA, and they revise the epic story of our ancient human ancestors immense journeys as they peopled our planet. Autorid: Silvana Condemi, François Savatier
In August 1886, Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) received a letter asking permission to dramatize Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass. This book presents and annotates 103 letters from Carroll to the playwright Henry Savile Clarke (of which six are to Savile Clarke's daughters). Carroll tells Savile Clarke in detail exactly what he would like to see in the stage performance. Savile Clarke wrote the script for the first full dramatization of the Alice books, which was staged at the Prince of Wales's Theatre in London in 188687, and revived at the Globe Theatre, also in London, in 188889. This is the largest body of focused Carroll correspondence to which we have access. It is deeply revealing of Carroll's personality and his relationship to his most brilliant writings, the two Alice books. The book includes a posthumous essay, "Lewis Carroll in the Wings," by the eminent Carroll biographer Morton N. Cohen. The book also includes supplementary materials on British theatre in the late Victorian period and the child-acting controversy. Autorid: Clare Imholtz
Stuart Walker, a world champion celebrated for his books and columns on racing in Sailing World magazine, here takes his readers step by step through the elements that determine racing factors: wind direction, velocity, temperature, stability, current strength, and direction. These racing factors, Dr. Walker explains, translate into boat speed, psychology, and tactics.Wind strength and wave formation, in turn, determine sail rig and fin trim, as well as the psychological approach needed to win. He demonstrates for both the new racer and the seasoned expert precisely how to collect and understand these elements, how to use them in the formulation of strategy, and, finally, how to formulate moment-by-moment tactics. This is a masterful guide to winning. Autorid: Stuart H. Walker, Thomas C. Price
Der Highschool-Schüler Akira Oda wird mit seiner ganzen Klasse in eine fremde Welt beschworen und soll fortan gegen den Dämonenkönig kämpfen. Für die Jugendlichen scheint ein Traum wahr zu werden. Sie erlangen magische Kräfte, die ihrem Charakter in der realen Welt entsprechen. Akira, der sich stets im Hintergrund hielt, bekommt den zweifelhaften Stand eines Assassinen zugewiesen. Doch nicht nur das: Er muss außerdem feststellen, dass seine Statuswerte von Beginn an denen des auserwählten Helden weit überlegen sind! Irgendetwas scheint hier nicht mit rechten Dingen zuzugehen. Akira beschließt, seine Fähigkeiten geheim zu halten und Nachforschungen anzustellen. Dabei stößt er auf eine unfassbare Intrige .Für Fans von "The Eminence in Shadow" und "The Rising of the Shield Hero"!Mit Farbseiten in jedem Band!
June Jones emerges from her shell to fight for her beloved local library, and through the efforts and support of an eclectic group of library patrons, she discovers life-changing friendships along the way.Lonely librarian June Jones has never left the sleepy English village where she grew up. Shy and reclusive, the thirty-year-old would rather spend her time buried in books than venture out into the world. But when her library is threatened with closure, June is forced to emerge from behind the shelves to save the heart of her community and the place that holds the dearest memories of her mother.Joining a band of eccentric yet dedicated locals in a campaign to keep the library, June opens herself up to other people for the first time since her mother died. It just so happens that her old school friend Alex Chen is back in town and willing to lend a helping hand. The kindhearted lawyer's feelings for her are obvious to everyone but June, who won't believe that anyone could ever care for her in that way.To save the place and the books that mean so much to her, June must finally make some changes to her life. For once, she's determined not to go down without a fight. And maybe, in fighting for her cherished library, June can save herself, too.Story Locale: Chalcot, England (fictional)
