Download or read book Space Giraffe Says Hi written by YesPen YesPencil and published by . This book was released on 2018-12-18 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who could wish for a funkier notepad than this? Measuring at a generous 8.5'' x 11'' size, this 'Space Giraffe Says Hi' notepad would make a FANTASTIC gift for giraffe or outer space lovers. There are numerous occasions for which this could be a suitable buy, such as birthdays, Christmas or simply a nice surprise. The notepad includes a colourful matte cover and 108 pages of lined paper. Listed below are some examples of what it could be used for: Creative writing Dream diary To-do lists School notes Doodling Affirmations Event planning Calligraphy Reward sticker book Ideas logbook Thanks so much for stopping by, and we hope you like the notepad :)
Download or read book Motivating Giraffe written by Penny Redshaw and published by . This book was released on 2017-09-30 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A colourful collection of motivational cartoon images, featuring a giraffe and his friends.
Download or read book Giraffe written by J. M. Ledgard and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-07-31 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An astounding novel based on the true story of the life and mysterious death of the largest herd of giraffes ever held in captivity, in a Czechoslovakian town sleepwalking through communism in the early 1970s. In 1975, on the eve of May Day, secret police dressed in chemical warfare suits sealed off a zoo in a small Czechoslovakian town and ordered the destruction of the largest captive herd of giraffes in the world. This apparently senseless massacre lies at the heart of J. M. Ledgard's haunting first novel, which recounts the story of the giraffes from their capture in Africa to their deaths far away behind the Iron Curtain. At once vivid and unearthly, Giraffe is an unforgettable story about strangeness, about creatures that are alien and silent, about captivity, and finally about Czechoslovakia, a middling totalitarian state and its population of sleepwalkers. It is also a story that might never have been told. Ledgard, a foreign correspondent for the Economist since 1995, unearthed the long-buried truth behind the deaths of these giraffes while researching his book, spending years following leads throughout the Czech Republic. In prose reminiscent of Italo Calvino and W. G. Sebald, he imbues the story with both a gripping sense of specificity and a profound resonance, limning the ways the giraffes enter the lives of the people around them, the secrecy and fear that permeate 1970s Czechoslovakia, and the quiet ways in which ordinary people become complicit in the crimes committed in their midst.
Download or read book Tall Blondes written by Lynn Sherr and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 1997-08 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the cultural history of the giraffe, includes ancient and contemporary descriptions, and studies the impact of giraffes on the human imagination.
Download or read book Giraffe and Other Short Stories written by Jonathan M. Purver and published by Author House. This book was released on 2009-05-21 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of short stories set in Hollywood and New York City.
Download or read book Space Travelers Land at Buckingham Palace written by Peter Lancaster Walker and published by Bouncing Ball Books Inc.. This book was released on 2007-11 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Space travelers from the planet Valpon vacation in England.
Download or read book How Giraffes Work written by Graham Mitchell and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a comprehensive overview of wild and free-living giraffes. Graham Mitchell combines nearly every piece of published research about this species into the pages of this book, making it an incredibly useful book for researchers, scientists, and naturalists studying a single species.
Download or read book Image Processing and Analysis with Graphs written by Olivier Lezoray and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2017-07-12 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering the theoretical aspects of image processing and analysis through the use of graphs in the representation and analysis of objects, Image Processing and Analysis with Graphs: Theory and Practice also demonstrates how these concepts are indispensible for the design of cutting-edge solutions for real-world applications. Explores new applications in computational photography, image and video processing, computer graphics, recognition, medical and biomedical imaging With the explosive growth in image production, in everything from digital photographs to medical scans, there has been a drastic increase in the number of applications based on digital images. This book explores how graphs—which are suitable to represent any discrete data by modeling neighborhood relationships—have emerged as the perfect unified tool to represent, process, and analyze images. It also explains why graphs are ideal for defining graph-theoretical algorithms that enable the processing of functions, making it possible to draw on the rich literature of combinatorial optimization to produce highly efficient solutions. Some key subjects covered in the book include: Definition of graph-theoretical algorithms that enable denoising and image enhancement Energy minimization and modeling of pixel-labeling problems with graph cuts and Markov Random Fields Image processing with graphs: targeted segmentation, partial differential equations, mathematical morphology, and wavelets Analysis of the similarity between objects with graph matching Adaptation and use of graph-theoretical algorithms for specific imaging applications in computational photography, computer vision, and medical and biomedical imaging Use of graphs has become very influential in computer science and has led to many applications in denoising, enhancement, restoration, and object extraction. Accounting for the wide variety of problems being solved with graphs in image processing and computer vision, this book is a contributed volume of chapters written by renowned experts who address specific techniques or applications. This state-of-the-art overview provides application examples that illustrate practical application of theoretical algorithms. Useful as a support for graduate courses in image processing and computer vision, it is also perfect as a reference for practicing engineers working on development and implementation of image processing and analysis algorithms.
Download or read book Math and Architectures of Deep Learning written by Krishnendu Chaudhury and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2024-05-21 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shine a spotlight into the deep learning “black box”. This comprehensive and detailed guide reveals the mathematical and architectural concepts behind deep learning models, so you can customize, maintain, and explain them more effectively. Inside Math and Architectures of Deep Learning you will find: Math, theory, and programming principles side by side Linear algebra, vector calculus and multivariate statistics for deep learning The structure of neural networks Implementing deep learning architectures with Python and PyTorch Troubleshooting underperforming models Working code samples in downloadable Jupyter notebooks The mathematical paradigms behind deep learning models typically begin as hard-to-read academic papers that leave engineers in the dark about how those models actually function. Math and Architectures of Deep Learning bridges the gap between theory and practice, laying out the math of deep learning side by side with practical implementations in Python and PyTorch. Written by deep learning expert Krishnendu Chaudhury, you’ll peer inside the “black box” to understand how your code is working, and learn to comprehend cutting-edge research you can turn into practical applications. Foreword by Prith Banerjee. About the technology Discover what’s going on inside the black box! To work with deep learning you’ll have to choose the right model, train it, preprocess your data, evaluate performance and accuracy, and deal with uncertainty and variability in the outputs of a deployed solution. This book takes you systematically through the core mathematical concepts you’ll need as a working data scientist: vector calculus, linear algebra, and Bayesian inference, all from a deep learning perspective. About the book Math and Architectures of Deep Learning teaches the math, theory, and programming principles of deep learning models laid out side by side, and then puts them into practice with well-annotated Python code. You’ll progress from algebra, calculus, and statistics all the way to state-of-the-art DL architectures taken from the latest research. What's inside The core design principles of neural networks Implementing deep learning with Python and PyTorch Regularizing and optimizing underperforming models About the reader Readers need to know Python and the basics of algebra and calculus. About the author Krishnendu Chaudhury is co-founder and CTO of the AI startup Drishti Technologies. He previously spent a decade each at Google and Adobe. Table of Contents 1 An overview of machine learning and deep learning 2 Vectors, matrices, and tensors in machine learning 3 Classifiers and vector calculus 4 Linear algebraic tools in machine learning 5 Probability distributions in machine learning 6 Bayesian tools for machine learning 7 Function approximation: How neural networks model the world 8 Training neural networks: Forward propagation and backpropagation 9 Loss, optimization, and regularization 10 Convolutions in neural networks 11 Neural networks for image classification and object detection 12 Manifolds, homeomorphism, and neural networks 13 Fully Bayes model parameter estimation 14 Latent space and generative modeling, autoencoders, and variational autoencoders A Appendix
Download or read book Louis Kahn written by Louis I. Kahn and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2003 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thoughtful selection of the celebrated architect's speeches and writings.
Download or read book Enjoy Smile Ginny Smile Part 1 A Magical Adventure Story About A Giraffe written by Paul Anthony and published by Grosvenor House Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-10 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Greatest story ever told - about a Giraffe called Ginny and her friends. "Me!!!! In show bizz - you're kidding me." Ginny. "Let's all sing Smile Ginny Smile." Hopscotch. "It's all a dream." Emily. "I don't like it here - I want to go home." Jessica. "I'm loved - Meeeeee!" theManintheMoon. "A full moon - a night of amazing consequences." Icicle. "I thought you'd never ask." Chrystal. "You only have to look at me... to see that I am the greatest star in the whole universe." Miss Starlight. This story takes you on a magical adventure with a short-necked Giraffe. From the sweeping plains of the Serengeti to Ginny's new life as a major attraction in a zoo. She's transformed by her new friend Hopscotch, becoming a top star in pantomime. Emily and Jessica, two crazy sisters, love her and persuade her to take them on a secret mission out into space, arriving on a cloud to meet theManintheMoon and a host of way-out-in-space living, exciting, life-changing characters. Is it a dream is it for real? Maybe it's time to ?nd out and enjoy! Is it a dream is it for real? Maybe it's time to find out and enjoy!
Download or read book Avant garde Videogames written by Brian Schrank and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2014-04-18 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of avant-garde games that builds upon the formal and political modes of contemporary and historical art movements. The avant-garde challenges or leads culture; it opens up or redefines art forms and our perception of the way the world works. In this book, Brian Schrank describes the ways that the avant-garde emerges through videogames. Just as impressionism or cubism created alternative ways of making and viewing paintings, Schrank argues, avant-garde videogames create alternate ways of making and playing games. A mainstream game channels players into a tightly closed circuit of play; an avant-garde game opens up that circuit, revealing (and reveling in) its own nature as a game. We can evaluate the avant-garde, Schrank argues, according to how it opens up the experience of games (formal art) or the experience of being in the world (political art). He shows that different artists use different strategies to achieve an avant-garde perspective. Some fixate on form, others on politics; some take radical positions, others more complicit ones. Schrank examines these strategies and the artists who deploy them, looking closely at four varieties of avant-garde games: radical formal, which breaks up the flow of the game so players can engage with its materiality, sensuality, and conventionality; radical political, which plays with art and politics as well as fictions and everyday life; complicit formal, which treats videogames as a resource (like any other art medium) for contemporary art; and complicit political, which uses populist methods to blend life, art, play, and reality—as in alternate reality games, which adapt Situationist strategies for a mass audience.
Download or read book Vernon Vole written by Hyll Fox and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2019-09-26 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not wanting to be late, one fine morning, one fine day, Vernon Vole and his friends get underway and head for their annual village fete. Once there, they enjoy all the fun of the fair, meeting friends old and new, and later at a tea party, even a gnu. On their next venture together, again in good weather, they arrive at a market, selling all sorts of things; one stall being run by a gnat, another ran by both a bat and a fox, who, like his colleague, apparently has wings. This collection of seven short stories, written in a freeform rhyming verse style by Hyll Fox, will charm and delight in equal measure, making this collection the perfect addition to any bookshelf.
Download or read book Frontiers In Physics High Technology And Mathematics Ictp 25th Anniversary Conference written by Lundqvist Stig and published by #N/A. This book was released on 1990-08-23 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The International Centre for Theoretical Physics was founded in 1964 by Prof. Abdus Salam. To celebrate its 25th anniversary, a group of distinguished speakers was assembled to present overviews in Physics, High Technology and Mathematics with a look at the future. This Proceedings serves as a valuable record of this memorable occasion.
Download or read book Hiroshima written by Keiji Nakazawa and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2010 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compelling autobiography tells the life story of famed manga artist Nakazawa Keiji. Born in Hiroshima in 1939, Nakazawa was six years old when on August 6, 1945, the United States dropped the atomic bomb. His gritty and stunning account of the horrific aftermath is powerfully told through the eyes of a child who lost most of his family and neighbors. In eminently readable and beautifully translated prose, the narrative continues through the brutally difficult years immediately after the war, his art apprenticeship in Tokyo, his pioneering "atomic-bomb" manga, and the creation of Barefoot Gen, the classic graphic novel based on Nakazawa's experiences before, during, and after the bomb. This first English-language translation of Nakazawa's autobiography includes twenty pages of excerpts from Barefoot Gen to give readers who don't know the manga a taste of its power and scope. A recent interview with the author brings his life up to the present. His trenchant hostility to Japanese imperialism, the emperor and the emperor system, and U.S. policy adds important nuance to the debate over Hiroshima. Despite the grimness of his early life, Nakazawa never succumbs to pessimism or defeatism. His trademark optimism and activism shine through in this inspirational work.
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Download or read book The Continuity of Mind written by Michael Spivey and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-06-30 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cognitive and neural sciences have been on the brink of a paradigm shift for over a decade. The traditional information-processing framework in psychology, with its computer metaphor of the mind, is still considered to be the mainstream approach, but dynamical-systems accounts of mental activity are now receiving a more rigorous treatment, allowing them to more beyond merely brandishing trendy buzzwords. The Continuity of the Mind will help to galvanize the forces of dynamical systems theory, cognitive and computational neuroscience, connectionism, and ecological psychology that are needed to complete this paradigm shift. In The Continuity of the Mind Michael Spivey lays bare the fact that comprehending a spoken sentence, understanding a visual scene, or just thinking about the days events involves the serial coalescing of different neuronal activation patterns, i.e., a state-space trajectory that flirts with a series of point attractors. As a result, the brain cannot help but spend most of its time instantiating patterns of activity that are in between identifiable mental states rather than in them. When this scenario is combined with the fact that most cognitive processes are richly embedded in their environmental context in real time, the state space (in which brief visitations of attractor basins are your thoughts) suddenly encompasses not just neuronal dimensions, but extends to biomechanical and environmental dimensions as well. As a result, your moment-by-moment experience of the world around you, even right now, can be described as a continuous trajectory through a high-dimensional state space that is comprised of diverse mental states. Spivey has arranged The Continuity of the Mind to present a systematic overview of how perception, cognition, and action are partially overlapping segments of one continuous mental flow, rather than three distinct mental systems. The initial chapters provide empirical demonstrations of the gray areas in mental activity that happen in between discretely labeled mental events, as well as geometric visualizations of attractors in state space that make the dynamical-systems framework seem less mathematically abstract. The middle chapters present scores of behavioral and neurophysiological studies that portray the continuous temporal dynamics inherent in categorization, language comprehension, visual perception, as well as attention, action, and reasoning. The final chapters conclude with discussions of what the mind itself must look like if its activity is continuous in time and its contents are distributed in state space.
