Combinatorial Machine Learning

人工智慧（AI）將改變人類與所有產業的生態。 如果你對人工智慧，沒有全面的了解，那就跟不上時代了。很多影響人類的科技發展，都無法做出正確的判斷。 一個知名的投資專家說，比起5G，人人手上有，處處可見基地台，AI只有少數大公司用得上，到底有無潛力？有！但是不要想得太美了。 他說的對不對？很難判斷嗎？讀完本書，你就會找到正確的解答。 其實AI有三種，一種是雲端，就是連到那幾家大公司的機房，用他們大的嚇死人的算力。 一種是在本地運算，如汽車的自動駕駛。第三種則是運用在最前端的偵測裝置，以求最快的反應時間。 所以你說AI只有幾家大公司用得上，好像也沒有那麼對。 所以你要把它想得美一點，它是平地一聲雷，輝達、台積電的股價都應該後面加一千個零，是嗎？ 但是你知道有資訊科技以來，人類至少經過三次AI的浪潮。很多公司運用AI運用得嚇嚇叫，如文藝復興基金，用機器學習投資，20年來平均的年化報酬率遠勝巴菲特。 所以你說AI前程遠大！很OK，但它說他橫空出世？倒也未必，它只是一個連續的改善過程！ 當然有關AI最誇張的是想像是《魔鬼終結者》，一個是幹掉想毁滅人類的傢伙，而且他可以和人腦一樣的運作。不過有的人是殺人魔，有的人是慈善家。不知可以和人腦一樣運作的AI是慈善家或是殺人魔？ AI的形式有很多種，從撰寫大量複雜的函式來實現人工智慧的專家系統，到以大量資料反求智慧判定函式的演算法，如支援向量機（Support Vector Machine, SVM）、決策樹（Decision Tree）等，此領域統稱為機器學習（Machine Learning, ML），而運用神經網路技術，將網路的節點深度擴展延伸，以獲得更好的智慧判定效果，則稱為深度學習（Deep Learning, DL）。 你越了解AI的技術背景，就越能掌握它未來對人類的影響。如果你想投資AI相關產業，就更是需要深入了解了。 任何資訊科技的運用都有兩個層面，軟體以及執行軟體的硬體。本書除了說明AI運用的基本原理之外，也將詳細說明有關AI的軟體及硬體產業鏈。對一個投資人而言，完整的了解一個產業的上下游關係，是十分必要的。 總不能輝達業績創新高，而你完全沒有概念台積電會好還是不好吧？ 本書以圖文對照的方式，讓你對AI有清楚的認識。不論投資、或生活，可以在新科技浪潮中，穩定前行。 本書特色 ◎100個單元，

Discover two sides of history with the Time Travel Twins!Twins, Scarlett and Thomas, are learning about the Romans at school. So Grandad uses his time machine to send them back to Roman Britain.Scarlett finds herself in a Roman camp and is chosen as a slave by the Emperor Claudius’s daughter, Antonia. The two become friends and Scarlett sees first hand the glamour and treachery of the Roman court.Thomas joins a rabble of local kids who hate the Romans. Their leader is a small red-headed girl called Boudicca. Even when the kids are overwhelmed and taken as slaves, Bou hatches another plan to attack the Romans.Will the twins find each other and escape, or will they both be stuck as Roman slaves for ever?

這是一本介紹如何應用大數據和機器學習技術來解決投資問題並提高投資績效的專著。近年來，機器學習和數據科學在投資中發揮著越來越大的作用。從本質上講，機器學習模型在挖掘數據背後的非線性關係上要強于傳統模型。借助機器學習和大數據，投資經理能夠做出以往傳統模型無法實現的預測，進而做出明智的決策。然而，在投資中，並不是所有的數據集和機器學習技術都對金融應用有用，也不是所有的機器學習技術都可以“即插即用”。《大數據、機器學習與量化投資》這本書由資深量化分析專家托尼‧吉達主編，彙集了多位業內頗具影響力的專家學者的前沿分享，闡釋如何應用大數據和機器學習技術來解決投資問題並提高投資績效。這本書共有13章，理論嚴謹，案例豐富，內容涵蓋機器學習在投資管理中的應用現狀和前景、另類數據和大數據在宏觀交易中的應用、處理大數據集的難點和解決方案、挖掘社交媒體數據集分析企業文化、使用自然語言處理技術進行投資者情緒分析、基於支持向量回歸的全球戰術性資產配置策略、強化學習和深度學習在投資組合優化中的應用等主題，可以作為量化投資從業者、金融算法研究人員、高等院校計算機專業和金融工程專業的師生以及機器學習愛好者的參考用書。

機器學習(Machine Learning，ML)是人工智能的一個分支，它是一門多領域交叉學科，專門研究計算機怎樣模擬或實現人類的學習行為，涉及概率論、統計學、逼近論、凸分析、算法複雜度理論等多門學科。機器學習方法可以根據經驗數據自動完成模型參數學習，而不需要人為設定規則，大幅降低了人工分析的工作量和難度，已成為目前解決人工智能相關問題的主要方式。

The book elucidates the revolutionary and riveting research in the ultramodern domain of drone technologies, drone-enabled IoT applications, and artificial intelligence-based smart surveillance. The book explains the most recent developments in the field, challenges, and future scope of drone technologies. Beyond that, it discusses the importance of a wide range of design applications, drone/UAV development, and drone-enabled smart healthcare systems for smart cities. It describes pioneering work on mitigating cyber security threats by employing intelligent machine learning models in the designing of IoT-aided drones. The book also has a fascinating chapter on application intrusion detection by drones using recurrent neural networks. Other chapters address interdisciplinary fields like artificial intelligence, deep learning, the role of drones in healthcare in smart cities, and the importance of drone technology in agriculture.

Finance students and practitioners may ask: can machines learn everything? Could AI help me? Computing students or practitioners may ask: which of my skills could contribute to finance? Where in finance should I pay attention? This book aims to answer these questions. No prior knowledge is expected in AI or finance.Including original research, the book explains the impact of ignoring computation in classical economics; examines the relationship between computing and finance and points out potential misunderstandings between economists and computer scientists; and introduces Directional Change and explains how this can be used.To finance students and practitioners, this book will explain the promise of AI, as well as its limitations. It will cover knowledge representation, modelling, simulation and machine learning, explaining the principles of how they work. To computing students and practitioners, this book will introduce the financial applications in which AI has made an impact. This

This new volume addresses the growing interest in and use of big data analytics in many industries and in many research fields around the globe; it is a comprehensive resource on the core concepts of big data analytics and the tools, techniques, and methodologies. The book gives the why and the how of big data analytics in an organized and straightforward manner, using both theoretical and practical approaches.The book's authors have organized the contents in a systematic manner, starting with an introduction and overview of big data analytics and then delving into pre-processing methods, feature selection methods and algorithms, big data streams, and big data classification. Such terms and methods as swarm intelligence, data mining, the bat algorithm and genetic algorithms, big data streams, and many more are discussed. The authors explain how deep learning and machine learning along with other methods and tools are applied in big data analytics. The last section of the book presents

Cybersecurity attacks grow more complex every day. The first edition of Wilson's COMPTIA PENTEST+ GUIDE TO PENETRATION TESTING helps you gain the knowledge and skills necessary to analyze systems in the same way hackers do. It provides the information you need to successfully pass the CompTIA PenTest+ PTO-002 certification exam and contains detailed examples, projects, and hands-on activities (including virtual machine labs and interactive online features) where you can practice using the actual tools and methodologies needed to be a successful penetration tester. The author begins by exploring the concept of penetration testing, and then walks you through the process of building your own penetration testing lab of virtual machines (hosted on your own computer, which is used to practice the use of pen testing tools and methods). A final project guides you in the creation of a penetration testing report that includes all the areas covered in earlier modules.

An empirical study and analysis of heart disease prediction involves using data analysis techniques to identify patterns and risk factors associated with cardiovascular disease. This approach utilizes machine learning algorithms to classify patients based on their likelihood of developing heart disease.The study involves collecting data on risk factors such as age, gender, family history, blood pressure, cholesterol levels, smoking, and diabetes. Feature selection techniques are used to identify the most important risk factors, and a classification model is trained using these factors. The accuracy of the model is evaluated using metrics such as sensitivity, specificity, and AUC.This empirical study and analysis has several advantages, including the ability to identify new risk factors associated with heart disease, improved accuracy in predicting cardiovascular risk, and the potential to develop more personalized prevention and treatment strategies. This approach has the potential to

With the advent of the Al era, professionals need to select the right tools to meet new opportunities and challenges! This instructional material focuses on the application of big data analysis, text mining, and machine learning in auditing to assist readers in understanding the latest developments in data analysis and smart audit.JCAATs is a new generation audit software developed by Python, which can be executed in a Windows and MAC operation systems with a multi-language, visual, and easy-to-use interface. Non-IT professionals can easily conduct smart data analysis. Through JCAATs' built-in data fusion technology and OPEN DATA connector, heterogeneous data can be quickly analyzed in real-time and effectively identifying anomalies. The features of this book include:The book is structured to provide a progressive learning experience, with chapters covering different concepts and applications, as well as exercises and practice questions. The official textbook endorsed by ICAEA

Over the last half century, "smartness"―the drive for ubiquitous computing―has become a mandate: a new mode of managing and governing politics, economics, and the environment.Smart phones. Smart cars. Smart homes. Smart cities. The imperative to make our world ever smarter in the face of increasingly complex challenges raises several questions: What is this "smartness mandate?" How has it emerged, and what does it say about our evolving way of understanding―and managing―reality? How have we come to see the planet and its denizens first and foremost as data-collecting instruments? In The Smartness Mandate, Orit Halpern and Robert Mitchell radically suggest that "smartness" is not primarily a technology, but rather an epistemology. Through this lens, they offer a critical exploration of the practices, technologies, and subjects that such an understanding relies upon―above all, artificial intelligence and machine learning. The authors approach these not simply as techniques for solving pr

The entanglements of people and data, code and space, knowledge and power: how data and algorithms shape the world―and shape us within that world.With the emergence of a post-truth world, we have witnessed the dissolution of the common ground on which truth claims were negotiated, individual agency enacted, and public spheres shaped. What happens when, as Nietzsche claimed, there are no facts, but only interpretations? In this book, Mark Shepard examines the entanglements of people and data, code and space, knowledge and power that have produced an uncommon ground―a disaggregated public sphere where the extraction of behavioral data and their subsequent processing and sale have led to the emergence of micropublics of ever-finer granularity. Shepard explores how these new post-truth territories are propagated through machine learning systems and social networks, which shape the public and private spaces of everyday life. He traces the balkanization and proliferation of online news and t

這本書帶領讀者重新思考人工智慧的背後代價。不只是程式與演算法，AI的運作牽涉到龐大的自然資源、人力勞動與個人資料。作者凱特・克勞佛以十多年研究為基礎，揭示AI如何重新分配權力、加劇不平等，並對民主與環境造成深遠影響，是一部兼具深度與警示意義的作品。The hidden costs of artificial intelligence—from natural resources and labor to privacy, equality, and freedom“This study argues that [artificial intelligence] is neither artificial nor particularly intelligent. . . . A fascinating history of the data on which machine-learning systems are trained.”—New Yorker“A valuable corrective to much of the hype surrounding AI and a useful instruction manual for the future.”—John Thornhill, Financial Times“It’s a masterpiece, and I haven’t been able to stop thinking about it.”—Karen Hao, senior editor, MIT Tech ReviewWhat happens when artificial intelligence saturates political life and depletes the planet? How is AI shaping our understanding of ourselves and our societies? Drawing on more than a decade of research, award‑winning scholar Kate Crawford reveals how AI is a technology of extraction: from the minerals drawn from

New edition of a graduate-level textbook on that focuses on online convex optimization, a machine learning framework that views optimization as a process.In many practical applications, the environment is so complex that it is not feasible to lay out a comprehensive theoretical model and use classical algorithmic theory and/or mathematical optimization. Introduction to Online Convex Optimization presents a robust machine learning approach that contains elements of mathematical optimization, game theory, and learning theory: an optimization method that learns from experience as more aspects of the problem are observed. This view of optimization as a process has led to some spectacular successes in modeling and systems that have become part of our daily lives. Based on the “Theoretical Machine Learning” course taught by the author at Princeton University, the second edition of this widely used graduate level text features:Thoroughly updated material throughoutNew chapters on boosting, ad

近年來，人工智能與機器人在全世界範圍內備受關注。但是從2014年開始，國際權威調研機構高德納諮詢公司(Gartner)每年公佈的十大技術中，“大數據”這樣的詞語已經不再出現了。這不是因為“大數據”不再重要，而是意味著自2015年以後，“大數據”已經包含在十大技術裡，或者已經成為這些技術的基礎。“大數據”不僅可以用於構建和應用分析模型，還可以應用於機器學習(Machine Learning)、人工智能等諸多領域。本書從多種觀點出發，闡述了對大數據分析的理解和在環境、大數據企劃與設計層面上需要考慮的問題。

Providing a concise and accessible overview of the design, implementation and management of medical software, this textbook will equip students with a solid understanding of critical considerations for both standalone medical software (software as a medical device/SaMD) and software that is integrated into hardware devices. It includes: practical discussion of key regulatory documents and industry standards, and how these translate into concrete considerations for medical software design; detailed coverage of the medical software lifecycle process ; accessible introduction to quality and risk management systems in the context of medical software; succinct coverage of essential topics in data science, machine learning, statistics, cybersecurity, software engineering and healthcare bring readers up-to-speed; six cautionary real-world case studies illustrate the dangers of improper or careless software processes. Accompanied by online resources for instructors, this is the ideal introduct

This text provides deep and comprehensive coverage of the mathematical background for data science, including machine learning, optimal recovery, compressed sensing, optimization, and neural networks. In the past few decades, heuristic methods adopted by big tech companies have complemented existing scientific disciplines to form the new field of Data Science. This text embarks the readers on an engaging itinerary through the theory supporting the field. Altogether, twenty-seven lecture-length chapters with exercises provide all the details necessary for a solid understanding of key topics in data science. While the book covers standard material on machine learning and optimization, it also includes distinctive presentations of topics such as reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces, spectral clustering, optimal recovery, compressed sensing, group testing, and applications of semidefinite programming. Students and data scientists with less mathematical background will appreciate the appendice

A comprehensive update of the leading algorithms text, with new material on matchings in bipartite graphs, online algorithms, machine learning, and other topics. Some books on algorithms are rigorous but incomplete; others cover masses of material but lack rigor. Introduction to Algorithms uniquely combines rigor and comprehensiveness. It covers a broad range of algorithms in depth, yet makes their design and analysis accessible to all levels of readers, with self-contained chapters and algorithms in pseudocode. Since the publication of the first edition, Introduction to Algorithms has become the leading algorithms text in universities worldwide as well as the standard reference for professionals. This fourth edition has been updated throughout. New for the fourth edition New chapters on matchings in bipartite graphs, online algorithms, and machine learningNew material on topics including solving recurrence equations, hash tables, potential functions, and suffix arrays140 new exerc

The dramatic increase in computer performance has been extraordinary, but not for all computations: it has key limits and structure. Software architects, developers, and even data scientists need to understand how exploit the fundamental structure of computer performance to harness it for future applications. Ideal for upper level undergraduates, Computer Architecture for Scientists covers four key pillars of computer performance and imparts a high-level basis for reasoning with and understanding these concepts: Small is fast – how size scaling drives performance; Implicit parallelism – how a sequential program can be executed faster with parallelism; Dynamic locality – skirting physical limits, by arranging data in a smaller space; Parallelism – increasing performance with teams of workers. These principles and models provide approachable high-level insights and quantitative modelling without distracting low-level detail. Finally, the text covers the GPU and machine-learning accelerat

This book explains the main ideas behind MemComputing, its theoretical foundations and its applicability to a wide variety of combinatorial optimization problems, machine learning, and quantum mechani