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☆ ★PythonＸ人工智慧Ｘ深度學習★☆ ✔將機器學習進行分門別類的介紹✔提供大量範例解析演算法✔每章節都附有習題，讓讀者可以自行操作※ 本書附程式碼，可至深智官網下載：https://deepmind.com.tw/機器學習是人工智慧的核心基礎，是電腦研究領域的重要分支。機器學習正展現其巨大的潛力，在許多領域扮演著日益重要的角色。當電腦程式具有學習能力後，就能夠在不斷的資料中越來越好：例如醫療診斷程式，透過學習後便能夠不斷提高自身的診斷能力。Python近年來發展迅速，被廣泛用於科學計算，資料探勘和機器學習。Python語言配備了很多高品質的機器學習和資料分析函數庫，為機器學習提供了重要工具。本書讓你無痛進入機器學習乃至深度學習的領域，建立出真正的商業應用。當今業界十分需要人工智慧工程師，只要花一點點時間，把這最流行的機器學習上手，在往後的各行各業中，都能是你揮灑的空間。本書內容劃分為、機器學習演算法基礎理論及介紹基本的機器學習演算法之理論及應用3部分。介紹Python資料處理功能，如：Python開發環境、基本資料結構和資料處理等。講解機器學習的理論框架和Python機器學習常用的協力廠商函數庫。甚至提供神經網路以及深度學習的理論及專案實例。讀完本書，您能強化以下實作技能與觀念：✔何為人工智慧、常用領域、開發環境✔熟悉pandas、numpy✔學會製作中文相關應用、詞雲、結巴中文分詞✔學會使用Matplotlib，OpenCV，SKLearn✔使用Python實作KNN、K-Means。✔使用Python實作SVM、感知機、核心函數✔Python實作推薦系統、商品推薦、內容推薦、協作過濾及圖結構✔了解機器學習模型、線性非維性、監督及非監督、強化學習✔了解線性回歸(一元、多元)、邏輯回歸✔了解多層神經網路、深度學習☛適合讀者✔人工智慧/深度學習/機器學習入門讀者✔大專院校、專業教育訓練機構師生✔其他對智慧化、自動化感興趣的開發者

WHOOOOSH! We're off on an exciting adventure in our hot-air balloon to say hello to all the different kinds of weather that make up our world. Join in with the rhymes and get ready to meet everything from whooshing wind to bright rainbows and shimmering sunshine. Little ones will be swept away on an unforgettable journey in this striking, action-packed picture book.This bold, bright follow-up to the acclaimed picture books Meet the Planets and Meet the Oceans is packed with gorgeous illustrations of everything from rainy rainforests to snowy mountains and stormy seas. Combining STEM learning with a rhyming twist, it's perfect for all little meteorologists!

☆★☆★【用最簡潔的Python，成為深度學習最厲害的大神！】★☆★☆ 「人工智慧、深度學習和機器學習，不論你現在是否能夠理解這些概念，你都應該學習。否則三年內，你就會像被滅絕的恐龍一樣被社會淘汰。現在不開始，以後就來不及了。」――馬克•庫班（NBA獨行俠隊老闆，億萬富翁） 本書從人工智慧、機器學習與深度學習簡介開始，幫助讀者在Windows下的CPU/GPU環境完成深度學習、開發環境架設；之後進入Python資料科學函數庫，介紹深度學習基礎，如Numpy、Pandas、Matplotlib。 在了解基本函數庫後，接著介紹目前最好用、最流行的深度學習框架TensorFlow、Keras。認識完框架的使用，便開始處理資料，本書介紹了資料前置處理和模型評估指標，幫讀者了解模型及資料之間的關係。當一切就緒，就可以進入實際專案的開發，包括影像分類辨識、IMDB電影評論情感分析、遷移學習、人臉辨識、影像風格遷移、生成對抗網路等，讓你用最簡潔的Python，成為深度學習最厲害的大神。 適合讀者 ✪具備Python語言基礎知識的程式初學者。 ✪非專業出身，想轉換跑道進入人工智慧領域的程式設計師。 本書看點 ✪人工智慧、機器學習與深度學習簡介。 ✪深度學習框架TensorFlow、Keras。 ✪深度學習開發環境架設。 ✪資料前置處理、模型評估指標、影像分類辨識。

Meet the world's greatest heroes, as drawn by the world's greatest creators! Ant-Man and the Wasp are some of Earth's biggest (and smallest) heroes yet. Grow and shrink with the characters while learning all about their technology, abilities, and friends in this bright and colorful board book, with art from the classic comics. Vivid colors and three special gatefolds make for a fun-filled read that is perfect for the youngest kids and long-time Marvel fans alike.

Mermaid Days #1-3: An Acorn BookThe Sunken Ship: An Acorn Book (Mermaid Days #1)The Sea Monster: An Acorn Book (Mermaid Days #2)A New Friend: An Acorn Book (Mermaid Days #3)Vera and Beaker make a new friend when they meet a mantis shrimp, in this series perfect for beginning readers!Pick a book. Grow a Reader!This series is part of Scholastic's early reader line, Acorn, aimed at children who are learning to read. With easy-to-read text, a short-story format, plenty of humor, and full-color artwork on every page, these books will boost reading confidence and fluency. Acorn books plant a love of reading and help readers grow!Swim along with mermaid Vera and octo-kid Beaker! In these three stories, Vera and Beaker make a new friend with a powerful baby mantis shrimp. Together, they explore the town of Tidal Grove. Then they play fun underwater games! Young readers will love discovering Vera and Beaker’s funny adventures and learning nonfiction information about mantis shrimp. Did you know

Vera and Beaker make a new friend when they meet a mantis shrimp, in this series perfect for beginning readers!Pick a book. Grow a Reader!This series is part of Scholastic's early reader line, Acorn, aimed at children who are learning to read. With easy-to-read text, a short-story format, plenty of humor, and full-color artwork on every page, these books will boost reading confidence and fluency. Acorn books plant a love of reading and help readers grow!Swim along with mermaid Vera and octo-kid Beaker! In these three stories, Vera and Beaker make a new friend with a powerful baby mantis shrimp. Together, they explore the town of Tidal Grove. Then they play fun underwater games! Young readers will love discovering Vera and Beaker's funny adventures and learning nonfiction information about mantis shrimp. Did you know that mantis shrimp are small but very powerful? They can punch the water to create shockwaves!With text from National Book Award finalist Kyle Lukoff, and bright, colorful

Friday 4th FebruaryIt feels like I've only been asleep for a minute but I can't risk being late for school today - the Very Important Witches are coming!Bea Black is determined to become the BEST witch she can be and learn EVERYTHING about magic. So when a school visit from some VERY important guests is announced, Bea is thrilled! It's her chance to help Little Spellshire School for the Extraordinary Arts and show off what she's learned so far. But when the visitors arrive, they are NOT who the students and teachers were expecting.In fact, they're the opposite! With the witch school at risk of being exposed, it's up to Bea to use her ordinary special skills to save the day. The perfect potion of magic and mischief, DIARY OF AN ACCIDENTAL WITCH is THE WORST WITCH meets TOM GATES. PRAISE FOR DIARY OF AN ACCIDENTAL WITCH:"Great fun!" - iPaper"Full of magical mayhem!" - BookTrust"A magical adventure that will touch your heart and tickle your funny bone." - Maz Evans, author of WHO LET THE

資料處理量更大，文件處理速度更快，工作效率更高！ 職場中的許多電腦工作中大多都有利用Excel、Word、PowerPoint等工具來製作報表、文稿、簡報，以及收發郵件和管理檔案等相關的工作。若能利用Python程式來配合，就能達到「自動化」的處理，發揮很高的效率來完成許多繁鎖的工作。 本書內容包括： ‧Python程式設計基礎篇 Python基礎知識、重要程式設計基礎。 ‧Excel資料自動化處理篇 資料預處理、資料分析和資料視覺化 ‧Word文書自動化處理篇 自動處理文字、製作企業經營報告 ‧PPT簡報投影片自動化製作篇 自動化製作簡報PPT、製作企業月報經營分析PPT ‧郵件自動化處理篇 批次發送和收取郵件、進行企業會員郵件自動化行銷 ‧檔案自動化處理篇 自動化處理檔案的命名、搬移、複製和刪除，自動化壓縮和解壓縮檔案

Brain Quest, America's #1 educational brand with more than 57 million copies in print, is now for babies! My First Brain Quest board books introduce essential early learning concepts and foundational vocabulary using engaging visuals and Brain Quest's signature question and answer format.Give your child the best foundation to their education with this colorful and fun guide to shapes.My First Brain Quest: Shapes helps lay the foundation for pre-math skills, as children identify and describe shapes and their attributes. Questions help children build vocabulary and their understanding about the similarities and differences between shapes. Smart, colorful, grounded in educational principles, and reviewed by a panel of early learning experts, this board book introduces numbers in a fun, engaging way.

Ages: 7–11Level: KS2Subject: MathsPower Maths is a leading primary maths mastery scheme, developed in partnership with White Rose Maths.This edition is fully aligned with the new White Rose Maths schemes of learning (version 3.0) and has been updated in response to current mastery best practice and feedback from teachers.For children who are following either the Power Maths or White Rose Maths scheme, the Practice Books provide additional practice for each lesson that children can complete independently.

Brand new adventures for Barry Loser in this new series of full colour graphic novels – perfect for fans of DogMan, Bunny vs Monkey and Kitty Quest‘RIDONKULOUSLY FUNNY, EVERY KID SHOULD GET THEIR HOOTER INTO THIS TOTAL WINNER OF A GRAPHIC NOVEL’– Jenny Pearson, bestselling author of The Super Miraculous Journey of Freddie YatesCelebrating Barry Loser’s 10th birthday with a new series of graphic novel adventures!The bestselling, award-winning Barry Loser series is ten years old and Barry, Bunky, Nancy and the gang are off on a series of new adventures – in full colour graphic novel format and with ‘how to draw’ sections to help you make your own comic books!Three amazekeel stories, including one where Barry’s dad turns into a vending machine, and all Barry has to do is ‘press his buttons’ to get exactly what he wants, and another where hearing the most boring story in the world has a disastrous effect of Barry’s mind and body…Jim Smith’s books have sold 840k copies in the English langua

Introducing My First Brain Quest for babies! These chunky board books introduce early learning concepts - like the alphabet and phonics - with bright images, simple vocabulary, and signature Brain Quest Q&A fun.Now it’s baby’s turn! Announcing a brand new Brain Quest program for the very youngest readers. Imbued with the “It’s Fun to Be Smart!” core value that’s made Brain Quest America’s beloved #1 educational brand with over 56 million copies in print, My First Brain Quest is a series of chunky board books that introduce babies and toddlers to early learning concepts through bright, colorful illustrations, simple vocabulary, and the signature interactive Brain Quest question and answer format.Introducing the series are three titles. ABCs is an 8”x 8” board book designed to build skills in pre-reading. ABCs is a truly delightful book to read aloud―the language is so fresh and fun―while at the same time it helps babies and toddlers learn the letters of the alphabet while expanding

Introducing My First Brain Quest for babies! These chunky board books introduce early learning concepts - like first numbers and counting - with bright images, simple vocabulary, and signature Brain Quest Q&A fun.Now it’s baby’s turn! Announcing a brand new Brain Quest program for the very youngest readers. Imbued with the “It’s Fun to Be Smart!” core value that’s made Brain Quest America’s beloved #1 educational brand with over 56 million copies in print, My First Brain Quest is a series of chunky board books that introduce babies and toddlers to early learning concepts through bright, colorful illustrations, simple vocabulary, and the signature interactive Brain Quest question and answer format.Introducing the series are three titles. 1,2,3s is an 8” x 8” board book designed to build skills in pre-math. 1,2,3s is a rhyming counting book―“Who is swinging? Who is that? Two cats are swinging. Two swinging cats.”―that presents math skills like counting forward and back, number identi

Time is our biggest worry: there is too little of it. The acclaimed Guardian writer Oliver Burkeman offers a lively, entertaining philosophical guide to time and time management, setting aside superficial efficiency solutions in favor of reckoning with and finding joy in the finitude of human lifeThe average human lifespan is absurdly, insultingly brief. Assuming you live to be eighty, you have just over four thousand weeks.Nobody needs telling there isn’t enough time. We’re obsessed with our lengthening to-do lists, our overfilled inboxes, work-life balance, and the ceaseless struggle against distraction; and we’re deluged with advice on becoming more productive and efficient, and “life hacks” to optimize our days. But such techniques often end up making things worse. The sense of anxious hurry grows more intense, and still the most meaningful parts of life seem to lie just beyond the horizon. Still, we rarely make the connection between our daily struggles with time and the ultimate

Why do cats have whiskers? How do cats land on their paws? Do people need cats? These and other questions are answered by authorAnnette Whipple, along with some extra information provided by the cats themselves!Dive into the fascinating world of feline friends withMeow! The Truth About CatsbyAnnette Whipple. This engaging and informative book is filled with fun facts, photographs, illustrations, and all the answers to your burning questions about cats. From whiskers to paws, and everything in between, discover the truth about our furry companions.Fun & Educational:Presented in a question-and-answer format, this book is both entertaining and educational. Colorful photos and amusing illustrations make learning about cats enjoyable for children.Great for Gift-Giving:Whether for a young reader or an adult cat enthusiast,Meow! The Truth About Catsmakes for a perfect gift. Loaded with facts and activities, it's sure to become a favorite coffee table read.A Classroom Hit:With well-researc

An introduction to Captain Marvel for the youngest superfans--featuring art by legendary Marvel artists Jim Mooney and Joe Sinnott, with Keith Pollard and Carmine Infantino Meet the world's greatest heroes, as drawn by the world's greatest creators! From brilliant pilot to cosmic-powered Avenger, Captain Marvel is one of the mightiest super heroes in the universe! Fly high and soar among the stars with Carol Danvers while learning all about her abilities, skills, and friends in this bright and bold board book, with art from the classic comics. Vivid colors and three special gatefolds make for a fun-filled read that is perfect for the youngest kids and longtime Marvel fans alike.

The learning goals that center on the thematic units are set in accordance with the language proficiency levels, established by the ACTFL˙To Comply with the pedagogical principle of backward design to establish the teaching/learning goals for the intermediate learner of Chinese˙Integrates into its thematic contents the ACTFL-defined, three mores of language uses as well the 5C concepts˙Assist the learner to achieve holistic progress and to cultivate specific linguistic abilities of Chinese˙The selecting of keywords/phrases in thetextbooks is greatly in line with vocabulary levels defined by the HSK and by the TOCFL. The regional difference in language uses between the two sides of theTaiwan Strait are also meticulously annotated in the textbooks In recent years, the background of learners has become diversified, and the number of self-study students of elementary Chinese is also increasing. On the pedagogical front, however, learning materials, found to be biased towards school l

This collection of essays critically evaluates the legal framework necessary for the use of autonomous ships in international waters. The work is divided into three parts:Part 1 evaluates how far national shipping regulation, and the public international law background that lies behind it, may need modification and updating to accommodate the use of autonomous ships on international voyages. Part 2 deals with private law and insurance issues such as collision and pollution liability, salvage, limitation of liability and allocation of risk between carrier and cargo interests. Part 3 analyses international convention regimes dealing with maritime safety and other matters, arguing for specific changes in the existing conventions such as SOLAS and MARPOL, which would provide the international framework that is necessary for putting autonomous ships into commercial use. The book also takes the view that amendment of international conventions is important in the case of liability issues, arg

Rocks and minerals come alive in the next Animated Science book, an outstanding comic series illustrated by Shiho Pate!From gemstones to fossils and beyond, Animated Science: Rocks and Minerals is the definitive guide to rocks and minerals for grade school readers. In this book, readers will explore the substances that make up our Earth through comic illustrations and hilarious characters.With a narrative nonfiction text, kid-friendly information, and Shiho Pate's engaging illustrations, Animated Science: Rocks and Minerals is a perfect introduction and ready reference, appealing and laugh-out-loud funny. Easily accessible for readers just learning, with more interesting facts and details for older kids honing their knowledge.Great for all ages!

You can take a witch out of Brooklyn . . . and put her in the woods? As if learning magic wasn't hard enough, now Effie has to go to SUMMER CAMP! The hit middle-grade graphic novel series continues with this new adventure that's filled to the brim with magic and mayhem!School's out, and Effie is ready for SUMMER! Too bad she's being sent off to the wilderness for boring old summer camp. Nothing says "exciting new adventure" like being stuck in nature with mosquitoes. Sure, other witches might be there. And maybe she'll learn some cool new magic.But Effie would rather spend time with the friends she already has. She's always relied on them for help. . . . What will happen when she heads off to camp all by herself?Sophie Escabasse brings us more magic in this new volume of Witches of Brooklyn!

IntroductionWelcome to Your Turn to Speak. This is a perfect book for adult learners whose English proficiency is at the elementary stage to improve their oral communication abilities and confidence in speaking English. Your Turn to Speak aims at helping learners to become effective users of high frequency/situational language pertaining to their life experiences. Users of this book will be able to apply the selected vocabulary words and master speaking skills with references to the corpus “Oxford 3000” and CEFR A1 and A2 Levels.Your Turn to Speak is competence-oriented and organized spirally, from easy to more challenging practices wherein vocabulary words and sentence patterns are recycled. In each of the 12 units, learners will develop learning skills, think critically, learn vocabulary and sentence patterns collaboratively, duplicate conversations, speak with confidence, and master real-life skills. Here is what each unit contains:Skill focus – Each unit presents one learning skill

Six Features of the Textbooks1. This textbook series is based on results from action research done by experienced Mandarin Chinese instructors affiliated with U.S. universities and colleges. 2. Eight thematic units run through two volumes of textbooks, covering personal, communitial, societal issues and learning tasks.3. The design of learning tasks and assessment activities aligns with ACTFL’s proficiency benchmarks, three modes of communication, and 5C principles.4. The selection of grammar and vocabulary aligns with the guidelines by HSK and Chinese Language Proficiency Test, with cross-strait differences clearly marked and listed. 5. This textbook series is designed for people from all walks of life and college students to meet the various needs and interests of adult learners. 6. Learners will develop intermediate level oral proficiency, while establishing listening and reading strategies, and eventually become independent learners of Mandarin Chinese. 本教材六大特點1. 本教材為北美一線中文教師行動研究成果

This new series of little books builds children's confidence with mathematical vocabulary and ideas and provides a foundation for learning in a way that feels good. Using carefully chosen words in relatable settings from the world around them, this book creates a moment for children and adults to discover first sorting words through dressing up and having fun. The engaging art style, fun characters and hardback picture book feel make this series accessible and perfect to share.Written and illustrated by the same winning team as 'Big Words for Little People', this series is special not only because it focuses on maths in a child-friendly way, but also because it's from Oxford, it's packed with educational goodness that helps children develop and grow.