A scientist builds a machine that can travel through time! In the far future, he meets the Eloi, a child-like race. They live in peace and don't do any work, though the machines around them have bee
Reinforcement learning (RL) is a framework for decision making in unknown environments based on a large amount of data. Several practical RL applications for business intelligence, plant control, and
"A chronological listing of the members of the British comedy group Monty Python, both as a group and individually. Coverage spans between 1969 (the year Monty Python's Flying Circus debuted) and 2012
Gain hands-on experience with HDF5 for storing scientific data in Python. This practical guide quickly gets you up to speed on the details, best practices, and pitfalls of using HDF5 to archive and sh
Written for computer programming students, hobbyists, and professionals, FUNDAMENTALS OF PYTHON: DATA STRUCTURES is an introduction to object-oriented design and data structures using the popular Pyth
This book covers the fundamental concepts in signal processing illustrated with Python code and made available via IPython Notebooks, which are live, interactive, browser-based documents that allow on
Python is the perfect “first programming language.” It’s easy for beginners to read and understand, and since it’s so widely used, you can apply what you’ve learned practically anywhere. Now, there’s
To undermine something is to weaken its very foundation in order to bring about its eventual collapse.Underminers is a radical guide to dismantling the industrial machine. The first section of the boo
What is The Squirrel Machine? ‧ An immutably strange and haunting narrative that transcends known logics and presumptive dream-barriers; ‧ A distillation of subconscious beauty and inspired madness; ‧
The classic tale of a greedy snake, with illustrations by Eric Carle, is now available in an oversize board book edition! In this humorous story about manners, respect, and friendship, a greedy python
This book is designed to introduce students to programming and computational thinking through the lens of exploring data. You can think of Python as your tool to solve problems that are far beyond th
Poetry. "Quirky, electric poems, spare and challenging."—Peter Matthiessen"WABAC MACHINE begins innocently enough with the thought that a cat has no real name and proceeds through inexorable dream/der
Vertov, Snow, Farocki: Machine Vision and the Posthuman begins with a comprehensive and original anthropological analysis of Vertov's film The Man With a Movie Camera. Tomas then explores the film's v
Congratulations on selecting Python. An excellent starter or tutorial to quickly assist the reader in producing programs with Python 3.2. If you have never programmed this book will give you the ne
Computer: A History of the Information Machine traces the history of the computer and shows how business and government were the first to explore its unlimited, information-processing potential. Old-f
This is a graduate textbook in Statistical Physics intended for students in Physics, Biophysics, Chemistry, Materials Science, and Engineering. It is based on using computer simulations in Python as a
Fifth-grader Alex Trumble builds a "dingus"--a time machine--when his brother Stephen is kidnapped by dangerous, evil time-travelers, to get back to the past and into the future to save his family fro
This book summarizes the main problems posed by the design of a man-machine dialogue system and suggests some ideas to continue on the path to an efficient, realistic and fluid communication between h
Statistical learning and analysis techniques have become extremely important today, given the tremendous growth in the size of heterogeneous data collections and the ability to process it even from ph
Through music examples, this introductory text illustrates software development in the Python programming language. The authors explain musical and programming concepts in a coordinated way. They inte
The first edition of The Bread Machine Cookbook was the first, best, and by far the best-selling cookbook for automatic bread machines. This colorful take on the classic cookbook contains recipes for
Portable, powerful, and a breeze to use, Python is the popular open source object-oriented programming language used for both standalone programs and scripting applications. Completely updated for Py
Vibrantly illustrated, this picture book offers great fun with hilarious monsters and a message about working togetherWhen a boy and his dad build an amazing monster-making machine, all sorts of monst
This is a tutorial style book that will teach usage of Python tools for GIS using simple practical examples and then show you how to build a complete mapping application from scratch. The book assumes
American Dream Machine is the story of two talent agents and their three troubled boys, heirs to Hollywood royalty. It’s a sweeping narrative about fathers and sons, the movie business, and the sundry
Within the magical gears of Lord Kelvin's incredible machine lies the secret of time. The deadly Dr. Ignacio Narbondo would murder to possess it and scientist and explorer Professor Langdon St. Ives w
The Time Machine and The Invisible Man, by H. G. Wells, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classicsseries, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reade
Written by an experienced machinist and plastic injection mold maker, this groundbreaking manual will have users thinking and producing like experienced machinists. Machine Shop Trade Secrets provides
Based on the authors’ market leading data structures books in Java and C++, this book offers a comprehensive, definitive introduction to data structures in Python by authoritative authors. Data Struct
Cay Horstmann's Python for Everyone provides readers with step-by-step guidance, a feature that is immensely helpful for building confidence and providing an outline for the task at hand. “Problem Sol
This book is written in a helpful, practical style with numerous hands-on recipes and chapters to help you save time and effort by using Python to power ArcGIS to create shortcuts, scripts, tools, and
This book focuses on Amanda Beech's Final Machine [2013], a video work in three parts which interrogates the force of images in the context of contingency. Collapsing detective-style prose, laconic or
The "Writing Idiomatic Python" book is finally here! Chock full of code samples, you'll learn the "Pythonic" way to accomplish common tasks. Each idiom comes with a detailed description, example code
"Image Machine: Andy Warhol and Photography" examines the role of the photograph in Warhol's art, its relationship to his portrait painting and his late paintings and prints, and his rigorous document
The Time Machine is the first novel by H.G. Wells, published in book form in 1895. The novel is considered one of the earliest works of science fiction and the progenitor of the "time travel" subgenre
Fiction. For noted poet John Olson, the French painter Georges Braque embodies "the seeing machine"—one of many artists who challenged the accepted views of perception and expression during the early
With the MG 34, the German Wehrmacht introduced an entirely new concept in automatic firepower - the general-purpose machine gun (GPMG). In itself the MG 34 was an excellent weapon: an air-cooled, rec
Mind and Machine offers both an up-to-date overview of central questions and topics in the philosophy of artificial intelligence, as well as a distinct stance on many of the key debates, all the while
Mind and Machine offers both an up-to-date overview of central questions and topics in the philosophy of artificial intelligence, as well as a distinct stance on many of the key debates, all the while
