The scientific study of complex systems has transformed a wide range of disciplines in recent years, enabling researchers in both the natural and social sciences to model and predict phenomena as diverse as earthquakes, global warming, demographic patterns, financial crises, and the failure of materials. In this book, Didier Sornette boldly...
Data science libraries, frameworks, modules, and toolkits are great for doing data science, but they’re also a good way to dive into the discipline without actually understanding data science. In this book, you’ll learn how many of the most fundamental data science tools and algorithms work by implementing them from...
The essential resource for navigating the growing direct loan market
Private Debt: Opportunities in Corporate Direct Lending provides investors with a single, comprehensive resource for understanding this asset class amidst an environment of tremendous growth. Traditionally a niche asset class pre-crisis,...
Managing files and finding stuff after you’ve organized it are things you’ll know about after reading this chapter. The chapter also covers loading up on applications, both from the App Store and directly from developers’ Web sites. (If you’re not sure now what the differences are, don’t...
Recent advances in VoIP (Voice over IP) technology have made it the solution of choice for voice service because of its low cost and increased reliability. Voice Over IP Crash Course offers practical technology coverage, while discussing the business, strategic and competitive implications of VoIP deployment in corporations. The book also...
This book explores the W3C Geolocation API, a specification that provides scripted
access to geographical location information associated with a hosted device.* This API
defines objects that can be used in JavaScript to ascertain the position of the device on
which the code is executed.
Brown et al. (2004) (see also Reed 1994 and Skroch 2004) model the completion of an adversarial nation’s nuclear-weapons program using general techniques of PERT. (See PERT 1958 and Malcolm et al. 1959 for the original descriptions of PERT, and see Moder et al. 1983 for a comprehensive review.) Brown et al. (2004) ask the...
One of my favorite photographs was taken by my wife on our honeymoon. We were on the second leg of our trip, the first of which was in Dubrovnik, Croatia (part of the former Yugoslavia), and the second in central Italy. The photo shows me in bed, apparently asleep. The title of the book I am holding across my chest is clearly legible: Technical...
A few years ago, the hype surrounding applets put Java on the map as a programming language for the Web. Today, Java servlets stand poised to take Java to the next level as a Web development language. The main reason is that servlets offer a fast, powerful, portable replacement for CGI scripts.
