Summary Dask is a native parallel analytics tool designed to integrate seamlessly with the libraries you're already using, including Pandas, NumPy, and Scikit-Learn. With Dask you can crunch and work with huge datasets, using the tools you already have. And Data Science with Python and Dask is your guide to using Dask for your data projects without changing the way you work! Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications. You'll find registration instructions inside the print book. About the Technology An efficient data pipeline means everything for the success of a data science project. Dask is a flexible library for parallel computing in Python that makes it easy to build intuitive workflows for ingesting and analyzing large, distributed datasets. Dask provides dynamic task scheduling and parallel collections that extend the functionality of NumPy, Pandas, and Scikit-learn, enabling users to scale their code from a single laptop to a cluster of hundreds of machines with ease. About the Book Data Science with Python and Dask teaches you to build scalable projects that can handle massive datasets. After meeting the Dask framework, you'll analyze data in the NYC Parking Ticket database and use DataFrames to streamline your process. Then, you'll create machine learning models using Dask-ML, build interactive visualizations, and build clusters using AWS and Docker. What's inside Working with large, structured and unstructured datasets Visualization with Seaborn and Datashader Implementing your own algorithms Building distributed apps with Dask Distributed Packaging and deploying Dask apps About the Reader For data scientists and developers with experience using Python and the PyData stack. About the Author Jesse Daniel is an experienced Python developer. He taught Python for Data Science at the University of Denver and leads a team of data scientists at a Denver-based media technology company. Table of Contents PART 1 - The Building Blocks of scalable computing Why scalable computing matters Introducing Dask PART 2 - Working with Structured Data using Dask DataFrames Introducing Dask DataFrames Loading data into DataFrames Cleaning and transforming DataFrames Summarizing and analyzing DataFrames Visualizing DataFrames with Seaborn Visualizing location data with Datashader PART 3 - Extending and deploying Dask Working with Bags and Arrays Machine learning with Dask-ML Scaling and deploying Dask
In his latest book, Daniel T. Reese and the Prophet King, author Jesse Edward Corralez calls the reader on a journey that challenges modern ideology of the life of a young Jesus Christ. The author of Brothers Mine: As Told by Lucifer, Uriah: Earth, Second Time, and South of Baton Rouge, among other titles, builds on the known details of Jesuss youth and the imaginatively expands them by introducing twelve-year-old Daniel T. Reese into the mix. One day during summer vacation, Daniel and a group of his friends are enjoying the day by skateboarding in their neighborhood. When Daniel attempts to jump a curb, he soon finds himself taking flight. His injuries include trauma to the head, and the young boy lapses into a coma, leaving his family, friends, and doctor concerned about when he will wake up. Unbeknownst to his loved ones, Daniel does awake from his coma but in the middle of a busy road in Nazareth. A concerned man named Joseph encourages the boy to retreat before a fast-approaching wagon pulled by a donkey runs him over. Once he is safe, a confused Daniel thanks Joseph. The boy doesnt remember how he got to Nazareth and has trouble recalling many details about his life. Joseph takes him home to his family and offers Daniel a place there until he regains his memory. He introduces Daniel to his wife, Mary; his daughter, Salome; and his sons, Jesus and James. The friendship that Daniel forms with Jesus, who is also twelve, is the core of the story. As children are prone to do, Daniel and Jesus teach each other games (Daniel introduces Jesus and his friends to baseball, and the Nazarene children teach Daniel their version of football) and unfamiliar words. However, unlike most childhood friendships, Daniel and Jesuss relationship involves contemplation of Jesuss message that people should take care of each other and forgo judgment. He shares this message not only with the elders in the Temple of Jerusalem, but also with groups of children in Nazareth and wandering desert people who camp outside of the village. Corralez presents Jesus as a quiet, mild-mannered boy but also as a budding young man who is inquisitive and determined. His sense of purpose and desire to share lessons of love are so strong even Daniel, who suffers from side effects of his brain injury throughout the story, feels that he knows something of Jesus from the life that he cannot fully recall. The juxtaposition of the happy-go-lucky Daniel and the serious but adventurous Jesus offers the reader a lighter view of Jesus that fleshes out his humanity. Daniel T. Reese and the Prophet King expresses a message of basic kindness that does not require adherence to any specific religion but simply a full acknowledgement of ones humanity. Telling the story of the young prophet king through the perspective of children does not soften the message of the golden rule; instead, it deepens that message and encourages even the oldest among us to open our hearts to this fundamental approach to life (Melissa Brown Levine, senior editor and owner, Brown Levine Productions, MelissaBrownLevine.com).
For every tragic story of a life unraveled by battle, there are a dozen tales of men and women who have managed to triumph over the harrowing experiences of war and ruin. The Price of Their Blood is a celebration of these triumphs, offered at a time when interest in patriotic heroes runs deep and passion for wartime remembrance runs high. The Price of Their Blood, by Jesse Brown, written in collaboration with New York Times bestselling author Daniel Paisner, offers compelling portraits of more than a dozen American men and women, including: Michael A. Naranjo, U.S. Army: a Santa Clara Pueblo Native American who was blinded and had only partial use of his right hand, but went on to become an acclaimed sculptor the artist who sees with his hands whose works are sought by museums and collectors around the world Alfred Pugh, U.S. Army: at 107, believed to be the nation's oldest living combat veteran, suffered permanent laryngitis by the inhalation of mustard gas during the Meuse-Argonne Offensive in France during the first World War, before going on to a long career with the U.S. Postal Service in his hometown of Westbrook, Maine Felicia Weston, U.S. Army: partially blinded in a Scud missile attack on a warehouse in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, during the Persian Gulf War, she now works with DAV, fulfilling a promise she made to herself to help other injured veterans put their lives back on track The profiles in The Price of Their Blood focus on the call to service, the will to live, and the power to carry on
A celebration of Jewish men's voices in prayer—to strengthen, to heal, to comfort, to inspire from the ancient world up to our own day. "An extraordinary gathering of men—diverse in their ages, their lives, their convictions—have convened in this collection to offer contemporary, compelling and personal prayers. The words published here are not the recitation of established liturgies, but the direct address of today's Jewish men to ha-Shomea Tefilla, the Ancient One who has always heard, and who remains eager to receive, the prayers of our hearts." —from the Foreword by Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson, DHL This collection of prayers celebrates the variety of ways Jewish men engage in personal dialogue with God—with words of praise, petition, joy, gratitude, wonder and even anger—from the ancient world up to our own day. Drawn from mystical, traditional, biblical, Talmudic, Hasidic and modern sources, these prayers will help you deepen your relationship with God and help guide your journey of self-discovery, healing and spiritual awareness. Together they provide a powerful and creative expression of Jewish men’s inner lives, and the always revealing, sometimes painful, sometimes joyous—and often even practical—practice that prayer can be. Jewish Men Pray will challenge your preconceived ideas about prayer. It will inspire you to explore new ways of prayerful expression, new paths for finding the sacred in the ordinary and new possibilities for understanding the Jewish relationship with the Divine. This is a book to treasure and to share.
FOREWORD Cyber Warfare, What are the Rules? By Daniel B. Garrie ARTICLES Cyber Attacks and the Laws of War By Michael Gervais If You Wish Cyber Peace, Prepare for Cyber War: The Need for the Federal Government to Protect Critical Infrastructure From Cyber Warfare. By Michael Preciado They Did it For the Lulz: Future Policy Considerations in the Wake of Lulz Security and Other Hacker Groups' Attacks on Stored Private Customer Data By Jesse Noa A New Perspective on the Achievement of Psychological Effects from Cyber Warfare Payloads: The Analogy of Parasitic Manipulation of Host Behavior By Dr. Mils Hills
This is the 100% true and un-filtered story of what actually happens to a man when his lover of nearly 6 months decides she needs a one month break from the relationship. No visiting, no phone calls, no text messages, no social media contact. Silence. Within this book is the daily journal the author kept while slogging through this trial separation. Brace yourself, it's one hell of a rollercoaster ride! Experience a rare “snap shot” of an ordinary man experiencing a very extraordinary month.Stick around to the end to see if the month made them a stronger couple. Some people swear by having a one month break, open up this book and experience what the author experienced in his own words.
Tenth Anniversary Expanded Edition First released in 2011, Tennessee Landscape with Blighted Pine was the debut poetry collection from Tennessee poet Jesse Graves and was awarded the 2011 Weatherford Award in Poetry from Berea College, the Book of the Year in Poetry Award from the Appalachian Writers’ Association, and the Thomas and Lillie D. Chaffin Award for Appalachian Writing. The poems in Tennessee Landscape with Blighted Pine take part in many of the traditions of lyric poetry, including elegies for lost loved ones, odes to the beauty of family and the natural world, expressed through a range of poetic forms and techniques. The 10th Anniversary Expanded Edition includes twelve new poems and an introduction by Matthew Wimberley. from “Emissaries” Some mornings when I’m reading early, no light yet but the table lamp, my left hand will run through scales along the spine of the open book. My hands keep their own remembrance buried in fine grooves of flesh. The fingers turn over ignitions, faucets, always attuned to their proper force, knuckles never breaking things unless my brain overpowers them. They’ve discovered spectacular terrains, soft enclosures I can never enter again. I send them ahead as scouts for survey, emissaries that flip the lights in every dark hallway of the future.
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