Every place has its unique sensibility; a flavour that makes it special. Whether one is going somewhere new or discovering the secrets that make the familiar seem foreign, where you are matters as much as when you’re there. The stories in this fifth collection from Plan B Magazine occur at the intersection of the familiar and the strange, the rise of the unexpected and the twist in the road. Let’s take a journey to the unknown. Table of Contents: "Honeymoon Sweet" by Craig Faustus Buck "Broad Daylight" by Eve Fisher "This Land of the Strange" by Math Bird "Please Wait" by Robert Dawson "Fill In The Blanks" by Stephen D. Rogers "The Double Iron Cross" by William E. Wallace "Red Bait" by Edd Vick & Manny Frishberg "Broken Hearts" by Laird Long "Intimate Knowledge" by Suzanne Baginskie "The Asshat Fund" by Todd Morr "Mysterious Private Investigations" by Peter DiChellis "Coffee and Killings" by Simon Maltman "The Good Neighbor" by Lawrence Buentello
PLEASE NOTE: This is a replica of the print book and a pen and paper is needed to complete the exercises. Each ebook in this unique Math Mastery collection developed by experts covers all the essential skills for children in the first stages of their math journey. Each topic is supported by clear examples and helpful hints to encourage proficiency. Aimed at children ages 7-8, topics include addition and subtraction, time and shape, measuring, fractions, multiplication and division, and math practice. This collection is attractively illustrated and led by appealing characters who offer helpful tips to children (and parents) that make learning accessible and interesting. Every child can learn math with Math Mastery.
PLEASE NOTE: This is a replica of the print book and a pen and paper is needed to complete the exercises. Each ebook in this unique Math Mastery collection developed by experts covers all the essential skills for children in the first stages of their math journey. Each topic is supported by clear examples and helpful hints to encourage proficiency. Aimed at children aged 7-8, topics include numbers, counting, addition and subtraction, time and shape, measuring, and math practice. This collection is attractively illustrated and led by appealing characters who offer helpful tips to children (and parents) that make learning accessible and interesting. Every child can learn Math with Math Mastery.
Believer and unbeliever alike are subtly evangelized every day of their lives by the ambient glow of God’s cinematic masterpiece. They sense something grand but are confused by the incoherent cultural edits scattered throughout the film. The Good News is that the deleted scenes are not lost but can be found in our shared human experiences, and once spliced back together reveal an epic of Biblical proportions, The Director’s Cut of the Greatest Story Ever Told. Dr. Erik Strandness takes a unique “bottom up” approach to apologetics by investigating experiences common to all people and concluding that they can only be adequately understood through a Biblical filter. The goal is to empower lay Christians to confidently share their faith in a concrete, friendly, real-world context that effectively engages the day-to-day realities of their audience. Dr. Strandness writes in a clear, engaging, and witty style, combining the thoughts of many great Christian thinkers with culturally relevant illustrations in order to make a solid real world case for the Christian worldview. “Once in a while, someone manages to put ageless truth in such a fresh package that it cries out, ‘Read on!’ That’s the way I felt when reviewing Erik Strandness’s book. What a pleasure it is to read! But it’s not just Erik’s engaging word images that make it such a great read. It’s the profound and timely message he is communicating in such an intelligent and winsome way. This is a book you will be telling others about.” —Dr. Christian Overman, Director, Worldview Matters, biblicalworldview.com
Prabuddha Bharata, an English monthly journal of the Ramakrishna Order, has trodden a long and arduous path for the last hundred years. Throughout this past century it has gathered many treasures within its covers. On those pages some of the brightest minds of the century struggled with the problems of the world and placed before humanity their insights and solutions. For the readers who do not have ready access to all the volumes of Prabuddha Bharata, few of the priceless gems contained in those pages have been anthologised here, in this publication by Advaita Ashrama, a publication house of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math, India. A study of this anthology is a study of life—of science, art, psychology, philosophy, etc., as the titles show. As you will see in the following pages, many of the articles draw the reader into another milieu—a milieu that was the precursor of today’s. There we discern the hopes, fears, and anxieties that moved powerful minds. And there we find the solutions they proposed and the hopes they cherished regarding humanity’s future. We see a recent past through some of the clearest eyes of that period, and we also get a glimpse of the world they thought would soon emerge. Thus we are able to compare all that with the present, understand better what is happening now, and ponder over the future.
All the great personages of the past, who have left an indelible mark on the trail of events in the history of mankind, become a centre around which gathers, with the passage of time, a mass of legends and myths. These, more often than not, are later assumed to be facts that cannot be verified. The historicity of many of these legends begins to be questioned then, be they related to the life of a Christ, a Buddha or a Moses. Sri Ramakrishna, the latest in the line of these Great Masters, is an exception to this historical dilemma, as he appeared just a century ago. Even today researches succeed in discovering hitherto unknown truths about him, and these can be easily verified. The author of this book published by Advaita Ashrama, a publication house of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math, India, has brought to light some fresh findings on Sri Ramakrishna that will be extremely interesting for all his devotees and admirers.
We are in danger of losing our identities as unique beings created in the image of God. Our culture, not wanting to answer to a higher authority, tries to expel God from the planet but in the process strips off the very image that makes us human. If we officiate at the death of God, we will also be forced to preside over the funeral of man. The good news is that despite the loud voices declaring that we are just evolved animals, the vast majority of us behave as if we are special. Since the characteristics that make humans unique are found nowhere else on the planet, we are compelled to look to the heavens. We have a choice; we can find significance running with the pack or in becoming children of God. We can howl at the moon or offer prayers to our Father, but either way we will end up worshiping our maker. Dr. Strandness explores what it means to be created in the image of God by examining those qualities that are universally recognized as unique to humankind. He makes the case that these characteristics have a heavenly origin and can only be adequately explained by a Biblical understanding of humans as Gods image-bearers.
Bridging the gap between power quality and signal processing This innovative new text brings together two leading experts, one from signal processing and the other from power quality. Combining their fields of expertise, they set forth and investigate various types of power quality disturbances, how measurements of these disturbances are processed and interpreted, and, finally, the use and interpretation of power quality standards documents. As a practical aid to readers, the authors make a clear distinction between two types of power quality disturbances: * Variations: disturbances that are continuously present * Events: disturbances that occur occasionally A complete analysis and full set of tools are provided for each type of disturbance: * Detailed examination of the origin of the disturbance * Signal processing measurement techniques, including advanced techniques and those techniques set forth in standards documents * Interpretation and analysis of measurement data * Methods for further processing the features extracted from the signal processing into site and system indices The depth of coverage is outstanding: the authors present and analyze material that is not covered in the standards nor found in the scientific literature. This text is intended for two groups of readers: students and researchers in power engineering who need to use signal processing techniques for power system applications, and students and researchers in signal processing who need to perform power system disturbance analyses and diagnostics. It is also highly recommended for any engineer or utility professional involved in power quality monitoring.
This book comprises the essays written by Sister Nivedita in the early years of the twentieth century to uplift and arouse the young men and women of India so that they can fulfil the great destiny which the author saw was awaiting them in the days ahead. Some of these essays will seem prophetic to present-day readers. Published by Advaita Ashrama, a publication house of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math, the essays in this title deal mainly with the general principles of individual and social growth and have a great value for India in her present state when she has entered the third millennium with the conscious awareness of the great role she ought to play in the present world scenario marred by religion-political conflicts and tension.
In each of the ten lectures collected in this book, the author, a master of Vedantic elucidation, speaks to the average spiritual aspirant , one who desires spiritual enlightenment, but is not yet willing to let go of worldly pleasures. He shows us a gradual way , not a way of compromise, but a way of steady and sure advancement toward the ultimate goal of illumination. In these lectures he tells us how to go about it and why it is the only natural and rational thing for human beings to do. Published by Advaita Ashrama, a publication house of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math, India.
Mathematical Codebook to Navigate Through the Fast-changing AI Landscape KEY FEATURES ● Access to industry-recognized AI methodology and deep learning mathematics with simple-to-understand examples. ● Encompasses MDP Modeling, the Bellman Equation, Auto-regressive Models, BERT, and Transformers. ● Detailed, line-by-line diagrams of algorithms, and the mathematical computations they perform. DESCRIPTION To construct a system that may be referred to as having ‘Artificial Intelligence,’ it is important to develop the capacity to design algorithms capable of performing data-based automated decision-making in conditions of uncertainty. Now, to accomplish this goal, one needs to have an in-depth understanding of the more sophisticated components of linear algebra, vector calculus, probability, and statistics. This book walks you through every mathematical algorithm, as well as its architecture, its operation, and its design so that you can understand how any artificial intelligence system operates. This book will teach you the common terminologies used in artificial intelligence such as models, data, parameters of models, and dependent and independent variables. The Bayesian linear regression, the Gaussian mixture model, the stochastic gradient descent, and the backpropagation algorithms are explored with implementation beginning from scratch. The vast majority of the sophisticated mathematics required for complicated AI computations such as autoregressive models, cycle GANs, and CNN optimization are explained and compared. You will acquire knowledge that extends beyond mathematics while reading this book. Specifically, you will become familiar with numerous AI training methods, various NLP tasks, and the process of reducing the dimensionality of data. WHAT YOU WILL LEARN ● Learn to think like a professional data scientist by picking the best-performing AI algorithms. ● Expand your mathematical horizons to include the most cutting-edge AI methods. ● Learn about Transformer Networks, improving CNN performance, dimensionality reduction, and generative models. ● Explore several neural network designs as a starting point for constructing your own NLP and Computer Vision architecture. ● Create specialized loss functions and tailor-made AI algorithms for a given business application. WHO THIS BOOK IS FOR Everyone interested in artificial intelligence and its computational foundations, including machine learning, data science, deep learning, computer vision, and natural language processing (NLP), both researchers and professionals, will find this book to be an excellent companion. This book can be useful as a quick reference for practitioners who already use a variety of mathematical topics but do not completely understand the underlying principles. TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Overview of AI 2. Linear Algebra 3. Vector Calculus 4. Basic Statistics and Probability Theory 5. Statistics Inference and Applications 6. Neural Networks 7. Clustering 8. Dimensionality Reduction 9. Computer Vision 10. Sequence Learning Models 11. Natural Language Processing 12. Generative Models
The concept and practice of ‘Worship of God as Mother’ in India dates to a hoary past. In the modern age new vistas of this type of divine worship have been opened up with the advent of Sri Ramakrishna whose life and spiritual practices have taught humankind not only to look upon God as Mother of the Universe but also to realize Her as residing in the hearts of all, especially women. His divine consort, Sri Sarada Devi, was looked upon as a special manifestation of that Mother of the Universe and is literally adored by countless devotees. She was the Mother of the virtuous and the wicked, humans and sub-humans. Evolution of Mother Worship in India traces the growth of this ideal as embodied in some of its well-known characters in Indian history and literature.
A colorful workbook to help children learn addition and subtraction using the Math Mastery approach! It’s time to master the world of math with this brand new workbook developed by experts to cover all the essential skills for children in the first stages of their math journey. Specifically designed for children aged 5-6, this math exercise book can gently help your child develop knowledge of simple measuring techniques, using a range of different methods. Let Math — No Problem! open your eyes to the wonderful world of numbers! So what are you waiting for? Dive straight in to discover: - Topics include length and height, measuring mass, using a ruler, money and telling the time. - Character-led learning with fun and friendly illustrations. - Comprehensive and thorough coverage of key concept. - Helpful hints for extra practice. Heard of Math Mastery but don’t know where to begin? Don’t worry, DK has got you covered! Math Mastery is a transformational approach to teaching mathematics that was developed in Singapore and is now used around the world, including in thousands of schools across the US. Children are taught multiple methods to solve math problems, enabling them to gain a thorough and adaptable understanding of topics, making it easier for them to apply their knowledge to different scenarios. Each topic is studied in depth to develop a secure understanding of math concepts. This leads to greater progress in math learning, as topics are well understood and therefore don’t need to be revised in great detail, meaning each new concept builds on prior learning. Based on this widely successful approach, this wonderful workbook is full of top tips led by appealing characters who offer useful guidance to parents and children alike with the goal of making learning math both accessible and interesting. This workbook is part of a new series developed in partnership with the award-winning educational publisher Math — No Problem! The books encourage a deep knowledge of core math concepts without fostering a reliance on memorization or rote learning. A must-have math book for children aged 5-6 at a Kindergarten level, as well as for adults who wish to become more familiar with math taught in schools, to better support their children at home. From self-check quizzes to telling the time, this helpful workbook covers it all while incorporating an inclusive approach which builds self-confidence so that no child feels they ‘can’t do math’. At DK, we believe in the power of discovery. So why not explore the rest of the workbooks in our Math — No Problem! Master Math At Home series? Each workbook can be bought individually or as part of a collection, specifically targeted to early learners aged 5-6 at a Kindergarten level. Join the geometry fun with Math — No Problem! Geometry and Shape, Kindergarten Ages 5-6 and know your numbrs like a pro with Math — No Problem! Numbers 1 to 100, Kindergarten Ages 5 to 6. It’s as easy as 1, 2, 3!
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