MATLAB Graphics and Data Visualization Cookbook" will serve as your handbook in recipe format with ample screenshots. Each independent recipe will help you in achieving target-oriented solutions to your problems with concise explanation. For those who are already using MATLAB for their computational needs but need to also harness its powerful visualization capabilities.
Radical universalism vs postcolonial theory The World in a Grain of Sand offers a framework for reading literature from the global South that goes against the grain of dominant theories in cultural studies, especially, postcolonial theory. It critiques the valorization of the local in cultural theories typically accompanied by a rejection of universal categories - viewed as Eurocentric projections. But the privileging of the local usually amounts to an exercise in exoticization of the South. The book argues that the rejection of Eurocentric theories can be complemented by embracing another, richer and non-parochial form of universalism. Through readings of texts from India, Sri Lanka, Palestine and Egypt, the book shows that the fine grained engagement with culture, the mapping of ordinary lives not just as objects but subjects of their history, is embedded in much of postcolonial literature in a radical universalism - one that is rooted in local realities, but is able to unearth in them the needs, conflicts and desires that stretch across cultures and time. It is a universalism recognized by Marx and steeped in the spirit of anti-colonialism, but hostile to any whiff of exoticism.
Machine learning, a subset of artificial intelligence, is one of the most transformative technologies of our time. And yet, machine learning and data exploration are minimally covered in the standard school curriculum. Machine Learning With School Level Math brings you a compelling program with a brand-new approach. Our stance is that many elements of machine learning are completely accessible without the sophistication of advanced math and within the reach of middle to high school students. All they need is the math they are already learning in school. Developed collaboratively by a physicist with significant teaching experience including K-12 teaching experience and an algorithm development industry expert, our program is a first-of-its-kind effort to demystify the inner workings of machine learning at the school level. Quick highlights: 1. Prerequisites: No advanced math or programming background is assumed. 2. 8 chapters, 30 worksheets, and more than 100 fully worked-out pen-and-paper and computer problems. 3. Learn Python programming with unique and innovative CodeTrailMaps From concepts of rate and slope, the gradient descent algorithm (GDA) is developed, and then the GDA is used to solve linear regression, logistic regression, and neural nets. Composite functions, part of current school course structures, are used to introduce neural nets. Through these models, students learn a complete machine learning workflow, including data normalization, model selection, finding model parameters using a pertinent cost function, train/test cycles, and the construction of confusion matrices to evaluate model performance. Ideas of dimensionality reduction with principal component analysis are also covered as one more application of GDA. Basic Python programming is introduced seamlessly alongside the theory to deliver a thorough hands-on experience. A general audience, curious about the fundamentals of machine learning will also find value in this book.
BRICS is a grouping of the five major emerging economies of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. Volume five in the Democratic Marxism series, BRICS and the New American Imperialism challenges the mainstream understanding of BRICS and US dominance to situate the new global rivalries engulfing capitalism. It offers novel analyses of BRICS in the context of increasing US induced imperial chaos, deepening environmental crisis tendencies (such as climate change and water scarcity), contradictory dynamics inside BRICS countries and growing subaltern resistance. The authors revisit contemporary thinking on imperialism and anti-imperialism, drawing on the work of Rosa Luxemburg, one of the leading theorists after Marx, who attempted to understand the expansionary nature of capitalism from the heartlands to the peripheries. The richness of Luxemburg’s pioneering work inspires most of the volume’s contributors in their analyses of the dangerous contradictions of the contemporary world as well as forms of democratic agency advancing resistance. While various forms of resistance are highlighted, among them water protests, mass worker strikes, anti-corporate campaigning and forms of cultural critique, this volume grapples with the challenge of renewing anti-imperialism beyond the NGO-driven World Social Forum and considers the prospects of a new horizontal political vessel to build global convergence. It also explores the prospects of a Fifth International of Peoples and Workers.
Challenges the mainstream understanding of BRICS and US dominance to situate the new global rivalries engulfing capitalism BRICS is a grouping of the five major emerging economies of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. Volume five in the Democratic Marxism series, BRICS and the New American Imperialism challenges the mainstream understanding of BRICS and US dominance to situate the new global rivalries engulfing capitalism. It offers novel analyses of BRICS in the context of increasing US induced imperial chaos, deepening environmental crisis tendencies (such as climate change and water scarcity), contradictory dynamics inside BRICS countries and growing subaltern resistance. The authors revisit contemporary thinking on imperialism and anti-imperialism, drawing on the work of Rosa Luxemburg, one of the leading theorists after Marx, who attempted to understand the expansionary nature of capitalism from the heartlands to the peripheries. The richness of Luxemburg’s pioneering work inspires most of the volume’s contributors in their analyses of the dangerous contradictions of the contemporary world as well as forms of democratic agency advancing resistance. While various forms of resistance are highlighted, among them water protests, mass worker strikes, anti-corporate campaigning and forms of cultural critique, this volume grapples with the challenge of renewing anti-imperialism beyond the NGO-driven World Social Forum and considers the prospects of a new horizontal political vessel to build global convergence. It also explores the prospects of a Fifth International of Peoples and Workers.
Radical universalism vs postcolonial theory The World in a Grain of Sand offers a framework for reading literature from the global South that goes against the grain of dominant theories in cultural studies, especially, postcolonial theory. It critiques the valorization of the local in cultural theories typically accompanied by a rejection of universal categories - viewed as Eurocentric projections. But the privileging of the local usually amounts to an exercise in exoticization of the South. The book argues that the rejection of Eurocentric theories can be complemented by embracing another, richer and non-parochial form of universalism. Through readings of texts from India, Sri Lanka, Palestine and Egypt, the book shows that the fine grained engagement with culture, the mapping of ordinary lives not just as objects but subjects of their history, is embedded in much of postcolonial literature in a radical universalism - one that is rooted in local realities, but is able to unearth in them the needs, conflicts and desires that stretch across cultures and time. It is a universalism recognized by Marx and steeped in the spirit of anti-colonialism, but hostile to any whiff of exoticism.
Machine learning, a subset of artificial intelligence, is one of the most transformative technologies of our time. And yet, machine learning and data exploration are minimally covered in the standard school curriculum. Machine Learning With School Level Math brings you a compelling program with a brand-new approach. Our stance is that many elements of machine learning are completely accessible without the sophistication of advanced math and within the reach of middle to high school students. All they need is the math they are already learning in school. Developed collaboratively by a physicist with significant teaching experience including K-12 teaching experience and an algorithm development industry expert, our program is a first-of-its-kind effort to demystify the inner workings of machine learning at the school level. Quick highlights: 1. Prerequisites: No advanced math or programming background is assumed. 2. 8 chapters, 30 worksheets, and more than 100 fully worked-out pen-and-paper and computer problems. 3. Learn Python programming with unique and innovative CodeTrailMaps From concepts of rate and slope, the gradient descent algorithm (GDA) is developed, and then the GDA is used to solve linear regression, logistic regression, and neural nets. Composite functions, part of current school course structures, are used to introduce neural nets. Through these models, students learn a complete machine learning workflow, including data normalization, model selection, finding model parameters using a pertinent cost function, train/test cycles, and the construction of confusion matrices to evaluate model performance. Ideas of dimensionality reduction with principal component analysis are also covered as one more application of GDA. Basic Python programming is introduced seamlessly alongside the theory to deliver a thorough hands-on experience. A general audience, curious about the fundamentals of machine learning will also find value in this book.
This seminal work examines the concurrence of childhood rebellion and conformity in Bengali literary texts (including adult texts), a pertinent yet unexplored area, making it a first of its kind. It is a study of the voice of child protagonists across children’s and adult literature in Bengali vis-à-vis the institutions of family, the education system, and the nationalist movement in the ninenteenth and twentieth centuries.
A revised and enlarged edition of the Letters of Sister Nivedita in 2 volumes collected and edited by Prof. Sankari Prasad Basu. It comprises nearly a thousand letters from Sister Nivedita and also includes some received by her. This monumental new edition is to commemorate her 150th Birth Anniversary. The present Volume 1 contains letters penned in the years 1897—1904.
Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)
ISBN 10
8175058935
ISBN 13
9788175058934
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