Michael Taylor

A step-by-step visual journey through the mathematics of neural networks, and making your own using Python and Tensorflow. What you will gain from this book: * A deep understanding of how a Neural Network works. * How to build a Neural Network from scratch using Python. Who this book is for: * Beginners who want to fully understand how networks work, and learn to build two step-by-step examples in Python. * Programmers who need an easy to read, but solid refresher, on the math of neural networks. What's Inside - 'Make Your Own Neural Network: An Indepth Visual Introduction For Beginners' What Is a Neural Network? Neural networks have made a gigantic comeback in the last few decades and you likely make use of them everyday without realizing it, but what exactly is a neural network? What is it used for and how does it fit within the broader arena of machine learning? we gently explore these topics so that we can be prepared to dive deep further on. To start, we'll begin with a high-level overview of machine learning and then drill down into the specifics of a neural network. The Math of Neural Networks On a high level, a network learns just like we do, through trial and error. This is true regardless if the network is supervised, unsupervised, or semi-supervised. Once we dig a bit deeper though, we discover that a handful of mathematical functions play a major role in the trial and error process. It also becomes clear that a grasp of the underlying mathematics helps clarify how a network learns. * Forward Propagation * Calculating The Total Error * Calculating The Gradients * Updating The Weights Make Your Own Artificial Neural Network: Hands on Example You will learn to build a simple neural network using all the concepts and functions we learned in the previous few chapters. Our example will be basic but hopefully very intuitive. Many examples available online are either hopelessly abstract or make use of the same data sets, which can be repetitive. Our goal is to be crystal clear and engaging, but with a touch of fun and uniqueness. This section contains the following eight chapters. Building Neural Networks in Python There are many ways to build a neural network and lots of tools to get the job done. This is fantastic, but it can also be overwhelming when you start, because there are so many tools to choose from. We are going to take a look at what tools are needed and help you nail down the essentials. To build a neural network Tensorflow and Neural Networks There is no single way to build a feedforward neural network with Python, and that is especially true if you throw Tensorflow into the mix. However, there is a general framework that exists that can be divided into five steps and grouped into two parts. We are going to briefly explore these five steps so that we are prepared to use them to build a network later on. Ready? Let's begin. Neural Network: Distinguish Handwriting We are going to dig deep with Tensorflow and build a neural network that can distinguish between handwritten numbers. We'll use the same 5 steps we covered in the high-level overview, and we are going to take time exploring each line of code. Neural Network: Classify Images 10 minutes. That's all it takes to build an image classifier thanks to Google! We will provide a high-level overview of how to classify images using a convolutional neural network (CNN) and Google's Inception V3 model. Once finished, you will be able to tweak this code to classify any type of image sets! Cats, bats, super heroes - the sky's the limit.

Make Your Own Neural Network: An In-Depth Visual Introduction for Beginners

For two hundred years, the abolition of slavery in Britain has been a cause for self-congratulation - but no longer. 

In 1807, Parliament outlawed the slave trade in the British Empire, but for the next quarter of a century, despite heroic and bloody rebellions, more than 700,000 people in the British colonies remained in slavery. And when a renewed abolitionist campaign was mounted, making slave ownership the defining political and moral issue of the day, emancipation was fiercely resisted by the powerful 'West India Interest'. Supported by nearly every leading figure of the British establishment - including Canning, Peel and Gladstone, The Times and Spectator - the Interest ensured that slavery survived until 1833 and that when abolition came at last, compensation was given not to the enslaved but to the slaveholders. Worth £340 billion in today's money, this was the largest pay-out in British history before the banking rescue package of 2008, incurring a national debt that was only repaid in 2015 and entrenching the power of slaveholders and their families to shape modern Britain. 

Drawing on major new research, this long-overdue and ground-breaking history shows that the triumph of abolition was also one of the darkest episodes in British history, revealing the lengths to which British leaders went to defend the indefensible in the name of profit.

How the British Establishment Resisted the Abolition of Slavery

The Interest

James Flynn

Cameron Chaney

Marie McWilliams

Nicholas Gray

Kevin David Anderson

R. Saint Claire

Dane Cobain

Ryan Stroud

CJ Wright

Andrew Lyall

Ken Poirier

Mihalis Georgostathis

Cam Wolfe

D.L. Tillery

Lydia Peever

Matt Wall

E.D. Lewis

Jason White

Nineteen twisted tales from a vibrant, online community of horror enthusiasts! What’s HorrorTube? A creepy, new carnival ride combining a water slide park with a haunted funhouse? Not quite, although that sounds like a blast. A subset of BookTube, HorrorTube is an online community of horror enthusiasts who regularly post YouTube videos about horror-related topics, including books, films, and fiction writing. Some of the writers included in this anthology cover horror exclusively. You’ll find them posting creepy photos on Instagram or waxing poetic about the seventies drive-in flick that kept them up all night. Some read widely, only delving into the horror genre occasionally. All are passionate about books and writing. Joined together by this vibrant, online community of readers and writers, these nineteen authors bring you scary stories from all parts of the globe, proving that fear is universal. Local Haunts has taken the horror BookTube community’s global influence and shrunk it down into one village of horror and mayhem you’ll not soon forget. Inside these pages are frightening stories from around the globe, telling tales of haunts, monsters, and other terrible things local to each author’s place of residence. Within these pages you’ll find terrifying tales from North America, my own included, joined by terrible happenings in the Australian bushlands, ghosts haunting an old Greek mansion, an abandoned Vietnamese hospital, and a creepy museum, among many other eldritch encounters. From the foreword by Jason White A Stone’s Throw by Dane Cobain The Gentleman by Ryan Stroud The Salt Hag by CJ Wright Crowthorne by Andrew Lyall Mount Gilead by R. Saint Claire Screen Eight by Michael Taylor Drive Like Hell by Ken Poirier The Mount of Death by Kevin David Anderson The Drifter by James Flynn The Blocked Cellar by Mihalis Georgostathis The Night Watchman by Marie McWilliams Alone Among the Gum Trees by Cam Wolfe Highway to Hell by Nicholas Gray The Room Within by D.L. Tillery Fading Applause in Quintland by Lydia Peever A Full Moon Over Black Star Canyon by Matt Wall Long Buried by E.D. Lewis Darkness Descends by Jason White At the End of the Rope by Cameron Chaney Cover art by Cameron Roubique

Local Haunts: a HorrorTube Anthology

The number one selling Mind Map book is on its 3rd version. Version 3.0 is the ultimate resource on the topic of mind maps with more innovative uses, examples, and illustrations than any other book. Also includes links to numerous free mind mapping software - no need to buy, subscribe, or submit proof of purchase. Plus a bonus section that will triple your current reading speed and comprehension in a matter of minutes. Mind Mapping is a note taking system which allows you to take better, faster, and more efficient notes. In conventional note-taking, you write down information line by line. With Mind Maps, you organize the information more in the form of a diagram, starting with a central key idea drawn in the center of the paper. In addition to enhancing your note taking skills, Mind Maps help you improve your studying, writing, presenting, brainstorming, and creative skills. It is one of the best note taking skills anyone can learn.

Quicker Notes, Better Memory, and Improved Learning 3.0

Mind Maps

There are many reasons why neural networks fascinate us and have captivated headlines in recent years. They make web searches better, organize photos, and are even used in speech translation. Heck, they can even generate encryption. At the same time, they are also mysterious and mind-bending: how exactly do they accomplish these things ? What goes on inside a neural network?On a high level, a network learns just like we do, through trial and error. This is true regardless if the network is supervised, unsupervised, or semi-supervised. Once we dig a bit deeper though, we discover that a handful of mathematical functions play a major role in the trial and error process. It also becomes clear that a grasp of the underlying mathematics helps clarify how a network learns. In the following chapters we will unpack the mathematics that drive a neural network. To do this, we will use a feedforward network as our model and follow input as it moves through the network.

The Math of Neural Networks

Author argues for a viable and stable form of anarchic or stateless society, relying crucially on a form of community. He examines existing anarchic or semi-anarchic societies to show that it is possible to maintain ideals in a communitarian anarchy.

Community, Anarchy and Liberty

Plant Based Cookbook For Beginners

One night, seven teenagers wake completely alone and in the dark. Their parents are gone, and it seems everyone on earth has disappeared as well. Worse, the electricity is off. Surrounded by darkness, their differences no longer matter; they are the sole survivors of an alien attack and the last hope for humanity. But in the black of night, can they outrun the hulking creatures with the glowing red eyes? Priya is the exotic girl who says what she thinks. Will was a star athlete before the attack. They find Trevor and Aiyana, the twins; Alex and Ricardo, the tough guys; and finally, Lindsey, the innocent. Together, the seven of them are the last humans on earth-but are they really humans at all? They have no idea that the government has known of the incoming alien attack for decades; to prepare they created special children with very special abilities. The chosen seven are part alien and part human, and they exist to fight off the otherworldly forces, threatening to conquer the planet. But with such differing personalities, will the seven be able to put their pride be-hind and work together? They must move beyond the grief of lost friends and family and find the strength to go on; if they don't, the world will die, taken over by monstrous creatures that can smell your fear.

The Last Hope for the Human Race

Survival of the Fittest

*SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING* 'A critical piece of history and a devastating exposé' Shashi Tharoor, author of Inglorious Empire For two hundred years, the abolition of slavery in Britain has been a cause for self-congratulation - but no longer. In 1807, Parliament outlawed the slave trade in the British Empire, but for the next quarter of a century, despite heroic and bloody rebellions, more than 700,000 people in the British colonies remained enslaved. And when a renewed abolitionist campaign was mounted, making slave ownership the defining political and moral issue of the day, emancipation was fiercely resisted by the powerful 'West India Interest'. Supported by nearly every leading figure of the British establishment - including Canning, Peel and Gladstone, The Times and Spectator - the Interest ensured that slavery survived until 1833 and that when abolition came at last, compensation worth billions in today's money was given not to the enslaved but to the slaveholders, entrenching the power of their families to shape modern Britain to this day. Drawing on major new research, this long-overdue and ground-breaking history provides a gripping narrative account of the tumultuous and often violent battle that divided and scarred the nation during these years of upheaval. The Interest reveals the lengths to which British leaders went to defend the indefensible in the name of profit, showing that the ultimate triumph of abolition came at a bitter cost and was one of the darkest and most dramatic episodes in British history. *A DAILY TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020* 'Scintillating ... gripping ... compulsively readable' Guardian 'Fascinating ... riveting and first-rate' The Times 'A thoroughly researched and potent historical account' David Lammy MP

Impossible Monsters is the captivating story of the discovery of the dinosaurs and how it upended our understanding of the origins of the world – overturning the literal reading of the Bible, liberating science from the shackles of religion, and giving birth to the secular age. 'As thrilling as it is sweeping' TOM HOLLAND ‘The most talented young historian around ... A triumph’ SATHNAM SANGHERA ‘A stunning work ... of surprises and revelations’ STEVE BRUSATTE ‘Truly marvellous ... an intellectual thriller’ RICHARD HOLMES * In 1811, a twelve-year-old girl uncovered some strange-looking bones in Britain’s southern shoreline. They belonged to no known creature and were buried beneath a hundred feet of rock. How this was possible was unclear, but over the next two decades, as several more of these ‘impossible monsters’ emerged from the soil, the leading scientists of the day were forced to confront one profoundly disturbing implication: as a historical account of creation, the Bible was wildly wrong. This is the dramatic story of the crisis that engulfed science and religion when we discovered the dinosaurs. It takes us into the lives and minds of the extraordinary men and women who made and grappled with these heretical discoveries, those who resisted them as well as those pioneering thinkers, Darwin most famous among them, who took great risks to construct a new account of the earth’s and mankind’s origins. It took seventy years for them to win their case: that the earth was millions of years old and that man, like every other living being, was an accident of evolution. Doing so had plunged Britain into a crisis of faith, liberated science from the authority of religion and ushered in the secular age. Impossible Monsters is the riveting story of a group of people who not only thought impossible things but showed them to be true. In the process they revolutionised the way mankind thinks about itself, and so they changed the world.

Dinosaurs, Darwin and the War Between Science and Religion

Impossible Monsters

If you search the scripture, you will find that there is a place where every man can meet his maker and that place is on Hallowed Ground. It was no accident that the believers written of in the Bible had a much closer relationship with God than many of us, if not all of us, do today. God's word repeatedly emphasizes that it was their obedience that was the key, for God will not allow the rebellious to remain in His presence. Isaiah 59: 1-2 Behold, the LORD'S hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear: But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear. Since it would be impossible for anyone to live a life of continual obedience and true faith towards God without having experienced the new birth, this work was created to explain the highly misunderstood process of true conversion, the marks of the new birth, and the fundamentals of the Christian Faith.

Fundamentals of the Christian Faith

Hallowed Ground

Completing the trilogy of Henry VI plays in The Oxford Shakespeare, Michael Taylor edits the play for students, scholars, and theater-goers with an informative commentary on all aspects of the language, action, characters, and staging.

Henry VI

Jacob Peyton

Janine Pipe

N.M. Brown

Donnie Goodman

Steve Donoghue

A.B. Frank

Alfie Tobutt

Mers Sumida

Mike DeFrench

Aphrodite Lee

Madison Estes

Gloria McNeely

Served Cold: A HorrorTube Anthology Twenty-two teeth-chattering tales! Wrap yourself in your favorite blanket, curl up by a fireside or in a warm bed, and enjoy these tales of sub-zero terror brought to you by some of the many voices of HorrorTube. Foreword by Steve Donoghue Karakoncolos by Cameron Chaney The Rescue by Janine Pipe Red Albums by Cam Wolfe Magic in the Hat by Donnie Goodman Isolation by N.M. Brown Sweep in the Sidestreet by A.B. Frank Frostbite by Alfie Tobutt Black Wood by Marie McWilliams The Cold Traps by Steve Donoghue This Grey Winter by Mihalis Georgostathis Orpheus Descends by Andrew Lyall Thou by Mers Sumida The Walk-in by Mike DeFrench Ensnared by Aphrodite Lee Cold Crossing by Jacob Peyton Snow Boy by Ryan Stroud The Woods and Mister Softee by R. Saint Claire Revival by Madison Estes Lake Alice by Michael Taylor Fractals by D.L. Tillery Water of Life by Gloria McNeely Black Solstice by Dane Cobain Praise for Local Haunts: A HorrorTube Anthology "An excellent collection of stories from authors around the world." Alex from The Bookubus "This was such a fun collection to read." Rachel from The Shades of Orange Edited by R.Saint Claire and Steve Donoghue Cover art by Cameron Roubique Additional editing by Black Quill Editing

Served Cold: A HorrorTube Anthology

A Sexagesimal Table, Exhibiting, at Sight, the Result of Any Proportion, where the Terms Do Not Exceed Sixty Minutes. Also Tables of the Equation of Second Difference, and Tables for Turning the Lower Denominations of English Money, Weights, and Measures Into Sexagesimals of the Higher, and Vice Versa ...

The Series:

Theoretical Anomalies

Marius Mitrea

Dorina Mitrea

The general aim of the present monograph is to study boundary-value problems for second-order elliptic operators in Lipschitz sub domains of Riemannian manifolds. In the first part (ss1-4), we develop a theory for Cauchy type operators on Lipschitz submanifolds of co dimension one (focused on boundedness properties and jump relations) and solve the $L^p$-Dirichlet problem, with $p$ close to $2$, for general second-order strongly elliptic systems. The solution is represented in the form of layer potentials and optimal non tangential maximal function estimates are established.This analysis is carried out under smoothness assumptions (for the coefficients of the operator, metric tensor and the underlying domain) which are in the nature of best possible. In the second part of the monograph, ss5-13, we further specialize this discussion to the case of Hodge Laplacian $\Delta:=-d\delta-\delta d$. This time, the goal is to identify all (pairs of) natural boundary conditions of Neumann type. Owing to the structural richness of the higher degree case we are considering, the theory developed here encompasses in a unitary fashion many basic PDE's of mathematical physics. Its scope extends to also cover Maxwell's equations, dealt with separately in s14. The main tools are those of PDE's and harmonic analysis, occasionally supplemented with some basic facts from algebraic topology and differential geometry.

Layer Potentials, the Hodge Laplacian, and Global Boundary Problems in Nonsmooth Riemannian Manifolds

What must you do when the light is red? And what about green? A girl in the car and a boy on the street are about to find out.

Red Light, Green Light

Empty Pillows: Healing Matters of the Heart, Trilogy I (Empty Pillows) series is about Men and Women looking at the choices they make when it comes to relationships. Empty Pillows is not about pointing fingers at one's love interest, but rather looking at one's own decision-making skills. Empty Pillows focuses on why we allow bad people into our lives and blame them when the relationship goes bad. Empty Pillows helps people to look strongly at themselves. Readers have summed-up Empty Pillows to be a therapeutic book, a self-help book, an introspective book, a thought-provoking book, a step-bystep book; not a man bashing or a woman bashing book. Additionally, Empty Pillows is about being the right individual for the right individual. No man or woman can be the right one for the wrong person. If he or she is wrong for you, then you are wrong for them too.

Trilogy I

Empty Pillows: Healing Matters of the Heart

Contains a representative sample of writings by the Individualists and their critics, and also by some leading Victorian politicians who attempted to translate political theories into practical politics. The debates between these thinkers raise some fundamental issues about the nature of liberty and the role and limits of the State that remain with us still. Many present-day concerns, including the issues at stake between liberals and communitarians, are to be found prefigured in the pages of this collection.

The Late Nineteenth-century Debate Between Individualism and Collectivism

Herbert Spencer and the Limits of the State

Peter Schjeldahl

Edvard Munch

Art Gallery of Ontario

Vivian Campbell

Elizabeth Prelinger

Prelinger Elizabeth

Parke-Taylor Michael

Michael Parke-Taylor

Illustrated with black and white and colored prints from Edvard Munch. Original pictorial wrappers and color illustrated frontispiece. Published alongside the exhibition of the same name. "This exhibition considers Munch's relevance to a modern world through three interpretive paths." (From the forward) These paths are the technical methods Munch used as a Symbolist printmaker, his reception and exhibitions in North American, and Munch's influence in popular culture. With several essays and a chronology.

The Vivian and David Campbell Collection

The Symbolist Prints of Edvard Munch

Michael Taylor

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