Intended for researchers and practitioners alike, this book covers carefully selected yet broad topics in optimization, machine learning, and metaheuristics. Written by world-leading academic researchers who are extremely experienced in industrial applications, this self-contained book is the first of its kind that provides comprehensive background knowledge, particularly practical guidelines, and state-of-the-art techniques. New algorithms are carefully explained, further elaborated with ...

Large language models (LLMs) are the reasoning engines of modern AI. Today, a major inflection point has arrived: as the world races to deploy AI at scale, model inference has moved to the center of the stack. Welcome to the inference era.Without proper optimization, however, LLMs can be expensive and slow to serve. Hands-On LLM Serving and Optimization is a comprehensive guide to the complexities of deploying and optimizing LLMs at scale.In this hands-on, engineer...

Traditionally shrouded in mystery and taught only to the closest students, the secrets of Taijiquan push-hands and fighting technique from the Chen style are revealed in this book.Master Wang Fengming, an eleventh generation practitioner of Chen-style Taijiquan, provides detailed information about the famous internal fighting techniques and reveals inside knowledge essential to the remarkable results achieved by the Chinese masters. The book features:- effective ways of culti...

Create video game elements using the Godot game engine, gaining practical experience in programming and video game development. The Godot game engine uses a simplified programming language called GDScript, which closely resembles Python. By learning GDScript, you can focus more on learning the basics of programming.You’ll explore concepts such as variables and data structures variables used to store information about video game objects that can be manipulated using a keyboard or a ...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.In an age of relentless cyber threats, traditional penetration testing methodologies no longer suffice. Organizations need skilled professionals who can think like adversaries, anticipate sophisticated attacks, and fortify their defenses proactively. This is where the next generation of penetration testing comes in. This book serves as your practical guide to mastering the latest techniques and tools used in modern penetration testing a...

Clinically useful approaches for the effective diagnosis and ablation of arrhythmias.This updated and expanded Hands-On Ablation, The Experts' Approach, Second Edition is a comprehensive and unique book that gives an inside look at leading electrophysiology labs throughout the world and provides the reader with useful information and tips for ablation procedures directly from the experts themselves.Each chapter highlights the practical knowledge of...

Leverage the power of Redis 4.x to develop, optimize and administer your Redis solutions with ease Key Features\[\*\]Build, deploy and administer high performance and scalable applications in Redis\[\*\]Covers a range of important tasks - including development and administration of Redis\[\*\]A practical guide that takes your understanding of Redis to the next levelBook DescriptionRedis is considered the world's most popular ...

Huidhonger van Bruno Müller-Oerlinghausen en Gabriele Mariell Kiebgis is een absolute aanrader voor iedereen die meer wil weten over het belang van aanraking. Dat belang is namelijk groot: als we te weinig huidcontact hebben, kunnen we letterlijk ziek worden, aanraking is een eerste levensbehoefte. Een aai, een kus, een knuffel, de kleinste aanraking kan al heel veel effect hebben, zowel voor de gever als de ontvanger. Dit boek laat de fascinerende en helende werking van aanraking zien en ...

This open access book covers operating system fundamentals, UNIX/Linux design philosophy, and openEuler practices. It introduces basic OS knowledge, openEuler usage, OS principles, Linux development, embedded OS development, network fundamentals, server system management, and openEuler's open source innovations. It delves into Linux development and application, comparing it to UNIX design. Practical cases from the openEuler platform enhance understanding and facilitate modern Linux applica...

Since the 1980s, Ireland has gone through a profound social, demographic, and religious disruption, the impact of which has been seen across recent fiction from Irish writers. Companion to the Contemporary Irish Novel traces this cultural shift and its impact by examining how modern novels have reckoned with a new conception of Irishness.Despite the heady mix of cultural and social destabilization, reform, and economic successes and challenges, this period of relentless di...

Clinically valuable approaches for the effective diagnosis and ablation of cardiac arrhythmias.Five years after the publication of the second edition, this updated and expanded Hands-On Ablation, The Experts' Approach, Third Edition is a comprehensive book that gives an inside look at leading electrophysiology labs throughout the world and provides the reader with useful information and tips for ablation procedures directly from the experts themselves....

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Evolutionary Multi-Criterion Optimization, EMO 2021 held in Shenzhen, China, in March 2021.The 47 full papers and 14 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 120 submissions. The papers are divided into the following topical sections: theory; algorithms; dynamic multi-objective optimization; constrained multi-objective optimization; multi-modal optimization; many-objective optimizat...