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Demystifying Generative AI: A Practical and Intuitive Introduction

In an era where artificial intelligence is rapidly reshaping the world and redefining the way we work, Demystifying Generative AI: A Practical and Intuitive Introduction emerges as a key resource for professionals and enthusiasts seeking to leverage the transformative power of AI. Authored by AI experts Robert Barton and Jerome Henry, this book is a unique entry into the world of AI. Unlike traditional references that are either too technical or overly simplistic, this book strikes a balance by providing clear explanations and practical examples, all supported by real-world case studies. It is designed as an intuitive guide through the inner workings of AI, from foundational principles to deployment and security best practices. It is designed to make generative AI accessible to anyone interested in learning more about AI, including IT professionals, software developers, business analysts, tech managers, educators, and decision-makers. Rob and Jerome address the surging demand for AI literacy as organizations invest heavily in AI-driven solutions, aiming to boost productivity and maintain a competitive edge.

Key Topics:

Foundations of AI: A historical and conceptual overview of artificial intelligence, including essential terminology and the broader AI landscape. How Generative AI Actually Works: An in-depth and intuitive analysis of LLMs, from the origins of language modeling into the modern world of Transformers and their applications. Unique Approach: Balances depth and accessibility, focusing on intuitive understanding with examples, adding practical application rather than dense theory or superficial summaries. Practical Applications: Features how GenAI and LLMs can be deployed in practices, using applications like RAG, fine-tuning techniques, and how to security LLMs from attack. Comprehensive Coverage: Covers foundational AI concepts, machine learning (classic and advanced), deep learning, large language models, Transformers, AI infrastructure, agentic AI systems, ethical considerations, security for LLMs, and deployment strategies.

Demystifying Generative AI emphasizes the growing necessity of AI literacy in a technology-driven world. By demystifying generative AI and equipping readers with both theoretical grounding and practical tools, the book aims to empower individuals and organizations to succeed in the era of intelligent automation. With its expert authorship and accessible format, this book is an essential resource for navigating the next wave of innovation.

Style for Actors is an award-winning handbook and the definitive guide to roles in historical drama. Anyone who has ever struggled with capes, fans, swords, doublets and crinolines should make this third edition their constant companion. The past is a foreign country, and this outstanding book is concerned with exploring it from the actor's point of view. Specific guides to each major period give readers a clear map to discover a range from Greek, Elizabethan, Restoration and Georgian theatre to more contemporary stylings, including Futurism, Surrealism and Postmodernism. New material in this edition covers Commedia dell'arte and non-Western forms of theatre, theatrical fusion and developments in musicals and Shakespeare. The book’s references, images, resource lists and examples have all been updated to support today's diverse performers. Robert Barton takes great care to present the actor with the roles and genres that will most commonly confront them. Containing a huge resource of nearly 150 exercises, suggestions for scene study and applications not only for theatrical performance but also for stylistic challenges in the reader’s own offstage life, this book is an invaluable resource for students and practitioners of acting and drama.

Style for Actors is an award-winning handbook and the definitive guide to roles in historical drama. Anyone who has ever struggled with capes, fans, swords, doublets and crinolines should make this third edition their constant companion. The past is a foreign country, and this outstanding book is concerned with exploring it from the actor's point of view. Specific guides to each major period give readers a clear map to discover a range from Greek, Elizabethan, Restoration and Georgian theatre to more contemporary stylings, including Futurism, Surrealism and Postmodernism. New material in this edition covers Commedia dell'arte and non-Western forms of theatre, theatrical fusion and developments in musicals and Shakespeare. The book’s references, images, resource lists and examples have all been updated to support today's diverse performers. Robert Barton takes great care to present the actor with the roles and genres that will most commonly confront them. Containing a huge resource of nearly 150 exercises, suggestions for scene study and applications not only for theatrical performance but also for stylistic challenges in the reader’s own offstage life, this book is an invaluable resource for students and practitioners of acting and drama.

"a work on the art and craft of comedy as important in its own way as works by Stanislavski and Chekhov" – Oxford Theatre CompanionIn 1939, a young, inexperienced actor wrote to a famous actress of his acquaintance, asking for advice on playing comedy. She responded enthusiastically, and they corresponded variously over the next year. The Craft of Comedy, a record of these exchanges, soon emerged as one of the few classic texts in the field of comedy acting.This major new edition takes a brilliant book and makes it better. Editor Robert Barton has devised extensive supplementary material, including: An introduction to the correspondents, the culture of the time, and the evolution of their book; Summaries, definitions, and exercises and practice scenes for readers wishing to explore Athene Seyler’s invaluable advice; Photographs, additional essays by Seyler, and a guide to easily accessed video clips of her performing.Seyler’s lucid guidance, and Barton’s scrupulous editorship, ensure this legendary work’s rightful status is restored: as one of the great practical guides to the craft of comedy, and an essential resource for actors and students of acting.

"a work on the art and craft of comedy as important in its own way as works by Stanislavski and Chekhov" – Oxford Theatre CompanionIn 1939, a young, inexperienced actor wrote to a famous actress of his acquaintance, asking for advice on playing comedy. She responded enthusiastically, and they corresponded variously over the next year. The Craft of Comedy, a record of these exchanges, soon emerged as one of the few classic texts in the field of comedy acting.This major new edition takes a brilliant book and makes it better. Editor Robert Barton has devised extensive supplementary material, including: An introduction to the correspondents, the culture of the time, and the evolution of their book; Summaries, definitions, and exercises and practice scenes for readers wishing to explore Athene Seyler’s invaluable advice; Photographs, additional essays by Seyler, and a guide to easily accessed video clips of her performing.Seyler’s lucid guidance, and Barton’s scrupulous editorship, ensure this legendary work’s rightful status is restored: as one of the great practical guides to the craft of comedy, and an essential resource for actors and students of acting.

Acting Reframes presents theatre and film practitioners with a methodology for using Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) as a tool to aid their practice.Author Robert Barton uses the NLP approach to illustrate a range of innovative methods to help actors and directors, including:• reducing performance anxiety• enabling clearer communication• intensifying character analysis• stimulating imaginative rehearsal choices.The author also shows how NLP can used alongside other basic training systems to improve approaches to rehearsal and performance.The book shows the use of NLP to the reader in a playful, creative and easily accessible style that is structured to enable solo study as well as group work. The text offers a range of engaging exercises and extensive analysis of language patterns used in performance. It is a source for enhancing communication between all theatre practitioners in training, productions, and daily life outside the theatre.Acting Reframes gives actors a richly rewarding approach to help them develop all aspects of their craft.

Acting Reframes presents theatre and film practitioners with a methodology for using Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) as a tool to aid their practice.Author Robert Barton uses the NLP approach to illustrate a range of innovative methods to help actors and directors, including:• reducing performance anxiety• enabling clearer communication• intensifying character analysis• stimulating imaginative rehearsal choices.The author also shows how NLP can used alongside other basic training systems to improve approaches to rehearsal and performance.The book shows the use of NLP to the reader in a playful, creative and easily accessible style that is structured to enable solo study as well as group work. The text offers a range of engaging exercises and extensive analysis of language patterns used in performance. It is a source for enhancing communication between all theatre practitioners in training, productions, and daily life outside the theatre.Acting Reframes gives actors a richly rewarding approach to help them develop all aspects of their craft.

Global IT Management presents a practical approach for initiating and reinforcing global IT, focusing on the mechanisms that need to be put in place to effectively manage IT architecture, strategy, standards, and control across sites in a multinational firm. Key considerations are explained for each domain together with concrete recommendations for core organisation, processes and deliverables. The approach fits cleanly into established best practices for IT such as the CobiT® framework for IT management, and is a valuable resource for students studying IT management on MBA and Executive MBA courses.

Research during the past two decades has produced major advances in understanding sleep within particular species. Simultaneously, molecular advances have made it possible to generate phylogenetic trees, while new analytical methods provide the tools to examine macroevolutionary change on these trees. These methods have recently been applied to questions concerning the evolution of distinctive sleep state characteristics and functions. This book synthesizes recent advances in our understanding of the evolutionary origins of sleep and its adaptive function, and it lays the groundwork for future evolutionary research by assessing sleep patterns in the major animal lineages.

This new and updated edition of Voice: Onstage and Off is a comprehensive guide to the process of building, mastering, and fine-tuning the voice for performance. Revised with the contemporary actor in mind, this fourth edition empowers actors wishing to master their voice as performers. Every aspect of vocal work is covered, from the initial speech impulse and the creation of sound, right through to refining the final product in different types of performance. Tackling emerging discussions at the intersections of voice and identity, with new content dedicated to voice for trans and non-binary actors, as well as introducing students and practitioners to the anatomical aspects of voice and to auditory awareness, the book equips actors to hone, care for, and define their voice. Among other new features in this fourth edition are coverage of transgender acting and heightened auditory awareness, which bring this established textbook to a modern audience.This highly adaptable course of study empowers performers of all levels to combine and evolve their onstage and offstage voices.Online resources are available for each chapter, including audio examples, additional exercises, and content for instructors.

This new and updated edition of Voice: Onstage and Off is a comprehensive guide to the process of building, mastering, and fine-tuning the voice for performance. Revised with the contemporary actor in mind, this fourth edition empowers actors wishing to master their voice as performers. Every aspect of vocal work is covered, from the initial speech impulse and the creation of sound, right through to refining the final product in different types of performance. Tackling emerging discussions at the intersections of voice and identity, with new content dedicated to voice for trans and non-binary actors, as well as introducing students and practitioners to the anatomical aspects of voice and to auditory awareness, the book equips actors to hone, care for, and define their voice. Among other new features in this fourth edition are coverage of transgender acting and heightened auditory awareness, which bring this established textbook to a modern audience.This highly adaptable course of study empowers performers of all levels to combine and evolve their onstage and offstage voices.Online resources are available for each chapter, including audio examples, additional exercises, and content for instructors.

Movement: Onstage and Off is the complete guide for actors to the most effective techniques for developing a fully expressive body. It is a comprehensive compilation of established fundamentals, a handbook for movement centered personal growth and a guide to helping actors and teachers make informed decisions for advanced study.This book includes:fundamental healing/conditioning processes essential techniques required for versatile performancespecialized skills various training approaches and ways to frame the actor’s movement training.Using imitation exercises to sharpen awareness, accessible language and adaptable material for solo and group work, the authors aim to empower actors of all levels to unleash their extraordinary potential.

Movement: Onstage and Off is the complete guide for actors to the most effective techniques for developing a fully expressive body. It is a comprehensive compilation of established fundamentals, a handbook for movement centered personal growth and a guide to helping actors and teachers make informed decisions for advanced study.This book includes:fundamental healing/conditioning processes essential techniques required for versatile performancespecialized skills various training approaches and ways to frame the actor’s movement training.Using imitation exercises to sharpen awareness, accessible language and adaptable material for solo and group work, the authors aim to empower actors of all levels to unleash their extraordinary potential.

Voice: Onstage and Off is a comprehensive guide to the process of building, mastering, and fine-tuning the voice for performance. Every aspect of vocal work is covered, from the initial speech impulse and the creation of sound, right through to refining the final product in different types of performance. This highly adaptable course of study empowers performers of all levels to combine and evolve their onstage and offstage voices.

Voice: Onstage and Off is a comprehensive guide to the process of building, mastering, and fine-tuning the voice for performance. Every aspect of vocal work is covered, from the initial speech impulse and the creation of sound, right through to refining the final product in different types of performance. This highly adaptable course of study empowers performers of all levels to combine and evolve their onstage and offstage voices.

Today, billions of devices are Internet-connected, IoT standards and protocols are stabilizing, and technical professionals must increasingly solve real problems with IoT technologies. Now, five leading Cisco IoT experts present the first comprehensive, practical reference for making IoT work. IoT Fundamentals brings together knowledge previously available only in white papers, standards documents, and other hard-to-find sources—or nowhere at all.

The authors begin with a high-level overview of IoT and introduce key concepts needed to successfully design IoT solutions. Next, they walk through each key technology, protocol, and technical building block that combine into complete IoT solutions.

Building on these essentials, they present several detailed use cases, including manufacturing, energy, utilities, smart+connected cities, transportation, mining, and public safety. Whatever your role or existing infrastructure, you’ll gain deep insight what IoT applications can do, and what it takes to deliver them.

Fully covers the principles and components of next-generation wireless networks built with Cisco IOT solutions such as IEEE 802.11 (Wi-Fi), IEEE 802.15.4-2015 (Mesh), and LoRaWAN Brings together real-world tips, insights, and best practices for designing and implementing next-generation wireless networks Presents start-to-finish configuration examples for common deployment scenarios Reflects the extensive first-hand experience of Cisco experts

F}r UNIX-Anwender stellt das X/Motif-Fenstersystem die Standard-Arbeitsumgebung auf dem Rechner zur Verf}gung. Deren optimale Einrichtung und Anpassung ist daher eine entscheidende Voraussetzung f}r ein effizientes Arbeiten. Anhand zahlreicher Beispiele vermittelt der Autor praxisbezogene Kenntnisse im Umgang mit X/Motif, ohne den Leser mit der Programmierung des Systems zu belasten. Dabei wird vorallem auf folgende Gebiete eingegangen: - individuelle Anpassung von Anwendungen an die eigenen Bed}rfnisse des Nutzers - die optimale Einrichtung einer X/Motif-Arbeitsumgebung - die Einrichtung von mehreren Arbeitspl{tzen in vernetzten Systemen. Das Buch richtet sich an alle Anwender, die die volle Leistungsf{higkeit dieses Systems nutzen m|chten, sowie an Systemadministratoren, die f}r die Netzwerkbetreuung zust{ndig sind.