Thomas Schmid – författare

Associate Professor Gale Ruthven, a vampire with nearly four hundred years of service at eighty-three colleges and universities, teaches British Romantic poetry at an obscure commuter college somewhere in far West Texas, enjoying an existence of literary research, student papers, and the bare amount of blood-sucking necessary to survive. His chief aggravation is the Regency Romantic poet, Lord Byron, on whom he fed in 1816 and who refuses to play the role of submissive underling. When a powerful and seductive vampire named Tempest joins the faculty, Ruthven becomes entangled in a dark mystery involving ancient vampire cults in Mexico and the American Southwest, a hippie vampire named Via Medea, grave robbers in Byron’s Gothic ancestral estate in Nottinghamshire, and a shadowy vampire associate from Ruthven’s early nineteenth-century past—all of which lead him on a wild chase across two continents and to a final showdown in the New Mexico badlands.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is taking over the world, becoming an essential part of our daily lives. Self-driving cars, medical diagnoses, robotic processes, chatbots, and urban planning are just a few examples of how AI is being used. But what exactly is AI? What makes it successful? Are there concrete examples of AI applications currently in use? How do we mitigate risks? What norms do we need?This comprehensive book addresses these questions, with a particularly strong focus on the European Union’s AI Act. By delving into foundational models and generative AI, it explores trending topics like the disruptive Transformer architecture and provides a rich understanding of how these foundational models have revolutionized the field and are driving innovation across industries. Within the EU, creating digital sovereignty in dealing with AI is crucial, requiring excellence from policymakers, industry, and academia in ensuring the trustworthiness of AI among citizens. Therefore, the book tries to answer the question “How to build trust in AI?”The authors propose the classification matrix “AI=MC²” (AI Methods, Capabilities, and Criticality) and demonstrate its applicability for an “AI Label” transparency seal as a solution for clear future classification of AI products and services. The AI label is used in a series of illustrative practical examples, such as AI-powered customer service virtual assistants, AI-based object recognition in public sector and GenAI-based text and image processing. All real life projects are described in detail.Highlighting European regulation and AI standardization, with a focus on medical devices, the book provides the knowledge necessary for making informed decisions in the field of AI solutions, aiming to serve as a practical guide for managers, AI developers, compliance officers, employees in government agencies, companies and anyone interested in understanding the topic of AI. Numerous illustrations complement the reading and concrete recommendations are provided to representatives from politics, industry, and academia.

Research Paper (undergraduate) from the year 2020 in the subject Business economics - Miscellaneous, grade: 1,7, University of Applied Sciences Constanze, language: English, abstract: Human's mind cannot grasp the causes of events in their completeness, but the desire to find those causes is implanted in man's soul. And without considering the multiplicity and complex-ity of the conditions any one of which taken separately may seem to be the cause, he snatches at the first approximation to a cause that seems to him intelligible and says: "e;This is the cause!"e;. There are many models and frameworks in use in the business world today, and it is hard to keep track of them all. The MBA Model is designed to provide people with a broad groundling in all the key aspects of business. It is a simplified version of something more complex it helps to understand a specific phenomenon by identifying its key elements. Management is the art of getting work done through others. It involves marshalling a set of resources to achieve desired objectives. Managers make decisions about allocating people and money in an effective way. There are many analytical tools to help decision making, including decision trees and net present value analysis. Most decision making is not as rational as we might expect it to be. Cognitive biases in decision making discusses why people often make snap judgements that are flawed, and how effective managers can overcome these biases to make better decisions. The following work is based on the theoretical foundations of the MBA model (25 need-to-know MBA models, Birkinshaw, 2017). After clarifying the basics in Part 1, examples of Cognitive Biases will follow. In the end of the Scientific Report the Management failure traced back to cognitive bias get explained.

»Lyrik verstehen - verfassen - vermitteln« ist das Buch zur literarischen Nische. Die kleine literarische Form, die in mannigfacher Gestalt in Erscheinung tritt, ist in der öffentlichen Wahrnehmung das Mauerblümchen der Belletristik. So wenig Lyrik auch die Massen rührt, so bedeutsam erscheint sie für den Reichtum sprachlicher Ausdrucksmöglichkeit und die literarische Sozialisation des Einzelnen. »Lyrik verstehen - verfassen - vermitteln« will Begeisterung wecken und vertiefen bzw. das eventuell ramponierte Image von Gedichten aufpolieren helfen. Die Herausgeber und Autoren wollen einen Überblick über aktuelle Tendenzen der Lyriktheorie, der lyrischen Schreibdidaktik und der Lyrikdidaktik und damit zusammenhängende Forschungsfragen geben, zu einem besseren Verständnis im rezeptiven Umgang mit Gedichten verhelfen, zur eigenen Lyrikproduktion motivieren und Optionen zum Arrangement lyrischen Lernens aufzeigen. »Lyrik verstehen - verfassen - vermitteln« ist gedacht für das Lehramtsstudium aller Schularten, für die Hand von Unterrichtenden des Faches Deutsch, für Liebhaber von Gedichten und für ambitionierte Schreibnovizen im schulischen und außerschulischen Bereich. Es versucht die Auseinandersetzung mit Gedichten als exploratives Abenteuer theoretisch zu fundieren. Mit diesem durchaus ambitionierten Programm versucht der Band im Sinne entdeckenden Lernens den Nischenblick zu weiten.

Los geht es immer damit, dass der Simon und sein Bazi gemeinsam irgendetwas machen. Das heißt, eigentlich macht immer nur der Simon was, denn den Bazi gibt es ja nicht wirklich. Zumindest kann ihn keiner hören oder sehen. Nur Simon - der kann das natürlich schon … Und das ist eigentlich auch ganz gut so, denn der Bazi, der unsichtbare Schlingel, stiftet seinen Freund immer an, genau das zu tun, was der sich alleine eigentlich nicht traut. Miteinander erleben der Simon und sein Bazi lustige Lausbubengeschichten, die Thomas Schmid augenzwinkernd und herzerfrischend erzählt - einfühlsam illustriert von Rebecca Schmid.