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This open access book relies heavily on examples to systematically present the features of grep and regular expressions. The author recommends that readers manually type each example and experiment with them, stressing that understanding both the sample input strings and the resulting output is crucial. The book assumes that the reader has prior ex

This open access book employs a practical, example-driven approach to introduce the features of sed and regular expressions incrementally. The author strongly advises readers to manually type and experiment with each example, emphasizing that a thorough understanding of both the sample input and the resulting output is critical for comprehension. T

Since their introduction in 2017, transformers have quickly become the dominant architecture for achieving state-of-the-art results on a variety of natural language processing tasks. If you're a data scientist or coder, this practical book -now revised in full color- shows you how to train and scale these large models using Hugging Face Transformer

While Kubernetes has greatly simplified the task of deploying containerized applications, managing this orchestration framework on a daily basis can still be a complex undertaking. With this practical book, site reliability and DevOps engineers will learn how to build, operate, manage, and upgrade a Kubernetes cluster - whether it resides on cloud

This open access book discusses the statistical modeling of insurance problems, a process which comprises data collection, data analysis and statistical model building to forecast insured events that may happen in the future. It presents the mathematical foundations behind these fundamental statistical concepts and how they can be applied in daily

This open access book provides a robust exposition of the mathematical foundations of data representation, focusing on two essential pillars of dimensionality reduction methods, namely geometry in general and Riemannian geometry in particular, and category theory. Presenting a list of examples consisting of both geometric objects and empirical data

This open book is assembled from lectures given by the author over a period of 10 years at the School of Computing of DePaul University. The lectures cover multiple classes, including Analysis and Design of Algorithms, Scientific Computing, Monte Carlo Simulations, and Parallel Algorithms. These lectures teach the core knowledge required by any sci

This book helps you gain the foundational knowledge required to write an operating system from scratch. Hence the title, 0 to 1. After completing this book, at the very least you will learn: - How to write an operating system from scratch by reading hardware datasheets. In the real world, it works like that. You won't be able to consult Google for

PHP is an incredibly popular programming language, reportedly used by 80% of all websites. It serves as the foundation for WordPress, the widely used content management system, and powers numerous frameworks designed to simplify web development, such as Laravel. This book is presented as a perfect introduction for those new to the language, as well

This book positions Laravel not as a fleeting trend, but as a legendary framework that has earned widespread appreciation from its users. It highlights that Laravel has been a stable presence since 2011, predating modern frontend tools like React and Vue.js. The author notes that while PHP is often disregarded by some developers, it possesses uniqu