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Applied Machine Learning and Deep Learning: Architectures and Techniques

This book provides an extensive overview of recent advances in machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL). It starts with a comprehensive introduction to the latest architectural and design practices, with an overview of basic techniques and optimization algorithms and methodologies that are fundamental to modern ML/DL development followed by the tools and frameworks that are driving innovation in ML/DL. The presentation then points to the central position of ML and DL in developing generative AI like ChatGPT. Then look at different industrial applications such as explaining the real-world impacts of each. This includes challenges around corroborate artificial Intelligence (AI), and trustworthy AI, and so on. Finally, the book presents a futuristic vision on the potentials and implications of future ML and DL architectures, making it an ideal guide for researchers, practitioners and industry professionals. This book will be a significant resource for comprehending present advancements, addressing encounter challenges, and traversing the ML and DL landscape in future, making it an indispensable reference for anyone interested in applying these technologies across sectors.

The Ecclesiastical Architecture of Scotland from the Earliest Christian Times to the Seventeenth Century

Cervantes’ Architectures

Cervantes’ Architectures is the first book dedicated to architecture in Cervantes’ prose fiction. At a time when a pandemic is sweeping the world, this book reflects on the danger outside by concentrating on the role of enclosed structures as places where humans may feel safe, or as sites of beauty and harmony that provide solace. At the same time, a number of the architectures in Cervantes trigger dread and claustrophobia as they display a kind of shapelessness and a haunting aura that blends with the narrative. This volume invites readers to discover hundreds of edifices that Cervantes built with the pen. Their variety is astounding. The narrators and characters in these novels tell of castles, fortifications, inns, mills, prisons, palaces, towers, and villas which appear in their routes or in their conversations, and which welcome them, amaze them, or entrap them. Cervantes may describe actual buildings such as the Pantheon in Rome, or he may imagine structures that metamorphose before our eyes, as we come to view one architecture within another, and within another, creating an abyss of space. They deeply affect the characters as they feel enclosed, liberated, or suspended or as they look upon such structures with dread, relief, or admiration. Cervantes' Architectures sheds light on how places and spaces are perceived through words and how impossible structures find support, paradoxically, in the literary architecture of the work.