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Theory of JIZAI Body

Towards Mastery Over the Extended Self

Edited by Masahiko Inami ...

Series series Computer Science (R0)
This book proposes a novel body image to bridge gap between self-transformation and preserving sense of self: the Jizai body. Automation and digitization have served to transform our lives. Digital transformation, for example, is rapidly changing the world every day, making life more convenient and comfortable. However, there is a worrying trend of removing the human element from human-centric ... Read more

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This book proposes a novel body image to bridge gap between self-transformation and preserving sense of self: the Jizai body. Automation and digitization have served to transform our lives. Digital transformation, for example, is rapidly changing the world every day, making life more convenient and comfortable. However, there is a worrying trend of removing the human element from human-centric
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Software Defined Chips

Volume II

by Leibo Liu, Shaojun Wei, Jianfeng Zhu, Chenchen Deng ...

Series series Engineering (R0)
This book is the second volume of a two-volume book set which introduces software-defined chips. In this book, the programming model of the software-defined chips is analyzed by tracing the coevolution of modern general-purpose processors and programming models. The enhancement in hardware security and reliability of the software-defined chips are described from the perspective of dynamic and ... Read more

$192.19 CAD

This book is the second volume of a two-volume book set which introduces software-defined chips. In this book, the programming model of the software-defined chips is analyzed by tracing the coevolution of modern general-purpose processors and programming models. The enhancement in hardware security and reliability of the software-defined chips are described from the perspective of dynamic and
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Bíblia De Programação Python Para Iniciantes

by Jideon F Marques ...

Programar significa escrever instruções que um computador irá literalmente executar. Ele realiza a atividade como um comando dado pelo programador ao computador. Primeiro escreva as instruções em uma linguagem que o computador entenda, e o computador as executa quando o programador lhe diz para fazê-lo. Se as ordens forem dadas incorretamente, o computador emitirá mensagens mostrando os erros. É ... Read more

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Programar significa escrever instruções que um computador irá literalmente executar. Ele realiza a atividade como um comando dado pelo programador ao computador. Primeiro escreva as instruções em uma linguagem que o computador entenda, e o computador as executa quando o programador lhe diz para fazê-lo. Se as ordens forem dadas incorretamente, o computador emitirá mensagens mostrando os erros. É
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Evolutionary and Biologically Inspired Music, Sound, Art and Design

5th International Conference, EvoMUSART 2016, Porto, Portugal, March 30 -- April 1, 2016, Proceedings

Edited by Colin Johnson, Vic Ciesielski, João Correia, Penousal Machado ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Evolutionary and Biologically Inspired Music, Sound, Art and Design, EvoMUSART 2016, held in Porto, Portugal, in March/April 2016, co-located with the Evo*2016 events EuroGP, EvoCOP and EvoApplications.The 17 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 25 submissions. The papers cover ... Read more

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Evolutionary and Biologically Inspired Music, Sound, Art and Design, EvoMUSART 2016, held in Porto, Portugal, in March/April 2016, co-located with the Evo*2016 events EuroGP, EvoCOP and EvoApplications.The 17 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 25 submissions. The papers cover
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Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2021

18th IFIP TC 13 International Conference, Bari, Italy, August 30 – September 3, 2021, Proceedings, Part V

Edited by Carmelo Ardito, Rosa Lanzilotti, Alessio Malizia, Helen Petrie, Antonio Piccinno, Giuseppe Desolda, Kori Inkpen ...

Series Book 5 - Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
The five-volume set LNCS 12932-12936 constitutes the proceedings of the 18th IFIP TC 13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, INTERACT 2021, held in Bari, Italy, in August/September 2021.The total of 105 full papers presented together with 72 short papers and 70 other papers in these books was carefully reviewed and selected from 680 submissions. The contributions are organized ... Read more

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The five-volume set LNCS 12932-12936 constitutes the proceedings of the 18th IFIP TC 13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, INTERACT 2021, held in Bari, Italy, in August/September 2021.The total of 105 full papers presented together with 72 short papers and 70 other papers in these books was carefully reviewed and selected from 680 submissions. The contributions are organized
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Human Aspects of IT for the Aged Population. Design for Everyday Life

First International Conference, ITAP 2015, Held as Part of HCI International 2015, Los Angeles, CA, USA, August 2-7, 2015. Proceedings, Part II

Edited by Jia Zhou, Gavriel Salvendy ...

Series Book 2 - Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
The two LNCS volume set 9193-9194 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on Human Aspects of IT for the Aged Population, ITAP 2015, held as part of the 17th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2015, held in Los Angeles, CA, USA, in August 2015, jointly with 15 other thematically conferences. The total of 1462 papers and 246 posters ... Read more

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The two LNCS volume set 9193-9194 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on Human Aspects of IT for the Aged Population, ITAP 2015, held as part of the 17th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2015, held in Los Angeles, CA, USA, in August 2015, jointly with 15 other thematically conferences. The total of 1462 papers and 246 posters
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Practical Aspects of Declarative Languages

20th International Symposium, PADL 2018, Los Angeles, CA, USA, January 8–9, 2018, Proceedings

Edited by Francesco Calimeri, Kevin Hamlen, Nicola Leone ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 20th International Symposium on Practical Aspects of Declarative Languages, PADL 2018, held in Los Angeles, CA, USA, in January 2018 and collocated with the 45th ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages.The 13 regular papers presented in this volume together with the abstracts of 2 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected ... Read more

$51.29 CAD

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 20th International Symposium on Practical Aspects of Declarative Languages, PADL 2018, held in Los Angeles, CA, USA, in January 2018 and collocated with the 45th ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages.The 13 regular papers presented in this volume together with the abstracts of 2 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected
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Logics in Artificial Intelligence

16th European Conference, JELIA 2019, Rende, Italy, May 7–11, 2019, Proceedings

Edited by Francesco Calimeri, Nicola Leone, Marco Manna ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 16th European Conference on Logics in Artificial Intelligence, JELIA 2019, held in Rende, Italy, in May 2019. The 50 full papers and 10 short papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 101 submissions. Additionally, the book contains 3 invited papers. The accepted papers span a number of areas within Logics in AI, including ... Read more

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This book constitutes the proceedings of the 16th European Conference on Logics in Artificial Intelligence, JELIA 2019, held in Rende, Italy, in May 2019. The 50 full papers and 10 short papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 101 submissions. Additionally, the book contains 3 invited papers. The accepted papers span a number of areas within Logics in AI, including
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Transactions on Large-Scale Data- and Knowledge-Centered Systems XXXIX

Special Issue on Database- and Expert-Systems Applications

Edited by Abdelkader Hameurlain, Roland Wagner, Djamal Benslimane, Ernesto Damiani, William I. Grosky ...

Series series Computer Science (R0)
This, the 39th issue of Transactions on Large-Scale Data- and Knowledge-Centered Systems, contains extended and revised versions of seven papers selected from the 37 contributions presented at the 28th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications, DEXA 2017, held in Lyon, France, in August 2017. Topics covered include knowledge bases, clustering algorithms, parallel ... Read more

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This, the 39th issue of Transactions on Large-Scale Data- and Knowledge-Centered Systems, contains extended and revised versions of seven papers selected from the 37 contributions presented at the 28th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications, DEXA 2017, held in Lyon, France, in August 2017. Topics covered include knowledge bases, clustering algorithms, parallel
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High Performance Integer Arithmetic Circuit Design on FPGA

Architecture, Implementation and Design Automation

by Ayan Palchaudhuri, Rajat Subhra Chakraborty ...

Series series Engineering (R0)
This book describes the optimized implementations of several arithmetic datapath, controlpath and pseudorandom sequence generator circuits for realization of high performance arithmetic circuits targeted towards a specific family of the high-end Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs). It explores regular, modular, cascadable and bit-sliced architectures of these circuits, by directly instantiating ... Read more

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This book describes the optimized implementations of several arithmetic datapath, controlpath and pseudorandom sequence generator circuits for realization of high performance arithmetic circuits targeted towards a specific family of the high-end Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs). It explores regular, modular, cascadable and bit-sliced architectures of these circuits, by directly instantiating
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Biometric Security and Privacy

Opportunities & Challenges in The Big Data Era

Edited by Richard Jiang, Somaya Al-maadeed, Ahmed Bouridane, Prof. Danny Crookes, Azeddine Beghdadi ...

Series series Engineering (R0)
This book highlights recent research advances on biometrics using new methods such as deep learning, nonlinear graph embedding, fuzzy approaches, and ensemble learning. Included are special biometric technologies related to privacy and security issues, such as cancellable biometrics and soft biometrics. The book also focuses on several emerging topics such as big data issues, internet of things, ... Read more

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This book highlights recent research advances on biometrics using new methods such as deep learning, nonlinear graph embedding, fuzzy approaches, and ensemble learning. Included are special biometric technologies related to privacy and security issues, such as cancellable biometrics and soft biometrics. The book also focuses on several emerging topics such as big data issues, internet of things,
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Artificial Intelligence in Medicine

16th Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, AIME 2017, Vienna, Austria, June 21-24, 2017, Proceedings

Edited by Annette ten Teije, Christian Popow, John H. Holmes, Lucia Sacchi ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, AIME 2017, held in Vienna, Austria, in June 2017.The 21 revised full and 23 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 113 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: ontologies and knowledge representation; Bayesian methods; temporal ... Read more

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, AIME 2017, held in Vienna, Austria, in June 2017.The 21 revised full and 23 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 113 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: ontologies and knowledge representation; Bayesian methods; temporal
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Software Technologies

8th International Joint Conference, ICSOFT 2013, Reykjavik, Iceland, July 29-31, 2013, Revised Selected Papers

Edited by José Cordeiro, Marten van Sinderen ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 8th International Joint Conference on Software Technologies, ICSOFT 2013, held in Reykjavik, Iceland, in July 2013. The 19 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 121 paper submissions. The papers focus on the following research topics and applications: new software paradigm trends and mainstream ... Read more

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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 8th International Joint Conference on Software Technologies, ICSOFT 2013, held in Reykjavik, Iceland, in July 2013. The 19 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 121 paper submissions. The papers focus on the following research topics and applications: new software paradigm trends and mainstream
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Psychologie in der nutzerzentrierten Produktgestaltung

Mensch-Technik-Interaktion-Erlebnis

by Sarah Diefenbach, Marc Hassenzahl ...

Series series Psychology (German Language)
Das informative und spannende Buch richtet sich an eine Leserschaft aus Praxis, Forschung und Lehre in der Psychologie, Gestaltung und Informatik. Anhand zahlreicher Beispiele zeigen die Autoren wie psychologisches Wissen gezielt für die erlebnis- und wohlbefindensorientierte Gestaltung interaktiver Produkte eingesetzt werden kann.Ob im Privaten oder auf der Arbeit: Interaktive Produkte, wie ... Read more

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Das informative und spannende Buch richtet sich an eine Leserschaft aus Praxis, Forschung und Lehre in der Psychologie, Gestaltung und Informatik. Anhand zahlreicher Beispiele zeigen die Autoren wie psychologisches Wissen gezielt für die erlebnis- und wohlbefindensorientierte Gestaltung interaktiver Produkte eingesetzt werden kann.Ob im Privaten oder auf der Arbeit: Interaktive Produkte, wie
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Natural Language Processing

Unveiling the Language of Machines. Exploring Natural Language Processing (NLP)

by Chuck Sherman ...

Language—the fundamental bridge connecting humanity's thoughts, emotions, and stories—has embarked on an extraordinary journey. In "Unveiling the Language of Machines: Exploring Natural Language Processing (NLP)," readers are invited to traverse the intricate landscapes where words and algorithms converge, reshaping the boundaries of communication and creativity.This immersive exploration delves ... Read more

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Language—the fundamental bridge connecting humanity's thoughts, emotions, and stories—has embarked on an extraordinary journey. In "Unveiling the Language of Machines: Exploring Natural Language Processing (NLP)," readers are invited to traverse the intricate landscapes where words and algorithms converge, reshaping the boundaries of communication and creativity.This immersive exploration delves
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The Code of Life IV. - The Code of Intelligence

by MATE ISTVAN-MATYAS ...

Máté István-Mátyás: The Code of Life IV. – The Code of IntelligenceWhat if we rebuilt artificial intelligence entirely from scratch?Today's artificial intelligence development is producing astonishing leaps, yet the global focus remains largely confined to bigger models, massive amounts of data, and brutal computing power. In this provocative and radical book—the fourth volume of The Code of Life ... Read more

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Máté István-Mátyás: The Code of Life IV. – The Code of IntelligenceWhat if we rebuilt artificial intelligence entirely from scratch?Today's artificial intelligence development is producing astonishing leaps, yet the global focus remains largely confined to bigger models, massive amounts of data, and brutal computing power. In this provocative and radical book—the fourth volume of The Code of Life
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Emerging Technologies and the Digital Transformation of Museums and Heritage Sites

First International Conference, RISE IMET 2021, Nicosia, Cyprus, June 2–4, 2021, Proceedings

Edited by Maria Shehade, Theopisti Stylianou-Lambert ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This book constitutes the post-conference proceedings of the First International Conference on Emerging Technologies and the Digital Transformation of Museums and Heritage Sites, RISE IMET 2020, held in Nicosia, Cyprus, in June 2021*.The 23 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 38 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: digital curation and ... Read more

$108.99 CAD

This book constitutes the post-conference proceedings of the First International Conference on Emerging Technologies and the Digital Transformation of Museums and Heritage Sites, RISE IMET 2020, held in Nicosia, Cyprus, in June 2021*.The 23 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 38 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: digital curation and
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Quality of Experience

Advanced Concepts, Applications and Methods

Edited by Alexander Raake, Sebastian Möller ...

Series series Engineering (R0)
This pioneering book develops definitions and concepts related to Quality of Experience in the context of multimedia- and telecommunications-related applications, systems and services and applies these to various fields of communication and media technologies. The editors bring together numerous key-protagonists of the new discipline “Quality of Experience” and combine the state-of-the-art ... Read more

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This pioneering book develops definitions and concepts related to Quality of Experience in the context of multimedia- and telecommunications-related applications, systems and services and applies these to various fields of communication and media technologies. The editors bring together numerous key-protagonists of the new discipline “Quality of Experience” and combine the state-of-the-art
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PHP 7 Zend Certification Study Guide

Ace the ZCE 2017-PHP Exam

by Andrew Beak ...

Series series Professional and Applied Computing (R0)
Improve your programming knowledge and become Zend Certified. This book closely follows the ZCE2017-PHP exam syllabus and adds important details that help candidates to prepare for the test.Zend Certification is an industry recognized standard for PHP engineers. It is very difficult to pass the examination without extensive preparation. Unlike other books on PHP, this book is very focused on ... Read more

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Improve your programming knowledge and become Zend Certified. This book closely follows the ZCE2017-PHP exam syllabus and adds important details that help candidates to prepare for the test.Zend Certification is an industry recognized standard for PHP engineers. It is very difficult to pass the examination without extensive preparation. Unlike other books on PHP, this book is very focused on
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AI Health Guide Smart Tech Tools for Fitness, Nutrition, Sleep, Longevity, and a Healthier Family

by D.K. Hopkins ...

Feeling tired, unfocused, or burned out by modern life? Balancing work, family, and health can drain your energy and impact your sleep, focus, and overall wellness. The good news, AI-powered health tools can help you take control of your wellbeing.From smartwatches and fitness trackers to smart scales and health apps, technology can now track your sleep, activity, heart rate, stress, and body ... Read more

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Feeling tired, unfocused, or burned out by modern life? Balancing work, family, and health can drain your energy and impact your sleep, focus, and overall wellness. The good news, AI-powered health tools can help you take control of your wellbeing.From smartwatches and fitness trackers to smart scales and health apps, technology can now track your sleep, activity, heart rate, stress, and body
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Torn Many Ways

Politics, Conflict and Emotion in Research

Edited by Max Krüger, Debora De Castro Leal, David Randall, Peter Tolmie ...

Series series Computer Science (R0)
This edited collection brings together a range of experiences from the field, largely in the context of CSCW and HCI. It focuses specifically on the experiences of people who have worked in difficult, tense, delicate and sometimes conflictual and dangerous settings. The tensions faced by researchers and, more importantly, how they manage to deal with them are often under-remarked. Unlike the bulk ... Read more

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This edited collection brings together a range of experiences from the field, largely in the context of CSCW and HCI. It focuses specifically on the experiences of people who have worked in difficult, tense, delicate and sometimes conflictual and dangerous settings. The tensions faced by researchers and, more importantly, how they manage to deal with them are often under-remarked. Unlike the bulk
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Prompt Warrior

Become The Ultimate AI Commander

by Brian Scott ...

Tired of mediocre AI outputs that waste your time and frustrate you?What if you could consistently get flawless, production-ready results from any AI model - every single time?Prompt Warrior: Become The Ultimate AI Commander is the definitive guide to turning ordinary users into elite prompt engineers who command AI like a professional. This book reveals the exact frameworks, systems, and battle ... Read more

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Tired of mediocre AI outputs that waste your time and frustrate you?What if you could consistently get flawless, production-ready results from any AI model - every single time?Prompt Warrior: Become The Ultimate AI Commander is the definitive guide to turning ordinary users into elite prompt engineers who command AI like a professional. This book reveals the exact frameworks, systems, and battle
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Discovery And Fusion Of Uncertain Knowledge In Data

by Kun Yue, Weiyi Liu, Dapeng Tao, Ming Gao, Hao Wu ...

Series Book 6 - East China Normal University Scientific Reports
Data analysis is of upmost importance in the mining of big data, where knowledge discovery and inference are the basis for intelligent systems to support the real world applications. However, the process involves knowledge acquisition, representation, inference and data, Bayesian network (BN) is the key technology plays a key role in knowledge representation, in order to pave way to cope with ... Read more

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Data analysis is of upmost importance in the mining of big data, where knowledge discovery and inference are the basis for intelligent systems to support the real world applications. However, the process involves knowledge acquisition, representation, inference and data, Bayesian network (BN) is the key technology plays a key role in knowledge representation, in order to pave way to cope with
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Python Feature Engineering Cookbook

Over 70 recipes for creating, engineering, and transforming features to build machine learning models

by Soledad Galli ...

Create end-to-end, reproducible feature engineering pipelines that can be deployed into production using open-source Python librariesKey FeaturesLearn and implement feature engineering best practicesReinforce your learning with the help of multiple hands-on recipesBuild end-to-end feature engineering pipelines that are performant and reproducibleBook DescriptionFeature engineering, the process of ... Read more

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Create end-to-end, reproducible feature engineering pipelines that can be deployed into production using open-source Python librariesKey FeaturesLearn and implement feature engineering best practicesReinforce your learning with the help of multiple hands-on recipesBuild end-to-end feature engineering pipelines that are performant and reproducibleBook DescriptionFeature engineering, the process of
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