Eskadra Cadillac

Marshall Harrison

Rok 1969. Do Lotnictwa Taktycznego Sił Powietrznych USA, stacjonującego podczas konfliktu indochińskiego w Tajlandii, w ramach uzupełnień przybywa kapitan James Broussard. Aby zaliczyć turę bojową, musi wziąć udział w 100 nalotach na silnie broniony obszar Wietnamu Północnego. Jednak już po kilku tygodniach latania za sterami samolotu myśliwsko-bombowego F-105 Thunderchief przekonuje się, że od wietnamskich MIG-ów i rakiet ziemia-powietrze groźniejszy może okazać się... niekompetentny i ambitny zarazem dowódca eskadry.

Eskadra Do Gwiazd. Skyward. Tom 2.1-2.3

Brandon Sanderson

Bohaterowie dotarli do gwiazd, ale czy będą gotowi przynieść im wolność   Zbiór trzech minipowieści osadzonych w świecie cyklu Do Gwiazd, które przedstawiają najważniejsze wydarzenia z perspektywy bohaterów towarzyszących Spensie, rzucając nowe światło na ich rolę w walce z zagrożeniami ze strony galaktycznego Zwierzchnictwa. FM, pilotka eskadry Do Gwiazd, bada tajemnice technologii kosmicznych ślimaków zdolnych do teleportacji i staje się kluczową postacią w misji zrozumienia ich niezwykłych zdolności. Alanik, należąca do rasy UrDail, stara się zapobiec wojnie domowej na swojej ojczystej planecie i przekonać różne frakcje do walki ze Zwierzchnictwem. Jorgen, lider eskadry, odkrywa swoje szczególne powiązanie ze ślimakami, równocześnie nawiązując sojusze z obcymi rasami, które mogą zadecydować o losach ludzkości.   Obowiązkowa lektura dla fanów opowieści o Spensie. Poznajemy dokładniej wiele unikalnych obcych kultur i tajniki hipernapędu. Istotne uzupełnienie głównego cyklu. Publishers Weekly

ESP8266 Home Automation Projects. Leverage the power of this tiny WiFi chip to build exciting smart home projects

Catalin Batrinu

The ESP8266 is a low-cost yet powerful Wi-Fi chip that is becoming more popular at an alarming rate, and people have adopted it to create interesting projects.With this book, you will learn to create and program home automation projects using the ESP8266 Wi-Fi chip. You will learn how to build a thermostat to measure and adjust the temperature accordingly and how to build a security system using the ESP8266. Furthermore, you will design a complete home automation system from sensor to your own cloud. You will touch base on data monitoring, controlling appliances, and security aspects.By the end of the book, you will understand how to completely control and monitor your home from the cloud and from a mobile application. You will be familiar with the capabilities of the ESP8266 and will have successfully designed a complete ready-to-sell home automated system.

ESP8266 Internet of Things Cookbook. Over 50 recipes to help you master the ESP8266's functionality

Marco Schwartz

The ESP8266 Wi-Fi Module is a self contained System on Chip (SOC) with an integrated TCP/IP protocol stack and can give any microcontroller access to your Wi-Fi network. It is capable of either hosting an application or offloading all Wi-Fi networking functions from another application processor.This book contains practical recipes that will help you master all ESP8266 functionalities. You will start by configuring and customizing the chip in line with your requirements. Then you will focus on core topics such as on-board processing, sensors, GPIOs, programming, networking, integration with external components, and so on. We will also teach you how to leverage Arduino using the ESP8266 and you'll learn about its libraries, file system, OTA updates, and so on. The book also provide recipes on web servers, testing, connecting with the cloud, and troubleshooting techniques. Programming aspects include MicroPython and how to leverage it to get started with the ESP8266. Towards the end, we will use these concepts and create an interesting project (IOT).By the end of the book, readers will be proficient enough to use the ESP8266 board efficiently.

ESP8266 Robotics Projects. DIY Wi-Fi controlled robots

Pradeeka Seneviratne

The ESP8266 Wi-Fi module is a self-contained SOC with an integrated TCP/IP protocol stack and can give any microcontroller access to your Wi-Fi network. It has a powerful processing and storage capability and also supports application hosting and Wi-Fi networking. This book is all about robotics projects based on the original ESP8266 microcontroller board and some variants of ESP8266 boards. It starts by showing all the necessary things that you need to build your development environment with basic hardware and software components. The book uses the original ESP8266 board and some variants such as the Adafruit HUZZAH ESP8266 and the Adafruit Feather HUZZAH ESP8266 . You will learn how to use different type of chassis kits, motors, motor drivers, power supplies, distribution boards, sensors, and actuators to build robotics projects that can be controlled via Wi-Fi. In addition, you will learn how to use line sensors, the ArduiCam, Wii Remote, wheel encoders, and the Gripper kit to build more specialized robots.By the end of this book, you will have built a Wi-Fi control robot using ESP8266.

E-sport. Optymalizacja gracza

Maciej Cypryjański

Zostań profesjonalnym zawodnikiem e-sportu! Poznaj czynniki mające wpływ na sprawność e-zawodnika Dowiedz się, jak prowadzić odpowiedni trening e-gracza Naucz się dbać o kondycję i higienę prawdziwego e-sportowca E-sport to dynamicznie rozwijająca się dyscyplina w świecie komputerów i cyfrowej rozrywki. Kiedy gry komputerowe przestały być domeną garstki geeków i znalazły się na celowniku największych firm z branży IT, e-sport doczekał się prestiżowych turniejów o milionowych pulach nagród. To wydarzenia masowe, śledzone przez tysiące fanów rozgrywek, podczas których mierzą się ligi narodowe i całe rzesze profesjonalnych graczy. Skala zjawiska przyciąga m.in. producentów specjalnych urządzeń elektronicznych, chcących zaspokoić potrzeby graczy, i wielkie agencje reklamowe. Profesjonalizacji tej dziedziny towarzyszy też coraz poważniejsze podejście do kwestii treningu, odpowiedniego przygotowania fizycznego i psychicznego, a nawet właściwej diety e-sportowców. Jeśli marzysz o karierze profesjonalnego e-gracza lub po prostu interesujesz się e-sportem i chcesz poszerzyć swoją wiedzę na ten temat, sięgnij po książkę „E-sport. Optymalizacja gracza ”, która kompleksowo przedstawia możliwości i pułapki stojące przed osobami pragnącymi rozwijać się w tym kierunku. Autor tej publikacji dysponujący dużą wiedzą praktyczną, omawia tu czynniki mające wpływ na sukces zawodnika. Szczególną uwagę zwraca na sposoby przygotowywania się do rozgrywek oraz na techniki wypracowane w tradycyjnym sporcie, mogące poprawić efektywność gracza. W książce prezentowane są ćwiczenia poprawiające koncentrację, redukujące stres oraz wzmacniające organizm zawodnika. W tej pierwszej na świecie publikacji poruszającej tematykę profesjonalnego przygotowania e-sportowców znajdziesz wszystko, czego potrzeba do rozpoczęcia obiecującej kariery. Trening psychologiczny, fizyczny i mentalny w e-sporcie Znaczenie odpowiedniej higieny życia dla skuteczności e-gracza Wskazówki żywieniowe i kwestie związane z nawodnieniem Wykorzystanie doświadczeń pochodzących z tradycyjnych sportów Praktyczne ćwiczenia i porady dla e-zawodników E-sport dzisiaj i prognozy jego rozwoju w przyszłości Trenuj z głową i wyprzedź konkurencję! Maciej Cypryjański — absolwent Akademii Wychowania Fizycznego w Gorzowie Wielkopolskim i uczestnik wielu szkoleń oraz kursów sportowych. Współpracował między innymi z polskimi szczypiornistami, a obecnie jest trenerem odpowiedzialnym za przygotowanie motoryczne w niemieckich klubach piłkarskich. Jest także byłym zawodnikiem kick-boxingu oraz pasjonatem gier komputerowych. Jest związany ze sceną Counter-Strike od 2004 roku. Łączy wiedzę oraz doświadczenie zawodowe zdobyte w sportach fizycznych z zainteresowaniem e-sportem.

Essential Angular 4. Fast paced guide to Front-end web development with Angular

Victor Savkin, Jeff Cross

Essential Angular is a concise, complete overview of the key aspects of Angular, written by two Angular core contributors. The book covers the framework's mental model, its API, and the design principles behind it. This book is fully up to date with the latest release of Angular.Essential Angular gives you a strong foundation in the core Angular technology. It will help you put all the concepts into the right places so you will have a good understanding of why the framework is the way it is. Read this book after you have toyed around with the framework, but before you embark on writing your first serious Angular application.This book covers concepts such as the differences between Just-In-Time (JIT) and Ahead-Of-Time (AOT) compilation in Angular, alongside NgModules, components and directives. It also goes into detail on Dependency Injection and Change Detection: essential skills for Angular developers to master. The book finishes with a look at testing, and how to integrate different testing methodologies in your Angular code.

Essential Computer Hardware. Understanding the Building Blocks of Modern Technology and Securing Your Digital World

Kevin Wilson

You'll begin this course with basic computer fundamentals, setting the foundation for critical hardware components that power every computing device. From motherboards to processors, you'll gain a solid understanding of how these elements work together to create a functioning computer.As you progress, you'll uncover the importance of peripheral devices, discovering how external components interact with the core hardware. The course also covers the diverse types of computers, ranging from personal desktops to powerful servers, and guides you in interpreting hardware specifications to make informed decisions when purchasing or upgrading equipment. The course continues with an introduction to computer software, focusing on the relationship between hardware & the programs that bring them to life.In the final stages, the course shifts its focus to computer networks and the internet, offering insights into how devices connect and communicate on a global scale. You'll explore the essential principles of internet security, learning how to protect your devices and data from online threats. By the end of this course, you'll have a well-rounded understanding of both the physical and digital aspects of computing, empowering you to navigate the technological landscape with confidence.

Essential Cryptography for JavaScript Developers. A practical guide to leveraging common cryptographic operations in Node.js and the browser

Alessandro Segala

If you’re a software developer, this book will give you an introduction to cryptography, helping you understand how to make the most of it for your applications. The book contains extensive code samples in JavaScript, both for Node.js and for frontend apps running in a web browser, although the core concepts can be used by developers working with any programming language and framework.With a purely hands-on approach that is focused on sharing actionable knowledge, you’ll learn about the common categories of cryptographic operations that you can leverage in all apps you’re developing, including hashing, encryption with symmetric, asymmetric and hybrid ciphers, and digital signatures. You’ll learn when to use these operations and how to choose and implement the most popular algorithms to perform them, including SHA-2, Argon2, AES, ChaCha20-Poly1305, RSA, and Elliptic Curve Cryptography. Later, you’ll learn how to deal with password and key management. All code in this book is written in JavaScript and designed to run in Node.js or as part of frontend apps for web browsers.By the end of this book, you'll be able to build solutions that leverage cryptography to protect user privacy, offer better security against an expanding and more complex threat landscape, help meet data protection requirements, and unlock new opportunities.

Essential Guide to LLMOps. Implementing effective strategies for Large Language Models in deployment and continuous improvement

Ryan Doan

The rapid advancements in large language models (LLMs) bring significant challenges in deployment, maintenance, and scalability. This Essential Guide to LLMOps provides practical solutions and strategies to overcome these challenges, ensuring seamless integration and the optimization of LLMs in real-world applications.This book takes you through the historical background, core concepts, and essential tools for data analysis, model development, deployment, maintenance, and governance. You’ll learn how to streamline workflows, enhance efficiency in LLMOps processes, employ LLMOps tools for precise model fine-tuning, and address the critical aspects of model review and governance. You’ll also get to grips with the practices and performance considerations that are necessary for the responsible development and deployment of LLMs. The book equips you with insights into model inference, scalability, and continuous improvement, and shows you how to implement these in real-world applications.By the end of this book, you’ll have learned the nuances of LLMOps, including effective deployment strategies, scalability solutions, and continuous improvement techniques, equipping you to stay ahead in the dynamic world of AI.

Essential Linux Commands. 100 Linux commands every system administrator should know

Paul Olushile

The role of a system administrator is ever-evolving, with the Linux command line at its core. This makes Linux command-line mastery an essential skill to demonstrate your ability to efficiently manage and maintain systems efficiently. Essential Linux Commands addresses a diverse range of topics, including package management, file manipulation, networking strategies, system monitoring, and diagnostic tools. Each command is intricately explained to eliminate any ambiguity, ensuring ease of implementation in real-world scenarios.This book explains how to use SELinux to maintain security, run Linux machines on AWS Cloud, and transfer and download files to remote systems. With the help of practical examples and use cases, you’ll not only gain a thorough understanding of a command’s syntax but also grasp its functional breadth and limitations. The book also explores commands frequently used by system administrators to check network card statistics and firewall rules.Whether you’re a beginner or an experienced administrator, this book is an invaluable resource, filling in the gaps in your skill set and helping you improve your skills and expertise in Linux administration.

Essential Mathematics for Quantum Computing. A beginner's guide to just the math you need without needless complexities

Leonard S. Woody III

Quantum computing is an exciting subject that offers hope to solve the world’s most complex problems at a quicker pace. It is being used quite widely in different spheres of technology, including cybersecurity, finance, and many more, but its concepts, such as superposition, are often misunderstood because engineers may not know the math to understand them. This book will teach the requisite math concepts in an intuitive way and connect them to principles in quantum computing.Starting with the most basic of concepts, 2D vectors that are just line segments in space, you'll move on to tackle matrix multiplication using an instinctive method. Linearity is the major theme throughout the book and since quantum mechanics is a linear theory, you'll see how they go hand in hand. As you advance, you'll understand intrinsically what a vector is and how to transform vectors with matrices and operators. You'll also see how complex numbers make their voices heard and understand the probability behind it all.It’s all here, in writing you can understand. This is not a stuffy math book with definitions, axioms, theorems, and so on. This book meets you where you’re at and guides you to where you need to be for quantum computing. Already know some of this stuff? No problem! The book is componentized, so you can learn just the parts you want. And with tons of exercises and their answers, you'll get all the practice you need.

Essential PySpark for Scalable Data Analytics. A beginner's guide to harnessing the power and ease of PySpark 3

Sreeram Nudurupati

Apache Spark is a unified data analytics engine designed to process huge volumes of data quickly and efficiently. PySpark is Apache Spark's Python language API, which offers Python developers an easy-to-use scalable data analytics framework.Essential PySpark for Scalable Data Analytics starts by exploring the distributed computing paradigm and provides a high-level overview of Apache Spark. You'll begin your analytics journey with the data engineering process, learning how to perform data ingestion, cleansing, and integration at scale. This book helps you build real-time analytics pipelines that help you gain insights faster. You'll then discover methods for building cloud-based data lakes, and explore Delta Lake, which brings reliability to data lakes. The book also covers Data Lakehouse, an emerging paradigm, which combines the structure and performance of a data warehouse with the scalability of cloud-based data lakes. Later, you'll perform scalable data science and machine learning tasks using PySpark, such as data preparation, feature engineering, and model training and productionization. Finally, you'll learn ways to scale out standard Python ML libraries along with a new pandas API on top of PySpark called Koalas.By the end of this PySpark book, you'll be able to harness the power of PySpark to solve business problems.

Essential Statistics for Non-STEM Data Analysts. Get to grips with the statistics and math knowledge needed to enter the world of data science with Python

Rongpeng Li

Statistics remain the backbone of modern analysis tasks, helping you to interpret the results produced by data science pipelines. This book is a detailed guide covering the math and various statistical methods required for undertaking data science tasks.The book starts by showing you how to preprocess data and inspect distributions and correlations from a statistical perspective. You’ll then get to grips with the fundamentals of statistical analysis and apply its concepts to real-world datasets. As you advance, you’ll find out how statistical concepts emerge from different stages of data science pipelines, understand the summary of datasets in the language of statistics, and use it to build a solid foundation for robust data products such as explanatory models and predictive models. Once you’ve uncovered the working mechanism of data science algorithms, you’ll cover essential concepts for efficient data collection, cleaning, mining, visualization, and analysis. Finally, you’ll implement statistical methods in key machine learning tasks such as classification, regression, tree-based methods, and ensemble learning.By the end of this Essential Statistics for Non-STEM Data Analysts book, you’ll have learned how to build and present a self-contained, statistics-backed data product to meet your business goals.

Establishing an Occupational Health & Safety Management System. A practical guide to implementing ISO 45001 for better occupational health and safety

IT Governance Publishing, Naeem Sadiq

This book is designed to guide organizations through the process of establishing an Occupational Health and Safety Management System (OHSMS) based on ISO 45001. It begins by explaining the significance of ISO 45001 and its structure, providing a foundational understanding of the standard's importance in enhancing workplace health and safety. The book focuses on critical topics such as identifying workplace risks, determining legal and other regulatory requirements, and the importance of leadership and worker participation. Each section presents practical strategies and methodologies for building and implementing an effective OHSMS, ensuring a proactive safety culture. Through real-world examples and actionable insights, this book helps professionals navigate the complexities of ISO 45001, ensuring organizations meet compliance standards while fostering a safe and healthy work environment.

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Edward Pasewicz

Edward Pasewicz Dolna Wilda Estella M. G. Co chciałbyś nam powiedzieć mały filozofie, kruszynko światła? Popatrz, mam takie wąskie usta, kiedy się śnisz, przechodzę przez bramę. Czy myślisz, że któregoś snu utknę na zawsze, jarząc się przez chwilę jak brutalnie zalane wodą ognisko, skierki unoszące się w powietrzu? Czy może zostanę jak popiół? W drobnych dłoniach będziesz mnie trzymał i w ptasi sposób p... Edward Pasewicz ur.9 czerwca 1971 Najważniejsze dzieła:Dolna Wilda (2001), Henry Berryman Pięśni (2006), Drobne! Drobne! (2008), Pałacyk Bertolta Brechta (2011), Och, Mitochondria (2016) Poeta, pisarz, dramaturg i kompozytor. Absolwent filozofii. Wielokrotnie nominowany do najważniejszych nagród literackich w Polsce i wielokrotnie tłumaczony. Identyfikuje się jako buddysta oraz gej, a w wierszach często odwołuje się do tych rzeczywistości. Justyna Sobolewska zwraca też uwagę na fakt, że w jego twórczości często pojawiają się katalogi rzeczy codziennych. Kupując książkę wspierasz fundację Nowoczesna Polska, która propaguje ideę wolnej kultury. Wolne Lektury to biblioteka internetowa, rozwijana pod patronatem Ministerstwa Edukacji Narodowej. W jej zbiorach znajduje się kilka tysięcy utworów, w tym wiele lektur szkolnych zalecanych do użytku przez MEN, które trafiły już do domeny publicznej. Wszystkie dzieła są odpowiednio opracowane - opatrzone przypisami oraz motywami.