Mark Thomas has narrated 11 audiobooks on Listento.it by 15 authors, with an average listener rating of 4.7★ across 9 ratings. The most-rated is Deep Learning with Python.
Intermittent Fasting: A Nutritionist's Guide to Lose Belly Fat Whilst Eating What You Want - It's Simpler Than You Think
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Imagine how different your life would be if you could lose fat, increase muscle mass, and cleanse your body all at the same time,just by changing "when" you eat. Can you really have your cake and eat it? Excuse the pun, but with intermittent fasting you really can. I know this sounds like an exceptional claim, but in my opinion, this way of eating really is the panacea to virtually all human ailments.... Want to lose weight? Want to put on muscle? Want to cleanse your body? Want to sleep better? Want to have more energy? These are just a handful of benefits which can be achieved when a person switches to an IF style of eating. Simon Keller is a nutritionist who specializes in all forms of human physiology and peak performance. However, it wasn't until leaving university life and entering into the "real world" did he start to understand how these theoretical topics worked in a practical sense - through 10 years of training and consulting clients within his health and wellness facility in London. In this insightful and functional book, Keller gives listeners a firsthand look into the scientific considerations regarding intermittent fasting, as well as a practical guide on how to: Understand the implications of food timing from a biological standpoint Manipulate insulin and leptin sensitivity for weight loss Regulate food timing to naturally increase growth hormone production Understand the detox/cleansing capabilities of human cells to avoid chronic diseases The different methods of intermittent fasting explained The best food types and optimal meals plans for this method of eating The most beneficial exercise protocols to follow to accelerate weight loss/muscle growth ...and much more.
©2017 Simon Keller (P)2017 Simon Keller
Deep Learning with Python
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Deep Learning with Python introduces the field of deep learning using the Python language and the powerful Keras library. Written by Keras creator and Google AI researcher François Chollet, this audiobook builds your understanding through intuitive explanations and practical examples. You'll explore challenging concepts and practice with applications in computer vision, natural-language processing, and generative models. By the time you finish, you'll have the knowledge and hands-on skills to apply deep learning in your own projects. Deep learning from first principles Setting up your own deep-learning environment Image-classification models Deep learning for text and sequences Neural style transfer, text generation, and image generation Machine learning has made remarkable progress in recent years. We went from near-unusable speech and image recognition, to near-human accuracy. We went from machines that couldn't beat a serious Go player, to defeating a world champion. Behind this progress is deep learning - a combination of engineering advances, best practices, and theory that enables a wealth of previously impossible smart applications. François Chollet works on deep learning at Google in Mountain View, CA. He is the creator of the Keras deep-learning library, as well as a contributor to the TensorFlow machine-learning framework. He also does deep-learning research, with a focus on computer vision and the application of machine learning to formal reasoning. His papers have been published at major conferences in the field, including the Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), the Conference and Workshop on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), the International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), and others. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.
©2017 Manning Publications Co. (P)2018 Manning Publications Co.
Go in Action
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Go in Action introduces the Go language, guiding you from inquisitive developer to Go guru. The book begins by introducing the unique features and concepts of Go. Then, you'll get hands-on experience writing real-world applications including websites and network servers, as well as techniques to manipulate and convert data at speeds that will make your friends jealous. Application development can be tricky enough even when you aren't dealing with complex systems, and programming problems like web-scale concurrency and real-time performance. While it's possible to solve these common issues with additional tools and frameworks, Go handles them right out of the box, making for a more natural and productive coding experience. Developed at Google, Go powers nimble startups as well as big enterprises - companies that rely on high-performing services in their infrastructure. Go in Action is for any intermediate-level developer who has experience with other programming languages and wants a jump-start in learning Go or a more thorough understanding of the language and its internals. This book provides an intensive, comprehensive, and idiomatic view of Go. It focuses on the specification and implementation of the language, including topics like language syntax, Go's type system, concurrency, channels, and testing. This audiobook includes information about: Language specification and implementation Go's type system Internals of Go's data structures Testing and benchmarking This book assumes you're a working developer proficient with another language like Java, Ruby, Python, C#, or C++. William Kennedy is a seasoned software developer and author of a blog. Brian Ketelsen and Erik St. Martin are the organizers of GopherCon and co-authors of the Go-based Skynet framework. Table of contents: Introducing Go Go quick-start Packaging and tooling Arrays, slices, and maps Go's type system Concurrency Concurrency patterns Standard library Testing and benchmarking PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.
©2015 Manning Publications (P)2018 Manning Publications
Drones: The Complete Collection
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The best-selling series, Drones, is back with Drones: The Complete Collection, a comprehensive collection which contains incredibly relevant information that any prospective UAV/drone pilot requires in order to go from beginner to master UAV pilot. The three books contained within this collection work in unison through direct information and simple-to-follow how-to guides that cover all aspects of UAV aviation. The collection begins with Drones: The Professional Drone Pilot’s Manual. Drones: The Professional Drone Pilot’s Manual is a pathway to becoming a professional pilot. Its step-by-step guides will light the way for you, ensuring you have all the information you need in order to take you from choosing your drone to completing your first commercial project. This is not just a collection of useful information on guidelines and tips on flying your drones; it is also a tool to help you gain a strong foundation and the correct mindset towards drone use. Drones: Mastering Flight Techniques is a complete guide to flying your drone. Created as a standalone, it is also the natural follow-up to the first book in the series, Drones: The Professional Drone Pilot’s Manual, and was designed to support and guide you as you build on your piloting experience. Within Drones: Mastering Flight Techniques, you will learn how to grow your confidence with proven flight techniques that also add to and enhance your current skill set. Many new flight techniques will be explained in order to enhance your ability to get the perfect shot time after time. There are worked examples as well as numerous tried and tested methods for reveals, capturing moving targets, and flight path ideas for mapping and surveying projects. Drones: The Complete Collection ends with the brilliantly received Drones: Fly Your Drone Anywhere Without Getting Busted, which is essential for both commercial UAV operators and hobbyists alike who wish to get the most out of their chosen aircraft without the worry that sometimes comes with operating in certain areas. The audiobook covers legal methods and proven techniques that will allow you to safely fly anywhere, if done so correctly.
©2017 Lee Senescall (P)2018 Lee Senescall
Drones: The Mastery Collection: 2 Books
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Drones: The Mastery Collection was designed to pull together all the relevant information that any prospective UAV/drone pilot requires in order to go from beginner to master drone pilot. The two books contained within this collection work in unison through direct information and simple-to-follow how-to guides that cover all aspects of UAV aviation. The collection begins with Drones: The Professional Drone Pilot's Manual. It is our responsibility as drone pilots to fly respectfully and safely, and generally we do our best. The way to be the best is to be organized and practice a process that works for you. This is a pathway to becoming a professional pilot. Its step-by-step guides will light the way for you, ensuring you have all the information you need in order to take you from choosing your drone to completing your first commercial project. This is not just a collection of useful information on guidelines and tips on flying your drones; it is also a tool to help you gain a strong foundation and the correct mindset towards drone use. Drones: Mastering Flight Techniques is a complete guide to flying your drone. It was designed to support and guide you as you build on your piloting experience. Within Drones: Mastering Flight Techniques you will learn how to grow your confidence with proven flight techniques that also add to and enhance your current skillset. Many new flight techniques will be explained in order to enhance your ability to get the perfect shot time after time. There are examples as well as numerous tried-and-tested methods for reveals, capturing moving targets, and flight-path ideas for mapping and surveying projects. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.
©2017 Lee Senescall (P)2017 Lee Senescall
Spark in Action
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Spark in Action teaches you the theory and skills you need to effectively handle batch and streaming data using Spark. You'll get comfortable with the Spark CLI as you work through a few introductory examples. Then, you'll start programming Spark using its core APIs. Along the way, you'll work with structured data using Spark SQL, process near-real-time streaming data, apply machine learning algorithms, and munge graph data using Spark GraphX. For a zero-effort startup, you can download the preconfigured virtual machine ready for you to try the book's code. Fully updated for Spark 2.0. Big data systems distribute datasets across clusters of machines, making it a challenge to efficiently query, stream, and interpret them. Spark can help. It is a processing system designed specifically for distributed data. It provides easy-to-use interfaces, along with the performance you need for production-quality analytics and machine learning. Spark 2 also adds improved programming APIs, better performance, and countless other upgrades. Created for experienced programmers with some background in big data or machine learning. Petar Zecevic and Marko Bonaci are seasoned developers heavily involved in the Spark community. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.
©2016 Manning Publications (P)2016 Manning Publications
Python Workout
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The only way to master a skill is to practice. In Python Workout, author Reuven M. Lerner guides you through 50 carefully selected exercises that invite you to flex your programming muscles. As you take on each new challenge, you'll build programming skill and confidence. The thorough explanations help you lock in what you've learned and apply it to your own projects. About the technology To become a champion Python programmer you need to work out, building mental muscle with your hands on the keyboard. Each carefully selected exercise in this unique book adds to your Python prowess - one important skill at a time. About the book Python Workout presents 50 exercises that focus on three key Python features. In it, expert Python coach Reuven Lerner guides you through a series of small projects, practicing the skills you need to tackle everyday tasks. You'll appreciate the clear explanations of each technique. Table of contents Numeric Types Strings Lists and Tuples Dictionaries and Sets Files Functions Functional Programming with Comprehensions Modules and Packages Objects Iterators and Generators What's inside: Over 50 hands-on exercises and solutions Coverage of all Python data types Dozens more bonus exercises for extra practice Target audience For people with basic Python knowledge. About the author Reuven M. Lerner teaches Python and data science to companies around the world. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.
©2020 Manning Publications (P)2021 Manning Publications
Drones
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Drones: Mastering Flight Techniques is a complete guide to flying your drone. Created as a standalone book, it is also the natural follow-up to the first book in the series, Drones: The Professional Drone Pilot's Manual, and was designed to support and guide you as you build on your piloting experience. With Drones: Mastering Flight Techniques, you will learn how to grow your confidence with proven and practiced flight techniques that also add to and enhance your current skill set. Within the book you will learn many flight and filming techniques, some industry specific but many that can be applied to multiple situations. There are step by step methods for the following: Numerous "reveal" shot techniques General drone filming and photography methods How to film moving targets with examples Tried and tested methods for creating professional surveys, map making, and 3D models - along with examples Racing drone flight techniques As well as a multitude of flight techniques, there are also sections dedicated to good airmanship, airworthiness, what to do in the event of a crash, and weather conditions. The book also contains actual worked examples and finishes with some additional tips and FAQs. As UAV/drone pilots, it is important that we fly safely at all times, this book was written with the hopes of not only increasing your skill as a drone pilot, but also to ensure that you get the most out of your drone. Have fun and fly responsibly. Brian Halliday is a lifelong aircraft enthusiast and has been operating drones as a commercial UAV pilot for five years, maintaining, modifying, and flying a wide range of UAVs. His main works include mapping natural areas and nature reserves in the name of conservation and maintenance and contributing to wildlife informational productions and projects.
©2017 Brian Halliday (P)2017 Brian Halliday
The Art of Unit Testing
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The Art of Unit Testing, Second Edition guides you step-by-step from writing your first simple tests to developing robust test sets that are maintainable, readable, and trustworthy. You'll master the foundational ideas and quickly move to high-value subjects like mocks, stubs, and isolation, including frameworks such as Moq, FakeItEasy, and Typemock Isolator. You'll explore test patterns and organization, working with legacy code and even "untestable" code. Along the way, you'll learn about integration testing and techniques and tools for testing databases and other technologies. You know you should be unit testing, so why aren't you doing it? If you're new to unit testing, if you find unit testing tedious, or if you're just not getting enough payoff for the effort you put into it, keep listening. The examples in the audiobook use C# but will benefit anyone using a statically typed language such as Java or C++. What's inside: Create readable, maintainable, trustworthy tests Fakes, stubs, mock objects, and isolation (mocking) frameworks Simple dependency injection techniques Refactoring legacy code Roy Osherove has been coding for more than 15 years, and he consults and trains teams worldwide on the gentle art of unit testing and test-driven development. Table of contents: Part one: "Getting Started" The basics of unit testing A first unit test Part two: "Core Techniques" Using stubs to break dependencies Interaction testing using mock objects Isolation (mocking) frameworks Digging deeper into isolation frameworks Part three: "The Test Code" Test hierarchies and organization The pillars of good unit tests Part four: "Design and Process" Integrating unit testing into the organization Working with legacy code Design and testability PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.
©2013 Manning Publications (P)2013 Manning Publications
Natural Language Processing in Action: Understanding, Analyzing, and Generating Text with Python
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Natural Language Processing in Action is your guide to building machines that can read and interpret human language. In it, you'll use readily available Python packages to capture the meaning in text and react accordingly. The book expands traditional NLP approaches to include neural networks, modern deep learning algorithms, and generative techniques as you tackle real-world problems like extracting dates and names, composing text, and answering free-form questions. About the Technology Recent advances in deep learning empower applications to understand text and speech with extreme accuracy. The result? Chatbots that can imitate real people, meaningful resume-to-job matches, superb predictive search, and automatically generated document summaries - all at a low cost. New techniques, along with accessible tools like Keras and TensorFlow, make professional-quality NLP easier than ever before. What's inside: Some sentences in this book were written by NLP! Can you guess which ones? Working with Keras, TensorFlow, gensim, and scikit-learn. Rule-based and data-based NLP. Scalable pipelines. Requirements This book requires a basic understanding of deep learning and intermediate Python skills. Hobson Lane, Cole Howard, and Hannes Max Hapke are experienced NLP engineers who use these techniques in production for profit and fun: contributing to social-benefit projects like smart guides for people with blindness and cognitive assistance for those with developmental challenges or suffering from information overload (don't we all?). "Provides a great overview of current NLP tools in Python. I’ll definitely be keeping this book on hand for my own NLP work. Highly recommended!" (Tony Mullen, Northeastern University - Seattle) "An intuitive guide to get you started with NLP. The book is full of programming examples that help you learn in a very pragmatic way." (Tommaso Teofili, Adobe Systems) PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.
©2019 Manning Publications (P)2019 Manning Publications
Functional Programming in Scala
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Functional Programming in Scala is a serious tutorial for programmers looking to learn FP and apply it to the everyday business of coding. The audiobook guides listeners from basic techniques to advanced topics in a logical, concise, and clear progression. In it, you'll find concrete examples and exercises that open up the world of functional programming. Functional programming (FP) is a style of software development emphasizing functions that don't depend on program state. Functional code is easier to test and reuse, simpler to parallelize, and less prone to bugs than other code. Scala is an emerging JVM language that offers strong support for FP. Its familiar syntax and transparent interoperability with Java make Scala a great place to start learning FP. This audiobook assumes no prior experience with functional programming. Some prior exposure to Scala or Java is helpful. What's inside: Functional programming concepts The whys and hows of FP How to write multicore programs Checks for understanding Paul Chiusano and Rúnar Bjarnason are recognized experts in functional programming with Scala and are core contributors to the Scalaz library. Table of contents: Part one. Introduction to Functional Programming What is functional programming? Getting started with functional programming in Scala Functional data structures Handling errors without exceptions Strictness and laziness Purely functional state Part two. Functional Design and Combinator Libraries Purely functional parallelism Property-based testing Parser combinators Part three. Common Structures in Functional Design Monoids Monads Applicative and traversable functors Part four. Effects and I/O External effects and I/O Local effects and mutable state Stream processing and incremental I/O PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.
©2014 Manning Publications (P)2014 Manning Publications