Conservatism, Consumer Choice, and the Food and Drug Administration During the Reagan Era: A Prescription for Scandal, Richert Lucas

• Build your own Python-based machine learning systems tailored to solve any problem
• Discover how Python offers a multiple context solution for create machine learning systems
• Practical scenarios using the key Python machine learning libraries to successfully implement in your projects

Book Description

Using machine learning to gain deeper insights from data is a key skill required by modern application developers and analysts alike. Python is a wonderful language to develop machine learning applications. As a dynamic language, it allows for fast exploration and experimentation. With its excellent collection of open source machine learning libraries you can focus on the task at hand while being able to quickly try out many ideas.

This book shows you exactly how to find patterns in your raw data. You will start by brushing up on your Python machine learning knowledge and introducing libraries. You'll quickly get to grips with serious, real-world projects on datasets, using modeling, creating recommendation systems. Later on, the book covers advanced topics such as topic modeling, basket analysis, and cloud computing. These will extend your abilities and enable you to create large complex systems.

With this book, you gain the tools and understanding required to build your own systems, tailored to solve your real-world data analysis problems.

What you will learn

• Build a classification system that can be applied to text, images, or sounds
• Use NumPy, SciPy, scikit-learn - scientific Python open source libraries for scientific computing and machine learning
• Explore the mahotas library for image processing and computer vision
• Build a topic model for the whole of Wikipedia
• Employ Amazon Web Services to run analysis on the cloud
• Debug machine learning problems
• Get to grips with recommendations using basket analysis
• Recommend products to users based on past purchases

The owners of a wildlife sanctuary in a remote corner of Zimbabwe are involved with translocating endangered black rhinos to Australia.

As if that wasn't dangerous enough, they also find themselves pitted against poachers and the might of a Chinese multinational intent on cornering the world market in rhino horn.

And then there is also a corrupt local government

" An ex fighter pilot turned alcoholic

" Threat of a death penalty for drug smuggling

" And a hazardous trip across America in an ancient bi-plane

In a page-turning action adventure thriller, drama, humour, kidnapping and political chicanery abound. But so too the worthier attributes of love and forgiveness. Attributes possessed not only by man, but also by many wild animals.

Many historians believe it does. 962 BC was the dawn of the golden years for King Solomon. He is at the pinnacle of power, and with Phoenician pilots provided by his friend King Hiram of Tyre, his ships and agents ply the coasts of the Red Sea, trading from Egypt to Saba and around the horn of Africa, hugging the coast as far as Opone and Serapio, keeping land in sight and spending each night ashore. Few pilots dared risk the night at sea with unknown winds and unseen dangers

King Solomon's Pilot is a non-stop, page-turning, action adventure-filled epic of sailing and exploration in the intriguing time of the Phoenicians. A time when ships were at the mercy of the winds, and men were at the mercy of kings.

King Solomon's Pilot propels us into the legendary realm of the young King Solomon, whose power is nearing its apog e towards the end of the first decade of his rule. Aided by King Hiram's Tyrean sailors, he has secured the waterways for his trade, linking Egypt to Saba and outsmarting his enemies, who are waiting for him on the silk road. In 962 BC, his promise to construct a temple in his father's honour is still but a plan, yet a humble potter is about to lead Hiram's niece astray and us to the source of the fabled Solomonian gold

Jerold Richert cleverly adds twists to his narrative by introducing unlikely incidents that make the reader doubt the verisimilitude or authenticity of this turn of events, only to immediately address and explain the characters' motivation or circumstance. Eloquently written with both a host of winsome (and less so) characters and a plethora of factual details" from weaponry to architecture, fashion to cuisine" The Pilot offers all the ingredients of an enthralling read: a headlong dive into the fabulous Phoenician world; adventure; and, of course, an engaging love story that adds a sigh and a smile to the riveting plot.

I have all the novels written by Jerold Richert. He is one of the best African story tellers I have read. Most people's ideas of African adventure will be far removed from what Richert writes about in King Solomon's Pilot which takes us back to the time of King Solomon, Tyre, Ezion Geber and eventually the source of Solomon's fabled gold. The scenes are all very true to life and Jerold Richert writes adventure around these in gripping style. His homework is good and I have to say, for my taste (especially novels about Africa) he is one of the best and most knowledgeable authors around. Finishing this gripping but often delightful book was like finding and then all too quickly losing newly found friends.

Ian Kluckow, Sofia, Bulgaria.