Bøger af Michael Fischer

Virtual assistants give end-users the capability to access their devices and web data using hundreds of thousands of predefined skills. Nonetheless, there is still a long-tail of personal digital tasks that people want to automate. This dissertation explores how end-users can define useful personalized skills without learning any formal programming languages. We empower an end user to create a web-based skill by demonstrating their skill in a web browser using natural language, their mouse, and keyboard. Our tool is the first program-by-demonstration system that produces programs with control constructs. The system gives the user an easy-to-learn multimodal interface and generates code in a formal programming language which supports parameterization, function invocation, conditionals, and iterative execution. We show that a virtual assistant skill can greatly benefit from having a graphical interface as users can monitor multiple queries simultaneously, re-run skills easily, and adjust settings using multiple modes of interaction. We developed a system that automatically translates a user's voice command into a reusable skill with a graphical user interface. Unlike the formulaic interfaces generated by previous work, we generate interfaces that are interesting and diverse by using a novel template-based approach. To improve the aesthetics of graphical user interfaces we use a technique called style transfer. We show that the previous formulation of style transfer cannot retain structure in an image, which causes the output result to lack definition and legibility, and renders restyled interfaces not usable. Our purely neural solution captures structure by the uncentered cross-covariance between features across different layers of a convolutional neural network. By minimizing the squared error in the structure between the style and output images, our technology retains structure while generating results with texture in the background, shadow and contrast in the borders, consistency of design across edges, and an overall cohesiveness to the design. In summary, our system enables end-users to create web-based skills with automatically generated graphical user interfaces.

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There are concepts in the world of saving and investing that have withstood the test of time. Many of these are linked to just understanding what things are and why they exist. This book looks at these aspects. We all need to save and invest intelligently - in today's world this stuff is too important to ignore. Relying on someone else to make all the decisions can also lead to disaster. If we never get the full picture, we are relying on snippets that are often opinions, or even worse - biased opinions, when in reality the facts are what should matter most. Fortunately saving, investing and our financial system are very straightforward if we get the full picture once. After that everything makes sense.Saving and Investing brings the world of investing to an easy-to-read and understand level. The book covers compounding, how companies make money, financial markets, debt, equity, bonds, stocks, mutual funds and unit trusts, hedge funds, real estate, commodities, other investments, the economy and all of the related terminology, the impact of time, dollar cost averaging, taxes and compounding, diversification and transaction cost as well as getting started.These concepts are amazingly straightforward when properly explained.The book is different because it highlights facts and principles that will withstand the test of time and because of all of this comes from a professional practioner in the field. After reading this book, the simplicity will seem astounding, and the path towards financial independence and freedom a lot clearer.

What is a respiratory therapist? What do they do? Perhaps you are a respiratory therapist and you want others to understand what it is you do, this book will help. Maybe, as a respiratory therapist, you want to read about a fellow therapist's life experiences in this field. Maybe you have a friend or loved one in the profession and you want to understand more about what it is they do and experience. Or, you might be someone that has heard about this profession and you want to know more. No matter what category you might fall in, this book is for you. It recounts my experiences in this profession. How I got into it, the challenges, the heartaches, and the moments that keep us going on. It will make you laugh, and it will make you cry, but most of all, it will help you understand what this profession is about and the challenges we face every day

Start-up ecosystems have sprung up all over the world, but the original is still number one, in terms of access to talent and capital. Silicon Valley has developed its own culture that emphasizes openness and break-through innovation and inspires start-up scenes around the world. The vibe is not for everyone and of course there are challenges, such as the high cost of housing and office space, but between 14,000 and 19,000 start-ups have now settled here. More than half of the entrepreneurs come from around the world, so it makes no difference where in the world you are right now. A good idea is always welcome here - and has a chance of success, provided you play your cards right. In much the same way, learning the essentials of building a start-up as well as profiting from others experiences, is the reason we've conducted these interviews and assembled them in this book. The book is divided into four overarching sections. The first section focuses on the ecosystem on which a successful start-up is based. Silicon Valley has been recognized as the flagship-ecosystem - not only for co-location of large and high-profile technology companies like Google, Apple, and Facebook, but also for the clustering of entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, research institutes, and support infrastructure. In the second section, you will learn about the business, financial and legal foundation that needs to be established when setting up a start-up. In the third part we discuss mega growth mega market opportunities at hand: Cybersecurity, nanotechnology, biosensors, printed sensors, Block chain, Wave energy, Cannabis etc. The fourth and final part you will dive into the success stories of well-known companies, as well as start-ups that have the potential to become the next Unicorns.

Inhaltsangabe:Abstract: Successive to a preceding study about Service Discovery, this thesis covers the topics Service Description and Service Access. Starting with an analysis and comparison of existing technologies, a new protocol for the service access was developed and an operating environment, capable of accessing services of any type was programmed. Thereby emphasis is placed an high scalability, extensibility, modularity and comprehensive documentation, to provide easy association with existing or future works. The first part deals with the various versions of Service Descriptions, followed by a description of the service access methods and concluding with a comprising comparison. All technologies or protocols qualified for Service Discovery and Access discovered during this diploma thesis are discussed. The main part comprises the software implementation which was written in Java, including a comprehensive documentation containing, among others, the protocol specification, software architecture, an user guide and proposals for advancements. Zusammenfassung: Aufbauend auf einer vorangegangenen Arbeit über Service Discovery, werden in dieser Diplomarbeit die Themen Service Description und Service Access behandelt. Beginnend mit einer Analyse und dem Vergleich existierender Techologien, wurde ein neues Protokoll für den dynamischen Dienstzugriff entwickelt und eine funktionsfähige Umgebung programmiert, die mittels dieses Protokolls auf Dienste jeglicher Art zugreifen kann. Dabei wurde das Augenmerk auf eine hohe Skalierbarkeit, Erweiterbarkeit, Modularität und umfassende Dokumentation gelegt, so dass es nicht schwer fallen sollte, die Software mit folgenden oder existierenden Arbeiten zu verknüpfen. Im ersten Teil wird auf die verschiedenen Varianten der Dienstbeschreibungen eingegangen, gefolgt von einer Beschreibung der Dienstzugriffe und anschließend einem zusammenfassenden Vergleich. Aufgeführt sind dabei alle für Service Discovery und Access geeigneten Technologien, bzw. Protokolle, die im Rahmen der Diplomarbeit aufgefunden wurden. Der Hauptteil der Arbeit umfasst die Implementierung der Software, die in Java geschrieben wurde, inklusive einer umfassenden Dokumentation dazu, die unter anderem die Protokollspezifikation, die Architektur der Software, eine Bedienungsanleitung und Vorschläge zur Weiterentwicklung beinhaltet. Inhaltsverzeichnis:Table of Contents: 1.Introduction1 1.1Topic1 1.2Content1 1.3How to read this [¿]

Nuclear family and kibbutz childrearing practices are compared from a Rawlsian perspective of justice. For Americans, the kibbutz educational system shows new paths for change from nursery school through high school that would allow for greater bonds between the family, school, work, and the community.

Relating the kibbutz experience to theories of social psychology and criminology, Fischer and Geiger offer a model for resocialization combining group dynamics with social learning in a context of meaningful work and acceptance.

Examines the research activities covered by social anthropologists, and introduces new methods for organizing and interpreting visual and aural data, as well as possible applications of knowledge-based models.