Bøger af Rob Smith

In the late 1930s a brilliant Japanese spy-in-training hides a dark secret. Despite unparalleled academic achievements and impressive physical abilities, he hides a damning psychological disability that is unknown to the public and his military superiors. His "condition" is one he shares with few others, but they are, like him, the high achievers of their day. Scientists, doctors, scholars, writers, politicians, actors and more. Unknown for the most part, even to one another in the early twenty-first century, they wrestle their shared disability into submission or risk losing everything they dream of and have worked for. Today we celebrate so many of them. These are the sufferers bipolar syndrome. But in 1938 so little was known that the disability remained without a public name although there were rumblings of its existence in scientific circles. The propensities of the condition were then, as now, unpredictable, sometimes shocking and often simply bizarre. It's likely that as human beings have suffered with this "mood disorder" through millennia, some of them have been able to suppress the demon and have been able to press it deep into themselves and contain it...most of the time. "The Water Trade" is a novel built around the idea that a high level covert operative of the Japanese government was also a high functioning sufferer of what is today known as bipolar syndrome. The novel is an espionage tale and a historical romance which takes many cues from history, but imagines also what might happen when an agent with an undiagnosed psychological malady slips unnoticed into a leading role in the making of history. Even the most disciplined sufferer might be prone to make ill-advised decisions from time to time. "The Water Trade" explores how those decisions might impact the fate of individuals, governments and the future of nations. In 1938, while still in training with the Japanese Imperial Navy, ensign Arashi Sasaki is assigned to monitor shortwave radio messages when he comes upon one describing the northward movement of seventeen British troop transports on the open ocean to the west of Dakar, Sengal. He immediately reports the intercept to his superiors and the information quickly finds its way to the German High Command in Berlin. The subsequent sinking of the transports resulted in the death of over 1,000 British seamen. A year later, a courier-delivered hand-written letter of thanks from German Chancellor Adolph Hitler was delivered to the ensign. The rising star of the Imperial Navy might have languished in the obscurity of Tokyo office buildings if not for this lucky lightening strike, but as it was he found himself selected by top brass to be the eyes and ears of the Japanese Imperial Navy in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii in the fall of 1941. A poor choice of disguises on a daylight reconnaissance reveals his identity to a Japanese civilian woman and a US Navy shore patrol. Compromised by his unmasking he begins making a series of course corrections to keep the suspicious couple at bay. As the clock ticks down to the day of the attack on December 7, 1941, and just as incriminating evidence has been obtained, the zeros unload their ordnance on Pearl Harbor and the three parties are flung far from one another across the globe. The primary characters, despite their individual determination to let the past lie, are drawn together once again in a final explosive conclusion in 1954 Honolulu.

'Alva's Christmas Presents' is part of the Swampy's Florida series of books based and about the state of Florida.In this one, Alva, the Florida mouse wants to give presents to her friends. But what can she give and how can she get any presents to her friends? A few pesky varmints want to derail Alva's Christmas hopes. Answers come as Trilby, the baby alligator, and Zuber, the cat, help her reach her Christmas dream.This is one of the Swampy's Florida story & coloring books. Separate from the Swampy's Florida history and educational part of the series.

A lined notebook with a nurse theme! Great for anyone in a nursing program or even Interns! Take notes in class. Take notes on the job! Take notes just because it has a nurses theme! A great notebook with lined pages to keep with you to jot down thoughts and ideas. 6x9 120 pgs

How to grow delicious vegetables in any garden or allotment.

The Icon Catalogue is a series of small A6 zines profiling 40 record labels in various dance music genres such as Jungle, UK Garage, Techno and Dubstep. From the most important labels responsible for the scene's foundations to rare, hard-to-find imprints now defunct, plus a few heavy-hitting newcomers. Techno Volume 1 features the likes of Basic Channel, BPitch, Force Inc, Lenske, Plus 8, Soma and many more.

Artificial Intelligence is nearly ubiquitous thanks to companies like Google, Facebook and Apple who have infected our daily lives with technology like AI infused natural language processing and search right in the palm of our hands. To move beyond AI to Artificial General Intelligence and then Superintelligence, we need to think far outside the AI development box to design and build human level and eventually beyond human level cognitive AI. So what does it take to build human level cognition into a machine? It takes a brand new way of thinking about artificial intelligence because today's AI systems and infrastructure will not support a true human level cognitive superintelligence, In this edition of the Superintelligence Handbook, I discuss and detail new developments in artificial general intelligence designs specifically related to artificial cognition as well as a couple of updates to some of the content in ASIH1. I also discuss new advancements in infrastructure that supports cognitive AI. The future is both uncertain and hopeful. Humanity stands on the cusp of becoming an interstellar advanced species but only if we can survive long enough to make it to the stars. We need superintelligence and cognitive systems to save us from ourselves and help us master surviving in space. As our organization works through the sale of our cognitive AI code and IP the bad news is that it is not being sold to a US investment group. The good news is that deep within the content of this book is the blueprint of our cognitive AI machine. Safely archived for future generations.Failure is not an option but it is a high probability. Good luck and don't be evil.

Outlining a critical approach to educational research and practice, the book draws on the testimonies of students and teachers to construct a model of transformative teaching and learning.

Darnell Wilson, a Lakewood detective, realizes a connection between the murders of three women. His supervisor, Boyd Wakeman, believes that Wilson is correct, but the department's budget is to investigate crimes, not to anticipate them. At the same time, they cannot help but suspect that on September 10, they will be in position to catch a killer and solve some open cases.

This is the 4th and final book in the Artificial Superintelligence Handbook series and details the design of a Dimensional Cognitive Artificial General Intelligence as the final stage in the progression from designing and building narrow AI to building advanced human level Cognitive Artificial Intelligence. The series is a roadmap to the development of Superintelligence as well as many considerations, threats and hope for the survival of humanity. Each book in the series is a step toward what it takes to build a truly human level artificial cognition based on the way our human mind operates and functions and this book pushes the boundary to the extremes of human contextual cognition. In this book, I not only look at considerations for the final stage of Superintelligence or the use of dimensional context to comprehend and respond to a world of stimuli as fast as a human mind but also what this may mean for our world and the hope that it brings. I also discuss some of the newest AI methods and designs from self supervised neural nets and transformers to extreme Cognitive AI processors. The components of Superintelligence are being built by wealthy tech giants, governments and small labs. These designs are 'in the wild'. We must train the next generation to have any hope of competing in the new world of Artificial Superintelligence. Cognitive AI will also open the door to the extension of our own human cognition launching a new renaissance of human ingenuity, thought, creativity, innovation and opportunity and perhaps push the evolution of our species to that of extra terrestrial. Superintelligence may also be the only hope we humans have of saving the earth from a self afflicted destruction or one wrought by nature. Superintelligence is the best hope humans have for making our planet sustainable, ending the wealth gap, eliminating violence and war, ensuring freedom and one day soon, traveling to other planets and other solar systems.This book is dedicated to all who reachbeyond the boundaries of their own existenceto seek innovation solely for the benefit ofthose they will never meet, in worlds they will never occupyand in the hope of peace and tranquility they will never experienceuntil they pass from this life.

A book to inspire and support teachers to explore and teach amazing words.

This book focuses on writing in different aspects of the curriculum and provides guidance, case studies and theoretical perspectives to show readers how they can become writers with and for children. It demonstrates how to write and model writing for children and includes many examples of good classroom practice in this area.

This doctoral dissertation deals with a very timely and important topic in the fields of international operations, finance and risk management, namely the evaluation of the Real Option value of operational and managerial flexibility within a global supply chain network. The author - who has worked for more than nine years on international supply chain strategy and design as an executive in world class automotive and high tech companies in the U. S. and in Europe - uses a large-scale data set from an existing global supply chain operated by a tier­ one supplier in the global automotive industry in examining and comparing the following supply chain strategies: single sourcing, dual sourcing, compliance with local-content rules, centers of excellence and Real Options with flexibility in sourcing, production and distribution logistics. The major finding of this empirical study is the identification of a Real Options strategy that results in a positive payback in less than a year and dominates all of the other supply chain strategies. The three main contributions of this work are: i) for the first time, a comprehen­ sive and real data set is utilized to quantify and demonstrate the financial performance of various supply chain design strategies, ii) a new model of real price changes, i. e.