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This book speaks of surprises while ageing with an easy acceptance of both the highs and lows. The theme is of positive aging with thoughts on how life should be lived. The author reflects on her life as a daughter, wife, mother and friend. Episodes in her life, both serious and funny, tell of surprises and truths, family ties and losses, bucket lists, joys and sorrows, love and pain and lastly of contentment. Many of these thoughts are universal, although often unspoken. This is a comfortable reassuring read in one sitting or randomly sampled over a cup of coffee or a glass of wine. Share these random thoughts, The Things Nobody Told Me, with your friends and family. Judy Cline retired after 50 years as an active physiotherapist. She has enjoyed gardening and reading since childhood, likes to write and speak about healthy living and good body maintenance. This is her second book, her first being a biography (Never Give Up) of an amazing 79-year-old woman who trekked through Canada in the early 1990's to educate Canadians about the disease osteoporosis.
The true-life tie in to Good Sam, the bestselling novel and Netflix Original Film: A disabled veteran in Oregon opens his front door to find that an anonymous Good Samaritan has left him a brand-new riding mower. In Oklahoma City, a woman who has just lost her job is amazed when a stranger swoops in and pays for her groceries.In snowy Boston, warm blankets mysteriously appear on park benches throughout the city with a note: "These blankets are not lost If you are cold, without shelter, and looking for comfort, then they are for you. Enjoy, and know that you are loved." The true, inspiring tales in Random Acts of Kindness spotlight ordinary people from age nine to one hundred who have found unique ways to show compassion and make a difference. Some of these stories will warm your heart and make you laugh; others will make you smile; and a few might make you cry-in a good way-with the joy of knowing there is so much goodness and generosity in the world. From the author of the bestselling novel Good Sam (now a motion picture on Netflix worldwide) and award-winning journalist Rachel Greco, these uplifting stories will fill you with hope and gratitude, restore your spirit, and give you faith in the power of kindness to transform you and the world around you.
Random Wisdom Connections: Reflections for Speakers, Teachers, and Trainers
John Labbe
John Labbe
2014
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We rarely make the best use of all the lessons that we've learned in our professional experience. Most of those lessons aren't lost to us, they're just buried somewhere in memory. That's a shame, because failing to apply some of the best lessons we've ever learned means we can't possibly be doing our best work. To uncover these lost lessons, we may need a trigger. Author John Labbe found that random pieces of wisdom from other disciplines helped him find lost connections to very useful wisdom lurking in his experience memory. This same trigger could work for you. Random Wisdom Connections presents a series of thoughtful and well-observed reflections for speakers, teachers, and trainers on the shared art of teaching. Each reflection was inspired by a random quote from a well-known person in a field completely unrelated to teaching. In Random Wisdom Connections, you'll learn: -How Woody Allen inspired a whole new method for organizing a keynote speech. -What the study of astrophysics has in common with corporate training. -Why you should prepare presentations and lessons as if for publication in The New Yorker. -What Rod Serling knew about dancing rabbits, and how it can improve your speaking. -What a handkerchief, a French judge, and an election can teach you about telling stories.
A dozen short stories that run the range from romantic fantasy to ghosts, vampires, and werewolves. Each story entertains and touches on the universal emotions created by the desire to belong and to triumph against those who attempt to block our happiness in life.
Hoping to be a forerunner of the Next Step For Democracy, Baltimore chooses its city council by random selection. The fifteen new council members must struggle to maintain this Peoples Platform against an uprising from the former powers-that-be.
Rocky Rhoads was born during the waning years of the Great Depression. The place was Safford, a small ranching and cotton-growing town in Southern Arizona, with a population sitting right around five thousand. This was also a Mormon town. Eighty-five percent was their claim. Problem was, Rocky wasn't a Mormon-she was a Baptist. But being an outsider taught her to see the humor in life. In Random Bits and Pieces, Rocky shares her life in a bygone era, the life and times of a 20th Century every-woman of grit and humor: flying through the air in a handmade airplane as a five year old, walking the family fence line with a mental hospital escapee, her experience in a nudist colony, and peeing in her own car. With wit and delight Rocky has distilled her life down to a collection of charming, personal, and hysterical bits and pieces of a life well lived.
Random Thoughts: How Reading Helped Me Make Sense Of My Thinking
Virgil L. Abney; Avien Abney; Avien &. Virgil Abney
Nofame Mjollniir Publishing
2019
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Random Matrix Methods for Machine Learning
Romain Couillet; Zhenyu Liao
Cambridge University Press
2022
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This book presents a unified theory of random matrices for applications in machine learning, offering a large-dimensional data vision that exploits concentration and universality phenomena. This enables a precise understanding, and possible improvements, of the core mechanisms at play in real-world machine learning algorithms. The book opens with a thorough introduction to the theoretical basics of random matrices, which serves as a support to a wide scope of applications ranging from SVMs, through semi-supervised learning, unsupervised spectral clustering, and graph methods, to neural networks and deep learning. For each application, the authors discuss small- versus large-dimensional intuitions of the problem, followed by a systematic random matrix analysis of the resulting performance and possible improvements. All concepts, applications, and variations are illustrated numerically on synthetic as well as real-world data, with MATLAB and Python code provided on the accompanying website.
Random Graphs and Networks: A First Course
Alan Frieze; Michal Karonski
Cambridge University Press
2023
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Networks surround us, from social networks to protein–protein interaction networks within the cells of our bodies. The theory of random graphs provides a necessary framework for understanding their structure and development. This text provides an accessible introduction to this rapidly expanding subject. It covers all the basic features of random graphs – component structure, matchings and Hamilton cycles, connectivity and chromatic number – before discussing models of real-world networks, including intersection graphs, preferential attachment graphs and small-world models. Based on the authors' own teaching experience, it can be used as a textbook for a one-semester course on random graphs and networks at advanced undergraduate or graduate level. The text includes numerous exercises, with a particular focus on developing students' skills in asymptotic analysis. More challenging problems are accompanied by hints or suggestions for further reading.
Random Graphs and Networks: A First Course
Alan Frieze; Michal Karonski
Cambridge University Press
2023
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Networks surround us, from social networks to protein–protein interaction networks within the cells of our bodies. The theory of random graphs provides a necessary framework for understanding their structure and development. This text provides an accessible introduction to this rapidly expanding subject. It covers all the basic features of random graphs – component structure, matchings and Hamilton cycles, connectivity and chromatic number – before discussing models of real-world networks, including intersection graphs, preferential attachment graphs and small-world models. Based on the authors' own teaching experience, it can be used as a textbook for a one-semester course on random graphs and networks at advanced undergraduate or graduate level. The text includes numerous exercises, with a particular focus on developing students' skills in asymptotic analysis. More challenging problems are accompanied by hints or suggestions for further reading.
This textbook chart out an easy-to-comprehend account of the methods of random vibrations, aided by modern yet basic concepts in probability theory and random processes. It starts with a quick review of certain elements of structural dynamics, thus setting the stage for their seamless continuation in developing techniques for response analyses of structures under random environmental loads, such as winds and earthquakes. The book also offers a few glimpses of the powerful tools of stochastic processes to kindle the spirit of scientific inquiry. By way of applications, it contains numerous illustrative examples and exercises, many of which relate to practical design problems of interest to the industry. A companion website provides solutions to all the problems in the exercises. For the benefit of the prospective instructors, a semester-long schedule for offering a course on Random Vibrations is also suggested.
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