Generative AI is the hottest topic in tech. This practical book teaches machine learning engineers and data scientists how to use TensorFlow and Keras to create impressive generative deep learning models from scratch, including variational autoencoders (VAEs), generative adversarial networks (GANs), Transformers, normalizing flows, energy-based models, and denoising diffusion models. The book starts with the basics of deep learning and progresses to cutting-edge architectures. Through tips and tricks, you'll understand how to make your models learn more efficiently and become more creative. Discover how VAEs can change facial expressions in photos Train GANs to generate images based on your own dataset Build diffusion models to produce new varieties of flowers Train your own GPT for text generation Learn how large language models like ChatGPT are trained Explore state-of-the-art architectures such as StyleGAN2 and ViT-VQGAN Compose polyphonic music using Transformers and MuseGAN Understand how generative world models can solve reinforcement learning tasks Dive into multimodal models such as DALL.E 2, Imagen, and Stable Diffusion This book also explores the future of generative AI and how individuals and companies can proactively begin to leverage this remarkable new technology to create competitive advantage.

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This collection features major critical articles dealing with the authors and texts customarily taught in colleges and universities in the United States. The articles are in English and Spanish with a predominance of the former. The material is organized to reflect the common chronological and period divisions of the academic curriculum, and is clustered around major literary figures, with a mix of general articles on the writers and texts that are commonly included in anthologies.

'A writer of virtuostic talents who can seemingly do anything' New York Times 'Wallace is a superb comedian of culture . . . his exuberance and intellectual impishness are a delight' James Wood, Guardian 'He induces the kind of laughter which, when read in bed with a sleeping partner, wakes said sleeping partner up . . . He's damn good' Nicholas Lezard, Guardian 'One of the best books about addiction and recovery to appear in recent memory' Sunday Times Somewhere in the not-so-distant future the residents of Ennet House, a Boston halfway house for recovering addicts, and students at the nearby Enfield Tennis Academy are ensnared in the search for the master copy of Infinite Jest, a movie said to be so dangerously entertaining its viewers become entranced and expire in a state of catatonic bliss . . .

Despite the increasingly global implications of conversations about writing and learning, U.S. composition studies has devoted little attention to cross-national perspectives on student writing and its roles in wider cultural contexts. Caught up in our own concerns about how U.S. students make the transition as writers from secondary school to postsecondary education, we often overlook the fact that students around the world are undergoing the same evolution. How do the students in China, England, France, Germany, Kenya, or South Africa--the educational systems represented in this collection--write their way into the communities of their chosen disciplines? How, for instance, do students whose mother tongue is not the language of instruction cope with the demands of academic and discipline-specific writing? And in what ways is U.S. students' development as academic writers similar to or different from that of students in other countries?
With this collection, editors David Foster and David R. Russell broaden the discussion about the role of writing in various educational systems and cultures. Students' development as academic writers raises issues of student authorship and agency, as well as larger issues of educational access, institutional power relations, system goals, and students' roles in society. The contributors to this collection discuss selected writing purposes and forms characteristic of a specific national education system, describe students' agency as writers, and identify contextual factors--social, economic, linguistic, cultural--that shape institutional responses to writing development.
In discussions that bookend these studies of different educational structures, the editors compare U.S. postsecondary writing practices and pedagogies with those in other national systems, and suggest new perspectives for cross-national study of learning/writing issues important to all educational systems. Given the worldwide increase in students entering higher education and the endless need for effective writing across disciplines and nations, the insights offered here and the call for further studies are especially welcome and timely.

Contents:
Beverley, John, Can Hispanism Be A Radical Practice?, Ideologies and Literature 4 [1983]
Read, Malcolm K, Writing in the Institution: The Politics of British Hispanism, Journal of Hispanic Philology 15 [1991]
di Camillo, Ottavio, Interpretations of the Renaissance in Spanish Historical Thought: The Last Thirty Years, Romance Quarterly 49 [1996]
Goldman, Peter B, Dramatic Works and their Readership in Eighteenth-Century Spain: Social Stratifications and the Middle Classes, Bulletin of Hispanic Studies 66 [1989]
Casamayor, Juan, Towards a Revisionary Theory of Spanish Romanticism, Revista de Estudios Hispanicos 28 [1994]
Clementi, Hebe, Sobre le formacion de la ideologia krausista en Espana, Letras Peninsulares 6 [1993-1994]^l Ribbans, Geoffre Y, Some Subversive Thoughts on Modernismo and the Generation of '98, West Virginia University Philogical Papers [1993]
Jurkevich, Gayana, Defining Castile in Literature and Art: Institucionalismo, the Generation 0f '98, and the Origins of Modern Spanish Landscape, revista Hispanica Moderna 67 [1994]
Diaz, Janet W, Spain's Vernacular Literatures in the Post-Franco Era, World Literature Today 53 [1979]
Perez, Janet, Post-Franco Castilian and Vernacular Literatures, Denver Quarterly 17 [1982]
Ciplijauskaite, Birute, Recent Spanish Poetry and the Essential Word, Studies in Twentieth Century Literature 16 [1992]
Spires, Robert C, Discursive Constructs and Spanish Fiction of the 1980's, The Journal of Narrative Technique 27 [1997]
Sullivan, Constance A, On Spanish Literary History and the Politics of Gender, Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association 23 [1990]
Brown, Joan L, Women Writers in Spanish Literary History: Past, Present and Future, Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispanicos^n 14 [1990]
Marti Olivella, Jaume, Homoeroticism and Specular Transgression in Peninsular Feminine Narrative, Espana Contemporanea 5 [1992]
Jones, Margaret E W, Different Wor(l)ds: Modes of Women's Communication in Spain's Narrativa Femenina, Monographic Review/Revista Monografica 8 [1995]^l Reisz, Susana, Hipotesis sobre el tema 'escritura femenina e hispanidad, Tropelias 1 [1990]
Maravall, Jose A, Notas sobre la libertad de pensamiento en Espana durante el siglo de la ilustracion, Nueva Revista de Filologia Hispanica 33 [1984]
Britt Arredondo, Christopher, El Quijotismo de Ganivet a Ortega. La Modernidad espanola y el macionalismo imperial, Quimera 135 [1995]
Geist, Anthony L, El 27 y la vanguardia: Una aprozimacion ideolgica, ^Cuadernos Hispanoamericanos 514 [1993]
Zaval, Iris M, Apuntes sobre la posmodernidad en la heterogeneidad social espanola, Journal of Interdisciplinary Literary Studies 7 [1995]
Benson, Ken, Transformacion del horizonte de expectativas en la narrative posmoderna espanola: de Senas de indentifad a El jinete polaco, Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispanicos 19 [1994]
Amell, Samuel, Tradicion y renovacion, un difficil balance en la novela espanola actual, Critica Hispanica 14 [1992]
Brown, Joan L, The Contemporary Hispanic Novel: Is There a Canon?, Hispania 78 [1995]
Navajas, Gonzalo, Generacion y canon o ley y orden en literatura, Siglo [1994]

Contents:
Fiekel, Robert W, The Theme of Love in the Mozarabic jarchas and in cante flamenco, Confluencia 4 [1988]
Montgomery, Thomas, The Presence of the Text: The Poema de mio Cid, Modern Language Notes 108 [1993]
Orduna, German, El Texto del Poema de mio Cid ante el procesco de la tradicionalidad oral y escrita, Letras - Universidad Catolica Argentina 14 [1985]
Tinnell, Roger D, Authorship and Composition: Music and Poetry in Las Cantigas de Santa Maria of Alfonso X, el Sabio, Romance Quarterly 28 [1981]
Diz, Marta Ana, Elmago de Toledo: Borges y don Juan Manuel, Modern Language Notes 108 [1985]
Dunn, Peter N, Framing the Story, Framing the Reader:Two Spanish Masters, Modern Language Review 91 [1996]
Giron Alconchel, Jose Luis, Caracterizacion linguistica de los personajes y polifonia textual en el Libro de Buen Amor, Epos 2 [1986]
Vasvari, Louise, The Battle of Flesh and Lent in the Libro del Arcipreste: Gastro-Genital Rites of Reversal, La Coronica 20 [1991], Swan, A M, Santillana's Serranillas: A Poetic Genre of Their Own, Neophilologus 63 [1979]
Spitzer, Leo, Los romances espanoles: El romance de Abenamar, Explicacion de textos literarios 1 [1972]
Montgomery, Thomas, Jorge, Manrique and the Dynamics of Grieving, Hispania 78 [1995]
Hernandez de Leon, Ascension, Nebrija y las lenguas companeras del imperio, Cuadernos Americanos, 7 [1993]
Lihani, John, Spanish Urban Life in the Late Fifteenth Century as Seen in Celestina, Celestinesca 11 [1987]
Severin, Dorothy Sherman, Celestina and the Magical Empowerment of Women, Celestinesca 17 [1993]
Johnson, Carroll B, Personal Involvement and Poetic Tradition in the Spanish Renaissance: Some thoughts on reading Garcilaso, Romantic Review 80 [1989]
Lopez Castro, Armando, Modernidad de Garcilaso, Revista de Literatura 55 [1993]
Rivers, Elias L, Some Ideas about Language and Poetry in Sixteenth Century Spain, Bulletin of Hispanic Studies 61 [1984]
Bruflat, Alan, Modificacion de la experienca poetica: Tres odas de Fray Luis de Leon, Hispanic Journal 7 [1986]
Ter Horst, Robert, Poetics and Economics in the 'Vida retirada' of Fray Luis de Leon, Hispanic Journal 7 [1986]
Ter Horst, Robert, Poetics and Economics in the 'vida retirada' of Fray Luis de Leon, Hispanic Review 64 [1996]
Lopez Castro, Armando, Hacio una espiritualidad erotica en San Juan de la Cruz, Cuadernos Hispanoamericanos 568 [1997]
Albrecht, Jane W, Linguistics Style and Point of View in Lazarillo de Tormes, Neophilologus 77 [1993]
Cros, Edmond, Semantica y estructuras socials en el Lazarillo de Tormes, Revista Hispanica Moderna 39 [1976-77]
Tirado, Pilar del Carmen, Parody, Poverty and the Lazarillo de Tormes, Hispanofila 115 [1995]
Yndurain, Domingo, El renacimiento de Lazaro, Hispania 75 [1992]
Velasco Kindelan, Magdalena, Motivaciones y destinarios de Libro de la vida de Santa Teresa de Jesus, Revista de Literatura 54 [1992]
Perez de Leon, Vincente, El licenciado Vidriera: La lectura del mundo de un personaje literario, Romance Languages Annual 7 [1995]
Munguia Garcia, Victor Eduardo, El Licenciado Vidriera y Don Quijote, Anales Cervantinos 30 [1992]
Blue, William R, The Politics of Lope's Fuente ovejuna, Hispanic Review 59 [1991]
McKay, Angus, The Crowd in the Theater and the Crowd in History: Fuente ovejuna, Renaissance Drama 17 [1986]
Dolan, Kathleen H, Figure and Ground: Concrete Mysticism in Gongora's Fabula de Polifemo y Galatea, Hispanic Review 52 [1984]
Calcraft, R P, The Carpe Diem sonnets of Garcilaso de la Vega and Gongora, Modern Language Review 76 [1981]
Martin, Francesco J, Mas alla de soneto amoroso: Quevedo y la preocupacion metafisica, Romance Notes 38 [1997]
Rivers, Elias L, Quevedo Against Culteranismo: A Note on Politics and Morality, Modern Language Notes 112 [1997]
Vitse, Marc, Sobre los espacios en La dama duende: El cuarto de don Manuel, RILCE 12 [1996]
, Schizzano Mandel, Adrienne, La dama juega al duende: Pre-texto,geno-texto feno-texto, Bulletin of the Comediantes 37 [1985]

Despite the increasingly global implications of conversations about writing and learning, U.S. composition studies has devoted little attention to cross-national perspectives on student writing and its roles in wider cultural contexts. Caught up in our own concerns about how U.S. students make the transition as writers from secondary school to postsecondary education, we often overlook the fact that students around the world are undergoing the same evolution. How do the students in China, England, France, Germany, Kenya, or South Africa--the educational systems represented in this collection--write their way into the communities of their chosen disciplines? How, for instance, do students whose mother tongue is not the language of instruction cope with the demands of academic and discipline-specific writing? And in what ways is U.S. students' development as academic writers similar to or different from that of students in other countries? With this collection, editors David Foster and David R. Russell broaden the discussion about the role of writing in various educational systems and cultures. Students' development as academic writers raises issues of student authorship and agency, as well as larger issues of educational access, institutional power relations, system goals, and students' roles in society. The contributors to this collection discuss selected writing purposes and forms characteristic of a specific national education system, describe students' agency as writers, and identify contextual factors--social, economic, linguistic, cultural--that shape institutional responses to writing development. In discussions that bookend these studies of different educational structures, the editors compare U.S. postsecondary writing practices and pedagogies with those in other national systems, and suggest new perspectives for cross-national study of learning/writing issues important to all educational systems. Given the worldwide increase in students en

Finally back in print--David Foster Wallace and Mark Costello's exuberant exploration of rap music and culture.
Living together in Cambridge in 1989, David Foster Wallace and longtime friend Mark Costello discovered that they shared "an uncomfortable, somewhat furtive, and distinctively white enthusiasm for a certain music called rap/hip-hop." The book they wrote together, set against the legendary Boston music scene, mapped the bipolarities of rap and pop, rebellion and acceptance, glitz and gangsterdom. "Signifying Rappers" issued a fan's challenge to the giants of rock writing, Greil Marcus, Robert Palmer, and Lester Bangs: Could the new street beats of 1989 set us free, as rock had always promised?
Back in print at last, "Signifying Rappers" is a rare record of a city and a summer by two great thinkers, writers, and friends. With a new foreword by Mark Costello on his experience writing with David Foster Wallace, this rerelease cannot be missed.

A gargantuan, mind-altering comedy about the Pursuit of Happiness in America Set in an addicts' halfway house and a tennis academy, and featuring the most endearingly screwed-up family to come along in recent fiction, Infinite Jest explores essential questions about what entertainment is and why it has come to so dominate our lives; about how our desire for entertainment affects our need to connect with other people; and about what the pleasures we choose say about who we are. Equal parts philosophical quest and screwball comedy, Infinite Jest bends every rule of fiction without sacrificing for a moment its own entertainment value. It is an exuberant, uniquely American exploration of the passions that make us human -- and one of those rare books that renew the idea of what a novel can do. With a foreword by Tom Bisell. "The next step in fiction...Edgy, accurate, and darkly witty...Think Beckett, think Pynchon, think Gaddis. Think." --Sven Birkerts, The Atlantic

Do lobsters feel pain? Did Franz Kafka have a sick sense of humour? What is John Updike's deal anyway? And who won the Adult Video News' Female Performer of the Year Award the same year Gwyneth Paltrow won her Oscar? David Foster Wallace answers these questions and more in his new book of hilarious non-fiction. For this collection, David Foster Wallace immerses himself in the three-ring circus that is the presidential race in order to document one of the most vicious campaigns in recent history. Later he strolls from booth to booth at a lobster festival in Maine and risks life and limb to get to the bottom of the lobster question. Then he wheedles his way into an L.A. radio studio, armed with tubs of chicken, to get the behind-the-scenes view of a conservative talkshow featuring a host with an unnatural penchant for clothing that only looks good on the radio. In what is sure to be a much-talked-about exploration of distinctly modern subjects, one of the sharpest minds of our time delves into some of life's most delicious topics.

Infinite Jest is the name of a movie said to be so entertaining that anyone who watches it loses all desire to do anything but watch it. People die happily, viewing it in endless repetition. The novel Infinite Jest is the story of this addictive entertainment, and in particular how it affects a Boston halfway house for recovering addicts and a nearby tennis academy, whose students have many budding addictions of their own. As the novel unfolds, various individuals, organizations, and governments vie to obtain the master copy of Infinite Jest for their own ends, and the denizens of the tennis school and the halfway house are caught up in increasingly desperate efforts to control the movie - as is a cast including burglars, transvestite muggers, scam artists, medical professionals, pro football stars, bookies, drug addicts both active and recovering, film students, political assassins, and one of the most endearingly messed-up families ever captured in a novel. On this outrageous frame hangs an exploration of essential questions about what entertainment is, and why it has come to so dominate our lives; about how our desire for entertainment interacts with our need to connect with other humans; and about what the pleasures we choose say about who we are. Equal parts philosophical quest and screwball comedy, Infinite Jest bends every rule of fiction without sacrificing for a moment its own entertainment value. The huge cast and multilevel narrative serve a story that accelerates to a breathtaking, heartbreaking, unforgettable conclusion. It is an exuberant, uniquely American exploration of the passions that make us human - and one of those rare books that renew the very idea of what a novelcan do.

Pathfinder Hampshire(R) covers parts of the New Forest, South Downs and Fullerton. This selection offers interest, regional variety and balance of routes in Hampshire providing the best walks in the area. From an easy stroll through Bishop's Dyke to the much more challenging walks in the East Meion and the Downs this volume contains something for everyone. Covering walks through the whole of Hampshire both popular and little known scenic routes including Highland Water, Standing Hat and Brockenhurst. See walk locations by Looking Inside. Inside: *28 great Hampshire walks from 2 to 10 miles * Clear, large scale Ordnance Survey route maps * GPS reference for all Hampshire walk waypoints * Where to park, good pubs and places of interest on route * All routes have been fully researched and written by expert outdoor writers * Beautiful photography of scenes from the walks Pathfinder(R) Guides are Britain's best loved walking guides. Made with durable covers, they are the perfect companion for countryside walks throughout Britain. Each title features circular walks with easy-to-follow route descriptions, large-scale Ordnance Survey route maps and GPS waypoints.With over 70 titles in the series, they offer essential information for walkers throughout the country.

This celebrated collection of essays from the author of Infinite Jest is "brilliantly entertaining...Consider the Lobster proves once more why Wallace should be regarded as this generation's best comic writer" (Cleveland Plain Dealer). Do lobsters feel pain? Did Franz Kafka have a funny bone? What is John Updike's deal, anyway? And what happens when adult video starlets meet their fans in person? David Foster Wallace answers these questions and more in essays that are also enthralling narrative adventures. Whether covering the three-ring circus of John McCain's 2000 presidential race, plunging into the wars between dictionary writers, or confronting the World's Largest Lobster Cooker at the annual Maine Lobster Festival, Wallace projects a quality of thought that is uniquely his and a voice as powerful and distinct as any in American letters. "Wallace can do sad, funny, silly, heartbreaking, and absurd with equal ease; he can even do them all at once." --Michiko Kakutani, New York Times

The only comprehensive anthology of Chicana/o literature, this work charts the evolution of contemporary Mexican American writing and its major themes: identity, feminism, conservatism, revisionism, homoeroticism, and internationalism.

Generative modeling is one of the hottest topics in AI. It’s now possible to teach a machine to excel at human endeavors such as painting, writing, and composing music. With this practical book, machine-learning engineers and data scientists will discover how to re-create some of the most impressive examples of generative deep learning models, such as variational autoencoders,generative adversarial networks (GANs), encoder-decoder models and world models. Author David Foster demonstrates the inner workings of each technique, starting with the basics of deep learning before advancing to some of the most cutting-edge algorithms in the field. Through tips and tricks, you’ll understand how to make your models learn more efficiently and become more creative. Discover how variational autoencoders can change facial expressions in photos Build practical GAN examples from scratch, including CycleGAN for style transfer and MuseGAN for music generation Create recurrent generative models for text generation and learn how to improve the models using attention Understand how generative models can help agents to accomplish tasks within a reinforcement learning setting Explore the architecture of the Transformer (BERT, GPT-2) and image generation models such as ProGAN and StyleGAN

In his startling and singular new short story collection, David Foster Wallace nudges at the boundaries of fiction with inimitable wit and seductive intelligence. Among the stories are 'The Depressed Person', a dazzling and blackly humorous portrayal of a woman's mental state; 'Adult World', which reveals a woman's agonised consideration of her confusing sexual relationship with her husband; and 'Brief Interviews with Hideous Men', a dark, hilarious series of portraits of men whose fear of women renders them grotesque.

Wallace’s stories present a world where the bizarre and the banal are interwoven and where hideous men appear in many different guises. Thought-provoking and playful, this collection confirms David Foster Wallace as one of the most imaginative young writers around. Wallace delights in leftfield observation, mining the ironic, the surprising and the illuminating from every situation. His new collection will delight his growing number of fans, and provide a perfect introduction for new readers.
 

A collection of insightful and uproariously funny non-fiction by the bestselling author of INFINITE JEST - one of the most acclaimed and adventurous writers of our time. A SUPPOSEDLY FUN THING… brings together Wallace's musings on a wide range of topics, from his early days as a nationally ranked tennis player to his trip on a commercial cruiseliner. In each of these essays, Wallace's observations are as keen as they are funny.

Filled with hilarious details and invigorating analyses, these essays brilliantly expose the fault line in American culture - and once again reveal David Foster Wallace's extraordinary talent and gargantuan intellect.
 

Signifying Rappers is a fun and quirky discovery for any fan of David Foster Wallace or Hip-hop. Signifying Rappers is an old-school classic from David Foster Wallace and his friend and room-mate Mark Costello, first published in 1990, long out of print, and previously unavailable outside the USA. A paean to the golden age of Hip-Hop and the first book to consider seriously its position as a vital force in American culture, Signifying Rappers is a must-read for fans of both Wallace and hip-hop. Set against the legendary 1980s scene, it maps the bipolarities of rap and pop, rebellion and acceptance, glitz and gangsterdom, with an energy and exuberance which is as fresh today as when it was written. 'Costello and Wallace's pioneering study is a dazzling performance: informative, provocative, funny, brilliantly written . . . great wit, insight and in-your-face energy' Review of Contemporary Fiction 'Both a cogent explication of rap and a cutting, revealing parody of overinflated, pseudointellectual rap criticism' Seattle Weekly David Foster Wallace, who died in 2008, was the author of the acclaimed novels Infinite Jest and The Broom of the System. His final novel, The Pale King, was published posthumously in 2011. He is also the author of the short-story collections Oblivion, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men and Girl with Curious Hair. His non-fiction includes several essay collections, including Both Flesh and Not, which was published in 2012, and the the full-length work Everything and More. Mark Costello is the author of two novels, including the National Book Award Finalist Big If. He lives in New York City.

An instant classic of American sportswriting--the tennis essays of David Foster Wallace, "the best mind of his generation" (A. O. Scott) and "the best tennis-writer of all time" (New York Times) Gathered for the first time in a deluxe collector's edition, here are David Foster Wallace's legendary writings on tennis, five tour-de-force pieces written with a competitor's insight and a fan's obsessive enthusiasm. Wallace brings his dazzling literary magic to the game he loved as he celebrates the other-worldly genius of Roger Federer; offers a wickedly witty disection of Tracy Austin's memoir; considers the artistry of Michael Joyce, a supremely disciplined athlete on the threshold of fame; resists the crush of commerce at the U.S. Open; and recalls his own career as a "near-great" junior player. Whiting Award-winning writer John Jeremiah Sullivan provides an introduction.

These new resources have been written for the new 9-1 grading scale, with progression, international relevance and support at their core. The new 9-1 grading scale ensures a consistent international standard of qualification. The increase in levels of grading allows learners to achieve their full potential and make more informed decisions about their options for progression. A fully integrated Progression Map tool allows quick and easy formative assessment of student progress, linked to guidance on tailored learning solutions, helping students make the best progress they can. The embedded transferrable skills that are needed for progression into higher education and employment, are explicitly signposted allowing students to understand, and engage with, the skills they're gaining. Online teacher support will save you valuable time when planning, teaching and assessing. Each Student Book provides access to an ActiveBook, a digital version of the Student's Book, which can be accessed online, anytime, anywhere supporting learning beyond the classroom. Specifically developed for International learners, with appropriate international content, making it engaging and relevant for all learners and allowing for learning in a local context, to a global standard. EAL-focused content, checked by an EAL specialist, addresses the needs of EAL students with carefully graded writing to B2/C1 level (CEFR) and a glossary provided of specialist vocabulary.

Michael J. Fox stars in this comedy drama. Brantley Foster (Fox) comes to the big city from Kansas to work in the post room of his uncle's multi-million dollar corporation. He uses his ingenuity to propel himself up the corporate ladder and pick up on a number of corporate secrets. On his dramatic climb through the ranks he falls in love with a fellow executive (Helen Slater) who is having an affair with the boss. Meanwhile, the boss's wife has taken a bit of a shine to young Brantley...