Bøger af Stephen Boyd

A new habitable world was discovered in the universe. The people of Earth could get there but only as a space colony.The real question was who would go?The atheists of Earth agreed to go to explore the new planet but only if they could form a new society, a society free from all religious beliefs. The untold secret goal of the group was even darker than they told their everyone, darker than anyone could have imagined.As soon as the space colony ship went past the point of no return, the leaders announced a harsher system that was originally proposed. Anyone caught worshipping anything was immediately put to death.Unbeknown to the leaders of the original colony, a small group of Believers imbedded themselves into the colony. They were visited by an angel of God who told them to go. They were told that they didn't have to go but if they didn't billions of souls would be lost for all of eternity.Some of the group that were visited by the angel went on the mission, some did not.The new planet was named PIA, an abbreviation for Planet of Intergalactic Atheists. The story picks up several generations after the original colonists landed. The grandson of the founder of the athestist group was in charge of the planet just as his father had been and his father's father before him. Stephen Steele was the grandson of one the original Believers that had imbedded themselves onto the space colony. The Believers spread out across the planet when they first arrived so as to keep safe. They formed small cell groups as well. That way if one group got caught the others would stay safe.His Grandparents migrated to the mountains. They lived in a small isolated village they named named Ash, Ash was very far away from the Darwin, the capital of the planet.Kristin Knope was born to be a prostitute just as her mother and her mother's mother was. Kristin never met her father as even her mother didn't know who he was. Even if she did know it would not have mattered much. Most children on PIA were raised in state run orphanages. If either of their parents stayed around it was usually the mother. Child were considered throw aways, especially children born into the lower class and Kristin was the lowest of the lowest class. She was born into the Hopeless class.On Pia the manual laborers were necessary at first, not so much later on. The laborers soon became useless. As more and more machinery arrived from Earth they were tossed aside. Soon an entire class of people moved into the gutters of Pia. They became the Hopeless class.Stephen Steele's parents and grandparents were part of the original team of Believers that developed their computer cyber systems. They were necessary to run the planet. They were considered valuable and given much freedom in the early days of Pia. They also helped create the Pianet, their world wide web. Fresh out of law school, Stephen Steele came across Kristin Knope on the streets of downtown Darwin. He had barely heard of a prostitution when he met Kristin due to his isolated upbringing.When he recognized what she was he determine to help her. He sent her to a charity that helped prostitutes reeducate themselves.It was years before they met again. By that time Kristin had a degree as a teacher and was teaching Kindergartners at Simpka elementary.Due to unfortunate circumstances Kristin lost her job and had to get work where ever she could. She also had a degree in paralegal studies and got a job in Stephen Steele's law office. They didn't recognise each other at first from their long ago chance encounter but they soon remembered each other.Stephen's real mission in life was was the same as his parents and grandparents, to tell people about God and let them decide for themselves whether or not to follow him.The Supreme Chancellor of Pia says that he is against all religions but in truth he is not. In fact he is being controlled by one. A mysterious being that suddenly appears.

The corpus of literary works shaped by the Renaissance and the Baroque that appeared in Spain during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries had a transforming effect on writing throughout Europe and left a rich legacy that scholars continue to explore.

This edited volume of fourteen specially commissioned essays written from a variety of critical perspectives by leading Cervantine scholars seeks to provide an overview of Cervantes's Novelas ejemplares which will be of interest to a broad academic readership.

Multi-Period Trading via Convex Optimization collects in one place the basic definitions, a careful description of the model, and discussion of how convex optimization can be used in multi-period trading, all in a common notation and framework.

Principal components analysis (PCA) is a well-known technique for approximating a tabular data set by a low rank matrix. In this volume, the authors extend the idea of PCA to handle arbitrary data sets consisting of numerical, Boolean, categorical, ordinal, and other data types.

Discusses different interpretations of proximal operators and algorithms, looks at their connections to many other topics in optimization and applied mathematics, surveys some popular algorithms, and provides a large number of examples of proximal operators that commonly arise in practice.

Presents a fully decentralized method for dynamic network energy management based on messages passing between devices. The book considers a network of devices, such as generators, fixed loads, deferrable loads, and storage devices, each with its own dynamic constraints and objective, connected by AC and DC lines.

Examines dynamic trading of a portfolio of assets in discrete periods over a finite time horizon, with arbitrary time-varying distribution of asset returns. The goal is to maximize the total expected revenue from the portfolio, while respecting constraints on the portfolio like a required terminal portfolio and leverage and risk limits.

Argues that the alternating direction method of multipliers is well suited to distributed convex optimization, and in particular to large-scale problems arising in statistics, machine learning, and related areas.

A Defferent Exonomy & Work by Stephen Boyd et al. Open Scotland, book 8.

The authors reduce a variety of problems in system / control theory to a handful of convex and quasiconvex optimization problems.