In a world where one-size-fits-all investment advice falls short, Suit Yourself offers a fresh approach through the Enneagram, illustrating how sustainable portfolio strategies can be developed by raising self-awareness and leveraging inherent personality strengths while mitigating unconscious biases.Infusing his writing with pop-culture humor and insights into the human mind, Benjamin Tan draws on his multicultural background and diverse expertise in personal investing, i...

Delivering a successful machine learning project is hard. This book makes it easier. In it, you’ll design a reliable ML system from the ground up, incorporating MLOps and DevOps along with a stack of proven infrastructure tools including Kubeflow, MLFlow, BentoML, Evidently, and Feast.A properly designed machine learning system streamlines data workflows, improves collaboration between data and operations teams, and provides much-needed structure for both training and deployment. I...

SummaryThe Little Elixir & OTP Guidebook gets you started programming applications with Elixir and OTP. You begin with a quick overview of the Elixir language syntax, along with just enough functional programming to use it effectively. Then, you'll dive straight into OTP and learn how it helps you build scalable, fault-tolerant and distributed applications through several fun examples.About the TechnologyElixir is an elegan...

Satirical and sympathetic, political and personal, A Certain Exposure traces the adolescences of twin brothers Andrew and Brian, culminating in the explosive events leading to Andrew's tragic death. This is a classic coming-of-age tale doubled across two vividly individual brothers, who struggle to navigate a complex tangle of relationships and coercive forces, cinematically interwoven with the yearnings and fears of an ensemble of mothers, fathers, cousins, friends and lovers both false a...

Southeast Asian Fantasy Drabbles is the second volume in the Insignia Drabbles series.This anthology includes 83 drabbles (100-word stories) inspired by various Southeast Asian folklore, as well as original fantasy and science fiction pieces.All Contributors:Alanna Robertson-Webb, Benjamin Y. Tan, Ben Umayam, Carmen Indalecio, Celestine Trinidad, Chris Bannor, C. Marry Hultman, Chris Hewitt,Chris Jackson, Connor Orrico, Dav...

A trip to the pet shop causes a woman to have recurring nightmares about hamsters and she becomes convinced that her apartment is haunted by hamsters.

The rise of the Islamic State since 2014 has led to the re-emergence of terrorism as a serious security threat in Asia. Coupled with the ongoing terrorism and insurgency challenges from both radical religious extremists and also ethno-nationalist insurgencies, it is clear that some parts of Asia remain mired in armed rebellion despite decades of nation-building. While the situation in Afghanistan and Pakistan has obviously deteriorated, there is also a growing terrorist challenge, on top o...

While global attention has been focused on other regional issues, such as China-US tensions and North Korea’s nuclear ambitions, little attention has been paid to Taiwan. Yet the so-called Taiwan issue, namely the continued separation of the island from mainland China, remains a major regional security challenge that could potentially spark direct conflict involving the USA, China and Japan, the three largest economies in the world, two of which are nuclear powers. Although Taiwan has cont...