Building Processes

Since their introduction in 2017, transformers have quickly become the dominant architecture for achieving state-of-the-art results on a variety of natural language processing tasks. If you're a data scientist or coder, this practical book shows you how to train and scale these large models using Hugging Face Transformers, a Python-based deep learning library. 

You spent decades feeling like you were playing by rules nobody else seemed to need explained. Now you know why. A late autism diagnosis arrives with a particular mix of relief and grief -- the relief of finally having an explanation for a lifetime of exhaustion, social difficulty, and the feeling of always being slightly off, and the grief of all the years that passed without the right support. Processing that complexity, and building a genuinely better life on the other side of it, is exactly what this book is designed to help you do. Finally Making Sense is a comprehensive, heartfelt, ...

Transform your business without disrupting your daily operations—unlock the power of Kaizen, even in the most demanding environments. Are you a leader constantly seeking ways to enhance productivity and success but need help finding sustainable improvement strategies? Do you dream of embedding continuous improvement within your organization without overwhelming your existing workflows? You may also have encountered resistance to introducing new methodologies and need a compelling way to make improvements work in your unique setting.

Master strategic process improvement and risk management to transform defect checking into a competitive advantage. Move beyond isolated testing and step into a leadership role where quality systems drive operational success. Perfect for your morning commute, this hands-on roadmap empowers you...

A process improvement role is no longer only about drawing clean workflow charts, running a meeting, or finding waste after a problem has already damaged results. Modern operations teams need people who can see how work actually moves, identify friction without blaming people, use evidence before opinion, and apply artificial intelligence without handing judgment to the tool. Process Improvement Specialist and Artificial Intelligence is a practical self-learning course for professionals who want to build stronger process improvement, operational excellence, workflow analysis, and AI-...

Are you good at working with your hands? Do you love creating things? Would you like to start a profitable side hustle, but don’t know where to begin? Maybe you already make and sell your own soap, but you don’t know how to find new customers. No worries: My book, Ultimate Guide to Building a Soap Making Business Empire can give you the knowledge and inspiration to start making and selling your own unique line of handmade soaps.

Political races in the United States rely heavily on highly paid political consultants who carefully curate the images of politicians, advise candidates on polling and analytics, and shape voters' perceptions through marketing and advertising techniques. More than half of the $6 billion spent in the 2012 election went to consultants who controlled virtually every aspect of the campaigns, from polling, fundraising, and media to more novel techniques of social media and micro-targeting.

Discover the blueprint behind high-performing construction companies. This comprehensive guide isn’t theory. It’s 55 years of hard-earned, boots-on-the-ground experience distilled into practical steps you can implement today. Whether you’re chasing tighter margins, better crews, or smoother jobsites, this book shows you how to build the operational backbone your business needs to grow; without chaos.

Master continuous improvement and eliminate workplace workflow chaos without launching exhausting corporate initiatives. Whether you are commuting to the office or gearing up to lead your next team meeting, this empowering audio experience provides actionable strategies to streamline daily...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the authors of Click and former Google Ventures partners, Sprint presents a unique five-day process for solving tough problems, proven at more than a hundred companies. Entrepreneurs and leaders face big questions every day: What’s the most important place to...

You watched the video at eleven-thirty on a Tuesday. You did not put the phone down for twenty-eight minutes. And nothing about your life looked the same after. All Along is the field guide for the woman who recognized herself, late, in a piece of information she did not see coming. A TikTok video. A child's evaluation. A friend's diagnosis at forty-three. The strange, quiet, lifelong-rearranging moment when something clicks—and the entire shape of your past stops looking like character flaws and starts looking like a pattern you have been living without language for since you were six ...

A leading depth psychologist offers a practical approach for vastly expanding your creative resources—and discovering for yourself that even the challenges of our time can be overcome by the power of human imagination. If ever there was a time and a place to reconnect with imagination, that...

Building a Greater Society: A Guide to Political Revolution for Millennials and Generation Z provides the tracks for young people to gain historical insight through progressive patriotism and develop pragmatism that is necessary to build a movement that can change the trajectory of America.

An innovative somatic and attachment-based treatment for working with children and adolescents who suffer from complex trauma and neglect "[This] is a ground-breaking new approach to treating traumatized children, based on the combination of keen clinical observation, sensory integration, and a...

Building Your Permaculture Property offers a revolutionary holistic method to overcome overwhelm in the complex process of resilient land design. It distills the authors' decades of experience as engineers, farmers, educators, and consultants into a five-step process complete with principles, practices, templates, and workflow tools.

Industrial facilities release vast amounts of thermal energy into the environment every day—energy that is paid for, generated, and then largely wasted. At the same time, buildings continue to consume significant energy for heating, domestic hot water, and even cooling. Bridging these two worlds—industry and buildings—offers one of the most practical and underutilized opportunities for improving energy efficiency and reducing operational costs. This book, Industrial Process Heat Recovery into Building Systems, is written to provide a clear, engineering-focused pathway to capture, ...

With Results, Not Reports, Peter Follows, CEO of Carpedia International, provides business leaders with a framework for lasting improvements in performance and profitability. Carpedia has a remarkable success rate in large-scale improvement programs, helping clients achieve their improvement goals over 90 percent of the time. In this book, Peter explains how to achieve sustainable improvement through the dynamic management of process, performance, and people, emphasizing that all three components have an interdependent relationship and that the key is to address them concurrently.

"God is not destroying you—He is putting you under construction. Stop fearing the mess in your job site and trust the Master Architect with your blueprint." Have you ever felt like you are under construction? You cleared the caution tape, survived the unexpected storms, and tried your best to hold the pieces together. But deep down, you know the truth: you cannot build a secure future on top of a cracked, unhealed past. In this raw, deeply personal, and spiritually empowering book, Apostle Dr. Stacey Woods-Burris walks you step-by-step through the sacred process of personal and spiritual ...

"Recruiting Top Talent" is an indispensable guide designed to empower businesses with the necessary tools to attract, select and retain the perfect candidates. If you've ever wondered how to scout out the right talent for your team, this book is your blueprint to success. Chapter one kicks things off with a strategic approach to understanding your organization's talent needs, helping you to develop a precise profile for your ideal candidate and enabling the creation of a robust talent acquisition strategy. Moving forward, we address the importance of your employer brand. Learn how to craft ...

Instead of jumping right into the instructions, this book will provide you first with all the necessary concepts that you need to learn in order to make the learning process a whole lot easier. This way, you're sure not to get lost in confusion once you get to the more complex lessons provided in the latter chapters. Examples are provided for a more knowledgeable approach on your learning.