The Signal

Author : Jacquie McNish,Sean Silcoff
Publisher : Random House
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781473537194

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Losing the Signal by Jacquie McNish,Sean Silcoff Pdf

Winner of the Canadian National Business Book Award 2016 Shortlisted for the FT/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award 2015 In 2009, BlackBerry controlled half of the US smartphone market. Today that number is less than one per cent. What went so wrong? Losing the Signal is the riveting story of a company that toppled global giants before succumbing to the ruthlessly competitive forces of Silicon Valley. This is not a conventional tale of modern business failure by fraud and greed; instead, the rise and fall of BlackBerry reveals the dangerous speed at which innovators race along the information superhighway. With unprecedented access to key players, senior executives, directors, and competitors, Losing the Signal unveils the remarkable rise of a company that started above a bagel store in a small Canadian city and went on to control half of the US smartphone market. However, at the very moment BlackBerry was ranked the world’s fastest-growing company, internal feuds and chaotic growth crippled the company as it faced its gravest test: the entry of Apple and Google into the mobile phone market. Expertly told by acclaimed journalists Jacquie McNish and Sean Silcoff, this is an entertaining, whirlwind narrative that goes behind the scenes to reveal one of the most compelling business stories of the new century.

Author : Nate Silver
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781101595954

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The Signal and the Noise by Nate Silver Pdf

"One of the more momentous books of the decade." —The New York Times Book Review Nate Silver built an innovative system for predicting baseball performance, predicted the 2008 election within a hair’s breadth, and became a national sensation as a blogger—all by the time he was thirty. He solidified his standing as the nation's foremost political forecaster with his near perfect prediction of the 2012 election. Silver is the founder and editor in chief of the website FiveThirtyEight. Drawing on his own groundbreaking work, Silver examines the world of prediction, investigating how we can distinguish a true signal from a universe of noisy data. Most predictions fail, often at great cost to society, because most of us have a poor understanding of probability and uncertainty. Both experts and laypeople mistake more confident predictions for more accurate ones. But overconfidence is often the reason for failure. If our appreciation of uncertainty improves, our predictions can get better too. This is the “prediction paradox”: The more humility we have about our ability to make predictions, the more successful we can be in planning for the future. In keeping with his own aim to seek truth from data, Silver visits the most successful forecasters in a range of areas, from hurricanes to baseball to global pandemics, from the poker table to the stock market, from Capitol Hill to the NBA. He explains and evaluates how these forecasters think and what bonds they share. What lies behind their success? Are they good—or just lucky? What patterns have they unraveled? And are their forecasts really right? He explores unanticipated commonalities and exposes unexpected juxtapositions. And sometimes, it is not so much how good a prediction is in an absolute sense that matters but how good it is relative to the competition. In other cases, prediction is still a very rudimentary—and dangerous—science. Silver observes that the most accurate forecasters tend to have a superior command of probability, and they tend to be both humble and hardworking. They distinguish the predictable from the unpredictable, and they notice a thousand little details that lead them closer to the truth. Because of their appreciation of probability, they can distinguish the signal from the noise. With everything from the health of the global economy to our ability to fight terrorism dependent on the quality of our predictions, Nate Silver’s insights are an essential read.

Author : Ed Ruscha
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2004-02-27
Category : Art
ISBN : 0262681528

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Leave Any Information at the Signal by Ed Ruscha Pdf

An anthology of writings, interviews, and images by artist Ed Ruscha. Ed Ruscha is among the most innovative artists of the last forty years. He is also one of the first Americans to introduce a critique of popular culture and an examination of language into the visual arts. Although he first made his reputation as a painter, Ruscha is also celebrated for his drawings (made both with conventional materials and with food, blood, gunpowder, and shellac), prints, films, photographs, and books. He is often associated with Los Angeles as a Pop and Conceptualist hub, but tends to regard such labels with a satirical, if not jaundiced, eye. Indeed, his work is characterized by the tensions between high and low, solemn and irreverent, and serious and nonsensical, and it draws on popular culture as well as Western art traditions. Leave Any Information at the Signal not only documents the work of this influential artist as he rose to prominence but also contains his writings and commentaries on other artistic developments of the period. The book is divided into three parts, each of which is arranged chronologically. Part one contains statements, letters, and other writings. Part two consists of more than fifty interviews, some of which have never before been published or translated into English. Part three contains sketchbook pages, word groupings, and other notes that chart how Ruscha develops ideas and solves artistic problems. They are published here for the first time. The book also contains more than eighty illustrations, selected and arranged by the artist.

Author : Ted G Lewis
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-03
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781000000368

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The Signal by Ted G Lewis Pdf

Computers are the foundation of the information age, but communication technology is the foundation of the foundation. Without the theories and practical applications of theory brought to us by the pioneers of communication, the computer age would perhaps have remained in the back office, hidden away as infrastructure like electricity or running water – critical to modern life, but not as transforming as the combination of communications and computing. The information age exploded once machines were endowed with the ability to talk among themselves. The Signal connects everything to everything else, in both communication, and in the metaphorical sense as the link between and among people. Features Identifies the key ideas underlying modern communications technology, and documents the contributions of its inventors Explores the signal in communication, and also in the metaphorical sense as the link between and among people Leads the reader through a journey from ancient number systems to Voyager II to radio and MP3s to quantum cryptography Includes coverage of "Signals from Hell," including memes and "fake news" on the Internet Looks to the future of communication, with emergent 5G

Author : George Raynor Thompson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Government publications
ISBN : UIUC:30112065967934

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The Signal Corps by George Raynor Thompson Pdf

Author : Scott Snyder,Tony Patrick
Publisher : DC Comics
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-28
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781401284091

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Batman & the Signal by Scott Snyder,Tony Patrick Pdf

ÒGotham CityÕs newest bat-signal operates in the daytime.Ó ÑThe Washington Post ÒA chance to see Gotham City in the daylight.Ó ÑHollywood Reporter From the New York Times best-selling author of Batman and All-Star Batman GothamÕs newest defender steps into the light! Duke Thomas always wanted to be a hero. During the ÒRobin War,Ó he led an insurgency of teen Robins who insisted that their movementÕs namesake didnÕt really need a partner. In the aftermath, Batman himself has taken Duke under his wing to train himÑnot to be a sidekick, but to be his own man. Now, Duke is ready to emerge from his mentorÕs shadow and take his place as GothamÕs protector by day: the Signal. But is he ready for what the light will reveal? Someone has been giving deadly metahuman powers to teenagers living in the Narrows, GothamÕs poorest neighborhoodÑDukeÕs neighborhood. Even stranger, these newly powered teens seem to have some sort of connection to both Duke and his own barely understood abilities. With the help of the Bat-Family, the Signal and Batman must protect the city from the rampaging adolescents while also keeping them from harming themselves. But when Duke discovers the true nature of his connection to the crisis, will it signal a dark new chapter for GothamÕs bright new hero? Critically acclaimed author Scott Snyder teams with red-hot rookie writer Tony Patrick to introduce GothamÕs newest crime-fighter in Batman and The Signal! Featuring art by Cully Hamner (Blue Beetle), Declan Shalvey (Moon Knight) and Francesco Francavilla (Detective Comics), this volume collects Batman and The Signal #1-3 as well as ÒThe Cursed WheelÓ from All-Star Batman #1-4 and #6-9.

Author : Army War College (U.S.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1922
Category : Aeronautics, Military
ISBN : UCAL:$B74240

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The Signal Corps and Air Service by Army War College (U.S.) Pdf

"This monograph has been written to give officers of the Army at large, and all others who may be interested, a general idea of the growth in the United States and from April 6, 1917, to November 11, 1918, of the Signal Corps and Air Service. In this brief study no attempt has been made to describe detail subjects which would be of interest solely to technical students. Throughout the preparation of this paper many conferences were held with officials on duty in the Offices of the Chief Signal Officer and of the Chief of Air Service, and the files of both these offices as well as many others have been freely consulted. Monographs dealing with the work of specific services are, in general, prepared by the services themselves, with the advice and assistance of the Historical Section, The Army War College. Where, however, as in this case, the paper deals with two or more services, it is prepared in the Historical Section, with the advice and assistance of the services."--Preface.

Author : United States. Army. Signal Corps
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : Military telegraph
ISBN : HARVARD:32044092013820

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A Manual of Military Telegraphy for the Signal-service by United States. Army. Signal Corps Pdf

Author : Voice
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Railroad accidents
ISBN : STANFORD:36105012253147

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A voice from the signal-box: or, Railway accidents and their causes, by a signalman by Voice Pdf

Author : Ron Carlson
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0670021008

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The Signal by Ron Carlson Pdf

A rancher and his wife face a conflict over his actions to preserve his family land. What was planned as a final trip together causes them to see their marriage in a new light.

Author : Andrew Krivak
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781501126406

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The Signal Flame by Andrew Krivak Pdf

The stunning second novel from National Book Award finalist Andrew Krivák—“an extraordinarily elegant writer, with a deep awareness of the natural world” (The New York Times Book Review)—tells the heartbreaking, captivating story about a family awaiting the return of their youngest son from the Vietnam War. In a small town in northeastern Pennsylvania, Hannah and her son Bo mourn the loss of the family patriarch, Jozef. They were three generations under one roof; a war-haunted family in a war-torn century. Jozef was conscripted into the Austro-Hungarian army in World War I. His American-born daughter’s husband, Bexhet, an immigrant, fights in World War II—returning to Dardan, Pennsylvania, only to be taken in a hunting accident on Hannah’s family’s land. Finally, Hannah’s younger son, Sam, goes MIA in Vietnam. And so there is only Bo, a quiet man full of sorrow and conviction and a firstborn’s sense of duty. He is left to grieve but also to hope for reunion, to fall in love and create a new life, to embrace the land and work its mountain soil. The Signal Flame is a stirring exploration—the second stand-alone novel in a trilogy that began with the National Book Award finalist The Sojourn—of generations of men and the events that define them, brothers who take different paths, the old European values yielding to new world ways, and the convalescence of memory and war. Beginning shortly after Easter in 1972 and ending on Christmas Eve—as the Vietnam War winds down—this ambitious novel honors the cycles of earth and body, humming with blood and passion, and it confirms as a writer of extraordinary vision and power. Andrew Krivák’s The Signal Flame is “a complex and layered portrait of a time and place, and a family shaped, generation after generation, by the memory of war” (The Boston Globe).

Author : Steven Smith
Publisher : Newnes
Page : 666 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780750674447

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Digital Signal Processing: A Practical Guide for Engineers and Scientists by Steven Smith Pdf

CD-ROM contains source code listings, problem sets, and an eBook version with full text search

Author : Brian Larkin
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2008-03-31
Category : History
ISBN : 0822341085

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Signal and Noise by Brian Larkin Pdf

DIVExamines the role of media technologies in shaping urban Africa through an ethnographic study of popular culture in northern Nigeria./div

Author : André Luiz Romanelli Rosa
Publisher : SEG Books
Page : 793 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781560803331

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The Seismic Signal and Its Meaning by André Luiz Romanelli Rosa Pdf

This updated translation connects the literature and routine activities of geophysicists. It shows how practical problems have links to seismic data analysis theory. Phase and amplitude distortions to the seismic signal, the physical processes that it undergoes, and the interpretation methods to recover rock physics properties are explained. Filling the gap between theoretical literature and the routine activities of geophysicists in the oil industry, The Seismic Signal and Its Meaning is a translation of the second edition of Análise do Sinal Sísmico, published in Portuguese by Sociedade Brasileira de Geofísica (SBGf). For those performing acquisition, processing, and/or interpretation, this book will aid an understanding of how practical problems may have important links to seismic data analysis theory. With an emphasis on providing an objective description of the physical and mathematical aspects that support these links, the rules necessary for robust reservoir characterization are presented. With an extensive development of Gassmann’s (and Biot) theory, the book concentrates on phase and amplitude distortions to the seismic signal, the physical processes that it undergoes, and the interpretation methods to recover rock physics properties. Capturing 30 years of teaching and improvement as a part of Petrobras’ internal courses, the book is a modern treatment, reflecting the many advances that have occurred in geophysics. The book serves as both a text and a reference.

Author : Fred L. Orcutt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : UOM:39015025385504

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The Traffic Signal Book by Fred L. Orcutt Pdf