Knowing Machines

Knowing Machines
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Publisher : MIT Press
Total Pages : 356
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ISBN-10 : 0262631881
ISBN-13 : 9780262631884
Rating : 4/5 (81 Downloads)

Synopsis Knowing Machines by : Donald A. MacKenzie

The essays are tied together by their explorations of connections (primarily among technology, society, and knowledge) and by their general focus on modern "high" technology. They also share an emphasis on the complexity of technological formation and fixation and on the role of belief (especially self-validating belief) in technological change.

Machine Dreams

Machine Dreams
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 674
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ISBN-10 : 0521775264
ISBN-13 : 9780521775267
Rating : 4/5 (64 Downloads)

Synopsis Machine Dreams by : Philip Mirowski

This is the first cross-over book into the history of science written by an historian of economics. It shows how 'history of technology' can be integrated with the history of economic ideas. The analysis combines Cold War history with the history of postwar economics in America and later elsewhere, revealing that the Pax Americana had much to do with abstruse and formal doctrines such as linear programming and game theory. It links the literature on 'cyborg' to economics, an element missing in literature to date. The treatment further calls into question the idea that economics has been immune to postmodern currents, arguing that neoclassical economics has participated in the deconstruction of the integral 'self'. Finally, it argues for an alliance of computational and institutional themes, and challenges the widespread impression that there is nothing else besides American neoclassical economic theory left standing after the demise of Marxism.

Software Engineering and Formal Methods. SEFM 2020 Collocated Workshops

Software Engineering and Formal Methods. SEFM 2020 Collocated Workshops
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Publisher : Springer Nature
Total Pages : 344
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ISBN-10 : 9783030672201
ISBN-13 : 3030672204
Rating : 4/5 (01 Downloads)

Synopsis Software Engineering and Formal Methods. SEFM 2020 Collocated Workshops by : Loek Cleophas

This volume constitutes the revised selected papers from the three workshops collocated with the 18th International Conference on Software Engineering and Formal Methods, SEFM 2020, held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in September 2020. The 15 full papers presented together with 8 short papers in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 35 submissions. The contributions that are collected in this volume have been selected from the presentations at the following workshops: ASYDE 2020: Second International Workshop on Automated and Verifiable Software System Development; CIFMA 2020: Second International Workshop on Cognition: Interdisciplinary Foundations, Models and Applications; and CoSim-CPS 2020: Fourth International Workshop on Formal Co-Simulation of Cyber-Physical Systems. Due to the Corona pandemic this event was held virtually.

The Books of Angelhaunt

The Books of Angelhaunt
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Publisher : iUniverse
Total Pages : 484
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ISBN-10 : 9780595260089
ISBN-13 : 059526008X
Rating : 4/5 (89 Downloads)

Synopsis The Books of Angelhaunt by : Jason Stuart Ratcliff

These final four Angelhaunt books are at once philosophy and works of art. Ratcliff has created in these four books both poetry and religion, both blasphemy and a completely original cosmology. Ratcliff has looked into himself, found both treasures and terrors, and made works only a madman could create.

Machines, minds and computers

Machines, minds and computers
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Publisher : The Open University
Total Pages : 125
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Synopsis Machines, minds and computers by : The Open University

This 10-hour free course looked at what ?intelligence? is, how computers may become intelligent, and whether they ever will really be so.

The Nature of the Future

The Nature of the Future
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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Total Pages : 310
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ISBN-10 : 9780226820026
ISBN-13 : 0226820025
Rating : 4/5 (26 Downloads)

Synopsis The Nature of the Future by : Emily Pawley

"In the seemingly mundane Northern farm of early America and the people who sought to improve its productivity and efficiency, Emily Pawley finds a world rich with innovative practices and marked by a developing interrelationship between scientific knowledge, industrial methods, and capitalism. Agricultural "improvers" became increasingly scientistic, driving tremendous increases in the range and volume of agricultural output-and transforming American conceptions of expertise, success, and exploitation. Pawley's focus on soil, fertilizer, apples, mulberries, agricultural fairs, and experimental stations shows each nominally dull subject to have been an area of intellectual ferment and sharp contestation: mercantile, epistemological, and otherwise"--

Machine of Death

Machine of Death
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Publisher : Machines of Death LLC
Total Pages : 468
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ISBN-10 : 9780982167120
ISBN-13 : 0982167121
Rating : 4/5 (20 Downloads)

Synopsis Machine of Death by : Ryan North

MACHINE OF DEATH tells thirty-four different stories about people who know how they will die. Prepare to have your tears jerked, your spine tingled, your funny bone tickled, your mind blown, your pulse quickened, or your heart warmed. Or better yet, simply prepare to be surprised. Because even when people do have perfect knowledge of the future, there's no telling exactly how things will turn out.

Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases: Research Track

Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases: Research Track
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Publisher : Springer Nature
Total Pages : 789
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ISBN-10 : 9783031434211
ISBN-13 : 3031434218
Rating : 4/5 (11 Downloads)

Synopsis Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases: Research Track by : Danai Koutra

The multi-volume set LNAI 14169 until 14175 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the European Conference on Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases, ECML PKDD 2023, which took place in Turin, Italy, in September 2023. The 196 papers were selected from the 829 submissions for the Research Track, and 58 papers were selected from the 239 submissions for the Applied Data Science Track. The volumes are organized in topical sections as follows: Part I: Active Learning; Adversarial Machine Learning; Anomaly Detection; Applications; Bayesian Methods; Causality; Clustering. Part II: ​Computer Vision; Deep Learning; Fairness; Federated Learning; Few-shot learning; Generative Models; Graph Contrastive Learning. Part III: ​Graph Neural Networks; Graphs; Interpretability; Knowledge Graphs; Large-scale Learning. Part IV: ​Natural Language Processing; Neuro/Symbolic Learning; Optimization; Recommender Systems; Reinforcement Learning; Representation Learning. Part V: ​Robustness; Time Series; Transfer and Multitask Learning. Part VI: ​Applied Machine Learning; Computational Social Sciences; Finance; Hardware and Systems; Healthcare & Bioinformatics; Human-Computer Interaction; Recommendation and Information Retrieval. ​Part VII: Sustainability, Climate, and Environment.- Transportation & Urban Planning.- Demo.

Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases: Applied Data Science and Demo Track

Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases: Applied Data Science and Demo Track
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Publisher : Springer Nature
Total Pages : 429
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ISBN-10 : 9783031434303
ISBN-13 : 3031434307
Rating : 4/5 (03 Downloads)

Synopsis Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases: Applied Data Science and Demo Track by : Gianmarco De Francisci Morales

The multi-volume set LNAI 14169 until 14175 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the European Conference on Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases, ECML PKDD 2023, which took place in Turin, Italy, in September 2023. The 196 papers were selected from the 829 submissions for the Research Track, and 58 papers were selected from the 239 submissions for the Applied Data Science Track. The volumes are organized in topical sections as follows: Part I: Active Learning; Adversarial Machine Learning; Anomaly Detection; Applications; Bayesian Methods; Causality; Clustering. Part II: ​Computer Vision; Deep Learning; Fairness; Federated Learning; Few-shot learning; Generative Models; Graph Contrastive Learning. Part III: ​Graph Neural Networks; Graphs; Interpretability; Knowledge Graphs; Large-scale Learning. Part IV: ​Natural Language Processing; Neuro/Symbolic Learning; Optimization; Recommender Systems; Reinforcement Learning; Representation Learning. Part V: ​Robustness; Time Series; Transfer and Multitask Learning. Part VI: ​Applied Machine Learning; Computational Social Sciences; Finance; Hardware and Systems; Healthcare & Bioinformatics; Human-Computer Interaction; Recommendation and Information Retrieval. ​Part VII: Sustainability, Climate, and Environment.- Transportation & Urban Planning.- Demo.

Personal Catholicism

Personal Catholicism
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Publisher : Catholic University of America Press
Total Pages : 248
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ISBN-10 : 9780813233635
ISBN-13 : 0813233631
Rating : 4/5 (35 Downloads)

Synopsis Personal Catholicism by : Martin X. Moleski

"Both Newman and Polanyi rank high among the pioneers in the history of the post-critical movement in epistemology. They pointed out the limitations of the methods that had become current since the time of Descartes and Spinoza. . . . The systems of these two authors are exceptionally useful for dealing with the major issues that trouble the theological climate today."—From the Foreword by Avery Dulles, S.J. "This engaging and lucid study brings into dialogue two thinkers whose methods share much in common despite their different purposes. . . . A principal contribution of Moleski's study is its cultivation of the common ground that religion shares with science."—Theological Studies "An important and utterly engaging study. . . . Those familiar with Newman's Grammar of Assent and Polanyi's Personal Knowledge will appreciate the ways in which Moleski makes sometimes unexpected connections between the two thinkers, despite Polanyi's critical disposition toward Catholicism. Personal Catholicism is a most welcome contribution to today's rethinking of the relationship between faith and reason."—First Things "There is a wealth of material here that could be applied to issues of faith and reason, science and faith, faith and the nature of reality as they are raised in contemporary society. . . ."—The Gospel and Our Culture