The power of the ever-increasing tools and algorithms for prediction and their paradoxical effects on risk. The Age of Prediction is about two powerful, and symbiotic, trends: the rapid development and use of artificial intelligence and big data to enhance prediction, as well as the often paradoxical effects of these better predictions on our understanding of risk and the ways we live. Beginnin…
"The merging of the autobiographical with the philosophical or theoretical traced through feminist conceptual art, performance art, literature, philosophy, and activism"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"Written by Michael Jacobson, Ph.D., one of the most prominent advocates for sodium reduction since the 1970s, this book is a clarion call for radical change in America's relationship to salt"-- Provided by publisher.How food industry lobbyists and a small group of scientists have successfully fought government efforts to reduce dangerous levels of sodium in our food.A high-sodium diet is deadl…
"An original physicochemical contribution to the problem of understanding life and its emergence, incorporating concepts from planetary sciences, chemistry and biology"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"An edited collection about the evolution of agriculture in humans and insects"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"An explantion of a knowledge-based system for creating computational agents with human-like language ability"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
The unexpected diversity, beauty, and strangeness of life in ancient lakes -- some millions of years old -- and the remarkable insights the lakes are yielding about the causes of biodiversity. Most lakes are less than 10,000 years old and short-lived, but there is a much smaller number of ancient lakes, tectonic in origin and often millions of years old, that are scattered across every continen…
"Essays that look at the challenges and risks in designing algorithms and platforms for children, with an emphasis on innovative designs and solutions for algorithmic justice, learning, and equity"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"We must have growth. Yet further growth is impossible. This book attempts to solve the paradox of needing growth yet also needing to live within the earth's planetary boundaries"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"How parenting has, over the last half century, emerged as a pervasive verb that invokes extremes of joy, guilt, pride, anxiety, and responsibility"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.