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The deep learning revolution
How deep learning-from Google Translate to driverless cars to personal cognitive assistants-is changing our lives and transforming every sector of the economy. The deep learning revolution has brought us driverless cars, the greatly improved Google Translate, fluent conversations with Siri and Alexa, and enormous profits from automated trading on the New York Stock Exchange. Deep learning netwo…
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Inside and Outside Liquidity
In this volume, leading economists Bengt Holmstr?om and Jean Tirole develop a theory explaining the demand for a supply of liquid assets.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262295536
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- 1 online resource (viii, 254 pages) :illustrations
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What Is Health?: Allostasis and the Evolution of Human Design
An argument that health is optimal responsiveness and is often best treated at the system level. Medical education centers on the venerable “no-fault” concept of homeostasis, whereby local mechanisms impose constancy by correcting errors, and the brain serves mainly for emergencies. Yet, it turns out that most parameters are not constant; moreover, despite the importance of local mechanism…
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- 9780262356299
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New Methuselahs :the ethics of life extension
An examination of the ethical issues raised by the possibility of human life extension, including its desirability, unequal access, and the threat of overpopulation.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262347228
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- 1 online resource (ix, 354 pages)
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Spontaneous Venturing: An Entrepreneurial Approach to Alleviating Suffering i…
Identifying a new approach to disaster response: spontaneous, compassionate, and impromptu actions to alleviate suffering. In Spontaneous Venturing, Dean Shepherd and Trenton Williams identify and describe a new approach for responding to disaster and suffering: the local organizing of spontaneous, compassionate, and impromptu actions—the rapid emergence of a compassionate venture. This ap…
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Developing Scaffolds in Evolution, Culture, and Cognition
Empirical and philosophical perspectives on scaffolding that highlight the role of temporal and temporary resources in development across concepts of culture, cognition, and evolution.
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Fables and futures :biotechnology, disability, and the stories we tell ourselves
How new biomedical technologies--from prenatal testing to gene-editing techniques--require us to imagine who counts as human and what it means to belong. From next-generation prenatal tests, to virtual children, to the genome-editing tool CRISPR-Cas9, new biotechnologies grant us unprecedented power to predict and shape future people.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262351799
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- 1 online resource (240 pages).
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Altered states of consciousness :experiences out of time and self
"What altered states of consciousness--the dissolution of feelings of time and self--can tell us about the mystery of consciousness. During extraordinary moments of consciousness--shock, meditative states and sudden mystical revelations, out-of-body experiences, or drug intoxication--our senses of time and self are altered; we may even feel time and self dissolving. These experiences have long …
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 176 pages) :illustrations
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Technology in world civilization :a thousand-year history
"General introduction to the history of technology privileging a global view over typical Eurocentrist takes on the subject"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- Revised and expanded edition.
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- 0262366290
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Markov Random Fields for Vision and Image Processing
State-of-the-art research on MRFs, successful MRF applications, and advanced topics for future study.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262298353
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- 1 online resource (vii, 463 pages) :illustrations
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