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Large-scale kernel machines
Pervasive and networked computers have dramatically reduced the cost of collecting and distributing large datasets. In this context, machine learning algorithms that scale poorly could simply become irrelevant. We need learning algorithms that scale linearly with the volume of the data while maintaining enough statistical efficiency to outperform algorithms that simply process a random subset o…
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- 0262255790
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- 1 online resource (xii, 396 pages) :illustrations.
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The Chomsky effect :a radical works beyond the ivory tower
Noam Chomsky as political gadfly, groundbreaking scholar, and intellectual guru: key issues in Chomsky's career and the sometimes contentious reception to his ideas.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262267861
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- 1 online resource (xviii, 381 pages) :illustrations
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The allure of machinic life :cybernetics, artificial life, and the new AI
"A Bradford Book."This account of the creation of new forms of life and intelligence in the sciences of cybernetics, artificial life and artificial intelligence analyses both their similarities and their differences in actualising life. The author draws on the work of scientists as well as work in contemporary philosophy and cultural theory.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262276351
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 461 pages) :illustrations
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Advances in neural information processing systems 19 :proceedings of the 2006…
The annual Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) conference is the flagship meeting on neural computation and machine learning. This volume contains the papers presented at the December 2006 meeting, held in Vancouver.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262256919
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- 1 online resource (xxiv, 1643 pages) :illustrations.
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Moral psychology.
"For much of the twentieth century, philosophy and science went their separate ways. In moral philosophy, fear of the so-called naturalistic fallacy kept moral philosophers from incorporating developments in biology and psychology. Since the 1990s, however, many philosophers have drawn on recent advances in cognitive psychology, brain science, and evolutionary psychology to inform their work. T…
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- 9780262302982
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Austere realism :contextual semantics meets minimal ontology
"A Bradford book."This work presents a provocative ontological-cum-semantic position stating that the right ontology is austere in its exclusion of numerous common-sense and scientific posits and that many statements employing such posits are nonetheless true.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262275682
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- 1 online resource (x, 219 pages) :illustrations.
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Conceptual analysis and philosophical naturalism
"A Bradford book."This volume shows how the so-called 'Canberra Plan' of metaphysical research continues to inspire (and provoke) some of the most interesting work in modern metaphysics.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262255202
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- 1 online resource (viii, 370 pages)
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Romance in the ivory tower :the rights and liberty of conscience
Should the choice to engage in a faculty-student romance be protected or precluded? An argument that the right to choose a romantic partner is a fundamental right of conscience, protected by the U.S Constitution.Allen Ginsberg once declared that "the best teaching is done in bed," but most university administrators would presumably disagree. Many universities prohibit romantic relationships bet…
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- 0262266733
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- 1 online resource (172 pages)
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Movies and the moral adventure of life
Films as life lessons, enlarging our sense of human possibilities.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262297035
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 219 pages).
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The really hard problem :meaning in a material world
"A Bradford book."A noted philosopher proposes a naturalistic (rather than supernaturalistic) way to solve the "really hard problem": how to live a life that really matters-even as a finite material being living in a material world.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262272803
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 288 pages) :illustrations
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