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Computation, Causation, and Discovery
In science, business, and policymaking—anywhere data are used in prediction—two sorts of problems requiring very different methods of analysis often arise. The first, problems of recognition and classification, concerns learning how to use some features of a system to accurately predict other features of that system. The second, problems of causal discovery, concerns learning how to predict…
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Optimality-theoretic syntax
Recent work in theoretical syntax has revealed the strong explanatory power of the notions of economy, competition, and optimization. Building grammars entirely upon these elements, Optimality Theory syntax provides a theory of universal grammar with a formally precise and strongly restricted theory of universal typology: cross-linguistic variation arises exclusively from the conflict among uni…
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Computational Learning Theory and Natural Learning Systems, Volume 4: Making …
This is the fourth and final volume of papers from a series of workshops called "Computational Learning Theory and `Natural' Learning Systems." The purpose of the workshops was to explore the emerging intersection of theoretical learning research and natural learning systems. The workshops drew researchers from three historically distinct styles of learning research: computational learning theo…
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- 9780262291132
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Deliberate ignorance :choosing not to know
"Psychologists, economists, historians, computer scientists, sociologists, philosophers, and legal scholars discuss when is deliberate ignorance a virtue, and what type of environment does it require"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262363273
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Inductive inference and its natural ground : an essay in naturalistic epistem…
"A Bradford book."Hilary Kornblith presents an account of inductive inference that addresses both its metaphysical and epistemological aspects. He argues that inductive knowledge is possible by virtue of the fit between our innate psychological capacities and the causal structure of the world.Kornblith begins by developing an account of natural kinds that has its origins in John Locke's work on…
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Information, mechanism and meaning
A collection of selected papers written by the information theorist and "brain physicist," most of which were presented to various scientific conferences in the 1950s and 1960s. Most of this collection concerns MacKay's abiding preoccupation with information as represented and utilized in the brain and exchanged between human beings, rather than as formalized in logical patterns of elementary p…
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- 9780262256605
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- 1 online resource (viii, 196 pages)
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Conditionals
"A Bradford Book."A unified treatment of conditionals based on epistemological principles rather than the semantical principles in vogue over recent decades.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262282321
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G?odel, Putnam, and functionalism :a new reading of Representation and reality
"A Bradford book."The first systematic examination of Hilary Putnam's arguments against computational functionalism challenges each of Putnam's main arguments.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262269513
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The meaning of proofs :mathematics as storytelling
Translation of: Matematica come narrazione : raccontare la matematica."This book introduces readers to the narrative structure of mathematical proofs and why mathematicians communicate that way, drawing examples from classic literature and employing metaphors and imagery"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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Advances in minimum description length :theory and applications
A source book for state-of-the-art MDL, including an extensive tutorial and recent theoretical advances and practical applications in fields ranging from bioinformatics to psychology.The process of inductive inference--to infer general laws and principles from particular instances--is the basis of statistical modeling, pattern recognition, and machine learning. The Minimum Descriptive Length (M…
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- 1 online resource (x, 444 pages) :illustrations.
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