Ambiguity Machines An Examination
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Ambiguity Machines An Examination
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Author : Vandana Singh
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan
Release Date : 2015-04-29
Ambiguity Machines An Examination written by Vandana Singh and has been published by Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-04-29 with Fiction categories.
This tale is an unusual take on an engineering exam that explores new concepts in machine design and function. All new machine discoveries must be investigated and classified. This is the story of three such machines and the truth or lie of their existence. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Ambiguity Machines
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Author : Vandana Singh
language : en
Publisher: Small Beer Press
Release Date : 2018-02-13
Ambiguity Machines written by Vandana Singh and has been published by Small Beer Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-13 with Fiction categories.
Philip K. Dick Award finalist Praise for Vandana Singh: “A most promising and original young writer.”—Ursula K. Le Guin “Lovely! What a pleasure this book is . . . full of warmth, compassion, affection, high comedy and low.”—Molly Gloss, author of The Hearts of Horses “Vandana Singh’s radiant protagonist is a planet unto herself.”—Village Voice “Sweeping starscapes and daring cosmology that make Singh a worthy heir to Cordwainer Smith and Arthur C. Clarke.”—Chris Moriarty, Fantasy & Science Fiction “I’m looking forward to the collection . . . everything I’ve read has impressed me—the past and future visions in ‘Delhi’, the intensity of ‘Thirst’, the feeling of escape at the end of ‘The Tetrahedron’...” —Niall Harrison, Vector (British Science Fiction Association) “...the first writer of Indian origin to make a serious mark in the SF world ... she writes with such a beguiling touch of the strange.” —Nilanjana Roy, Business Standard In her first North American collection, Vandana Singh’s deep humanism interplays with her scientific background in stories that explore and celebrate this world and others and characters who are trying to make sense of the people they meet, what they see, and the challenges they face. An eleventh century poet wakes to find he is as an artificially intelligent companion on a starship. A woman of no account has the ability to look into the past. In "Requiem," a major new novella, a woman goes to Alaska to try and make sense of her aunt’s disappearance. Singh's stories have been performed on BBC radio, been finalists for the British SF Association award, selected for the Tiptree award honor list, and oft reprinted in Best of the Year anthologies. Her dives deep into the vast strangeness of the universe without and within and with her unblinking clear vision she explores the ways we move through space and time: together, yet always apart.
The Nostalgist
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Author : Daniel H. Wilson
language : en
Publisher: Tor Books
Release Date : 2011-02-01
The Nostalgist written by Daniel H. Wilson and has been published by Tor Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-02-01 with Fiction categories.
The Nostalgist: A Tor.Com Original from Daniel H. Wilson. With EyesTM and EarsTM, everything can look and sound just fine, just like it used to be; it's a shock when they break down, though. This story has been adapted into a short film of the same name, directed by Giacomo Cimini and starring Lambert Wilson and Samuel Joslin. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
The Shape Of My Name
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Author : Nino Cipri
language : en
Publisher: Tor Books
Release Date : 2015-03-04
The Shape Of My Name written by Nino Cipri and has been published by Tor Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-04 with Fiction categories.
The Shape of My Name by Nino Cipri is a time travel story about what it means to truly claim yourself. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Machine Of Death
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Author : Ryan North
language : en
Publisher: Machines of Death LLC
Release Date : 2010
Machine Of Death written by Ryan North and has been published by Machines of Death LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Fiction categories.
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.
Combustion Hour
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Author : Yoon Ha Lee
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan
Release Date : 2014-06-18
Combustion Hour written by Yoon Ha Lee and has been published by Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-18 with Fiction categories.
Combustion Hour by Yoon Ha Lee is a story about the eschatology of shadow puppets. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Machine Scoring Of Student Essays
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Author : Patricia Freitag Ericsson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006-03-15
Machine Scoring Of Student Essays written by Patricia Freitag Ericsson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-03-15 with Education categories.
The current trend toward machine-scoring of student work, Ericsson and Haswell argue, has created an emerging issue with implications for higher education across the disciplines, but with particular importance for those in English departments and in administration. The academic community has been silent on the issue—some would say excluded from it—while the commercial entities who develop essay-scoring software have been very active. Machine Scoring of Student Essays is the first volume to seriously consider the educational mechanisms and consequences of this trend, and it offers important discussions from some of the leading scholars in writing assessment. Reading and evaluating student writing is a time-consuming process, yet it is a vital part of both student placement and coursework at post-secondary institutions. In recent years, commercial computer-evaluation programs have been developed to score student essays in both of these contexts. Two-year colleges have been especially drawn to these programs, but four-year institutions are moving to them as well, because of the cost-savings they promise. Unfortunately, to a large extent, the programs have been written, and institutions are installing them, without attention to their instructional validity or adequacy. Since the education software companies are moving so rapidly into what they perceive as a promising new market, a wider discussion of machine-scoring is vital if scholars hope to influence development and/or implementation of the programs being created. What is needed, then, is a critical resource to help teachers and administrators evaluate programs they might be considering, and to more fully envision the instructional consequences of adopting them. And this is the resource that Ericsson and Haswell are providing here.
The Turing Test
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Author : Stuart M. Shieber
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2004-06-18
The Turing Test written by Stuart M. Shieber and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-06-18 with Computers categories.
Historical and contemporary papers on the philosophical issues raised by the Turing Test as a criterion for intelligence. The Turing Test is part of the vocabulary of popular culture—it has appeared in works ranging from the Broadway play "Breaking the Code" to the comic strip "Robotman." The writings collected by Stuart Shieber for this book examine the profound philosophical issues surrounding the Turing Test as a criterion for intelligence. Alan Turing's idea, originally expressed in a 1950 paper titled "Computing Machinery and Intelligence" and published in the journal Mind, proposed an "indistinguishability test" that compared artifact and person. Following Descartes's dictum that it is the ability to speak that distinguishes human from beast, Turing proposed to test whether machine and person were indistinguishable in regard to verbal ability. He was not, as is often assumed, answering the question "Can machines think?" but proposing a more concrete way to ask it. Turing's proposed thought experiment encapsulates the issues that the writings in The Turing Test define and discuss. The first section of the book contains writings by philosophical precursors, including Descartes, who first proposed the idea of indistinguishablity tests. The second section contains all of Turing's writings on the Turing Test, including not only the Mind paper but also less familiar ephemeral material. The final section opens with responses to Turing's paper published in Mind soon after it first appeared. The bulk of this section, however, consists of papers from a broad spectrum of scholars in the field that directly address the issue of the Turing Test as a test for intelligence. Contributors John R. Searle, Ned Block, Daniel C. Dennett, and Noam Chomsky (in a previously unpublished paper). Each chapter is introduced by background material that can also be read as a self-contained essay on the Turing Test
Interpretable Machine Learning
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Author : Christoph Molnar
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2020
Interpretable Machine Learning written by Christoph Molnar and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with Artificial intelligence categories.
This book is about making machine learning models and their decisions interpretable. After exploring the concepts of interpretability, you will learn about simple, interpretable models such as decision trees, decision rules and linear regression. Later chapters focus on general model-agnostic methods for interpreting black box models like feature importance and accumulated local effects and explaining individual predictions with Shapley values and LIME. All interpretation methods are explained in depth and discussed critically. How do they work under the hood? What are their strengths and weaknesses? How can their outputs be interpreted? This book will enable you to select and correctly apply the interpretation method that is most suitable for your machine learning project.
The Polygraph And Lie Detection
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Author : National Research Council
language : en
Publisher: National Academies Press
Release Date : 2003-02-22
The Polygraph And Lie Detection written by National Research Council and has been published by National Academies Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-02-22 with Law categories.
The polygraph, often portrayed as a magic mind-reading machine, is still controversial among experts, who continue heated debates about its validity as a lie-detecting device. As the nation takes a fresh look at ways to enhance its security, can the polygraph be considered a useful tool? The Polygraph and Lie Detection puts the polygraph itself to the test, reviewing and analyzing data about its use in criminal investigation, employment screening, and counter-intelligence. The book looks at: The theory of how the polygraph works and evidence about how deceptivenessâ€"and other psychological conditionsâ€"affect the physiological responses that the polygraph measures. Empirical evidence on the performance of the polygraph and the success of subjects' countermeasures. The actual use of the polygraph in the arena of national security, including its role in deterring threats to security. The book addresses the difficulties of measuring polygraph accuracy, the usefulness of the technique for aiding interrogation and for deterrence, and includes potential alternativesâ€"such as voice-stress analysis and brain measurement techniques.