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Decoding reality : the universe as quantum information / by Vedral, Vlatko.(CARDINAL)686398;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-225) and index.Creation ex nihilo : something from nothing -- Information for all seasons -- Back to basics : bits and pieces -- Digital romance : life is a four-letter word -- Murphy's Law : I knew this would happen to me -- Place your bets in it to win it -- Social informatics : get connected or die tryin' -- Quantum schmuntum : lights, camera, action! -- Surfing the waves : hyper-fast computers -- Children of the aimless chance : randomness versus determinism -- Sand reckoning : whose information is it, anyway? -- Destruction ab toto : nothing from something.
Subjects: Information theory.; Quantum theory.; Quantum computers.; Space and time.; Physics;
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Series representations for generalized stochastic processes / by Habib, Muhammad K.(CARDINAL)176698; University of North Carolina (System).Institute of Statistics.(CARDINAL)165205; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.Department of Biostatistics.(CARDINAL)167680;
Bibliography: pages i-ii.
Subjects: Information theory in mathematics.; Sampling (Statistics); Stochastic processes.;
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Antifragile [sound recording] : things that gain from disorder / by Taleb, Nassim Nicholas,1960-; Ochman, Joe.nrt;
Read by Joe Ochman.Shares philosophical insights into how adversity and chaos can bring out the best in individuals and communities, drawing on multiple disciplines to consider such topics as the superiority of city states over nation states, the drawbacks of debt, and why modern developments usually fail.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Complexity (Philosophy); Forecasting.; Uncertainty (Information theory);
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Antifragile : things that gain from disorder / by Taleb, Nassim Nicholas,1960-,author.(CARDINAL)352439;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 481-504) and index.Prologue -- The antifragile: an introduction -- Modernity and the denial of antifragility -- Nonpredictive view of the world -- Optionality, technology, and he intelligence of antifragility -- The nonlinear and the nonlinear -- Via negativa -- The ethics of fragility and antifragility -- Epilogue"The acclaimed author of the influential bestseller The Black Swan, Nicholas Nassim Taleb takes a next big step with a deceptively simple concept: the "antifragile." Like the Greek hydra that grows two heads for each one it loses, people, systems, and institutions that are antifragile not only withstand shocks, they benefit from them. In a modern world dominated by chaos and uncertainty, Antifragile is a revolutionary vision from one of the most subversive and important thinkers of our time." -- Provided by publisher
Subjects: Complexity (Philosophy); Forecasting.; Uncertainty (Information theory);
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The demon in the machine : how hidden webs of information are solving the mystery of life / by Davies, P. C. W.,author.(CARDINAL)324234;
Includes bibliographical references and index.What is life? -- Enter the demon -- The logic of life -- Darwinism 2.0 -- Spooky life and quantum demons -- Almost a miracle -- The ghost in the machine -- Epilogue.
Subjects: Life (Biology); Life; Information theory in biology.;
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Head in the cloud : why knowing things still matters when facts are so easy to look up / by Poundstone, William,author.(CARDINAL)171005;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-323) and index.Introduction: Facts are obsolete -- Part One: The Dunning-Kruger effect -- 1. "I wore the juice" -- 2. A map of ignorance -- 3. Dumb history -- 4. The one-in-five rule -- 5. The low-information electorate -- Part Two: The knowledge premium -- 6. Putting a price tag on facts -- 7. Elevator-pitch science -- 8. Grammar police, grammar hippies -- 9. Nanoframe -- 10. Is shrimp kosher? -- 11. Philosophers and reality stars -- 12. Sex and absurdity -- 13. Moving the goalposts -- 14. Marshmallow test -- 15. The value of superficial learning -- Part Three: Strategies for a culturally illiterate world -- 16. When dumbing down is smart -- 17. Curating knowledge -- 18. The ice-cap riddle -- 19. The fox and the hedgehog.Looks at the state of knowledge in the American public, and demonstrates how many areas of knowledge correlate with quality of life, politics, and behavior, arguing that being knowledgeable has significant value even when facts can be looked up with little effort.
Subjects: Knowledge, Theory of.; Big data.; Information behavior.;
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Language-operational-gestalt awareness ; a radically empirical and pragmatical phenomenology of the processes and systems of library experience / by Graziano, Eugene Edward,1927-;
Subjects: Knowledge, Theory of.; Library science.; Information theory.; Information science.; Language and languages; Psycholinguistics.; Phenomenology.; Gestalt psychology.; Philosophy.;
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The information [sound recording] : a history, a theory, a flood / by Gleick, James.(CARDINAL)188262;
James Gleick chronicles the history of information technologies that have changed human behaviors and reshaped entire civilizations.
Subjects: Audiobooks; Information science; Information society.;
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The ascent of information : books, bits, genes, machines, and life's unending algorithm / by Scharf, Caleb,1968-author.(CARDINAL)352726;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Our eternal data -- The burden of an idea -- In sickness and in health -- An ever more tangled bank -- Genes, memes, and dreams -- The information river -- Life made machine -- The great blending -- A universe of dataomes."Your information has a life of its own, and it's using you to get what it wants. One of the most peculiar and possibly unique features of humans is the vast amount of information we carry outside our biological selves. But in our rush to build the infrastructure for the 20 quintillion bits we create every day, we've failed to ask exactly why we're expending ever-increasing amounts of energy, resources, and human effort to maintain all this data. Drawing on deep ideas and frontier thinking in evolutionary biology, computer science, information theory, and astrobiology, Caleb Scharf argues that information is, in a very real sense, alive. All the data we create-all of our emails, tweets, selfies, A.I.-generated text and funny cat videos-amounts to an aggregate lifeform. It has goals and needs. It can control our behavior and influence our well-being. And it's an organism that has evolved right alongside us. This symbiotic relationship with information offers a startling new lens for looking at the world. Data isn't just something we produce; it's the reason we exist. This powerful idea has the potential to upend the way we think about our technology, our role as humans, and the fundamental nature of life. The Ascent of Information offers a humbling vision of a universe built of and for information. Scharf explores how our relationship with data will affect our ongoing evolution as a species. Understanding this relationship will be crucial to preventing our data from becoming more of a burden than an asset, and to preserving the possibility of a human future"--
Subjects: Information theory.; Human-computer interaction.; Human-machine systems.;
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Exploring Informational Texts From Theory to Practice by Hoyt, Linda.(CARDINAL)651546;
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