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Myth, mind, and the screen : understanding the heroes of our times / by Izod, John,1940-(CARDINAL)767519;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-229) and index.Machine generated contents note: I -- I Jungian theory, textual analysis and audience play -- 2 Archetypal images: signification and the psyche -- 3 Archetypal images: symbols and the cultural unconscious -- 4 The Piano, the animus and colonial experience -- 5 The pop star as icon -- Androgyny and stardom: cutual meanings of Michael Jackson -- A goddess who comes? Madonna as trickster -- 6 The quest of a female hero: The Silence of the Lambs -- 7 Television sport and the sacrificial hero -- 8 The polycentred self: The Passion of Darkly Noon -- 9 Haunted: searching for the whole self -- 10 Transforming the final ghost: the god within -- Conclusion -- Filmography -- Glossary of Jungian and related terms.1350L
Subjects: Motion pictures; Television;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The master algorithm : how the quest for the ultimate learning machine will remake our world / by Domingos, Pedro.(CARDINAL)551458;
Includes bibliographical references and index.The machine learning revolution -- The master algorithm -- Hume's problem of induction -- How does your brain learn? -- Evolution : nature's learning algorithm -- In the church of the Reverend Bayes -- You are what you resemble -- Learning without a teacher -- The pieces of the puzzle fall into place -- This is the world on machine learning."Describes the quest to find the Master Algorithm, which will take machine learning to the next level, allowing computers to learn how to solve not just particular problems but any problem, "--Novelist.Algorithms increasingly run our lives. They work by learning from the trails of data we leave in our newly digital world; they observe us, imitate, and experiment. And in the world's top research labs and universities, the race is on to invent the ultimate learning algorithm: one capable of discovering any knowledge from data, and doing anything we want, before we even ask. Domingos gives us a peek inside the learning machines that power Google, Amazon, and your smartphone, and discusses what it means for you, and for the future of business, science, and society.
Subjects: Knowledge representation (Information theory); Artificial intelligence; Artificial intelligence; Cognitive science; Algorithms.; Computer algorithms.;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 8
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The Roots of my obsession : thirty great gardeners reveal why they garden / by Cooper, Thomas C.(CARDINAL)763044;
Genetically engineered / Tony Avent -- The apprenticeship / Thomas Christopher -- Taste testing / Rosalind Creasy -- Spring fever / Wiliam Cullina -- My time machine / Rick Darke -- Chaos theory / Page Dickey -- There lies peace / Helen Dillon -- Island life / Ken Druse -- Pentimento / Sydney Eddison -- Turkish delights / Fergus Garrett -- Paradise regained / Nancy Goodwin -- Homegrown / Susan Heeger -- Reasonable doubt / Daniel J. Hinkley -- It all began with an oxygen mask-- / Thomas Hobbs -- A garden of happiness / Penelope Hobhouse -- A rocky start / Panayoti Kelandis -- Foreign relations / Roy Lancaster -- Family dynamics / Tovah Martin -- The dirty-minded gardener / Julie Moir Messervy -- The flower thief / Stephen Orr -- Value added / Anna Pavord -- The accompanist Anne Raver -- Saving graces / Margaret Roach -- Right this way / Marty Ross -- Sightings / Claire Sawyers -- The universal itch / Amy Stewart -- Fruit loops/ Roger B. Swain -- The web / Douglas W. Tallamy -- Urban gardener / Richard G. Turner, Jr. -- Simple pleasures / David Wheeler.Collects essays by thirty world-famous gardeners on why they garden, whether it be for aesthetic beauty, food production, or environmental sustainability, and includes contributions by Stephen Orr, Anne Raver, and Helen Dillon.
Subjects: Anecdotes.; Gardening;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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The knowledge machine : how irrationality created modern science / by Strevens, Michael,author.(CARDINAL)836720;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-329) and index.Introduction: the knowledge machine -- I. The great method debate -- Unearthing the scientific method -- Human frailty -- The essential subjectivity of science -- II. How science works -- The iron rule of explanation -- Baconian convergence -- Explanatory ore -- The drive for objectivity -- The supremacy of observation -- III. Why science took so long -- Science's strategic irrationality -- The war against beauty -- The advent of science -- IV. Science now -- Building the scientific mind -- Science and humanism -- Care and maintenance of the knowledge machine."A paradigm-shifting work that revolutionizes our understanding of the origins and structure of science. Captivatingly written, interwoven with tantalizing illustrations and historical vignettes ranging from Newton's alchemy to quantum mechanics to the storm surge of Hurricane Sandy, Michael Strevens's wholly original investigation of science asks two fundamental questions: Why is science so powerful? And why did it take so long, two thousand years after the invention of philosophy and mathematics, for the human race to start using science to learn the secrets of nature? The Knowledge Machine's radical answer is that science calls on its practitioners to do something irrational: by willfully ignoring religion, theoretical beauty, and, especially, philosophy-essentially stripping away all previous knowledge-scientists embrace an unnaturally narrow method of inquiry, channeling unprecedented energy into observation and experimentation. Like Yuval Harari's Sapiens or Thomas Kuhn's 1962 classic, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, The Knowledge Machine overturns much of what we thought we knew about the origins of the modern world"--
Subjects: Instructional and educational works.; Creative nonfiction.; Science; Science; Science; Irrationality (Philosophy); Knowledge, Theory of.; Practical reason.;
Available copies: 11 / Total copies: 11
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Time & space / by Gribbin, John,1946-(CARDINAL)329803; Gribbin, Mary.(CARDINAL)355168; Gribbin, John,1946-(CARDINAL)329803;
Space and time -- Ideas of the ancients -- Made to measure -- Exploring the globe -- Putting the earth in perspective -- Measuring time -- Like clockwork -- Biotime -- Biospace -- Timescales of history -- The shapes of space and time -- Putting the universe in order -- The ultimate law of nature -- The ultimate speed limit -- The marriage of time and space -- Special theory: proofs and tests -- The philosophy of time -- Beyond common sense -- Getting a grip on spacetime -- General theory: proofs and tests -- Black holes and beyond -- Across the universe -- Across the universes -- God's dice -- Ultimate length -- Strings and things -- The birth of space and time -- How to build a time machine.Text and full-color photographs and 3-D models present information about time and space.Accelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Space and time;
Available copies: 11 / Total copies: 11
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The signal and the noise : why most predictions fail but some don't / by Silver, Nate,1978-(CARDINAL)401158;
Includes bibliographical references and index.1260L
Subjects: Bayesian statistical decision theory.; Forecasting.; Forecasting; Forecasting; Knowledge, Theory of.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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The Blank slate : the denial of human nature in modern intellectual life / by Pinker, Steven,1954-(CARDINAL)332272;
Includes bibliographical references (page) and index.
Subjects: Nature and nurture.;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4
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Principles of programming & coding / by Franceschetti, Donald R.,1947-editor.(CARDINAL)651222;
Includes bibliographical references and index3D printing -- Algorithms -- American Standard Code for Information -- Interchange (ASCII) -- Android OS -- Application -- Autonomic computing -- Avatars and simulation -- Binary hexadecimal representations -- Boolean operators -- Branching logic -- Characters and strings -- Cloud computing -- Coding and encryption -- Color coding -- Combinatorics -- Comment programming -- Comparison operators -- Computer animation -- Computer memory -- Computer modeling -- Computer security -- Computer-aided design (CAD) -- Computer-aided design and computer-aided manufacturing software (CAD/CAM) -- Computer-assisted instruction (CAI) -- Conditional operators -- Constraint programming -- Control systems -- Cowboy coding -- CPU design -- Crowdfunding -- Crowdsourcing -- Cryptography -- Data mining -- Data warehouse -- Database design -- Database structuring conventions -- Debugging -- Device drivers -- Diffusion of innovations -- Digital divide -- Digital forensics -- Digital libraries -- Digital native -- Digital photography -- Digital signal processors (DSP) -- Digital watermarking -- Disk operating system (DOS) -- Drone warfare -- Drones -- E-banking -- E-learning -- Electronic circuits -- Electronic communication software -- Encryption -- Error handling -- Event-driven marketing (EDM) -- Expectancy theory -- Experimenter's bias -- Extreme programming -- Firewalls -- Firmware -- Functional electrical stimulation (FES) -- Game programming -- Gamification -- Graphical user interface (GUI) -- Graphics formats -- Guard clause -- HTTP cookie -- Imagined communities -- Incremental development -- Informational technology (IT) -- Information visualization -- Internet Protocol (IP) -- Inversion of control (Hollywood Principle) -- iOS -- Iterative constructs -- Java programming language -- JavaScript -- Knowledge worker -- Levels of processing theory -- Logic synthesis -- Logistics -- Machine learning -- Malware -- Massive open online course (MOOC) -- Meta-analysis -- Metacomputing -- Metadata -- Microprocessors -- Mixed methods research (MMR) -- Mobile apps -- Mobile technology -- Motherboards -- Multiprocessing operating systems (OS) -- Multi-user operating system (OS) -- Naming conventions -- Net neutrality -- Network security -- Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) -- Neuromarketing -- Neuromorphic chips -- Objectivity -- Object-oriented design (OOD) -- Object-oriented programming (OOP) -- Privacy rights -- Programming languages -- Prototyping -- Quantum computing -- Random access memory (RAM) -- Rapid application development (RAD) -- Rational choice theory -- Search engine optimization (SEO) -- Semantic memory -- Semantics -- Signal processing -- Source code comments -- Spiral development -- Standard deviation -- Standpoint theory -- Statistical inference -- String-oriented symbolic languages (SNOBOL) -- Structural equation modeling (SEM) -- Technology in education -- Test doubles -- Theory of multiple intelligences -- Theory X and Theory Y -- Transformation priority premise (TPP) -- Tree structures -- Turing test -- Uncertainty reduction theory (URT) -- Unicode -- UNIX -- Variables and values -- Waterfall development -- Web design -- Web graphic design -- Working memory -- Worse-is-better -- Time Line of Inventions and Advancements in Programming and CodingThis new volume makes sense of the jumble of techno-jargon and programming acronyms for high school and undergraduate students. More than 125 entries explain the fundamental concepts, popular languages, systems, and protocols that go into computer programming.
Subjects: Computer programming.; Coding theory.;
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Battling the big lie [sound recording] : how Fox, Facebook, and the MAGA media are destroying America / by Pfeiffer, Dan,author,narrator.(CARDINAL)356318;
Read by the author.Dan Pfeiffer describes how the Right Wing built such a robust and successful disinformation machine, how they have used it to amass power despite representing a dwindling share of the country, and how readers can fight back against disinformation with step-by-step guides on spotting fake news, becoming their own fact checker, and talking to their conspiracy theory-obsessed relatives.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Disinformation; Polarization (Social sciences); Political culture;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The camel club box set [audio-enabled device] by Baldacci, David,author.(CARDINAL)340258; McLarty, Ron,narrator.(CARDINAL)529492; Naughton, James,1945-narrator.(CARDINAL)732578(CARDINAL)346038; Reed, Maggi-Meg,narrator.; Wopat, Tom,narrator.; Findaway World, LLC.(CARDINAL)345268; Hachette Audio (Firm).(CARDINAL)346394; Playaway Digital Audio.(CARDINAL)565887;
Read by James Naughton, Tom Wopat with Maggi-Meg Reed, Ron McLarty."The Camel Club exists at the fringes of Washington, D.C., has no power, and consists solely of four eccentric members whom society has forgotten. One man leads this ragtag crew. He has no known past and has taken the name "Oliver Stone." Day and night, Stone and his friends study wild conspiracy theories and the machinations of government, hoping to discover some truth that will hold America's leaders accountable.Issued on Playaway, a dedicated audio media player.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Political fiction.; Thrillers (Fiction).; Stone, Oliver (Fictitious character); Camel Club (Imaginary organization); Secret societies;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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