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Advances in weigh-in-motion using pattern recognition and prediction of fatigue life of highway bridges. by Gagarine, Nicolas.; Albrecht, Pedro.(CARDINAL)328724; United States.Federal Highway Administration.Office of Engineering & Highway Operations Research and Development,sponsor.(CARDINAL)286896; Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center.(CARDINAL)286897; University of Maryland, College Park.Department of Civil Engineering.(CARDINAL)328723;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 37-40).Introduction -- Background on development of WIM+R system -- Field experiments -- Weigh-in-motion study -- Structural response study -- Pattern recognition study -- Conclusions and recommendations -- Appendices -- References.Final report;The two main objectives of the present study were to: (1) demonstrate the advantages of using the Weigh-in-Motion and Response (WIM+R) system to evaluate the fatigue life of existing bridges and (2) introduce pattern recognition methods in the analysis of WIM+R data. Four steel girder bridges were instrumented to obtain strain data at fatigue critical details, and at sections of maximum strain to compute the gross vehicle weight (GVW) of each truck. Two were simple spans, and two continuous spans. A comparative study of three of the four alternatives suggested by AASHTO showed that the fatigue life computed with direct measurements of the stress ranges were greater than those computed with the simplified approaches. The effect of secondary cycles was negligible for the four bridges. The damage equivalent secondary cycle factor for fatigue was defined. The applicability of three pattern recognition methods for WIM+R was investigated. The dynamic time warping, hidden Markov model, and feed forward neural network methods can classify trucks with the measured strain patterns alone.Sponsored by the Office of Engineering & Highway Operations R & D, and prepared by the Dept. of Civil Engineering, University of Maryland, under contract no.

Subjects: Technical reports.; Bridges; Girders; Iron and steel bridges; Pattern recognition systems.; Steel, Structural;

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Modern robotics : building versatile machines / by Henderson, Harry,1951-(CARDINAL)766549;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-179) and index.

Subjects: Robotics.;

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The peripheral [sound recording] / by Gibson, William,1948-(CARDINAL)747564; King, Lorelei.(CARDINAL)530555;

Read by Lorelei King.Where Flynne and her brother, Burton, live, jobs outside the drug business are rare. Fortunately, Burton has his veteran's benefits, for neural damage he suffered from implants during his time in the USMC's elite Haptic Recon force. Then one night Burton has to go out, but there's a job he's supposed to do-a job Flynne didn't know he had. Beta-testing part of a new game, he tells her. The job seems to be simple: work a perimeter around the image of a tower building.

Subjects: Audiobooks.; Suspense fiction.; Computer software; Drug traffic; Dystopias; Implants, Artificial; Murder; Siblings; Veterans; Video games;

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Physics in mind : a quantum view of the brain / by Loewenstein, Werner R.(CARDINAL)646471;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-307) and index."In Physics in Mind, eminent biophysicist Werner R. Loewenstein seeks answers to these perplexing questions in the mechanisms of physics. Bringing information theory--the idea that all information can be quantified and encoded in bits--to bear on recent advances in the neurosciences, Loewenstein reveals inside the brain a web of immense computational power capable of rendering a coherent representation of the world outside. He guides us on an exhilarating journey along the sensory data stream of the brain--the stream that nurses our cognitions--and we see how the vast amounts of information coming in from the world outside get processed by the web, how its neurons gradually extract meaning from this hodgepodge, and how they arrive at a coherent picture of the world"--

Subjects: Neurophysiology.; Neural networks (Neurobiology); Brain.;

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Fuel [videorecording] / by Cinema Libre Studio.; O'Hara, John,1958-; Reitman, Greg.(CARDINAL)591251; Tickell, Joshua.(CARDINAL)324564; Blue Water Entertainment (Firm); Cinema Libre Studio.; Digital Neural Axis (Firm); Hero BX (Firm); Open Pictures (Firm); PIC Agency (Firm);

Introduction -- Josh & the veggie van -- Connection to oil -- The auto industry -- Bottom of the barrel -- Government for sale -- Follow the money -- Diesel -- Environmental crisis -- Willie & the truckers -- Something's in the air -- Food vs. fuel -- The next generation -- Solutions -- A sustainable planet -- Make some changes.Director of photography James Mulryan ; editors Tina Imahara, Michael Horwitz ; music by Ryan Demaree and Edgar Rothermich.Featuring Joshua Tickell.A powerful portrait of America's overwhelming addiction to, and reliance on, oil. Having been born and raised in one of the USA's most oil-producing regions, Josh Tickell saw firsthand how the industry controls, deceives, and damages the country, its people, and the environment, and after one too many people he know became sick, he knew he just couldn't idly stand by any longer.Not rated.Computer and Adobe Acrobat Reader required to access PDF materials.DVD; [widescreen]; NTSC; all regions; Dolby Digital 2.Best documentary audience award, Sundance Film Festival.

Subjects: Documentary films.; Nonfiction films.; Documentary films.; Nonfiction films.; Automobiles; Petroleum industry and trade; Petroleum law and legislation; Petroleum;

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12 bytes : how we got here, where we might go next / by Winterson, Jeanette,1959-author.(CARDINAL)737975;

Includes bibliographical references."Twelve eye-opening, mind-expanding, funny, and provocative essays on the implications of artificial intelligence for the way we live and the way we love from New York Times bestselling author Jeanette Winterson. "Talky, smart, anarchic and quite sexy," wrote Dwight Garner in the New York Times about Jeanette Winterson's last novel, Frankissstein, her first foray into the subject of AI. In 12 Bytes, Winterson's first nonfiction since her bestselling Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?, draws deeper from her years of considering artificial intelligence in all its bewildering manifestations. In brilliant, laser-focused, uniquely pointed, and witty storytelling, Winterson looks to history, religion, myth, literature, the politics of race and gender, and computer science, to help us understand the radical changes to the way we live and love that are happening now. When we create non-biological life-forms, will we do so in our image? Or will we accept the once-in-a-species opportunity to remake ourselves intheir image? What do love, caring, sex, and attachment look like when humans form connections with non-human helpers, teachers, sex-workers, and companions? And what will happen to our deep-rooted assumptions about gender? Will the physical body that isour home soon be enhanced by biological and neural implants, keeping us fitter, younger, and connected? Is it time to join Elon Musk and leave Planet Earth? With wit, compassion, and curiosity, Winterson tackles AI's most fascinating talking points, fromthe algorithms that data-dossier your whole life to the weirdness of backing up your brain"--

Subjects: Essays.; Artificial intelligence;

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A brief history of intelligence : evolution, AI, and the five breakthroughs that made our brains / by Bennett, Max S.(Max Solomon),author.(CARDINAL)878923;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 373-399) and index.The basics of human brain anatomy -- Our evolutionary lineage -- Introduction -- The world before brains -- Breakthrough #1: Steering and the first bilaterians. The birth of good and bad -- The origin of emotion -- Associating, predicting, and the dawn of learning -- Breakthrough #2: Reinforcing and the first vertebrates. The Cambrian explosion -- The evolution of temporal difference learning -- The problems of pattern recognition -- Why life got curious -- The first model of the world -- Breakthrough #3: Simulating and the first mammals. The neural dark ages -- Generative models and the neocortical mystery -- Mice in the imaginarium -- Model-based reinforcement learning -- The secret to dishwashing robots -- Breakthrough #4: Mentalizing and the first primates. The arms race for political savvy -- How to model other minds -- Monkey hammers and self-driving cars -- Why rats can't go grocery shopping -- Breakthrough #5: Speaking and the first humans. The search for human uniqueness -- Language in the brain -- The perfect storm -- ChatGPT and the window into the mind -- Conclusion: The sixth breakthrough."In the last decade, the science of understanding the human brain and replicating its most complicated processes through artificial intelligence has grown exponentially. Intricate neurological functions ranging from writing poetry to crafting original articles, arenas that had long been thought of as science fiction, have become our reality. And yet, large gaps remain in what AI can achieve-gaps that, as pioneering artificial intelligence entrepreneur Max Bennett argues compellingly, exist because there is still too much we don't understand about our own brains. Finding these answers requires diving into the long billion-year history of how animal brains emerged from matter; a history filled with countless half-starts, calamities, opportunities, and clever innovations. Not only do our brains have a story to tell-in fact the future of AI depends on it. Now, in A Brief History of Brains, Bennett bridges the gap between neuroscience and AI to tell the brain's evolutionary story, while demonstrating how understanding that story will shape the next generation of great AI breakthroughs. Deploying fresh perspective and lively storytelling, Bennett sheds long overdue light on evolutionary neuroscience, a historically small scientific field that holds the keys to the biggest secrets in AI. Working with support from many of the top minds in the field, Bennett consolidates four billion years into an approachable new model, identifying the Five Breakthroughs that mark the brain's most important evolutionary leaps. As we go back further in time, brains get much simpler and behavior gets much simpler, making it easier to understand these ancient brains and the complexity that emerges at each subsequent iteration. As each breakthrough brings new insight to the biggest mysteries of human development, it also contains fascinating corollaries to developments in AI, showing where our technological skill has matched the brain's evolution and where the missing links continue to hold us back. Indeed, until we understand and embrace every part of our brain's journey, parts of AI-including ones that we need to grow and evolve-will remain elusive. Endorsed and lauded by the brightest and best neuroscientists in the field today, Bennett's work synthesizes the most relevant scientific knowledge and cutting-edge research to create an easy-to-understand and riveting evolutionary story. With sweeping scope and stunning insights, A Brief History of Brains proves that understanding the arc of our brain's history can unlock the tools for successfully navigating our technological future."--

Subjects: Informational works.; Computational neuroscience.; Artificial intelligence.; Brain; Human evolution.;

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This idea must die : scientific theories that are blocking progress / by Brockman, John,1941-editor.(CARDINAL)282534;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 545-547) and index.The theory of everything / Geoffrey West -- Unification / Marcelo Gleiser -- Simplicity / A.C. Grayling -- The universe / Seth Lloyd -- IQ / Scott Atran -- Brain plasticity / Leo M. Chalupa -- Changing the brain / Howard Gardner -- "The rocket scientist" / Victoria Wyatt -- Indivi-duality / Nigel Goldenfeld -- The bigger an animal's brain, the greater its intelligence / Nicholas Humphrey -- The big bang was the first moment of time / Lee Smolin -- The universe began in a state of extraordinarily low entropy / Alan Guth -- Entropy / Bruce Parker -- The uniformity and uniqueness of the universe / Andrei Linde -- Infinity / Max Tegmark -- The laws of physics are predetermined / Lawrence M. Krauss -- Theories of anything / Paul Steinhardt -- M-theory/string theory is the only game in town / Eric R. Weinstein -- String theory / Frank Tipler -- Our world has only three space dimensions / Gordon Kane -- The "naturalness" argument / Peter Woit -- The collapse of the wave function / Freeman Dyson -- Quantum jumps / David Deutsch -- Cause and effect / W. Daniel Hillis -- Race / Nina Jablonski -- Essentialism / Richard Dawkins -- Human nature/ Peter Richerson -- The Urvogel / Julia Clarke -- Numbering nature / Kurt Gray -- Hardwired=permanent / Michael Shermer -- The atheism prerequisite / Douglas Rushkoff -- Evolution is "true" / Roger Highfield -- There is no reality in the quantum world / Anton Zeilinger -- Spacetime / Steve Giddings -- The universe / Amanda Gefter -- The Higgs particle closes a chapter in particle physics / Haim Harari -- Aesthetic motivation / Sarah Demers -- Naturalness, hierarchy, and spacetime / Maria Spiropulu -- Scientists ought to know everthing scientifically knowable / Ed Regis -- Falsifiability / Sean Carroll -- Anti-anecdotalism / Nicholas G. Carr -- Science makes philosophy obsolete / Rebecca Newberger Goldstein -- "Science" / Ian Bogost -- Our narrow definition of "science" / Sam Harris -- The hard problem / Daniel C. Dennett -- The neural correlates of consciousness / Susan Blackmore -- Long-term memory is immutable / Todd C. Sacktor -- The self / Bruce Hood -- Cognitive agency / Thomas Metzinger -- Free will / Jerry Coyne -- Common sense / Robert Provine -- There can be no science of art / Jonathan Gottschall -- Science and technology / George Dyson -- Things are either true or false / Alan Alda -- Simple answers / Gavin Schmidt -- We'll never hit barriers to scientific understanding / Martin Rees -- Life evolves via a shared genetic toolkit / Seirian Sumner -- Fully random mutations / Kevin Kelly -- One genome per individual / Eric J. Topol -- Nature versus nurture / Timo Hannay -- The particularist use of "a" gene-environment interaction / Robert Sapolsky -- Natrual selection is the only engine of evolution / Athena Vouloumanos -- Behavior = genes + environment / Steven Pinker -- Innateness / Alison Gopnik -- Moral blank-slateism / Kiley Hamlin -- Associationism / Oliver Scott Curry -- Radical behaviorism / Simon Baron-Cohen -- "Instinct" and "innate" / Daniel L. Everett -- Altruism / Tor Nørretranders -- The altruism hierarchy / Jamil Zaki -- Humans are by nature social animals / Adam Waytz -- Evidence-based medicine / Gary Klein --Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder / David M. Buss -- Romantic love and addiction / Helen Fisher -- Emotion is peripheral / Brian Knutson -- Science can maximize our happiness / Paul Bloom -- Culture / Pascal Boyer -- Culture / Laura Betzig -- Learning and culture / John Tooby -- "Our" intutitions / Stephen Stich -- We're stone age thinkers / Alun Anderson -- Inclusive fitness / Martin Nowak -- Human evolutionary exceptionalism / Michael McCullough -- Animal mindlessness / Kate Jeffery -- Humaniqueness / Irene Pepperberg -- Human being = homo sapiens / Steve Fuller -- Anthropocentricity / Satyajit Das -- Truer perceptions are fitter perceptions / Donald D. Hoffman -- The intrinsic beauty and elegance of mathematics allows it to describe nature / Gregory Benford -- Geometry / Carlo Rovelli -- Calculus / Andrew Lih -- Computer science / Neil Gershenfeld -- Science advances by funerals / Samuel Barondes -- Planck's cynical view of scientific change / Hugo Mercier -- New ideas triumph by replacing old ones / Jared Diamond -- Max Planck's faith / Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi -- The illusion of certainty / Mary Catherine Bateson -- The pursuit of parsimony / Jonathan Haidt -- The clinician's law of parsimony / Gerald Smallberg -- Essentialist views of the mind / Lisa Barrett -- The distinction between antisociality and mental illness / Abigail Marsh -- Repression / David G. Myers -- Mental illness is nothing but brain illness / Joel Gold and Ian Gold -- Psychogenic illness / Beatrice Golomb -- Crime entails only the actions of criminals / Eduardo Salcedo-Albarán -- Statistical significance / Charles Seife -- Scientific inference via statistical rituals / Gerd Gigerenzer -- The power of statistics / Emanuel Derman -- Reproducibility / Victoria Stodden -- The average / Nicholas A. Christakis -- Standard deviation / Nassim Nicholas Taleb -- Statistical independence / Bart Kosko -- Certainty. Absolute truth. Exactitude / Richard Saul Wurman -- The illusion of scientific progress / Paul Saffo.Large randomized controlled trials / Dean Ornish -- Multiple regression as a means of discovering causality / Richard Nisbett -- Mouse models / Azra Raza -- The somatic mutation theory of cancer / Paul Davies -- The linear no-threshold (LNT) radiation dose hypotheses / Stewart Brand -- Universal grammar / Benjamin K. Bergen -- A science of language should deal only with "competence" / N.J. Enfield -- Languages condition worldviews / John McWhorter -- The standard approach to meaning / Dan Sperber -- The uncertainty principle / Kai Krause -- Beware of arrogance! Retire nothing! / Ian McEwan -- Big data / Gary Marcus -- The stratigraphic column / Christine Finn -- The habitable-zone concept / Dimitar D. Sasselov -- Robot companions / Sherry Turkle -- "Artificial intelliggence" / Roger Schank --The mind is just the brain / Tania Lombrozo -- Mind versus matter / Frank Wilczek -- Intelligence as a property / Alexander Wissner-Gross -- The grand analogy / David Gelernter -- Grandmother cells / Terrence J. Sejnowski -- Brain modules / Patricia S. Churchland -- Bias is always bad / Tom Griffiths -- Cartesian hydraulicism / Robert Kurzban -- The computational metaphor / Rodney A. Brooks -- Left-brain/right-brain / Sarah-Jayne Blakemore -- Left-brain/right-brain / Stephen M. Kosslyn -- Moore's Law / Andrian Kreye -- The continuity of time / Ernst Pöppel -- The input-output model of perception and action / Andy Clark -- Knowing is half the battle / Laurie R. Santos and Tamar Gendler -- Informaiton overload / Jay Rosen -- The rational individual / Alex (Sandy) Pentland -- Homo economicus / Margaret Levi -- Don't discard wrong theories, just don't treat them as true / Richard H. Thaler -- Rational actor models : the competence corollary / Susan Fiske -- Malthusianism / Matt Ridley -- Economic growth / Cesar Hidalgo -- Unlimited and eternal growth / Hans Ulrich Obrist -- The tragedy of the commons / Luca De Biase -- Markets are bad, markets are good / Michael I. Norton -- Stationarity / Giulio Boccaletti -- Stationarity / Laurence C. Smith -- The carbon footprint / Daniel Goleman -- Unbridled scientific and technological optimism / Stuart Pimm -- Scientists should stick to science / Buddhini Samarasinghe -- Nature = objects / Scott Sampson -- Scientific morality / Edward Slingerland -- Science is self-correcting / Alex Holcombe -- Replication as a safety net / Adam Alter -- Scientific knowledge structured as "literature" / Brian Christian -- The way we produce and advance science / Cathryn Clancy -- Allocating funds via peer review / Aubrey De Grey -- Some questions are too hard for young scientists to tackle / Ross Anderson -- Only scientists can do science / Kate Mills -- The scientific method / Melanie Swan -- Big effects have big explanations / Fiery Cushman -- Science = big science / Samuel Arbesman -- Sadness is always bad, happiness is always good / June Gruber -- Opposites can't both be right / Eldar Shafir -- People are sheep / David Berreby --The bestselling editor of This Explains Everything brings together 175 of the world's most brilliant minds to tackle Edge.org's 2014 question: What scientific idea has become a relic blocking human progress? Each year, John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org--"The world's smartest website" (The Guardian)--challenges some of the world's greatest scientists, artists, and philosophers to answer a provocative question crucial to our time. In 2014 he asked 175 brilliant minds to ponder: What scientific idea needs to be put aside in order to make room for new ideas to advance? The answers are as surprising as they are illuminating.

Subjects: Trivia and miscellanea.; Science in popular culture.; Science;

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