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Two theories of communication / by O'Neal, John B.(John Benjamin),1934-; North Carolina State University.School of Engineering.(CARDINAL)161086;
Includes bibliographical references (page [3] of cover).
Subjects: Information theory.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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The black swan : the impact of the highly improbable / by Taleb, Nassim Nicholas,1960-(CARDINAL)352439;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Umberto Eco's antilibrary, or how we seek validation. The apprenticeship of an empirical skeptic ; Yevgenia's black swan ; The speculator and the prostitute ; One thousand and one days, or how not to be a sucker ; Confirmation shmonfirmation! ; The narrative fallacy ; Living in the antechamber of hope ; Giacomo Casanova's unfailing luck : the problem of silent evidence ; The Ludic fallacy, or the uncertainty of the nerd -- We just can't predict. The scandal of prediction ; How to look for bird poop ; Epistemocracy, a dream ; Appelles the Painter, or what do you do if you cannot predict? -- Those gray swans of Extremistan. From Mediocristan to Extremistan and back ; The bell curve, that great intellectual fraud ; The aesthetics of randomness ; Locke's madmen, or bell curves in the wrong places ; The uncertainty of the phony -- The end. Half and half, or how to get even with the black swan -- Epilogue : Yevgenia's white swans.'The Black Swan' is a concept that will change the way you look at the world. Black Swans underlie almost everything, from the rise of religions, to events in our own personal lives. Nassim Taleb explains everything we know about what we don't know, and shows us how to face the world.
Subjects: Uncertainty (Information theory);
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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Estimating distortion consistently : an algebraic approach / by Simons, Gordon.(CARDINAL)167686; University of North Carolina (System).Institute of Statistics.(CARDINAL)165205; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.Department of Biostatistics.(CARDINAL)167680;
Includes bibliographical references (page 13).
Subjects: Entropy (Information theory); Convergence.; Ergodic theory.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 3
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Quantum information for babies [board book] [board book] / by Ferrie, Chris,author.(CARDINAL)352374;
Includes bibliographical references and index.AD430L
Subjects: Board books.; Information theory; Quantum theory;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The black swan [sound recording] : the impact of the highly improbable by Taleb, Nassim Nicholas,1960-(CARDINAL)352439; Chandler, David,1950-narrator.(CARDINAL)340748; Chandler, David,1950-(CARDINAL)340748;
Narrated by David Chandler.Not all swans are white, and not all events--no matter what the experts think--are predictable. Taleb shows that black swans, like 9/11, cannot be foreseen and have an immeasurable impact on the world.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Audiobooks.; Uncertainty (Information theory); Forecasting.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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The black swan : the impact of the highly improbable / by Taleb, Nassim Nicholas,1960-(CARDINAL)352439;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-358) and index.Umberto Eco's antilibrary, or how we seek validation. The apprenticeship of an empirical skeptic ; Yevgenia's black swan ; The speculator and the prostitute ; One thousand and one days, or how not to be a sucker ; Confirmation shmonfirmation! ; The narrative fallacy ; Living in the antechamber of hope ; Giacomo Casanova's unfailing luck : the problem of silent evidence ; The Ludic fallacy, or the uncertainty of the nerd -- We just can't predict. The scandal of prediction ; How to look for bird poop ; Epistemocracy, a dream ; Appelles the Painter, or what do you do if you cannot predict? -- Those gray swans of Extremistan. From Mediocristan to Extremistan and back ; The bell curve, that great intellectual fraud ; The aesthetics of randomness ; Locke's madmen, or bell curves in the wrong places ; The uncertainty of the phony -- The end. Half and half, or how to get even with the black swan -- Epilogue : Yevgenia's white swans.
Subjects: Uncertainty (Information theory); Forecasting.;
Available copies: 27 / Total copies: 35
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The black swan : the impact of the highly improbable / by Taleb, Nassim Nicholas,1960-(CARDINAL)352439;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 400-429) and index.Prologue -- Umberto Eco's antilibrary, or how we seek validation. The apprenticeship of an empirical skeptic ; Yevgenia's black swan ; The speculator and the prostitute ; One thousand and one days, or how not to be a sucker ; Confirmation shmonfirmation! ; The narrative fallacy ; Living in the antechamber of hope ; Giacomo Casanova's unfailing luck : the problem of silent evidence ; The Ludic fallacy, or the uncertainty of the nerd -- We just can't predict. The scandal of prediction ; How to look for bird poop ; Epistemocracy, a dream ; Appelles the Painter, or what do you do if you cannot predict? -- Those gray swans of Extremistan. From Mediocristan to Extremistan and back ; The bell curve, that great intellectual fraud ; The aesthetics of randomness ; Locke's madmen, or bell curves in the wrong places ; The uncertainty of the phony -- The end. Half and half, or how to get even with the black swan -- Epilogue : Yevgenia's white swans -- Postscript essay: on robustness an fragility, deeper philosophical and empirical reflections. Learning from mother nature, the oldest and the wisest ; Why I do all this walking, or how systems become fragile ; Margaritas ante porcos ; Asperger and the ontological black swan ; (Perhaps) the most useful problem in the history of modern philosophy ; Fourth quadrant, the solution to that most useful of problems ; What to do with the fourth quadrant ; Ten principles for a black-swan-robust society ; Amor fati: how to become indestructible.Examines the role of the unexpected, discussing why improbable events are not anticipated or understood properly, and how humans rationalize the black swan phenomenon to make it appear less random.
Subjects: Forecasting.; Uncertainty (Information theory);
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 5
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Machines like us : toward AI with common sense / by Brachman, Ronald J.,1949-author.(CARDINAL)877451; Levesque, Hector J.,1951-author.(CARDINAL)877450;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-295) and index.1. The road to common sense -- 2. Common sense in humans -- 3. Expertise in AI systems -- 4. Knowledge and its representation -- 5. A commonsense understanding of the world -- 6. Commonsense knowledge -- 7. Representation and reasoning, part I -- 8. Representation and reasoning, part II -- 9. Common sense in action -- 10. Steps toward implementation -- 11. Building trust."The authors of Machines Like Us explore what it would take to endow computers with the kind of common sense that humans depend on every day--critically needed for AI systems to be successful in the world and to become trustworthy"--
Subjects: Artificial intelligence.; Knowledge representation (Information theory);
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Does measurement measure up? : how numbers reveal and conceal the truth / by Henshaw, John M.(CARDINAL)687519;
MARCIVE 2/03/11Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-222) and index.Henshaw examines the ways in which measurement makes sense or creates nonsense.
Subjects: Measurement.; Uncertainty (Information theory); Knowledge, Theory of.; Measurement uncertainty (Statistics);
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The Internet of us : knowing more and understanding less in the age of Big Data / by Lynch, Michael P.(Michael Patrick),1966-author.(CARDINAL)649936;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-214) and index.The new old problems of knowledge. Our digital form of life ; Google-knowing ; Fragmented reasons : is the Internet making us less reasonable ; Truth, lies, and social media -- How we know now. Who wants to know : privacy and autonomy ; Who does know : crowds, clouds, and networks ; Who gets to know : the political economy of knowledge ; Understanding and the digital human ; The Internet of us."While a wealth of literature has been devoted to life with the Internet, the deep philosophical implications of this seismic shift have not been properly explored ... Demonstrating that knowledge based on reason plays an essential role in society and that there is much more to 'knowing' than just acquiring information, ... philosopher Michael Patrick Lynch [posits that] our digital way of life makes us overvalue some ways of processing information over others, and thus risks distorting what it means to be human"--Dust jacket flap.
Subjects: Knowledge, Theory of.; Information technology.; Internet.;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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