Author: Herbert A. Simon File Type: epub In this candid and witty autobiography, Nobel laureate Herbert A. Simon looks at his distinguished and varied career, continually asking himself whether (and how) what he learned as a scientist helps to explain other aspects of his life.A brilliant polymath in an age of increasing specialization, Simon is one of those rare scholars whose work defines fields of inquiry. Crossing disciplinary lines in half a dozen fields, Simons story encompasses an explosion in the information sciences, the transformation of psychology by the information-processing paradigm, and the use of computer simulation for modeling the behavior of highly complex systems.Simons theory of bounded rationality led to a Nobel Prize in economics, and his work on building machines that think -- based on the notion that human intelligence is the rule-governed manipulation of symbols -- laid conceptual foundations for the new cognitive science. Subsequently, contrasting metaphors of the maze (Simons view) and of the mind (neural nets) have dominated the artificial intelligence debate.There is also a warm account of his successful marriage and of an unconsummated love affair, letters to his children, columns, a short story, and political and personal intrigue in academe.**From Publishers WeeklySimon observes himself as an object for scientific inquiry in this refreshingly innovative autobiography. Principal architect of the field of artificial intelligence, this polymath has applied the metaphor of a decision-making maze to human cognition, management science, economics and politics--winning a Nobel Prize in 1978. Instead of a dry, rationalist exercise, this traipse through the branching paths of his personal labyrinth turns out to be a quirky, soul-baring self-analysis. In early chapters on his introspective Milwaukee childhood, he refers to himself in the third person as the boy. He is equally objective in discussing his 1930s flirtation with political radicalism, his half-century-long marriage and the politics of scientific infighting. This is a disarming self-portrait by a gifted writer who believes that the real self is an illusion and that ones life need not have a unifying thread. Photos. 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Library Journal Simon is a veritable Renaissance man considered the father of artificial intelligence, he also contributed to the theory of organizational behavior and was the first social scientist to be admitted to the National Academy of Science. In this extensive and entertaining autobiography, he writes smoothly and provocatively on a range of topics from his early youth to his years at UC Berkeley, Illinois, and, finally Carnegie Mellon. He is surprisingly candid in discussing how he prepared for his Nobel prize in economics, and his descriptions of political and personal in-fighting in academe document an aspect often not shown. Simon has participated in some of the most wide-ranging intellectual developments of this century, and his autobiography surely will interest many readers. - Hilary D. Burton, Lawrence Livermore National Lab., Livermore, Cal. 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Author: Garrett Grolemund
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Learn how to program by diving into the R language, and then use your newfound skills to solve practical data science problems. With this book, youll learn how to load data, assemble and disassemble data objects, navigate Rs environment system, write your own functions, and use all of Rs programming tools. Rstudio Master Instructor Garrett Grolemund not only teaches you how to program, but also shows you how to get more from R than just visualizing and modeling data. Youll gain valuable programming skills and support your work as a data scientist at the same time. ul lWork hands-on with three practical data analysis projects based on casino gamesl lStore, retrieve, and change data values in your computers memoryl lWrite programs and simulations that outperform those written by typical R usersl lUse R programming tools such as if else statements, for loops, and S3 classesl lLearn how to write lightning-fast vectorized R codel lTake advantage of Rs package system and debugging toolsl lPractice and apply R programming concepts as you learn theml ul **About the Author Garrett Grolemund is a statistician, teacher and R developer who currently works for RStudio. He sees data analysis as a largely untapped fountain of value for both industry and science. Garrett received his Ph.D at Rice University in Hadley Wickhams lab, where his research traced the origins of data analysis as a cognitive process and identified how attentional and epistemological concerns guide every data analysis. Garrett is passionate about helping people avoid the frustration and unnecessary learning he went through while mastering data analysis. Even before he finished his dissertation, he started teaching corporate training in R and data analysis for Revolutions Analytics. Hes taught at Google, eBay, Axciom and many other companies, and is currently developing a training curriculum for RStudio that will make useful know-how even more accessible. Outside of teaching, Garrett spends time doing clinical trials research, legal research, and financial analysis. He also develops R software, hes co-authored the lubridate R package--which provides methods to parse, manipulate, and do arithmetic with date-times--and wrote the ggsubplot package, which extends the ggplot2 package.
Author: Ulrich Baer
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In this remarkable contribution to photographic criticism and psychoanalytic literature, Ulrich Baer traces the hitherto overlooked connection between the experience of trauma and the photographic image. Instead of treating trauma as a photographic theme, Baer examines the striking parallel between those moments arrested mechanically by photography and those arrested experientially by the traumatized psyche -- moments that bypass normal cognition and memory. Taking as points of departure Charcots images of hysteria and Freuds suggestion that the unconscious is structured like a camera, Baer shows how the invention of photography and the emergence of the modern category of trauma intersect. Drawing on recent work in the field of trauma studies, he shows how experiences that are inherently split between their occurrence and their remembrance might register in and as photographic images.In light of contemporary discussions of recovered memories and the limits of representing such catastrophes as the Holocaust, Baer examines photographs of artistic, medical, and historical subjects from the perspective of witnessing rather than merely viewing. He shows how historicist approaches to photography paradoxically overlook precisely those cataclysmic experiences that define our age. The photographs apparent immunity to time is seen as a call for a future response--a response that is prompted by the ghostly afterlife of every photographs subject. In a moving discussion of a rare collection of color slides taken by a Nazi official in the Lodz ghetto, Baer makes us aware that it is the viewers responsibility to account for the spectral evidence embedded in every image. **
Author: Charles Dumas
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Populism and Economics, Charles Dumas latest book, examines the reasons for the rise in populism - Brexit and the election of Trump among other events - and how this discontent with the status quo has affected economics, both perceptions and reality. The book argues that while globalization and the influence of new technology have pulled the world economy out of recession and while the benefits of world trade are now spread more widely, there is a perception of injustice because of inequality within individual nations. In a detailed region-by-region analysis of the current state of the world economy and using exclusive research carried out by TS Lombard, Dumas shows how the perception of inequality now threatens to destabilize not only politics but also the economic order itself. **
Author: George A. Akerlof
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The global financial crisis has made it painfully clear that powerful psychological forces are imperiling the wealth of nations today. From blind faith in ever-rising housing prices to plummeting confidence in capital markets, animal spirits are driving financial events worldwide. In this book, acclaimed economists George Akerlof and Robert Shiller challenge the economic wisdom that got us into this mess, and put forward a bold new vision that will transform economics and restore prosperity. Akerlof and Shiller reassert the necessity of an active government role in economic policymaking by recovering the idea of animal spirits, a term John Maynard Keynes used to describe the gloom and despondence that led to the Great Depression and the changing psychology that accompanied recovery. Like Keynes, Akerlof and Shiller know that managing these animal spirits requires the steady hand of government--simply allowing markets to work wont do it. In rebuilding the case for a more robust, behaviorally informed Keynesianism, they detail the most pervasive effects of animal spirits in contemporary economic life--such as confidence, fear, bad faith, corruption, a concern for fairness, and the stories we tell ourselves about our economic fortunes--and show how Reaganomics, Thatcherism, and the rational expectations revolution failed to account for them. Animal Spirits offers a road map for reversing the financial misfortunes besetting us today. Read it and learn how leaders can channel animal spirits--the powerful forces of human psychology that are afoot in the world economy today. In a new preface, they describe why our economic troubles may linger for some time--unless we are prepared to take further, decisive action. **
Author: Heleen Niele
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p itemprop=description Als Marit naar Londen vertrekt om deel te nemen aan een workshop voor getalenteerde chocolatiers, denkt ze aan niets anders dan aan chocola. Bij terugkomst is ze hopeloos verliefd op een andere deelnemer. Maar hij komt niet opdagen bij hun afspraak en zij gaat wanhopig op zoek naar hem. Kort daarna wordt er iemand vergiftigd en wordt zij bedreigd. Ze krijgt een onmogelijke opdracht en wordt meegesleept door mensen die mistoestanden in de cacao-industrie willen aanklagen.Een Nederlands thrillerdebuut van internationale allure over de gevaren van maatschappelijke betrokkenheid, de meedogenloosheid van multinationals en de gevolgen van een onschuldige liefde. Recencie(s) Marit, een accountmanager bij een reclamebureau, heeft een passie voor chocola. Tijdens een chocolade-workshop in Londen wordt ze stapelverliefd op Derek, een andere Nederlandse deelnemer. Daar valt het al op, dat Derek niet zon getalenteerde chocolatier is, maar wel veel van chocola weet. Na een stormachtig liefdesweekje in Londen ontmoet Marit haar nieuwe vriend niet opnieuw in Nederland. Hij is plotseling spoorloos en wil niet door haar gezocht worden. Toch gaat ze naar hem op zoek, en raakt daardoor verwikkeld in onverkwikkelijke malversaties in de cacao-industrie. Het karakter van Marit is wat tegenstrijdig aan de ene kant is ze moedig en stapt ze op diverse mensen af om achter de waarheid te komen, maar als ze aangevallen wordt, is ze een zielig slachtoffer, dat totaal niet terugvecht. Aanvankelijk lijkt het een liefdesverhaal na de verdwijning van Derek kabbelt het voort, waarna het pas over de helft van het boek spannender wordt. Een eenvoudig geschreven verhaal in korte hoofdstukken voor een vrouwelijk lezerspubliek. Vrij kleine druk.Ria Scholten-Boswerger (source Bol.com)
Author: Sean Carney
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The Politics and Poetics of Contemporary English Tragedy is a detailed study of the idea of the tragic in the political plays of David Hare, Howard Barker, Edward Bond, Caryl Churchill, Mark Ravenhill, Sarah Kane, and Jez Butterworth. Through an in-depth analysis of over sixty of their works, Sean Carney argues that their dramatic exploration of tragic experience is an integral part of their ongoing politics. This approach allows for a comprehensive rather than selective study of both the politics and poetics of their work.Carneys attention to the tragic enables him to find a common discourse among the canonical English playwrights of an older generation and representatives of the nineties generation, challenging the idea that there is a sharp generational break between these groups. Finally, Carney demonstrates that tragic experience is often denied by the social discourse of Englishness, and that these playwrights make a crucial critical intervention by dramatizing the tragic.**
Author: Aileen Blaney
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Photographys prominence in the representation and experience of India in contemporary and historical times has not guaranteed it a position of sustained attention in research and scholarship. For a technology as all pervasive as photography, and a country as colossal as India, this scenario is somewhat of an anomaly. Photography in India explores elements of the past, present and future of photography in the context of India through speculation and reflection on photography as an artistic, documentary and everyday practice. The perspectives of writers, theorists, curators and artists are selectively brought to bear upon known as well as previously unseen photographic archives, together with changes in photographic practice that have been synchronous with contemporary Indias rapid urban and rural transformation and the technological shift from chemistry and light to programming and algorithms. Essential reading for anyone interested in Indian photography, this book binds insights into a history of photography with its contemporary development, consolidating wide-ranging thinking on the topic and setting the agenda for future research. **