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Book Code Dependent

    Book Details:
  • Author : Madhumita Murgia
  • Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
  • Release : 2024-06-18
  • ISBN : 125086738X
  • Pages : 198 pages

Download or read book Code Dependent written by Madhumita Murgia and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2024-06-18 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction A riveting story of what it means to be human in a world changed by artificial intelligence, revealing the perils and inequities of our growing reliance on automated decision-making On the surface, a British poet, an UberEats courier in Pittsburgh, an Indian doctor, and a Chinese activist in exile have nothing in common. But they are in fact linked by a profound common experience—unexpected encounters with artificial intelligence. In Code Dependent, Murgia shows how automated systems are reshaping our lives all over the world, from technology that marks children as future criminals, to an app that is helping to give diagnoses to a remote tribal community. AI has already infiltrated our day-to-day, through language-generating chatbots like ChatGPT and social media. But it’s also affecting us in more insidious ways. It touches everything from our interpersonal relationships, to our kids’ education, work, finances, public services, and even our human rights. By highlighting the voices of ordinary people in places far removed from the cozy enclave of Silicon Valley, Code Dependent explores the impact of a set of powerful, flawed, and often-exploitative technologies on individuals, communities, and our wider society. Murgia exposes how AI can strip away our collective and individual sense of agency, and shatter our illusion of free will. The ways in which algorithms and their effects are governed over the coming years will profoundly impact us all. Yet we can’t agree on a common path forward. We cannot decide what preferences and morals we want to encode in these entities—or what controls we may want to impose on them. And thus, we are collectively relinquishing our moral authority to machines. In Code Dependent, Murgia not only sheds light on this chilling phenomenon, but also charts a path of resistance. AI is already changing what it means to be human, in ways large and small, and Murgia reveals what could happen if we fail to reclaim our humanity.

Book Codependent No More

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  • Author : Melody Beattie
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2009-06-10
  • ISBN : 1592857922
  • Pages : 217 pages

Download or read book Codependent No More written by Melody Beattie and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-06-10 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a crisis, it's easy to revert to old patterns. Caring for your well-being during the coronavirus pandemic includes maintaining healthy boundaries and saying no to unhealthy relationships. The healing touchstone of millions, this modern classic by one of America's best-loved and most inspirational authors holds the key to understanding codependency and to unlocking its stultifying hold on your life. Is someone else's problem your problem? If, like so many others, you've lost sight of your own life in the drama of tending to someone else's, you may be codependent--and you may find yourself in this book--Codependent No More. The healing touchstone of millions, this modern classic by one of America's best-loved and most inspirational authors holds the key to understanding codependency and to unlocking its stultifying hold on your life. With instructive life stories, personal reflections, exercises, and self-tests, Codependent No More is a simple, straightforward, readable map of the perplexing world of codependency--charting the path to freedom and a lifetime of healing, hope, and happiness. Melody Beattie is the author of Beyond Codependency, The Language of Letting Go, Stop Being Mean to Yourself, The Codependent No More Workbook and Playing It by Heart.

Book Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office

Download or read book Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 974 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Individual retirement arrangements  IRAs

Download or read book Individual retirement arrangements IRAs written by United States. Internal Revenue Service and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Principles of Neural Coding

Download or read book Principles of Neural Coding written by Rodrigo Quian Quiroga and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2013-05-06 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding how populations of neurons encode information is the challenge faced by researchers in the field of neural coding. Focusing on the many mysteries and marvels of the mind has prompted a prominent team of experts in the field to put their heads together and fire up a book on the subject. Simply titled Principles of Neural Coding, this b

Book Entropy and Information Theory

Download or read book Entropy and Information Theory written by Robert M. Gray and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-01-27 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an updated version of the information theory classic, first published in 1990. About one-third of the book is devoted to Shannon source and channel coding theorems; the remainder addresses sources, channels, and codes and on information and distortion measures and their properties. New in this edition: Expanded treatment of stationary or sliding-block codes and their relations to traditional block codes Expanded discussion of results from ergodic theory relevant to information theory Expanded treatment of B-processes -- processes formed by stationary coding memoryless sources New material on trading off information and distortion, including the Marton inequality New material on the properties of optimal and asymptotically optimal source codes New material on the relationships of source coding and rate-constrained simulation or modeling of random processes Significant material not covered in other information theory texts includes stationary/sliding-block codes, a geometric view of information theory provided by process distance measures, and general Shannon coding theorems for asymptotic mean stationary sources, which may be neither ergodic nor stationary, and d-bar continuous channels.

Book Evaluation of the time dependent behavior of concrete

Download or read book Evaluation of the time dependent behavior of concrete written by FIB – International Federation for Structural Concrete and published by FIB - International Federation for Structural Concrete. This book was released on 1990-08-01 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Certified Programming with Dependent Types

Download or read book Certified Programming with Dependent Types written by Adam Chlipala and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2013-12-06 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A handbook to the Coq software for writing and checking mathematical proofs, with a practical engineering focus. The technology of mechanized program verification can play a supporting role in many kinds of research projects in computer science, and related tools for formal proof-checking are seeing increasing adoption in mathematics and engineering. This book provides an introduction to the Coq software for writing and checking mathematical proofs. It takes a practical engineering focus throughout, emphasizing techniques that will help users to build, understand, and maintain large Coq developments and minimize the cost of code change over time. Two topics, rarely discussed elsewhere, are covered in detail: effective dependently typed programming (making productive use of a feature at the heart of the Coq system) and construction of domain-specific proof tactics. Almost every subject covered is also relevant to interactive computer theorem proving in general, not just program verification, demonstrated through examples of verified programs applied in many different sorts of formalizations. The book develops a unique automated proof style and applies it throughout; even experienced Coq users may benefit from reading about basic Coq concepts from this novel perspective. The book also offers a library of tactics, or programs that find proofs, designed for use with examples in the book. Readers will acquire the necessary skills to reimplement these tactics in other settings by the end of the book. All of the code appearing in the book is freely available online.

Book W  rterbuch der Elektronik  Datentechnik  Telekommunikation und Medien

Download or read book W rterbuch der Elektronik Datentechnik Telekommunikation und Medien written by Victor Ferretti and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-27 with total page 1033 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the first edition was published, new technologies have emerged, especially in the area of convergence of computing and communications, accompanied by a lot of new technical terms. This third expanded and updated edition has been adaptetd to cope with this situation. The number of entries has been incremented by 35%. This dictionary offers a valuable guide to navigate through the entanglement of German and English terminology. The lexicographic concept (indication of the subject field for every term, short definitions, references to synonyms, antonyms, general and derivative terms) has been maintained, as well as the tabular layout.

Book Internal Revenue Bulletin

Download or read book Internal Revenue Bulletin written by United States. Internal Revenue Service and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 1112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Java Programming for Spatial Sciences

Download or read book Java Programming for Spatial Sciences written by Jo Wood and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2002-05-16 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Java programming language has been one of the most exciting internet-friendly technologies to emerge in the last decade. Java Programming for Spatial Sciences introduces the subject to those who wish to use computers to handle information with a geographical element. The book introduces object-oriented modeling including key concepts suc

Book Dependent s education  language changes  research development  test and evaluation

Download or read book Dependent s education language changes research development test and evaluation written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Legislative Calendar

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  • Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2008
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1296 pages

Download or read book Legislative Calendar written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 1296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Hearings

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  • Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Veterans' Affairs
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1965
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1784 pages

Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Veterans' Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 1784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book DSP for Embedded and Real Time Systems

Download or read book DSP for Embedded and Real Time Systems written by Robert Oshana and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2012-07-12 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book includes a range of techniques for developing digital signal processing code; tips and tricks for optimizing DSP software; and various options available for constructing DSP systems from numerous software components.

Book Assembly Bills  Original and Amended

Download or read book Assembly Bills Original and Amended written by California. Legislature. Assembly and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 1524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Different Perspective on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act

Download or read book A Different Perspective on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act written by Chinyere Ogbonna and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2013-11-21 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Different Perspective on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act provides a brief history of health insurance within the United States, offering an accessible perspective on the highly contentious Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA). This book traces the political and financial conditions that led to the enactment of the Affordable Care Act. Thoroughly researched, A Different Perspective on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act details the drastic increase of health care expenditures in both state legislatures and the federal government, the fiscal strain experienced throughout the nation, and the main objectives of President Barack Obama’s 2010 healthcare reform plan.