Download or read book Summary Report of Investigation Into the Circumstances Surrounding the Loss of the Barge Trio Trader Whilst Under Tow by the Tug Irving Maple Off Georges Bank January 14 1981 written by Canadian Coast Guard. Marine Casualty Investigation and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Recollections of Old Liverpool written by James Stonehouse and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Gravity s Rainbow Companion written by Steven C. Weisenburger and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2011-03-15 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adding some 20 percent to the original content, this is a completely updated edition of Steven Weisenburger's indispensable guide to Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow. Weisenburger takes the reader page by page, often line by line, through the welter of historical references, scientific data, cultural fragments, anthropological research, jokes, and puns around which Pynchon wove his story. Weisenburger fully annotates Pynchon's use of languages ranging from Russian and Hebrew to such subdialects of English as 1940s street talk, drug lingo, and military slang as well as the more obscure terminology of black magic, Rosicrucianism, and Pavlovian psychology. The Companion also reveals the underlying organization of Gravity's Rainbow--how the book's myriad references form patterns of meaning and structure that have eluded both admirers and critics of the novel. The Companion is keyed to the pages of the principal American editions of Gravity's Rainbow: Viking/Penguin (1973), Bantam (1974), and the special, repaginated Penguin paperback (2000) honoring the novel as one of twenty "Great Books of the Twentieth Century."
Download or read book The Passing of the Buffalo written by Buckskin (pseud.) and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book That Others May Live written by Forrest L. Marion and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 2004 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Alignment Problem Machine Learning and Human Values written by Brian Christian and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A jaw-dropping exploration of everything that goes wrong when we build AI systems and the movement to fix them. Today’s “machine-learning” systems, trained by data, are so effective that we’ve invited them to see and hear for us—and to make decisions on our behalf. But alarm bells are ringing. Recent years have seen an eruption of concern as the field of machine learning advances. When the systems we attempt to teach will not, in the end, do what we want or what we expect, ethical and potentially existential risks emerge. Researchers call this the alignment problem. Systems cull résumés until, years later, we discover that they have inherent gender biases. Algorithms decide bail and parole—and appear to assess Black and White defendants differently. We can no longer assume that our mortgage application, or even our medical tests, will be seen by human eyes. And as autonomous vehicles share our streets, we are increasingly putting our lives in their hands. The mathematical and computational models driving these changes range in complexity from something that can fit on a spreadsheet to a complex system that might credibly be called “artificial intelligence.” They are steadily replacing both human judgment and explicitly programmed software. In best-selling author Brian Christian’s riveting account, we meet the alignment problem’s “first-responders,” and learn their ambitious plan to solve it before our hands are completely off the wheel. In a masterful blend of history and on-the ground reporting, Christian traces the explosive growth in the field of machine learning and surveys its current, sprawling frontier. Readers encounter a discipline finding its legs amid exhilarating and sometimes terrifying progress. Whether they—and we—succeed or fail in solving the alignment problem will be a defining human story. The Alignment Problem offers an unflinching reckoning with humanity’s biases and blind spots, our own unstated assumptions and often contradictory goals. A dazzlingly interdisciplinary work, it takes a hard look not only at our technology but at our culture—and finds a story by turns harrowing and hopeful.
Download or read book The Business of Slavery and the Rise of American Capitalism 1815 1860 written by Jack Lawrence Schermerhorn and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Focuses on networks of people, information, conveyances, and other resources and technologies that moved slave-based products from suppliers to buyers and users." (page 3) The book examines the credit and financial systems that grew up around trade in slaves and products made by slaves.
Download or read book Mr Mob written by Michael Newton and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2009-06-08 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Morris "Moe" Dalitz was America's most secretive and most successful mobster. As a major architect of the United States' national crime syndicate, Dalitz was active in various fields of organized crime from 1918 until his death, all while spinning a web of myth and mock-respectability around himself so dense that decades after his demise, most mistake the legend for reality. From Prohibition-era bootlegging to the Reagan years, no other individual was present at so many pivotal events in gangland history. It's impossible to fully understand the modern Mob without knowing about Dalitz, his career, and the cunning publicity campaign that transformed his image from thug to that of a revered philanthropist. This exhaustive biography tells the story of Dalitz's life and the syndicate that he and like-minded individuals built from scratch.
Download or read book The History and Future of Technology written by Robert U. Ayres and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eminent physicist and economist, Robert Ayres, examines the history of technology as a change agent in society, focusing on societal roots rather than technology as an autonomous, self-perpetuating phenomenon. With rare exceptions, technology is developed in response to societal needs that have evolutionary roots and causes. In our genus Homo, language evolved in response to a need for our ancestors to communicate, both in the moment, and to posterity. A band of hunters had no chance in competition with predators that were larger and faster without this type of organization, which eventually gave birth to writing and music. The steam engine did not leap fully formed from the brain of James Watt. It evolved from a need to pump water out of coal mines, driven by a need to burn coal instead of firewood, in turn due to deforestation. Later, the steam engine made machines and mechanization possible. Even quite simple machines increased human productivity by a factor of hundreds, if not thousands. That was the Industrial Revolution. If we count electricity and the automobile as a second industrial revolution, and the digital computer as the beginning of a third, the world is now on the cusp of a fourth revolution led by microbiology. These industrial revolutions have benefited many in the short term, but devastated the Earths ecosystems. Can technology save the human race from the catastrophic consequences of its past success? That is the question this book will try to answer.
Download or read book Deterritorialisations written by Mark Dorrian and published by Black Dog Architecture. This book was released on 2003 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, landscape has become increasingly recognised as a topic of central importance to a wide variety of disciplines. To a large degree this recognition has been based upon an expanding appreciation of the political aspects of landscape, its ideological character and effects. Landscapes and Politics is an innovative cross-disciplinary volume of new writing which brings together, in a strategic and productive encounter, a broad variety of critical work currently being done in this field. With 28 papers and five photo essays. Landscapes and Politics presents material by scholars and practitioners from anthropology, archaeology, architecture, art history, cultural studies, English and American literature, film studies, fine art, geography, history, landscape architecture, philosophy, political science, and religious studies. As an important marker of current methodologies, research and practice across these different disciplinary areas Landscapes and Politics is an invaluable resource. It will be of interest to all those concerned with current discourses and debates on landscape and its representation.
Download or read book Land Environmental Art written by Jeffrey Kastner and published by Phaidon Press. This book was released on 2005-03-02 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive survey of Land Art and contemporary environmental art, now available in paperback
Download or read book Mighty Minutes written by Jim Hall and published by Random House Value Publishing. This book was released on 1984 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes index. A historical overview of TV's bestloved commercials over the past thirtyfive years.
Download or read book Aircraft Carriers and Squadrons of the Royal Australian Navy written by Jonathan Nally and published by . This book was released on 2009* with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report of Investigation Into the Circumstances Attending the Structural Damage Listing and Subsequent Loss of Deck Cargo from the Canadian Barge Irving Dolphin Whilst Under Tow of Tug Irving Elm 1985 written by Canada. Transport Canada. Marine Casualty Investigations and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report of Investigation Into the Circumstances Attending the Structural Damage Listing and Subsequent Loss of Deck Cargo from the Canadian Barge Irving Dolphin Whilst Under Tow of the Tug Irving Elm Off the East Coast of Nova Scotia on October 27 1985 written by Canadian Coast Guard. Marine Casualty Investigations and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report of Investigation Into the Circumstances Attending the Loss Overboard of a Front End Loader Its Operator from the Barge SN8 While Being Towed by the Tug Gulf Ranger Off the North Arm B C 14 04 86 written by Canada. Transport Canada. Marine Casualty Investigations and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report of Investigation Into the Circumstances Attending the Loss Overboard of a Front End Loader and Its Operator from the Barge SN 8 While Being Towed by the Tug Gulf Ranger Off the North Arm Fraser River B C on April 14 1986 written by Transportation Safety Board of Canada and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the afternoon of April 14, 1986 the small yarding tug "Gulf Ranger" departed from the Fraser River, North Arm, with the barge "SN 8" in tow. The tug and tow steamed to the spoil ground off Point Grey to dump the barge's cargo of dredged materials. Dumping was done using a front end loader and during the late afternoon, with the unloading of the barge almost completed and only the final clean up remaining to be done, both the front end loader and its operator were lost overboard in apporximately 220 meters of water. A large scale search followed, however, the deckhand who was driving the front end loader remains missing and is presumed drowned.
