Download or read book The Information Manifold written by Antonio Badia and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An argument that information exists at different levels of analysis—syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic—and an exploration of the implications. Although this is the Information Age, there is no universal agreement about what information really is. Different disciplines view information differently; engineers, computer scientists, economists, linguists, and philosophers all take varying and apparently disconnected approaches. In this book, Antonio Badia distinguishes four levels of analysis brought to bear on information: syntactic, semantic, pragmatic, and network-based. Badia explains each of these theoretical approaches in turn, discussing, among other topics, theories of Claude Shannon and Andrey Kolomogorov, Fred Dretske's description of information flow, and ideas on receiver impact and informational interactions. Badia argues that all these theories describe the same phenomena from different perspectives, each one narrower than the previous one. The syntactic approach is the more general one, but it fails to specify when information is meaningful to an agent, which is the focus of the semantic and pragmatic approaches. The network-based approach, meanwhile, provides a framework to understand information use among agents. Badia then explores the consequences of understanding information as existing at several levels. Humans live at the semantic and pragmatic level (and at the network level as a society), computers at the syntactic level. This sheds light on some recent issues, including “fake news” (computers cannot tell whether a statement is true or not, because truth is a semantic notion) and “algorithmic bias” (a pragmatic, not syntactic concern). Humans, not computers, the book argues, have the ability to solve these issues.

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Download or read book Fonduing Fathers written by Julie Hyzy and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-12-31 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: White House executive chef Olivia Paras has enough on her plate. But after gaining new information about her father’s death, the First Family isn’t the only family Olivia is concerned about… Olivia has always believed that her father was an honorable man—until a trip to visit her mother reveals that he was dishonorably discharged from the army. Olivia is even more shocked to learn that he was brutally murdered because someone at his company suspected him of selling corporate secrets. Refusing to believe that her father was a scoundrel, Olivia won’t rest until she proves his innocence. Enlisting the help of her boyfriend, Gav, Olivia must reach out to her father’s colleagues to discover the truth behind his murder. What she’s about to discover may not only put her at risk, but threaten national security as well…

Download or read book All the President s Menus written by Julie Hyzy and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-01-06 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s an old adage that too many cooks spoil the broth. But when a tour of the White House kitchen by a group of foreign chefs ends in murder, it’s Olivia Paras who finds herself in the soup… Due to a government sequester, entertaining at the White House has been severely curtailed. So executive chef Olivia Paras is delighted to hear that plans are still on to welcome a presidential candidate from the country of Saardisca—the first woman to run for office—and four of that nation’s top chefs. But while leading the chefs on a kitchen tour, pastry chef Marcel passes out suddenly—and later claims he was drugged. When one of the visiting chefs collapses and dies, it’s clear someone has infiltrated the White House with ill intent. Could it be an anti-Saardiscan zealot? Is the candidate a target? Are the foreign chefs keeping more than their recipes a secret? Once again, Olivia must make sleuthing the special of the day…

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Download or read book Beef Prices written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture. Subcommittee on Livestock and Grains and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Texanist written by David Courtney and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2017-04-25 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of Courtney's columns from the Texas Monthly, curing the curious, exorcizing bedevilment, and orienting the disoriented, advising "on such things as: Is it wrong to wear your football team's jersey to church? When out at a dancehall, do you need to stick with the one that brung ya? Is it real Tex-Mex if it's served with a side of black beans? Can one have too many Texas-themed tattoos?"--Amazon.com.

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Download or read book A Deadly Affair written by Tom Henderson and published by St. Martin's Paperbacks. This book was released on 2014-03-25 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ***Please note: This ebook edition does not contain the photos found in the print edition.*** A promising young attorney and a dedicated family man, Michael Fletcher seemed to have it all. But in the summer of 2000, Michael found himself standing trial for the murder of his pregnant wife, Leann. The verdict--guilty of second-degree murder--would leave friends, family, and the public at large scrambling to make sense of a twisted and frightening series of events that ended in the brutal killing of Leann Fletcher. What could possibly have led Michael Fletcher to commit such a gruesome act? As a college student, Michael Fletcher married the girl of his dreams after a three-year courtship. It seems like a fairy-tale romance come true: a match made in heaven. So why would a man with no history of domestic violence murder his devoted wife right after he told her how much he loved her? Why would Michael shoot Leann in the back of the head, not only killing her but also the child that she was carrying inside her? According to prosecutors, Fletcher has been involved in an extramarital affair with a beautiful judge for two years. Was his relationship with respected District Judge Susan Chrzanowski enough cause for him to murder his wife in cold blood? Raising even more troubling questions, the startling discovery colored Leann's already shocking murder with shadings of sex, political scandal, and deadly betrayal.

Download or read book Food Talk written by H. Lloyd Goodall and published by . This book was released on 1998-06 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Award-winning communication teacher / scholar and cook, Dr. H.L. (Bud) Goodall answers the question "What do women really want?" with lessons guaranteed to provide the most kitchen-shy guy with what he needs to know to satisfy the most ravenous feminine appetites for cooking and for conversation. In this book guys will learn how to: plan a romantic menu ; shop for food and wine ; improve listening and responding skills in ways that women appreciate ; organize and maintain a kitchen ; think creatively about food and its metaphorical meanings for intimate relationships ; develop interesting talking points for dinner dates ; use spice and seasonings ; manage nonverbal presentations of self while dining ; create easy-to-prepare and flavorful pasta, chicken, pork, beef, seafood, and vegetarian meals that are thematically linked to the mood they want to inspire ; enhance relational dialogues ; handle romantic conflicts ; coordinate meals with romantic occasions such as birthdays, anniversaries, and Valentine's Day ; interpret and more successfully respond to gender difference in relational talk ; improve intimate communication skills. So what do women really want? They want a man who knows how to cook well and who engages them in meaningful conversations. They want a "guy's guy" who knows his way around a kitchen and is also an everyday romantic. Which is to say, these days women want it all. Now we have a book that teaches men how to give all of it to them."--

Download or read book History of Meat Alternatives 965 CE to 2014 written by William Shurtleff and published by Soyinfo Center. This book was released on 2014-12-18 with total page 1437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world's most comprehensive, well documented and well illustrated book on this subject. With extensive index. 435 color photographs and illustrations. Free of charge in digital PDF format on Google Books.

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