the mit press zen-brain reflections feb 2006
the mit press against bioethics feb 2006
... if the drug helps the first group would have fewer headaches on the average. Statistical decision theory provides rules for the decision to “accept the hypothesis that the drug is effective.” The ... calculated from the data. The proba- bility depends on the true size of the effect, the number of patients tested, and the length of time of the trial. The cutoff for...
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the mit press zen-brain reflections feb 2006
... (2) In their behaviors, none of the pat ients could express the normal self/other bound- ary concept using the standard motoric gestures of pointing elsewhere (either indicating by hand or by the ... speculate. The resonances from two short verses in the Dhammapada echo in specula- tion below. Not until around the third century c.e. were these verses compiled within the southe...
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the mit press subjectivity and selfhood investigating the first-person perspective jan 2006
... something. The question is whether they are also con- scious in the second sense, that is, whether one is also aware of them, or whether one must deny this and consequently admit the existence of non- conscious ... for the first- person perspective, or whether their attempt to do so gives rise to an infinite regress. After setting the scene in the introductory chapter, the phenome...
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the mit press rationality and logic sep 2006
... alienate the human mind from logic, but rather only that on the face of it there is an intelligible and impor- tant worry that the platonist must respond to. Here is the worry. The supposition that the ... necessity from the assertion of some other sen- tences, together with the assumption of their being so or (what is the same) their being true. To say that a sentence follo...
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the mit press models and cognition aug 2006
... about. 1.2 The History of the Science(s) of the Mind The story of the latter-day science of the human mind — cognitive science — is the story of several separate contributors and of their interactions. ... depict the same object, that their reaction times would not be systematically influenced by the degree to which the two depictions are offset relative to one another. If...
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the mit press economic dynamics theory and computation feb 2009
... are then coded up as functions. The main program then coordinates these functions, calling on them to do their jobs at the appropriate time. Now the details. When we pass the instruction x=3to the ... fails, then no actions are per- formed. A simple example of the if–then–else construct is if there are cookies in the jar then eat them else go to the shops and buy more eat them...
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the mit press ham radios technical culture dec 2006
... such language on the air and alerted the FCC. In defense of Premus, other hobbyists expressed their own frustration with the ‘‘many dopes on that band that should not be on.’’ They sympathized ... frequently the popular press reprinted the standards as if they offered a neutral description of hobbyists, the ‘‘Amateur’s Code’’ succeeded as a form of public relations. The social...
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the mit press dataset shift in machine learning feb 2009
... “projectable” based on the success of their past projections. These terms have earned their right to be in our language through the service they have performed in the past. Perhaps, then, the very vocabulary ... conditional models, there is a presumption that the distributions they specify are static; i.e., they do not change between the time we learnthemandthetimeweusethem.Ifthis...
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the mit press group cognition computer support for building collaborative knowledge apr 2006
... guidance to the readers. Therefore, I provide brief introductions to the three parts and the 21 chapters to resituate the essays in the book’s mission. Theoretical Background to Part I The theory ... to take the group, rather than the individual, as the unit of analysis ultimately requires developing, from the ground up, a new theory of collaboration in the book’s final p...
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the mit press poverty inequality and policy in latin america feb 2009
... to the landowners at the expense of the landless, the purchasing power of the landless remains limited. The more the growth of middle-class demand for basic indus trial products is reduced, the ... the local level during the period 1970–1996: while the municipios in the southern part of the country have experi- enced some convergence, this is not the case in the...
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