the mit press brain-wise studies in neurophilosophy dec 2002
the mit press coherence in thought and action nov 2000
... each
other and the world they live in. Making sense is the activ-
ity of fitting something puzzling into a coherent pattern of
mental representations that include concepts, beliefs, goals,
and actions. ... element and rejecting the
other.
•
The coherence problem consists of dividing a set of
elements into accepted and rejected sets in a way that
satisfies the most const...
the mit press organisms and artifacts design in nature and elsewhere apr 2004
... University
ORGANISMS AND ARTIFACTS Lewens
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Design in Nature ... 12:19
Organisms and Artifacts
Design in Nature and Elsewhere
Tim Lewens
A Bradford Book
The MIT Press
Cambridge, Massachusetts
London, En...
the mit press the love of nature and the end of the world the unspoken dimensions of environmental concern dec 2001
... Berkeley.
And finally, I would like to express my gratitude to Larry Cohen and Clay
Morgan of The MIT Press for the welcoming home they provided the idea that
became this book.
The Love of Nature and the ... common love of the land, of the same
mountain and river, the same fields, the same prevailing wind and the sun and
the stars rising and...
the mit press corporate power in global agrifood governance jun 2009
... interaction between corporate
power and state power, as well as the existing constraints on corporate
power in the global governance of the agrifood system.
The book is divided into two parts. ... in uencing the likelihood of success of
the corporate exercise of power. The chapter then points out strategies
for limiting negative effects of corporate powe...
the mit press reason in the age of science sep 1983
... texts), one is already engaged in the business of taking up a stance toward
the future in the light of the past. Reading, then, is a matter of anticipating meaning and of correcting
one's anticipations, ... knowledge in terms of affinity and sympathy,
of interest for the entire nature of human being. In spite of the fact that it is not systematic in...
the mit press gaussian processes for machine learning dec 2005
... 9.2.
10
Notice that the Kronecker delta is on the index of the cases, not the value of the input;
for the signal part of the covariance function the input value is the index set to the random
variables ... what the GP model predicts from the residuals. The covariance is
the sum of the usual covariance term and a new non-negative contribution.
Exploring the li...
the mit press ham radios technical culture dec 2006
... with Technical Culture 1
2 The Culture of Ham Radio 19
3 Equipping Productive Consumers 49
4 Amateurs on the Job 75
5 Hobby Radio Embattled 95
6 Ham Radio at Home 119
7 Technical Change and Technical ... books in the series appears at the back of the book.
2 The Culture of Ham Radio
For a pastime, two-way radio was highly regimented. The federal govern-
ment re...
the mit press the really hard problem meaning in a material world nov 2007
... America.
Library of Congress Cataloging -in- Publication Data
Flanagan, Owen J.
The really hard problem : meaning in a material world / Owen Flanagan.
p. cm.
‘ A Bradford book.’’
Includes bibliographical ... respond to those who say that science in general and the human
sciences in particular disenchant the world in the sense that they take
away all the mea...
the mit press dataset shift in machine learning feb 2009
... the parameters P (θ). Also assume that the model P
tr
(x|y)has
been learned from the training data. Then the prediction taking into account the
I Introduction to Dataset Shift
Dataset Shift in ... DATASET SHIFT IN
MACHINE LEARNING
EDITED BY JOAQUIN QUIÑONERO-CANDELA, MASASHI SUGIYAMA,
ANTON SCHWAIGHOFER, AND NEIL D. LAWRENCE
DATASET SHIFT IN MACHINE LEA...
the mit press environmental justice and sustainability in the former soviet union jun 2009
... the project documentation,’’ as
specified in the Land-Planning Code, and no other type. This seemingly
innocuous change in effect eliminates the requirement for the OVOS or
any other kind of environmental ... have limited awareness and accep-
tance of the concept of sustainability among the general public.’’
In ‘‘Places and Identities on Sakhalin Island: Situating...
the mit press poverty inequality and policy in latin america feb 2009
... income inequality in Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa are
among the highest in the world, but the characteristics and sources of
inequality differ distinctively.
The Colonial Origins of Inequality ... 2006).
Fifth, there is growing debate and awareness about the well-being
costs of high inequality in Latin America. Given inequality aversion,
for whic...
the mit press digital crossroads american telecommunications policy in the internet age mar 2005
... roles in cite check-
ing, proofreading, creating the appendices (including the index), and devel-
oping the diagrams. These included Mary Beth Caswell, Sarah Croog, Joel
Dion, Michael Drapkin, ... the MIT Press. Liz gave this project her vote of confidence, was
instrumental in acquiring the manuscript on behalf of the Press, and then
read it from start to finish, providing...
the mit press emergence contemporary readings in philosophy and science apr 2008
... ‘‘mechanists’’ and the emergentists of the Deborin School,
headed by A. M. Deborin.
11
The Deborin School spoke of the emergence of new forms
in nature, and maintained that the mechanists ‘‘neglected the ... from The Sciences of the Arti-
ficial, third edition. Copyright ( 1996 by the MIT Press. Reprinted by permission of
the MIT Press.
14. ‘ The Theory of E...
the mit press brain-wise studies in neurophilosophy dec 2002
... of
activity in the ‘‘rest’’ condition from the level in the task condition, to reveal
the di¤erence made, presumably, by the task. There are other problems in get-
ting meaningful interpretations ... know whether the data reveal anything about brain function and
organization. The main point is that the imaging techniques are indeed mar-
velous and are indeed useful, but...
the mit press design concepts in programming languages aug 2008
... explains the meaning of programming
language constructs in terms of the step-by-step process of an abstract machine.
• A denotational semantics (Chapter 4) explains the meaning of programming
language ... what the phrase means. Such phrases have no inherent mean-
ing: their meaning is determined only in the context of a system for interpreting
their structure. For example, c...