the mit press design concepts in programming languages aug 2008
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...
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the mit press corporate power in global agrifood governance jun 2009
... corporations use and in uence the defi nition of the concept of sustainability in their exercise of power in global food governance in relation to other actors and other interpretations of the concept. This ... 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. Part I provi...
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the mit press design and destiny jewish and christian perspectives on human germline modification mar 2008
... approach is to insert just the DNA strand itself into the cell by microinjection. Another is to package the DNA in a tiny capsule of fatty substance that can pass into the cell. These and other techniques ... responsibly is not limited to refraining from harming others, it includes also the obligation to work toward fulfi lling the Jewish mission of tikkun olam, fi xing the...
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the mit press dataset shift in machine learning feb 2009
... uniform in the neighborhoods of training points with the same image in X .Furthermore, we would need to control the class of such mappings, f, or, in other words, we would need to regularize the ... predictive machine learning methods work by ignoring these differences. They presume either that the test domain and training domain match, or that it makes no difference if they d...
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the mit press microeconomics of banking 2nd edition apr 2008
... before the foundations of the economics of information were laid (in the 1.7 Banking in the Arrow-Debreu Model 7 Outline of the Book Because of the discouraging fact that banks are useless in the ... been useful in explaining the role of banks in the economy and pointing out the structural weaknesses of the banking sector (exposure to runs and panics, persistenc...
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the mit press quantum computing without magic devices sep 2008
... fill the space between the triangle in Figure 1.4 and the zero of the The null state vector space by admitting the null state as a possible participant in the mixtures. 7 We are going to load the ... book the reader will find an engaging account of the necessary theory and the experiments that confirm the theory. Along the way the reader will be introduced to many o...
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the mit press organisms and artifacts design in nature and elsewhere apr 2004
... that “chasing talk” remains in meteorology. A philosopher who maps these similarities does most of the work in explaining the persistence of chasing talk in meteorology. Yet he has not provided any kind ... go into Kauffman’s work in any detail. The one point that is worth making is to remind the reader that Kauffman’s preferred mode of explaining the conditions for evolvabi...
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the mit press coherence in thought and action nov 2000
... Coherence in Philosophy and Psychology At the start of the twentieth century, the disciplines of psy- chology and philosophy were beginning to separate from each other. Originating in the laboratories ... complementary meanings to different words in a way that forms a coher- ent whole. For example, the sentence The pen is in the bank” can mean that the writing implement...
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the mit press reason in the age of science sep 1983
... 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, ... and not nothing? Why are things the way they are? In the writings of Plato, the asking and answering of these questions was never dissociated from the question about...
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the mit press the really hard problem meaning in a material world nov 2007
... science on the other side—can be understood as in the business of causally explaining what we are doing and why. It is not as if everyone who labors in the human sciences need be interested in causal ... than others in wealth, and in addition give these groups less voice in creating, modifying, and participating actively in the Space of Meaning Early 21st century as it i...
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