Author: machineproject.com
Publisher: eBookDB.org
Keywords: lacma, guide, field, project, machine
Number of Pages: 196
Published: 1969-12-31
eBookDB-ID: EBDB0A0976

We’ve been hard at work on a catalog for the show we did at LACMA last year, and it’s finally done! With full-color spreads devoted to the more than 60 projects presented that day, it’s like having an entire year’s worth of delightful Machine Project activities stuffed into a weighty, yet compact and attractive book. Guaranteed +3 on your charisma score!And for those of you who hate books, now’s your chance to hasten their demise. Download the entire book as a free PDF! (If you feel guilty about how awesome this is, you can go ahead and give us money.)What are peo

Author: John Compton Sundman
Publisher: Rosalita Associates
Keywords: devices, complex, cheap
Number of Pages: 120
Published: 2002-08-26
ISBN-10: 192975230X
ISBN-13: 9781929752300

Winners of the inaugural Hofstadter Prize for machine-written narrative, these artificially constructed stories represent the future of post-human fiction.

Author: David J. C. MacKay
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: algorithms, learning, inference, theory, information
Number of Pages: 550
Published: 2002-06-15
ISBN-10: 0521642981
ISBN-13: 9780521642989

Information theory and inference, often taught separately, are here united in one entertaining textbook. These topics lie at the heart of many exciting areas of contemporary science and engineering - communication, signal processing, data mining, machine learning, pattern recognition, computational neuroscience, bioinformatics, and cryptography. This textbook introduces theory in tandem with applications. Information theory is taught alongside practical communication systems, such as arithmetic coding for data compression and sparse-graph codes for error-correction. A toolbox of inference te

Author: Steven W. Smith
Publisher: California Technical Pu
Keywords: consciousness, theory, light, inner
Number of Pages: 170
Published: 2002-02-02
ISBN-10: 0966017617
ISBN-13: 9780966017618

The human mind appears to us in two completely different ways. On one hand, science sees the mind as the operation of the brain, the electrochemical activity in a vast network of nerve cells. But on the other hand, we each see ourselves as a conscious being, capable of thinking, feeling, and experiencing the world around us. We see the redness of a rose, smell its fragrance, and appreciate its beauty. We contemplate the meaning of life, and freely decide how to think and act. These aspects of the mind seem to entail something beyond the physical world, something that is fundamentally different

Author: Professor Solomon
Publisher: Top Hat Press
Keywords: island, coney
Number of Pages: 152
Published: 1999-05-01
ISBN-10: 0912509082
ISBN-13: 9780912509082

Once renowned as a funspot, Coney Island has been largely forgotten. Does it still exist? What has survived of the place? And what was it like? In his new book CONEY ISLAND, Professor Solomon takes us there to find out. Roaming about, he interviews old-timers’ searches for antiquities, explores what is left of the amusement area. (Among his finds: a man who remembers seeing the first human cannonball, shot into the air at Coney Island; the remains of Steeplechase Park; and a ride "the Wonder Wheel"that began as a perpetual-motion machine.) He also provides a history of Coney Island, from

Author: J.W. Smith
Publisher: Institute for Economic Democracy
Keywords: america, third, attack, terrorist, history, september, deeper
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2005-08-02
ISBN-10: 0975355570
ISBN-13: 9780975355572

Terrorism - Peace - Political Freedom & Security - International Security - Political Science-Political Ideologies - Fascism & Totalitarianism Permanent global peace and sustainable development. The 1,300 year battle between Christians and Muslims The CIA establishes the greatest propaganda machine in history. Inequality structured in law. Equal rights to land, technology, money and communications. Destabilizing emerging democracies worldwide. Containing and destabilizing the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. Now it was Yugoslavia’s turn to be destabilized. Give full rights to all peop

Author: R., J. Rummel
Publisher: Llumina Press
Keywords: book, series, reset
Number of Pages: 300
Published: 2004-09-21
ISBN-10: 1595263551
ISBN-13: 9781595263551

In Book 1 of this of this series, a secret society of war and democide survivors sent a female warrior Joy Phim and her historian lover John Banks back to 1906 to prevent the major wars and democides of the 20th Century and to promote a democratic peace. In Book 2, the new universe created by the lovers enabled a radical Islamic ruler to achieve a global Muslim dictatorship by attacking and defeating the democracies with nuclear weapons. Dying survivors sent a message about the nuclear attack back in time for the lovers to find, and to prevent this horrible future. This was their new missio