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Optimizing the Self

Author : Ole Jacob Madsen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317437764
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book Optimizing the Self written by Ole Jacob Madsen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-06-19 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an analysis of the social representations of leading self-help genres, including neurolinguistic programming, cognitive self-help therapy, mindfulness, self-management, self-esteem, self-leadership and self-control. Exploring the globalised therapeutic culture of today, the book argues that psychology as ‘science’ is often abandoned to aid the individual pursuit for self-realization and self-optimization. Opposing the view that self-help culture is external to psychology, Madsen argues that it is firmly embedded within psychology, playing an important role in people’s lives. Each chapter traces and critically interprets a range of self-help philosophies and techniques, examining the claims of self-help literature to represent the most innovative psychological, medical or neurobiological research. Discussing each genre in turn, chapters examine key research alongside self-help literature to explore the effectiveness and impact of leading self-help genres in various social contexts and environments. The book offers a contemporary critical overview of issues concerning self-help, combining critical psychology with the theory of social representation to provide a broad perspective on self-help as a valid psychology. Optimizing the Self will be of interest to academics, researchers and postgraduate students in the fields of social representation, critical and cultural psychology and theory, clinical psychology, and the sociology of culture and science. The book will also be of use to critical and cultural psychologists and theorists, as well as clinical psychologists.

Optimizing the Self

Author : Ole Jacob Madsen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317437772
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book Optimizing the Self written by Ole Jacob Madsen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-06-19 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an analysis of the social representations of leading self-help genres, including neurolinguistic programming, cognitive self-help therapy, mindfulness, self-management, self-esteem, self-leadership and self-control. Exploring the globalised therapeutic culture of today, the book argues that psychology as ‘science’ is often abandoned to aid the individual pursuit for self-realization and self-optimization. Opposing the view that self-help culture is external to psychology, Madsen argues that it is firmly embedded within psychology, playing an important role in people’s lives. Each chapter traces and critically interprets a range of self-help philosophies and techniques, examining the claims of self-help literature to represent the most innovative psychological, medical or neurobiological research. Discussing each genre in turn, chapters examine key research alongside self-help literature to explore the effectiveness and impact of leading self-help genres in various social contexts and environments. The book offers a contemporary critical overview of issues concerning self-help, combining critical psychology with the theory of social representation to provide a broad perspective on self-help as a valid psychology. Optimizing the Self will be of interest to academics, researchers and postgraduate students in the fields of social representation, critical and cultural psychology and theory, clinical psychology, and the sociology of culture and science. The book will also be of use to critical and cultural psychologists and theorists, as well as clinical psychologists.

Desperately Seeking Self-improvement

Author : Carl Cederström
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781944869397
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (693 download)

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Download or read book Desperately Seeking Self-improvement written by Carl Cederström and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A highly-entertaining account of two young professors attempt to improve themselves through the techniques of the burgeoning self-optimization movement, including drugs, surgical implants, the administering of electric shocks and stripping naked in public.

Optimization Problems in Self-Organizing Networks

Author : Steffen Wolf
Publisher : Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH
ISBN 13 : 3832526617
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (325 download)

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Download or read book Optimization Problems in Self-Organizing Networks written by Steffen Wolf and published by Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH. This book was released on 2010 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern computer networks or wireless ad-hoc networks offer a wide range of interesting optimization problems. Usual optimization goals are the minimization of the message delay in a Peer-to-Peer system or the minimization of the energy consumption of a wireless network. This thesis presents different kinds of algorithms to solve such optimization problems. Starting from the mathematical formulations for these problems, various global view optimization algorithms are presented. These algorithms are based on evolutionary algorithms and local search or similar heuristics. They can be used to quickly find near-optimal solutions, if a global view of the network is possible. As the participants in a computer network or a wireless ad-hoc network are autonomous nodes, distributed algorithms can be designed that enable these nodes to collectively solve the optimization problem. Four distributed algorithms are formulated and evaluated in this thesis, thus laying grounds for distributed optimization of networks. Using these algorithms, the network can be modelled as a self-optimizing network and the optimization problem can be approached without global view.

Optimization Models

Author : Giuseppe C. Calafiore
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107050871
Total Pages : 651 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Optimization Models written by Giuseppe C. Calafiore and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-10-31 with total page 651 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This accessible textbook demonstrates how to recognize, simplify, model and solve optimization problems - and apply these principles to new projects.

Autonomic Computing

Author : Richard Murch
Publisher : IBM Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Autonomic Computing written by Richard Murch and published by IBM Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces Autonomic Computing. This concept is a cornerstone of IBM's strategic initiative, and it offers great promise because autonomic computing systems have the ability to manage themselves and dynamically adapt to change in accordance with evolving or dynamic business policies and objectives. The term "autonomic" comes from the autonomic nervous system, which controls many organs and muscles in the human body. These systems can perform management activities based on situations they observe or sense in the IT environment. Rather than IT professionals initiating management activities, the system observes something about itself and acts accordingly. This allows the IT professional to focus on high-value tasks while the technology manages the more mundane operations. This book explains how this can be made to happen and the changes that need to be made to make it happen.

Trick Mirror

Author : Jia Tolentino
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0525510559
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book Trick Mirror written by Jia Tolentino and published by Random House. This book was released on 2019-08-06 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “From The New Yorker’s beloved cultural critic comes a bold, unflinching collection of essays about self-deception, examining everything from scammer culture to reality television.”—Esquire Book Club Pick for Now Read This, from PBS NewsHour and The New York Times • “A whip-smart, challenging book.”—Zadie Smith • “Jia Tolentino could be the Joan Didion of our time.”—Vulture FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE’S JOHN LEONARD PRIZE FOR BEST FIRST BOOK • NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY AND HARVARD CRIMSON AND ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • Time • Chicago Tribune • The Washington Post • NPR • Variety • Esquire • Vox • Elle • Glamour • GQ • Good Housekeeping • The Paris Review • Paste • Town & Country • BookPage • Kirkus Reviews • BookRiot • Shelf Awareness Jia Tolentino is a peerless voice of her generation, tackling the conflicts, contradictions, and sea changes that define us and our time. Now, in this dazzling collection of nine entirely original essays, written with a rare combination of give and sharpness, wit and fearlessness, she delves into the forces that warp our vision, demonstrating an unparalleled stylistic potency and critical dexterity. Trick Mirror is an enlightening, unforgettable trip through the river of self-delusion that surges just beneath the surface of our lives. This is a book about the incentives that shape us, and about how hard it is to see ourselves clearly through a culture that revolves around the self. In each essay, Tolentino writes about a cultural prism: the rise of the nightmare social internet; the advent of scamming as the definitive millennial ethos; the literary heroine’s journey from brave to blank to bitter; the punitive dream of optimization, which insists that everything, including our bodies, should become more efficient and beautiful until we die. Gleaming with Tolentino’s sense of humor and capacity to elucidate the impossibly complex in an instant, and marked by her desire to treat the reader with profound honesty, Trick Mirror is an instant classic of the worst decade yet. FINALIST FOR THE PEN/DIAMONSTEIN-SPIELVOGEL AWARD FOR THE ART OF THE ESSAY

HWM

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book HWM written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Singapore's leading tech magazine gives its readers the power to decide with its informative articles and in-depth reviews.

Data Love

Author : Roberto Simanowski
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231542429
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Data Love written by Roberto Simanowski and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intelligence services, government administrations, businesses, and a growing majority of the population are hooked on the idea that big data can reveal patterns and correlations in everyday life. Initiated by software engineers and carried out through algorithms, the mining of big data has sparked a silent revolution. But algorithmic analysis and data mining are not simply byproducts of media development or the logical consequences of computation. They are the radicalization of the Enlightenment's quest for knowledge and progress. Data Love argues that the "cold civil war" of big data is taking place not among citizens or between the citizen and government but within each of us. Roberto Simanowski elaborates on the changes data love has brought to the human condition while exploring the entanglements of those who—out of stinginess, convenience, ignorance, narcissism, or passion—contribute to the amassing of ever more data about their lives, leading to the statistical evaluation and individual profiling of their selves. Writing from a philosophical standpoint, Simanowski illustrates the social implications of technological development and retrieves the concepts, events, and cultural artifacts of past centuries to help decode the programming of our present.

Autonomic and Trusted Computing

Author : Laurence T. Yang
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 354038619X
Total Pages : 629 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Autonomic and Trusted Computing written by Laurence T. Yang and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-08-25 with total page 629 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Autonomic and Trusted Computing, ATC 2006, held in Wuhan, China in September 2006. The 57 revised full papers presented together with two keynotes were carefully reviewed and selected from 208 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections.

Universal Artificial Intelligence

Author : Marcus Hutter
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3540268774
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Universal Artificial Intelligence written by Marcus Hutter and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2005-12-29 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Personal motivation. The dream of creating artificial devices that reach or outperform human inteUigence is an old one. It is also one of the dreams of my youth, which have never left me. What makes this challenge so interesting? A solution would have enormous implications on our society, and there are reasons to believe that the AI problem can be solved in my expected lifetime. So, it's worth sticking to it for a lifetime, even if it takes 30 years or so to reap the benefits. The AI problem. The science of artificial intelligence (AI) may be defined as the construction of intelligent systems and their analysis. A natural definition of a system is anything that has an input and an output stream. Intelligence is more complicated. It can have many faces like creativity, solving prob lems, pattern recognition, classification, learning, induction, deduction, build ing analogies, optimization, surviving in an environment, language processing, and knowledge. A formal definition incorporating every aspect of intelligence, however, seems difficult. Most, if not all known facets of intelligence can be formulated as goal driven or, more precisely, as maximizing some utility func tion. It is, therefore, sufficient to study goal-driven AI; e. g. the (biological) goal of animals and humans is to survive and spread. The goal of AI systems should be to be useful to humans.

Network-Embedded Management and Applications

Author : Alexander Clemm
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1441967699
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book Network-Embedded Management and Applications written by Alexander Clemm and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-07-25 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the explosion of networking services and applications in the past decades, the basic technological underpinnings of the Internet have remained largely unchanged. At its heart are special-purpose appliances that connect us to the digital world, commonly known as switches and routers. Now, however, the traditional framework is being increasingly challenged by new methods that are jostling for a position in the “next-generation” Internet. The concept of a network that is becoming more programmable is one of the aspects that are taking center stage. This opens new possibilities to embed software applications inside the network itself and to manage networks and communications services with unprecedented ease and efficiency. In this edited volume, distinguished experts take the reader on a tour of different facets of programmable network infrastructure and applications that exploit it. Presenting the state of the art in network embedded management and applications and programmable network infrastructure, the book conveys fundamental concepts and provides a glimpse into various facets of the latest technology in the field.

Optimizing Play

Author : Christopher A. Paul
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262378329
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (623 download)

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Download or read book Optimizing Play written by Christopher A. Paul and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2024-05-14 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unexpected take on how games work, what the stakes are for them, and how game designers can avoid the traps of optimization. The process of optimization in games seems like a good thing—who wouldn’t want to find the most efficient way to play and win? As Christopher Paul argues in Optimizing Play, however, optimization can sometimes risk a tragedy of the commons, where actions that are good for individuals jeopardize the overall state of the game for everyone else. As he explains, players inadvertently limit play as they theorycraft, seeking optimal choices. The process of developing a meta, or the most effective tactic available, structures decision making, causing play to stagnate. A “stale” meta then creates a perception that a game is solved and may lead players to turn away from the game. Drawing on insights from game studies, rhetoric, the history of science, ecology, and game theory literature, Paul explores the problem of optimization in a range of video games, including Overwatch, FIFA/EA Sports FC, NBA 2K, Clash Royale, World of Warcraft, and League of Legends. He also pulls extensively from data analytics in sports, where the problem has progressed further and is even more intractable than it is in video games, given the money sports teams invest to find an edge. Finally, Paul offers concrete and specific suggestions for how games can be developed to avoid the trap set by optimization run amok.

Positive Intelligence

Author : Shirzad Chamine
Publisher : Greenleaf Book Group
ISBN 13 : 1608322785
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book Positive Intelligence written by Shirzad Chamine and published by Greenleaf Book Group. This book was released on 2012 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chamine exposes how your mind is sabotaging you and keeping your from achieving your true potential. He shows you how to take concrete steps to unleash the vast, untapped powers of your mind.

From Specification to Embedded Systems Application

Author : Achim Rettberg
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0387275592
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (872 download)

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Download or read book From Specification to Embedded Systems Application written by Achim Rettberg and published by Springer. This book was released on 2005-09-28 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As almost no other technology, embedded systems is an essential element of many innovations in automotive engineering. New functions and improvements of already existing functions, as well as the compliance with traffic regulations and customer requirements, have only become possible by the increasing use of electronic systems, especially in the fields of driving, safety, reliability, and functionality. Along with the functionalities that increase in number and have to cooperate, the complexity of the entire system will increase. Synergy effects resulting from distributed application functionalities via several electronic control devies, exchanging information through the network brings about more complex system architectures with many different sub-networks, operating with different velocities and different protocol implementations. To manage the increasing complexity of these systems, a deterministic behaviour of the control units and the communication network must be provided for, in particular when dealing with a distributed functionality. From Specification to Embedded Systems Application documents recent approaches and results presented at the International Embedded Systems Symposium (IESS 2005), which was held in August 2005 in Manaus (Brazil) and sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP). The topics which have been chosen for this working conference are very timely: design methodology, modeling, specification, software synthesis, power management, formal verification, testing, network, communication systems, distributed control systems, resource management and special aspects in system design.

10 Simple Solutions for Building Self-Esteem

Author : Glenn R. Schiraldi
Publisher : New Harbinger Publications
ISBN 13 : 1608824667
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book 10 Simple Solutions for Building Self-Esteem written by Glenn R. Schiraldi and published by New Harbinger Publications. This book was released on 2007-07-01 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Easy Ways to Appreciate Yourself Learn to appreciate yourself with these ten simple solutions for building self-esteem. These easy-to-grasp tips for fostering a positive sense of self distill and add to many of the best, most effective techniques from the author Glenn Schiraldi's successful Self-Esteem Workbook. They draw on techniques from Eastern and Western traditions; mindfulness practice, thought-watching, strengths appreciation, and more. With the simple solutions in this book and a little practice, you can discover what a wonderful and valuable person you really are.

Self-Supervised Learning

Author : Robert Johnson
Publisher : HiTeX Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (661 download)

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Download or read book Self-Supervised Learning written by Robert Johnson and published by HiTeX Press. This book was released on 2024-10-27 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Self-Supervised Learning: Teaching AI with Unlabeled Data" serves as a definitive guide to one of the most transformative developments in artificial intelligence. This book demystifies the self-supervised learning paradigm, introducing readers to its principles and methodologies, which enable models to leverage vast amounts of unlabeled data effectively. Through clear explanations, the book navigates the theoretical frameworks and core algorithms underpinning self-supervised learning, offering insight into how these techniques unlock unprecedented capabilities in AI systems. Across its chapters, the text examines practical applications in fields like natural language processing, computer vision, and robotics, showcasing the versatility of self-supervised approaches. Readers will gain an understanding of the challenges and ethical considerations associated with deploying these models while exploring the evaluation metrics essential to assessing their performance. With a forward-looking perspective, the book also highlights potential research opportunities and future directions, poised to shape the evolution of AI. Compelling and informative, this book is an indispensable resource for anyone eager to delve into the future of data-driven learning.