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The Last Day of Petter Grenager

Author : James Lawson
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595483534
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (954 download)

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Download or read book The Last Day of Petter Grenager written by James Lawson and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2008-02 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Petter Grenager is an anti-hero in the tradition of Dostoevsky's "Ridiculous Man," an existential being who decides to do away with himself for "lack of drama," for having led a trivial life, for "no reasons worthy of the act." "Mediocrity runs in our family," he writes, "and I'm no exception." Before he ends his ridiculous life, however, he wants one last day of flamboyant pleasure. He cashes in his pension and all his savings for a glorious final fling. But is a ridiculous mediocrity capable of experiencing flamboyant pleasure? Must he elevate his spirit in some way to live his last day to the fullest and if he does, would he no longer be ridiculous, and no longer need to end his life? The meaninglessness of pleasure begins to infiltrate his terminal celebration of sex, food, drugs, high living and petty revenge. As the day progresses, his fling plays out in unexpected ways, both comic and tragic, with dark twists and moral absurdities that give him both a reason to live and a reason to die. The Last Day of Petter Grenager (Exhibit A) is both silly and serious, the journal of an absurd, despicable, trivial, funny and thoroughly engaging human being.

The Immortal

Author : James Lawson
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1663204268
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (632 download)

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Download or read book The Immortal written by James Lawson and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2020-07-23 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Immortal is a fantasy about a boy who can remember his past lives, going back hundreds, even thousands of years. At the age of seven, the boy realizes he can understand a language that he’s never heard before. Gradually, he remembers a whole different life in another country. He has barely processed these memories when an earlier life and another language comes to him. As he grows older, he remembers more and more lives, always in a different body. He remembers wives, husbands, children, parents, friends, enemies, his life as a slave, a doctor, a soldier, a shaman, a witch, a head hunter, even a temple prostitute. Physically, each life starts out fresh and ages normally from birth to death. Mentally, he bears the weight of centuries of experience, even in the body of a child. And with each life, he renews his quest to find someone like him. This life gives him a unique opportunity.

Acid Rains of Fortune

Author : James Lawson
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1450276067
Total Pages : 619 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Acid Rains of Fortune written by James Lawson and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2010-12-27 with total page 619 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the day her husband is sentenced to prison, Angela Santiago Hart gives up her newborn son for adoption. Eleven years later, she wants him back. This sets in motion a chain of events which engulfs the boy, Ethan, his sister, Abby, and a vast cast of memorable characters, in a maelstrom of legal, domestic and sexual nightmares. Although the novel deals with heady stuff, like the family courts, sexual slavery, murder, pedophilia, madness, prison, and a dark underworld of judicial and personal brutality, what draws one in is how the children endure and transcend their ordeals and the psychological consequences of doing so that emerge later on. Added to this are the stories of the childrens parents, Angelas husband, boyfriend and other children, a family court judge and her husband, the girls tricked or kidnapped into slavery, various judges and lawyers, all transformed by a single miscarriage of justice. The power of the book is in the courage, grit, determination and craftiness of its characters and and in their victories against impossible odds.

Ac&D a Federated Company

Author : James Lawson
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1663221456
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (632 download)

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Download or read book Ac&D a Federated Company written by James Lawson and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2021-05-18 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A top New York advertising agency is inhabited by gnomes – junior copywriters and art directors – ruled over by scumbags, rodents, weasels, hulking creatures and a resident genius. Into this madhouse comes an idealistic young art director from Iowa who endures the patronizing disdain of his fellow gnomes and takes on the powers that be on their own terms. When the agency gets a major new account, the stage is set for combat, with a dozen teams competing for prominence. Joel, the idealist, given no chance of reaching even the first stage, ignores all the rules and conventions and takes extraordinary risks to bring his concept to life. AC&D a Federated Company is witty look at the inner workings of a top ad agency, by an author who was a creative director of a top agency himself.

211A West 57Th Street

Author : James Lawson
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1532073070
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book 211A West 57Th Street written by James Lawson and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2019-04-24 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One day in June, two young people apply for a job in a mysterious building on the “billionaire’s row” of 57th Street in New York City. Unlike the other skyscrapers on the street, 211A West 57th is a self-contained universe built for single family, who are unknown to most of its inhabitants. There are schools, farms, restaurants, libraries, theaters, a hospital, industries, high, middle and low-income apartments, laboratories, gyms, markets, chapels, its own post office, a bank and 15 forbidden floors, off-limits to the residents. It is a world fueled by gossip, animated by scandal and powered by an unseen force. The building is capped by a glass dome enclosing a magnificent aviary, filled with exotic birds, including a world-renowned collection of hummingbirds. On the day the new employees are hired, the aviary is in turmoil. A rare hummingbird has gone missing. The two find themselves swept up in the search and caught in a flood of events that almost destroys the building, revealing its deepest secrets and threatening the lives of everyone inside.

The Writers Directory

Author :
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 690 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Knowledge Graphs

Author : Aidan Hogan
Publisher : Morgan & Claypool Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1636392369
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (363 download)

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Download or read book Knowledge Graphs written by Aidan Hogan and published by Morgan & Claypool Publishers. This book was released on 2021-11-08 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to knowledge graphs, which have recently garnered notable attention from both industry and academia. Knowledge graphs are founded on the principle of applying a graph-based abstraction to data, and are now broadly deployed in scenarios that require integrating and extracting value from multiple, diverse sources of data at large scale. The book defines knowledge graphs and provides a high-level overview of how they are used. It presents and contrasts popular graph models that are commonly used to represent data as graphs, and the languages by which they can be queried before describing how the resulting data graph can be enhanced with notions of schema, identity, and context. The book discusses how ontologies and rules can be used to encode knowledge as well as how inductive techniques—based on statistics, graph analytics, machine learning, etc.—can be used to encode and extract knowledge. It covers techniques for the creation, enrichment, assessment, and refinement of knowledge graphs and surveys recent open and enterprise knowledge graphs and the industries or applications within which they have been most widely adopted. The book closes by discussing the current limitations and future directions along which knowledge graphs are likely to evolve. This book is aimed at students, researchers, and practitioners who wish to learn more about knowledge graphs and how they facilitate extracting value from diverse data at large scale. To make the book accessible for newcomers, running examples and graphical notation are used throughout. Formal definitions and extensive references are also provided for those who opt to delve more deeply into specific topics.

A Concise Introduction to Multiagent Systems and Distributed Artificial Intelligence

Author : Nikos Kolobov
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031015436
Total Pages : 71 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book A Concise Introduction to Multiagent Systems and Distributed Artificial Intelligence written by Nikos Kolobov and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-06-01 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Multiagent systems is an expanding field that blends classical fields like game theory and decentralized control with modern fields like computer science and machine learning. This monograph provides a concise introduction to the subject, covering the theoretical foundations as well as more recent developments in a coherent and readable manner. The text is centered on the concept of an agent as decision maker. Chapter 1 is a short introduction to the field of multiagent systems. Chapter 2 covers the basic theory of singleagent decision making under uncertainty. Chapter 3 is a brief introduction to game theory, explaining classical concepts like Nash equilibrium. Chapter 4 deals with the fundamental problem of coordinating a team of collaborative agents. Chapter 5 studies the problem of multiagent reasoning and decision making under partial observability. Chapter 6 focuses on the design of protocols that are stable against manipulations by self-interested agents. Chapter 7 provides a short introduction to the rapidly expanding field of multiagent reinforcement learning. The material can be used for teaching a half-semester course on multiagent systems covering, roughly, one chapter per lecture.

Statistical Machine Translation

Author : Philipp Koehn
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521874157
Total Pages : 447 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book Statistical Machine Translation written by Philipp Koehn and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dream of automatic language translation is now closer thanks to recent advances in the techniques that underpin statistical machine translation. This class-tested textbook from an active researcher in the field, provides a clear and careful introduction to the latest methods and explains how to build machine translation systems for any two languages. It introduces the subject's building blocks from linguistics and probability, then covers the major models for machine translation: word-based, phrase-based, and tree-based, as well as machine translation evaluation, language modeling, discriminative training and advanced methods to integrate linguistic annotation. The book also reports the latest research, presents the major outstanding challenges, and enables novices as well as experienced researchers to make novel contributions to this exciting area. Ideal for students at undergraduate and graduate level, or for anyone interested in the latest developments in machine translation.

Heuristics, Probability, and Casuality

Author : Rina Dechter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781904987666
Total Pages : 565 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (876 download)

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Download or read book Heuristics, Probability, and Casuality written by Rina Dechter and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 565 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The field of Artificial Intelligence has changed a great deal since the 80s, and arguably no one has played a larger role in that change than Judea Pearl. Judea Pearl's work made probability the prevailing language of modern AI and, perhaps more significantly, it placed the elaboration of crisp and meaningful models, and of effective computational mechanisms, at the center of AI research. This book is a collection of articles in honor of Judea Pearl, written by close colleagues and former students. Its three main parts, heuristics, probabilistic reasoning, and causality, correspond to the titles of the three ground-breaking books authored by Judea, and are followed by a section of short reminiscences. In this volume, leading authors look at the state of the art in the fields of heuristic, probabilistic, and causal reasoning, in light of Judea's seminal contributors. The authors list include Blai Bonet, Eric Hansen, Robert Holte, Jonathan Schaeffer, Ariel Felner, Richard Korf, Austin Parker, Dana Nau, V. S. Subrahmanian, Hector Geffner, Ira Pohl, Adnan Darwiche, Thomas Dean, Rina Dechter, Bozhena Bidyuk, Robert Matescu, Emma Rollon, Michael I. Jordan, Michael Kearns, Daphne Koller, Brian Milch, Stuart Russell, Azaria Paz, David Poole, Ingrid Zukerman, Carlos Brito, Philip Dawid, Felix Elwert, Christopher Winship, Michael Gelfond, Nelson Rushton, Moises Goldszmidt, Sander Greenland, Joseph Y. Halpern, Christopher Hitchcock, David Heckerman, Ross Shachter, Vladimir Lifschitz, Thomas Richardson, James Robins, Yoav Shoham, Peter Spirtes, Clark Glymour, Richard Scheines, Robert Tillman, Wolfgang Spohn, Jian Tian, Ilya Shpitser, Nils Nilsson, Edward T. Purcell, and David Spiegelhalter.

Legal Informatics

Author : Daniel Martin Katz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107142725
Total Pages : 525 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Legal Informatics written by Daniel Martin Katz and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-18 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This cutting-edge volume offers a theoretical and applied introduction to the emerging legal technology and informatics industry.

Register of the Commissioned and Warrant Officers and Cadets of the United States Coast Guard

Author : United States. Coast Guard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 642 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Register of the Commissioned and Warrant Officers and Cadets, and Ships and Stations of the United States Coast Guard

Author : United States. Coast Guard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 734 pages
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Register of the Commissioned and Warrant Officers and Cadets of the United States Coast Guard in the Order of Precedence

Author : United States. Coast Guard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)

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Download or read book Register of the Commissioned and Warrant Officers and Cadets of the United States Coast Guard in the Order of Precedence written by United States. Coast Guard and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Taking Scope

Author : Mark Steedman
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262017075
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Taking Scope written by Mark Steedman and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novel view of the syntax and semantics of quantifier scope that argues for a "combinatory" theory of natural language syntax. In Taking Scope, Mark Steedman considers the syntax and semantics of quantifier scope in interaction with negation, polarity, coordination, and pronominal binding, among other constructions. The semantics is "surface compositional," in that there is a direct correspondence between syntactic types and operations of composition and types and compositions at the level of logical form. In that sense, the semantics is in the "natural logic" tradition of Aristotle, Leibniz, Frege, Russell, and others who sought to define a psychologically real logic directly reflecting natural language grammar. The book reunites the generative-transformational tradition initiated by Chomsky--which views the formal syntactic component as entirely autonomous---with the older, strongly lexicalist, construction-based tradition, which has sought to define a more lingistically transparent theory of meaning representation. Steedman offers a logical formalism that relates directly to the surface form of language and to the process of inference and proof that it must support. Such a natural logic, although formal by definition, should be allowed to grow organically from attested language phenomena rather than be axiomatized a priori in terms of any standard logic. Steedman also considers the application of natural semantic interpretations to practical natural language processing tasks, emphasizing throughout the elimination of traditional quantifiers from semantic formalism in favor of devices such as Skolem terms and structure-sharing among representations in processing.

Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing

Author : Mihai Surdeanu
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009027808
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing written by Mihai Surdeanu and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-01-31 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deep Learning is becoming increasingly important in a technology-dominated world. However, the building of computational models that accurately represent linguistic structures is complex, as it involves an in-depth knowledge of neural networks, and the understanding of advanced mathematical concepts such as calculus and statistics. This book makes these complexities accessible to those from a humanities and social sciences background, by providing a clear introduction to deep learning for natural language processing. It covers both theoretical and practical aspects, and assumes minimal knowledge of machine learning, explaining the theory behind natural language in an easy-to-read way. It includes pseudo code for the simpler algorithms discussed, and actual Python code for the more complicated architectures, using modern deep learning libraries such as PyTorch and Hugging Face. Providing the necessary theoretical foundation and practical tools, this book will enable readers to immediately begin building real-world, practical natural language processing systems.

List of Regular and Reserve Commissioned and Warrant Officers on Active Duty in Order of Precedence and Temporary Members of the Reserve

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Author : United States. Coast Guard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 832 pages
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