Kill process william hertling5/23/2023 ![]() ![]() The resulting Singularity series has received critical acclaim from Wired and KurzweilAI, as well as notable people in the technology industry, including Brad Feld, Harper Reed, Ben Huh, Amber Case, and John Walker. Influenced by Ray Kurzweil and Charles Stross, his work examines the emergence of strong artificial intelligence and how humankind reacts to and coexists with AI. Hertling began publishing science fiction in 2011 with Avogadro Corp: The Singularity is Closer than it Appears. He was a co-founder and Director of Engineering at Tripwire, and a web strategist and software developer at Hewlett-Packard where he obtained numerous software engineering patents in the areas of networking protocols, printing, and web applications. ![]() William Hertling is a science fiction writer and programmer. Avogadro Corp: The Singularity is Closer than it Appears ![]()
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How we decide by jonah lehrer5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() His goal is to answer two questions that are of interest to just about anyone, from CEOs to firefighters: How does the human mind make decisions?Īnd how can we make those decisions better? Lehrer shows how people are taking advantage of the new science to make better television shows, win more football games, and improve military intelligence. Jonah Lehrer arms us with the tools we need, drawing on cutting-edge research by Daniel Kahneman, Colin Camerer, and others, as well as the real-world experiences of a wide range of "deciders"from airplane pilots and hedge fund investors to serial killers and poker players. The trick is to determine when to lean on which part of the brain, and to do this, we need to think harder (and smarter) about how we think. ![]() ![]() But when we're picking a stock, intuition often leads us astray. When buying a house, for example, it's best to let our unconscious mull over the many variables. ![]() Our best decisions are a finely tuned blend of both feeling and reasonand the precise mix depends on the situation. But as scientists break open the mind's black box with the latest tools of neuroscience, they're discovering that this is not how the mind works. Since Plato, philosophers have described the decision making process as either rational or emotional: we carefully deliberate or we "blink" and go with our gut. From the acclaimed author of Proust Was a Neuroscientist, a fascinating look at the new science of decision-makingand how it can help us make better choices. ![]() Book the doctors blackwell5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() In 1849, she became the first woman in America to receive an M.D. Though the world at first recoiled at the notion of a woman studying medicine, her intelligence and intensity ultimately won her the acceptance of the male medical establishment. You can read this before The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom.Įlizabeth Blackwell believed from an early age that she was destined for a mission beyond the scope of “ordinary” womanhood. ![]() Here is a quick description and cover image of book The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine written by Janice P. Brief Summary of Book: The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine by Janice P. ![]() Seven pillars of wisdom a triumph5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() The inscription is a virtual letter, covering the entire endpaper and gives a full (although apparently inaccurate) description of the state of production of Seven Pillars. One of the earliest copies known, with Lawrence's splendid presentation inscription to his literary agent, Raymond Savage. Some occasional foxing to the text, and signs of use consistent with having been used as setting-copy. Wrappers with signs of handling including a two inch tear, without loss, to the spine, a one inch square section lacking from the gutter of the upper cover, and other slight wear to the extremities. The preliminaries, up to the first page of text, were evidently unbound sheets when the book was inscribed, and have been sewn later. Irregular collation, with many single leaves pasted on to neighbouring pages, and four pages present as pasted-on sheets of proofing paper lacking the initial letters. ![]() The pictorial endpapers by Kennington are present as India paper proofs partially pasted down on to endpapers. ![]() One minor proofing correction in red, probably in TE's hand, and two in pencil in an unknown hand. With many wood-engraved initial letters and 13 of the original illustrations in the text, including pasted-in India paper proofs of, at page 339 a reproduction of a drawing, possibly by Eric Kennington and evidently an abandoned version of The Prophet and, at page 564 The Glory of a young Man by Kennington. ![]() One of nine proof copies of the 1926 "Cranwell" or "Subscribers" edition, this copy No. ![]() The Lost Girl by D.H. Lawrence5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() The entire novel in 1920, using characters and situations from "The ![]() Manuscript of The Lost Girl subsequently declared that Lawrence wrote Striking contrast between the narrative style in the two parts and theįact that the second half featured observations and places related to Many critics and scholars assumed initially that The Lost Girl wasĪ bifurcated text, with roughly its first half having been written inġ913 and its second half written in 1920. Narrative fragment called "Elsa Culverwell," would eventuallyįorm the basis of The Lost Girl, which Lawrence wrote and published inġ920. Of Miss Houghton" in Germany in 1913, he had no idea it would be Lawrence left the manuscript of "The Insurrection 5 apples up on top5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() Call out a direction word and have your child place the apple in the appropriate place – under the table, beside a book, in a basket, etc. Hand your child an apple (or an apple eraser or cutout). In the story, the animals are stacking apples ON their heads. With this story, you can introduce or reinforce position words. Or, have them create a stack of apple erasers or apple cutouts to match the apple stack on the page. Have your child open the book to a random page and count the apples. Then, have them repeat the number back to you. Start by counting out loud as you look at the animal pictures in the book. One simple way to do this is by having kids count the apples on each animal’s head. Ten Apples Up on Top! is the perfect book for teaching kids to count to ten. ![]() Here are ten engaging lesson you can teach from this fun children’s book. ![]() It’s a great book for preschool and kindergarten age kids, and it’s a perfect way to teach them about counting.ĭon’t let the apples drop! Three animal friends practice balancing apples on their heads in this hilarious introduction to counting. ![]() The greystone secrets5/22/2023 ![]() ![]()
![]() Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other. ![]() American Woman by Susan Choi5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() Kidnapped by a homegrown revolutionary group, Pauline shocked America when she embraced her captors' ideology, denouncing family and class to enlist in their radical cell.Īmerican Woman unfolds the story of Jenny and her charges - Pauline, Juan, and Yvonne, the remains of the busted revolutionary cadre - as they pursue their destinies from an old farmhouse in upstate New York back to California. One of them, the granddaughter of a wealthy newspaper magnate in San Francisco, has become a national celebrity. On the lam for an act of violence against the American government, Jenny agrees to take on the job of caring for three younger fugitives whom Frazer has spirited out of California. When 25-year-old Jenny Shimada steps out of the Rhinecliff train station in New York's Hudson Valley, the last person she expects to see is Rob Frazer, a shadowy figure from her previous life. American Woman, this gifted writer's second book, is a novel of even greater scope and dramatic complexity, about a young Japanese-American radical caught in the militant underground of the mid-1970s. ![]() The New Yorker called it "an auspicious debut," and the Los Angeles Times touted it as "a novel of extraordinary sensibility and transforming strangeness," naming it one of the ten best books of the year. ![]() Susan Choi's first novel, The Foreign Student, was published to remarkable critical acclaim. ![]() The Unsaved Christian by Dean Inserra5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Inserra invokes these statistics: "According to a study of US adults, 80% of those polled believe in God, but only 56% believe in God as described in the Bible. This is not a book of calling out and shutting out but of encouragement and open doors. This is a book about drawing people into the family of God, not leaving them out by crossing our fingers in hopes that simple kindness unlocks those pearly gates. We are doing no one any favors if we refuse to ask the hard questions- of ourselves and those close to us. ![]() A commitment with eternal consequences, avoiding awkward or potentially offensive conversations with those we love is unacceptable. This book does not condemn the heart of this book is to help us identify ourselves or those we love who are actually Cultural Christians (as described above) and realize that this is a mission field. The Unsaved Christian is a straightforward, practical look into the false faith that our country is soaked in. They are simply trying to be nice to others, pursue their idea of personal happiness, pray when something bad happens, and rest in the belief that they are going to heaven after they die."ĭoes this sound like you or someone you know? “Mainstream Cultural Christians aren’t wrapped up in promoting some kind of gospel message. ![]() The Unsaved Christian: Reaching Cultural Christianity with the Gospel ![]() |