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“Pattern Recognition is William Gibson’s best book since he rewrote all the rules in Neuromancer.”—Neil Gaiman, author of American Gods
“One of the first authentic and vital novels of the 21st century.”—The Washington Post Book World
The accolades and acclaim are endless for William Gibson's coast-to-coast bestseller. Set in the post-9/11 present,...
“One of the first authentic and vital novels of the 21st century.”—The Washington Post Book World
The accolades and acclaim are endless for William Gibson's coast-to-coast bestseller. Set in the post-9/11 present,...
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Kandahar is the Taliban's former stronghold, a mecca for drugs, smugglers, and terrorists - and home to Malalai Kakar, who rose through the ranks to become Afghanistan's first female police officer. In this dangerous, male-oriented world, she is blazing the way for women. Trailed by her meek brother and unhindered by her heavy burka, she subverts all stereotypes. Under her tough exterior, the policewoman remains a daughter, a mother of six, and a...
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Seattle police sergeant Lou Boldt is stunned when the local fire investigator presents him with frightening evidence in a series of fires that have occurred in the Seattle area. These white-hot fires burn so cleanly that even the ash disintegrates—leaving not a trace of its victims or any evidence of criminal activity. Only when Boldt is taunted by someone sending him pieces of melted green plastic—houses from a Monopoly board—does he realize...
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Most of us are able to identify people we've met before and to pick out friends from among a group of strangers simply by scanning their faces. What cognitive processes allow us to do this? What goes on in the brain when we struggle to match a name to a face? And why are some people unable to remember the faces of individuals at all? This program explores facial perception and prosopagnosia, a condition in which the ability to recognize what should...
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After decades struggling to protect her ancestors' burial places, now engulfed by San Francisco's sprawl, a Native woman from a federally unrecognized tribe and her allies occupy a development site to prevent desecration of sacred ground. When this fails to stop the development, they vow to follow a new path: to establish the first women-led urban Indigenous land trust. Beyond Recognition tells the inspiring story of women creating opportunities to...
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Learn how to design, build, and deploy a deep neural network to serve as an image recognition system.
Thanks to deep learning, image recognition systems have improved and are now used for everything from searching photo libraries to generating text-based descriptions of photographs. In this course, learn how to build a deep neural network that can recognize objects in photographs. Find out how to adjust state-of-the-art deep neural networks to recognize...
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Learn how to develop a face recognition system by leveraging deep learning. Find out how to code for face detection, identification, and more.
Face recognition is used for everything from automatically tagging pictures to unlocking cell phones. And with recent advancements in deep learning, the accuracy of face recognition has improved. In this course, learn how to develop a face recognition system that can detect faces in images, identify the faces,...
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Learn how revenue recognition—a seemingly innocent accounting topic—can turn a reported profit into a reported loss, sometimes with multibillion-dollar implications.
Revenue recognition determines when a sale should be recorded: This month or next month? This year or next year? This seems like an easy question until you consider situations in which a company sells a package of goods and services for one joint price, aka multi-element transactions....
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Instructor Parth Anand introduces you to image tracking, object recognition, and methods for face tracking and hand tracking using AR Foundation and Unity.
This course, the third in a four-part series, teaches you about image tracking, face tracking, hand tracking, and object recognition in AR application development in Unity. Instructor Parth Anand explains how image tracking works and what kinds of images are suitable for tracking. Next, he discusses...
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How big data and machine learning encode discrimination and create agitated clusters of comforting rage.
In Discriminating Data, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun reveals how polarization is a goal—not an error—within big data and machine learning. These methods, she argues, encode segregation, eugenics, and identity politics through their default assumptions and conditions. Correlation, which grounds big data’s predictive potential,...
In Discriminating Data, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun reveals how polarization is a goal—not an error—within big data and machine learning. These methods, she argues, encode segregation, eugenics, and identity politics through their default assumptions and conditions. Correlation, which grounds big data’s predictive potential,...
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Conclude the course by examining more types of number sequences, discovering how rich and enjoyable the mathematics of pattern recognition can be. As in previous lessons, employ your reasoning skills and growing command of algebra to find order - and beauty - where once all was a confusion of numbers.