Sunday, December 1, 1991

Monday, July 15, 1991

Machine Learning: A Theoretical Approach

Machine Learning: A Theoretical Approach

Machine Learning: A Theoretical Approach

This is the first comprehensive introduction to computational learning theory. The author's uniform presentation of fundamental results and their applications offers AI researchers a theoretical perspective on the problems they study. The book presents tools for the analysis of probabilistic models of learning, tools that crisply classify what is and is not efficiently learnable. After a general introduction to Valiant's PAC paradigm and the important notion of the Vapnik-Chervonenkis dimension, the author explores specific topics such as finite automata and neural networks. The presentation is intended for a broad audience--the author's ability to motivate and pace discussions for beginners has been praised by reviewers. Each chapter contains numerous examples and exercises, as well as a useful summary of important results. An excellent introduction to the area, suitable either for a first course, or as a component in general machine learning and advanced AI courses. Also an important reference for AI researchers.

ISBN: 1558601481
Author: Balas K. Natarajan
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers
Rating: 4.00

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Saturday, June 1, 1991

Monday, April 15, 1991

Jonathan Swift: A Literary Life

Jonathan Swift: A Literary Life

Jonathan Swift: A Literary Life

ISBN: 0312052758
Author: Joseph McMinn
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Rating: 0.00

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Tuesday, October 31, 1989

The Human Comedy

The Human Comedy

The Human Comedy

A novel of an American family in wartime.

ISBN: 0151423016
Author: William Saroyan
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Rating: 3.98

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Tuesday, November 1, 1988

Darksword Adventures

Darksword Adventures

Darksword Adventures

/Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman An absolutely essential book for all role-players. Very appealing to the hundreds of thousands of kids who have read the novels and want to create gaming scenarios of their own. In addition to its value as a gaming tool, Darksword Adventures will be of interest to anyone who wants to learn more about the world of the Darksw

ISBN: 055327600X
Author: Margaret Weis
Publisher: Spectra Books
Rating: 3.32

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Saturday, October 1, 1988

Life: A User s Manual

Life: A User s Manual

Life: A User s Manual

Life is an unclassified masterpiece, a sprawling compendium as encyclopedic as Dante's Commedia and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and, in its break with tradition, as inspiring as Joyce's Ulysses. Perec's spellbinding puzzle begins in an apartment block in the XVIIth arrondissement of Paris where, chapter by chapter, room by room, like an onion being peeled, and extraordinary rich cast of characters is revealed in a series of tales that are bizarre, unlikely, moving, funny, or (sometimes) quite ordinary. From the confessions of a racing cyclist to the plans of an avenging murderer, from a young ethnographer obsessed with a Sumatran tribe to the death of a trapeze artist, from the fears of an ex-croupier to the dreams of a sex-change pop star to an eccentric English millionaire who has devised the ultimate pastime, Life is a manual of human irony, portraying the mixed marriages of fortunes, passions and despairs, betrayals and bereavements, of hundreds of lives in Paris and around the world.

But the novel in more than an extraordinary range of fictions; it is a closely observed account of life and experience. The apartment block's one hundred rooms are arranged in a magic square, and the book as a whole is peppered with a staggering range of literary puzzles and allusions, acrostics, problems of chess and logic, crosswords, and mathematical formulae. All are there for the reader to solve in the best tradition of the detective novel.

ISBN: 0879237511
Author: Georges Perec
Publisher: David R. Godine, Publisher
Rating: 4.26

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