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The Local Field and What It Means

✍ Wijers, C.M.J. 📂 Article 📅 2001 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 115 KB

The easy link between the dielectric constant of isotropic media and the molecular polarizability of the constituents, is traditionally given by the Lorentz-Lorenz (LL) relation. The local field concept however upon which this relation is based, needs to be re-examined for highly inhomogeneous syste

The Most Human Human: What Talking With Computers Teaches Us About What It Means to Be Alive

✍ Brian Christian 📂 Fiction 📅 2011 🏛 Doubleday 🌐 English ⚖ 262 KB 👁 3 views

### From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. In a fast-paced, witty, and thoroughly winning style, Christian documents his experience in the 2009 Turing Test, a competition in which judges engage in five-minute instant-message conversations with unidentified partners, and must then decide whether eac

The Most Human Human: What Talking With Computers Teaches Us About What It Means to Be Alive

✍ Brian Christian 📂 Fiction 📅 2011 🏛 Doubleday 🌐 English ⚖ 263 KB 👁 3 views

### From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. In a fast-paced, witty, and thoroughly winning style, Christian documents his experience in the 2009 Turing Test, a competition in which judges engage in five-minute instant-message conversations with unidentified partners, and must then decide whether eac

The most human human: what talking with computers teaches us about what it means to be alive

✍ Brian Christian 📂 Fiction 📅 2011 🏛 Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 🌐 en-US ⚖ 236 KB 👁 2 views

***The Most Human Human* is a provocative, exuberant, and profound exploration of the ways in which computers are reshaping our ideas of what it means to be human. Its starting point is the annual Turing Test, which pits artificial intelligence programs against people to determine if computers can "

Climate change: what it means for us, ou

Climate change: what it means for us, our children and our grandchildren: 2nd ed

📂 Fiction 📅 2014 🏛 MIT Press 🌐 English ⚖ 5 MB

How to speak money: what the money people say-- and what it really means

✍ John Lanchester 📂 Fiction 📅 2015 🏛 W. W. Norton & Company 🌐 English ⚖ 178 KB

An entertaining and indispensable guide to the language of finance and economics by the writer hailed for "explain[ing] complex stuff in a down-to-earth and witty style" (_The Economist_). To those who don't speak it, the language of money can seem impenetrable and its ideas too complex to grasp. I