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Observer Mechanics: A Formal Theory of Perception (Bennett, Hoffman, Prakash)
"Observer Mechanics is an inquiry into the subject of perception. It suggests an approach to the study of perception that attempts to be both rigorous and general. A central thesis of Observer Mechanics is that every perceptual capacity (e.g., stereovision, auditory localization, sentence parsing, haptic recognition, and so on) can be described as an instance of a single formal structure: viz., an "observer.""
books  to-read  complexity  computation  perception  dynamical-systems  probability  multiagent-systems  cognitive-science  cybernetics 
january 2011 by mraginsky
Twilight of the Efficient Markets » American Scientist
Cosma Shalizi's review of "The Myth of the Rational Market" by Justin Fox; having just finished Peter Bernstein's "Against the Gods", which was quite complacent about efficient markets but otherwise excellent, I should now read Fox for a sobering reassessment.
book-reviews  books  to-read  economics  finance  history 
november 2009 by mraginsky
Vehicles: Experiments in Synthetic Psychology
pdf of the book by Valentino Braitenberg; I wonder how (and whether) his ideas relate to the work by Rockland, Gaveau, and Mitter on system effectiveness, coherence and adaptiveness
books  AI  psychology  robotics  neuroscience  cybernetics  communication  multiagent-systems  filetype:pdf  media:document 
october 2009 by mraginsky
Monographs, 1934-1981
Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics
economics  game-theory  books  reference  lecture-notes 
october 2009 by mraginsky
The Colbert Report | The New Republic
A review of The Information Master: Jean-Baptiste Colbert's Secret State Intelligence System by Jacob Soll
books  book-reviews  history  management  Enlightenment  modernity  Renaissance  economics  politics 
october 2009 by mraginsky
Mister Lucky
Malcolm Gladwell gets pwnz0r3d by Isaac Chotiner
book-reviews  polemics  psychology  books 
january 2009 by mraginsky
SP First Resources
by James H. McClellan, Ronald W. Schafer, and Mark A. Yoder
signal-processing  teaching  reference  books  creative-commons 
august 2008 by mraginsky
Philosophy for ‘limited beings’ accommodates approximations
Review of Re-engineering Philosophy for Limited Beings: Piecewise Approximations to Reality by William Wimsatt (Harvard Press, 2007)
books  philosophy  science  interesting  book-reviews  to-read  epistemology  biology  evolution 
july 2008 by mraginsky
The Big Picture
by Peter N. Miller; review of two recent books on early medieval Europe
books  history  to-read  book-reviews  sociology  anthropology  historiography  interesting 
july 2008 by mraginsky
Murder in Chicago - The New York Review of Books
Umberto Eco's review of a book about the murder of I. Couliano
books  reviews  have-read 
june 2008 by mraginsky
www.ambergris.org
Jeff Vandermeer's Ambergris: art by Scott Eagle
art  books  literature  fantasy  weird  steampunk  tentacles 
february 2008 by mraginsky
Wavelets, Approximation and Statistical Applications
HTML version of the book by Wolfgang Härdle, Gerard Kerkyacharian, Dominique Picard and Alexander Tsybakov
statistics  signal-processing  books  lecture-notes 
november 2007 by mraginsky
Labyrinth Books: Norman Cohn
Books by Norman Cohn: millenarian cults and other religious fringe movements through the ages
books  interesting  religion  history  anarchy 
november 2007 by mraginsky
LTHC: mct
Richardson and Urbanke text on modern coding theory
coding-theory  information-theory  books  lecture-notes 
september 2007 by mraginsky
10 good books - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Don Bourdeaux discusses ten of his favorite economics books
books  economics 
may 2007 by mraginsky

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