Pattern Discrimination

Author: Clemens Apprich
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452959277
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 155

Book Description
How do “human” prejudices reemerge in algorithmic cultures allegedly devised to be blind to them? How do “human” prejudices reemerge in algorithmic cultures allegedly devised to be blind to them? To answer this question, this book investigates a fundamental axiom in computer science: pattern discrimination. By imposing identity on input data, in order to filter—that is, to discriminate—signals from noise, patterns become a highly political issue. Algorithmic identity politics reinstate old forms of social segregation, such as class, race, and gender, through defaults and paradigmatic assumptions about the homophilic nature of connection. Instead of providing a more “objective” basis of decision making, machine-learning algorithms deepen bias and further inscribe inequality into media. Yet pattern discrimination is an essential part of human—and nonhuman—cognition. Bringing together media thinkers and artists from the United States and Germany, this volume asks the urgent questions: How can we discriminate without being discriminatory? How can we filter information out of data without reinserting racist, sexist, and classist beliefs? How can we queer homophilic tendencies within digital cultures?

A Compendium of TCM Patterns & Treatments

Author: Bob Flaws
Publisher: Blue Poppy Enterprises, Inc.
ISBN: 9780936185705
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 224

Book Description
This book is the second, revised edition of a practical handbook of Chinese medical patterns with their disease causes and mechanisms, signs and symptoms, treatment principles, guiding formulas, main modifications, and acupuncture treatments. It is meant for both the student and the clinical practitioner. The authors have included numerous patterns previously not described in the English language literature as well as many complex patterns which are commonly seen in real-life practice in the West. It also includes a symptom-sign index and a formula index for easy reference. All medicinal names in this new edition conform to Bensky et al.'s Chinese Herbal Medicine: Materia Medica 3rd edition, and all Chinese medical terminology corresponds to Wiseman and Feng's A Practical Dictionary of Chinese Medicine. Ingredients in Chinese medicinal formulas begin with their pinyin names and are listed down for easier reference. In addition, this new edition contains a number of case histories for use in problem-based learning (PBL) along with suggested answers, thus making it even more useful in the classroom.

Ablation of Temporal Cortex and discrimination of Auditory Patterns

Author:
Publisher: Ardent Media
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 16

Book Description

Behavioral Approaches to Pattern Recognition and Concept Formation

Author: Michael L. Commons
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 1317728173
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 240

Book Description
Volume eight in this highly acclaimed series discusses the behavioral approaches to pattern recognition and concept formation in two sections: categories and concepts in birds, and shape and form. An ideal reference for students and professionals in experimental psychology and behavioral analysis.

A Handbook of TCM Pediatrics

Author: Bob Flaws
Publisher: Blue Poppy Enterprises, Inc.
ISBN: 9780936185729
Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 368

Book Description

Discriminant Analysis and Statistical Pattern Recognition

Author: Geoffrey J. McLachlan
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0471725285
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 553

Book Description
The Wiley-Interscience Paperback Series consists of selected books that have been made more accessible to consumers in an effort to increase global appeal and general circulation. With these new unabridged softcover volumes, Wiley hopes to extend the lives of these works by making them available to future generations of statisticians, mathematicians, and scientists. "For both applied and theoretical statisticians as well as investigators working in the many areas in which relevant use can be made of discriminant techniques, this monograph provides a modern, comprehensive, and systematic account of discriminant analysis, with the focus on the more recent advances in the field." –SciTech Book News ". . . a very useful source of information for any researcher working in discriminant analysis and pattern recognition." –Computational Statistics Discriminant Analysis and Statistical Pattern Recognition provides a systematic account of the subject. While the focus is on practical considerations, both theoretical and practical issues are explored. Among the advances covered are regularized discriminant analysis and bootstrap-based assessment of the performance of a sample-based discriminant rule, and extensions of discriminant analysis motivated by problems in statistical image analysis. The accompanying bibliography contains over 1,200 references.

Seventy Essential TCM Formulas for Beginners

Author: Bob Flaws
Publisher: Blue Poppy Enterprises, Inc.
ISBN: 9780936185590
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 222

Book Description
At TCM colleges in China, undergraduates learn a basic repertoire of between 50 and 100 herbal formulas. This includes one or two formulas from each of 21 major categories. By learning to modify this core group of formulas with additions and subtractions, one will have a basic repertoire of formulas for most clinical occasions. This book is not meant to replace or compete with Bensky & Barolet's Chinese Herbal Medicine: Formulas & Strategies. It is meant as an outline for prioritized study and use by under-graduates and new practitioners.

Sticking to the Point: A rational methodology for the step by step formulation & administration of an acupuncture treatment

Author: Bob Flaws
Publisher: Blue Poppy Enterprises, Inc.
ISBN: 9780936185170
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 130

Book Description
A new, revised edition of the first book for students and practitioners which explains how to do TCM style acupuncture. This book explains in depth how to do a complex, individualized TCM pattern discrimination, how to arrange and make sense of a welter of confusing signs and symptoms, and how to think using TCM terms and statement of fact. Western students and beginning practitioners will find this book an invaluable aid in honing their ability to understand and use TCM. Although specifically about acupuncture, the method presented in this book can be used to erect a TCM treatment plan using any Chinese modality Chinese herbs, Chinese dietary therapy, tui na or Chinese massage, or qi gong, Chinese energy exercises. Included in this book are the functions of the main points of acupuncture and the functions of the main two and three point combinations.

How Animals See the World

Author: Olga F. Lazareva
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195334655
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 559

Book Description
The visual world of animals is highly diverse and often very different from that of humans. This book provides an extensive review of the latest behavioral and neurobiological research on animal vision, detailing fascinating species similarities and differences in visual processing.

Connectionist Psychology

Author: Rob Ellis
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 1317715519
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 716

Book Description
This textbook provides an introduction and review of connectionist models applied to psychological topics. Chapters include basic reviews of connectionist models, their properties and their attributes. The application of these models to the domains of perception, memory, attention, word processing, higher language processing, and cognitive neuropsychology is then reviewed.