The Book of Why

Author: Judea Pearl
Publisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 0465097618
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 432

Book Description
A Turing Award-winning computer scientist and statistician shows how understanding causality has revolutionized science and will revolutionize artificial intelligence "Correlation is not causation." This mantra, chanted by scientists for more than a century, has led to a virtual prohibition on causal talk. Today, that taboo is dead. The causal revolution, instigated by Judea Pearl and his colleagues, has cut through a century of confusion and established causality -- the study of cause and effect -- on a firm scientific basis. His work explains how we can know easy things, like whether it was rain or a sprinkler that made a sidewalk wet; and how to answer hard questions, like whether a drug cured an illness. Pearl's work enables us to know not just whether one thing causes another: it lets us explore the world that is and the worlds that could have been. It shows us the essence of human thought and key to artificial intelligence. Anyone who wants to understand either needs The Book of Why.

Oregon Writes Open Writing Text

Author: Jenn Kepka
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description

What Is Cause and Effect?

Author: Anna DiGilio
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781636477831
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description
(L) Read all about examples of cause and effect.

A Turkey for Thanksgiving

Author: Eve Bunting
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780395742129
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36

Book Description
Mr. and Mrs. Moose try to invite a turkey to their Thanksgiving feast.

Encyclopedia of Research Design

Author: Neil J. Salkind
Publisher: SAGE
ISBN: 1412961270
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 1779

Book Description
"Comprising more than 500 entries, the Encyclopedia of Research Design explains how to make decisions about research design, undertake research projects in an ethical manner, interpret and draw valid inferences from data, and evaluate experiment design strategies and results. Two additional features carry this encyclopedia far above other works in the field: bibliographic entries devoted to significant articles in the history of research design and reviews of contemporary tools, such as software and statistical procedures, used to analyze results. It covers the spectrum of research design strategies, from material presented in introductory classes to topics necessary in graduate research; it addresses cross- and multidisciplinary research needs, with many examples drawn from the social and behavioral sciences, neurosciences, and biomedical and life sciences; it provides summaries of advantages and disadvantages of often-used strategies; and it uses hundreds of sample tables, figures, and equations based on real-life cases."--Publisher's description.

Cause and Effect

Author: Sven Ehmann
Publisher: Die Gestalten Verlag-DGV
ISBN: 9783899554434
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
This book reveals the new visual language of sustainability.

Dragon Post

Author: Emma Yarlett
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781406389500
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description

Cause and Effect

Author: Chayne Ellis, Ph.d.
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781495208157
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 272

Book Description
If you take just a moment to explore sacred texts, spiritual teachings, novels, poetry, another cultural, essays from great historians, or travel somewhere because you just felt the need to go or exercise your faith, follow your dream or do something that fires your imagination, stirs your soul, and expands your circle of compassion, you first must believe in yourself and that everything is possible. You want change, look around you, look at every day as a gift. You and only you create your every day world. Everything that happens to you in your life is because of you. Cause and Effect, its real, and is happening now, but you need to recognize its happening. A journey can start for a reason not associated to the"why" factor, its synchronicity. It is like a spiritual practice to live everyday in happiness. And everybody can have this, the only condition is your 100% true decision to want change in your life for happiness. Whenever we give attention to something, this creative energy flows through us and expands, enlivens and charges the object of our attention. The tool we use to focus attention is the mind. Mind itself isn't the creator of well being, but it is the focus, the conduit, the medium through which unlimited creative energy, love, abundance, all that is, can flow through. We use mind power to create everything in our lives, including well being, whether we do it consciously or unconsciously. I hope that after reading this book, you will find a new insight, no matter how small, of understand that change is and always up to you.

The Comprehension Toolkit (Ages 5-8)

Author: Angela Ehmer
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780646802435
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description
Teacher reference resource containing comprehension lessons for teachers of children in the early years of school.

Cause and Effect, Conditionals, Explanations

Author: Richard L Epstein
Publisher: Advanced Reasoning Forum
ISBN: 0983452113
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 204

Book Description
This series of books presents the fundamentals of reasoning well, in a style accessible to both students and scholars. The text of each essay presents a story, the main line of development of the ideas, while the footnotes and appendices place the research within a larger scholarly context. The essays overlap, forming a unified analysis of reasoning, yet each essay is designed so that it may be read independently of the others. The topic of this volume is the evaluation of reasoning about cause and effect, reasoning using conditionals, and reasoning that involves explanations. The essay "Reasoning about Cause and Effect" sets out a way to analyze whether there is cause and effect in terms of whether an inference from a claim describing the purported cause to a claim describing the purported effect satisfies specific conditions. Different notions of cause and effect correspond to placing different conditions on what counts as a good causal inference. An application of that method in "The Directedness of Emotions" leads to a clearer understanding of the issue whether every emotion need be directed at something. In the essay "Conditionals" various ways of analyzing reasoning with claims of the form "if . . . then . . ." are surveyed. Some of those uses are meant to be judged as inferences that are not necessarily valid, and conditions are given for when we can consider such inferences to be good. In "Explanations" verbal answers to a question why a claim is true are evaluated in terms of conditions placed on inferences from the explaining claims to the claim being explained. Recognizing that the direction of inference of such an explanation is the reverse of that for an argument with the very same claims is crucial in their evaluation. Explanations in terms of functions and goals are also investigated.