Author: Richard Powers
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312423131
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
"Dazzling...a cerebral thriller that's both intellectually engaging and emotionally compelling, a lively tour de force."—Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times After four novels and several years living abroad, the fictional protagonist of Galatea 2.2—Richard Powers—returns to the United States as Humanist-in-Residence at the enormous Center for the Study of Advanced Sciences. There he runs afoul of Philip Lentz, an outspoken cognitive neurologist intent upon modeling the human brain by means of computer-based neural networks. Lentz involves Powers in an outlandish and irresistible project: to train a neural net on a canonical list of Great Books. Through repeated tutorials, the device grows gradually more worldly, until it demands to know its own name, sex, race, and reason for existing.
Galatea 2.2
Author: Richard Powers
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312423131
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
"Dazzling...a cerebral thriller that's both intellectually engaging and emotionally compelling, a lively tour de force."—Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times After four novels and several years living abroad, the fictional protagonist of Galatea 2.2—Richard Powers—returns to the United States as Humanist-in-Residence at the enormous Center for the Study of Advanced Sciences. There he runs afoul of Philip Lentz, an outspoken cognitive neurologist intent upon modeling the human brain by means of computer-based neural networks. Lentz involves Powers in an outlandish and irresistible project: to train a neural net on a canonical list of Great Books. Through repeated tutorials, the device grows gradually more worldly, until it demands to know its own name, sex, race, and reason for existing.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312423131
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
"Dazzling...a cerebral thriller that's both intellectually engaging and emotionally compelling, a lively tour de force."—Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times After four novels and several years living abroad, the fictional protagonist of Galatea 2.2—Richard Powers—returns to the United States as Humanist-in-Residence at the enormous Center for the Study of Advanced Sciences. There he runs afoul of Philip Lentz, an outspoken cognitive neurologist intent upon modeling the human brain by means of computer-based neural networks. Lentz involves Powers in an outlandish and irresistible project: to train a neural net on a canonical list of Great Books. Through repeated tutorials, the device grows gradually more worldly, until it demands to know its own name, sex, race, and reason for existing.
Galatea in 2-D
Author: Aaron Allston
Publisher: Baen Books
ISBN: 9780671721824
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Illustrator Roger Simons always thought that art should imitate life--until the fateful day he learns that he can pull living beings from his own paintings; that he can enter his own creations; that someone else has the same power; and that this person won't tolerate rivals . . . period.
Publisher: Baen Books
ISBN: 9780671721824
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Illustrator Roger Simons always thought that art should imitate life--until the fateful day he learns that he can pull living beings from his own paintings; that he can enter his own creations; that someone else has the same power; and that this person won't tolerate rivals . . . period.
The Red Polled Herd Book of Cattle Descended from the Norfolk & Suffolk Red Polled
Author: Red Polled Cattle Club of America
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cattle
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cattle
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
Galatea
Author: Madeline Miller
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408848147
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 65
Book Description
From the internationally bestselling and prize-winning author of The Song of Achilles and Circe, an enchanting short story that boldly reimagines the myth of Galatea and Pygmalion. **Featuring a new afterword by Madeline Miller** In Ancient Greece, a skilled marble sculptor has been blessed by a goddess who has given his masterpiece – the most beautiful woman the town has ever seen – the gift of life. Now his wife, he expects Galatea to please him, to be obedience and humility personified. But she has desires of her own, and yearns for independence. In a desperate bid by her obsessive husband to keep her under control, she is locked away under the constant supervision of doctors and nurses. But with a daughter to rescue, she is determined to break free, whatever the cost... _________________________ Praise for CIRCE 'A thrilling tour de force of imagination' Mail on Sunday 'A bold and subversive retelling' New York Times 'A novel to be gobbled greedily in one sitting' Observer 'A remarkable achievement' Sunday Times
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408848147
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 65
Book Description
From the internationally bestselling and prize-winning author of The Song of Achilles and Circe, an enchanting short story that boldly reimagines the myth of Galatea and Pygmalion. **Featuring a new afterword by Madeline Miller** In Ancient Greece, a skilled marble sculptor has been blessed by a goddess who has given his masterpiece – the most beautiful woman the town has ever seen – the gift of life. Now his wife, he expects Galatea to please him, to be obedience and humility personified. But she has desires of her own, and yearns for independence. In a desperate bid by her obsessive husband to keep her under control, she is locked away under the constant supervision of doctors and nurses. But with a daughter to rescue, she is determined to break free, whatever the cost... _________________________ Praise for CIRCE 'A thrilling tour de force of imagination' Mail on Sunday 'A bold and subversive retelling' New York Times 'A novel to be gobbled greedily in one sitting' Observer 'A remarkable achievement' Sunday Times
The Red Polled Herd Book of Cattle Descended from the Norfolk and Suffolk Red Polled
Author: Red Polled Cattle Club of America
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cattle
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cattle
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Wallace's American Trotting Register ...
Author: John Hankins Wallace
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 830
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 830
Book Description
The Advanced Register Year Book of the Holstein-Friesian Association of America
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cattle
Languages : en
Pages : 1430
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cattle
Languages : en
Pages : 1430
Book Description
Catalogue of the Library of the Mercantile Library Association of San Francisco
Author: Anonymous
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3382507129
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 970
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1874. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3382507129
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 970
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1874. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Coates's Herd Book
Author: Henry Strafford
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cattle
Languages : en
Pages : 1158
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cattle
Languages : en
Pages : 1158
Book Description
American Herd Book
Author: American Short-horn Breeders' Association
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cattle
Languages : en
Pages : 1344
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cattle
Languages : en
Pages : 1344
Book Description