Author: Leslie Pietrzyk
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781944700515
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
1980s. A young woman, desperate to escape the unspoken secrets of her impoverished Midwestern family, bluffs her way into a Chicago college. There she meets Jess, charismatic and rich and needy, and the two women form an insular, competitive friendship. As the city is terrorized by the Tylenol Killer, it triggers major repercussions: the lifestyle the narrator has come to share with Jess vanishes, and her attempts to restore order and control become increasingly desperate.
Silver Girl
Author: Leslie Pietrzyk
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781944700515
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
1980s. A young woman, desperate to escape the unspoken secrets of her impoverished Midwestern family, bluffs her way into a Chicago college. There she meets Jess, charismatic and rich and needy, and the two women form an insular, competitive friendship. As the city is terrorized by the Tylenol Killer, it triggers major repercussions: the lifestyle the narrator has come to share with Jess vanishes, and her attempts to restore order and control become increasingly desperate.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781944700515
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
1980s. A young woman, desperate to escape the unspoken secrets of her impoverished Midwestern family, bluffs her way into a Chicago college. There she meets Jess, charismatic and rich and needy, and the two women form an insular, competitive friendship. As the city is terrorized by the Tylenol Killer, it triggers major repercussions: the lifestyle the narrator has come to share with Jess vanishes, and her attempts to restore order and control become increasingly desperate.
Illinois Law and Practice
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
West's Smith-Hurd Illinois Compiled Statutes Annotated: Criminal offenses
Author: Illinois
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 944
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 944
Book Description
Automate This
Author: Christopher Steiner
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101572159
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
The rousing story of the last gasp of human agency and how today’s best and brightest minds are endeavoring to put an end to it. It used to be that to diagnose an illness, interpret legal documents, analyze foreign policy, or write a newspaper article you needed a human being with specific skills—and maybe an advanced degree or two. These days, high-level tasks are increasingly being handled by algorithms that can do precise work not only with speed but also with nuance. These “bots” started with human programming and logic, but now their reach extends beyond what their creators ever expected. In this fascinating, frightening book, Christopher Steiner tells the story of how algorithms took over—and shows why the “bot revolution” is about to spill into every aspect of our lives, often silently, without our knowledge. The May 2010 “Flash Crash” exposed Wall Street’s reliance on trading bots to the tune of a 998-point market drop and $1 trillion in vanished market value. But that was just the beginning. In Automate This, we meet bots that are driving cars, penning haiku, and writing music mistaken for Bach’s. They listen in on our customer service calls and figure out what Iran would do in the event of a nuclear standoff. There are algorithms that can pick out the most cohesive crew of astronauts for a space mission or identify the next Jeremy Lin. Some can even ingest statistics from baseball games and spit out pitch-perfect sports journalism indistinguishable from that produced by humans. The interaction of man and machine can make our lives easier. But what will the world look like when algorithms control our hospitals, our roads, our culture, and our national security? What happens to businesses when we automate judgment and eliminate human instinct? And what role will be left for doctors, lawyers, writers, truck drivers, and many others? Who knows—maybe there’s a bot learning to do your job this minute.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101572159
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
The rousing story of the last gasp of human agency and how today’s best and brightest minds are endeavoring to put an end to it. It used to be that to diagnose an illness, interpret legal documents, analyze foreign policy, or write a newspaper article you needed a human being with specific skills—and maybe an advanced degree or two. These days, high-level tasks are increasingly being handled by algorithms that can do precise work not only with speed but also with nuance. These “bots” started with human programming and logic, but now their reach extends beyond what their creators ever expected. In this fascinating, frightening book, Christopher Steiner tells the story of how algorithms took over—and shows why the “bot revolution” is about to spill into every aspect of our lives, often silently, without our knowledge. The May 2010 “Flash Crash” exposed Wall Street’s reliance on trading bots to the tune of a 998-point market drop and $1 trillion in vanished market value. But that was just the beginning. In Automate This, we meet bots that are driving cars, penning haiku, and writing music mistaken for Bach’s. They listen in on our customer service calls and figure out what Iran would do in the event of a nuclear standoff. There are algorithms that can pick out the most cohesive crew of astronauts for a space mission or identify the next Jeremy Lin. Some can even ingest statistics from baseball games and spit out pitch-perfect sports journalism indistinguishable from that produced by humans. The interaction of man and machine can make our lives easier. But what will the world look like when algorithms control our hospitals, our roads, our culture, and our national security? What happens to businesses when we automate judgment and eliminate human instinct? And what role will be left for doctors, lawyers, writers, truck drivers, and many others? Who knows—maybe there’s a bot learning to do your job this minute.
Illinois Appellate Reports
Author: Illinois. Appellate Court
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1342
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1342
Book Description
North Eastern Reporter
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Court decisions and opinions
Languages : en
Pages : 1612
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Court decisions and opinions
Languages : en
Pages : 1612
Book Description
Docket
Author: Illinois. Supreme Court
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Court calendars
Languages : en
Pages : 678
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Court calendars
Languages : en
Pages : 678
Book Description
Smith-Hurd Illinois Annotated Statutes
Author: Illinois
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 652
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 652
Book Description
Illinois Reports
Author: Illinois. Supreme Court
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
Goldstein Trial Technique
Author: Irving Goldstein
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Evidence (Law)
Languages : en
Pages : 1036
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Evidence (Law)
Languages : en
Pages : 1036
Book Description