Engineering
epub |eng | 2010-05-09 | Author:Clay Shirky

Kelly’s conclusion that defaults allow the designer to steer the system is critical. Defaults don’t drive the system, because they don’t create the motivations to use it. They simply steer ...
( Category: Communication & Media Studies March 26,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | 1644-07-25 | Author:Miyamoto, Musashi [Miyamoto, Musashi]

Depending on the Place Examine your environment. Stand in the sun; that is, take up an attitude with the sun behind you. If the situation does not allow this, you ...
( Category: Martial Arts March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-05-14 | Author:James Fallows [Fallows, James]

* Just to give a flavor, here is a sample ad I saw on a Western aviation site in 2011: Sichuan Airlines—A320 Captains (UPGRADED Package!)—Now the BEST OPPORTUNITY in China! ...
( Category: Asian March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-08-08 | Author:Tipton, Harold F. [Tipton, Harold F.]

This offers an example of a professional difference of opinion about the importance of information security within a project development effort. The consultant appears to express an opinion that IT ...
( Category: Commerce March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-05-23 | Author:Jules J. Berman

Normalizing and Adjusting Data When extracting data from multiple sources, recorded at different times, and collected for different purposes, the data values may not be directly comparable. The Big Data ...
( Category: Data Processing March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2013-05-07 | Author:Jaron Lanier [Lanier, Jaron]

PART SIX Democracy CHAPTER 16 Complaint Is Not Enough Governments Are Learning the Tricks of Siren Servers A revolutionary narrative is common in digital politics. Broadly speaking, that narrative counterpoises ...
( Category: Popular Culture March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2009-07-17 | Author:Gail A. Eisnitz [Eisnitz, Gail A.]

"Streamlined Inspection didn't formally affect line speeds," said GAP's Tom Devine. "Rather, at these plants inspectors were stripped of their ability to detect conditions that would justify stopping the line." ...
( Category: Agriculture March 26,2014 )
epub | | 2006-03-25 | Author:Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Nine • IT IS EASIER TO BUY AND SELL THAN FRY AN EGG Some technical extensions of the survivorship bias. On the distribution of “coincidences” in life. It is preferable ...
( Category: Statistics March 26,2014 )
epub |eng, eng | 2012-07-31 | Author:Christopher Steiner

TO BUILD CUNNING WITH CODE Sandholm is an expert in game theory, the field of math concerning complex problems that include unknown variables and multiple parties with differing interests. Game ...
( Category: Computer Simulation March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2007-03-25 | Author:Page, Scott E. [Page, Scott E.]

THE DIVERSITY PREDICTION THEOREM Now that we’ve worked through an example, we’re ready to turn to the more general theorems that reveal the importance of diverse predictive models among the ...
( Category: Performing Arts March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-04-19 | Author:Edward Humes [Humes, Edward]

TRASHY DELUSIONS From a Garbage Project study for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, on the Lean Cuisine syndrome (how people overestimate and underestimate their consumption of certain foods based on ...
( Category: Environmental March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-03-28 | Author:White, Robin & Anderson, Ray C. [White, Robin]

10 | The Circle of Influence, or Love on the Factory Floor Visiting Interface and seeing the creativity applied to establish more sustainable practices made it undeniable that the rest ...
( Category: Processes & Infrastructure March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2006-03-25 | Author:Marc Levinson [Levinson Marc]

Chapter 10 Ports in a Storm The Coastwise Steamship Company had been created to serve the paper industry. Since the 1930s, its ships had picked up rolls of newsprint from ...
( Category: Industrial Design March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-09-12 | Author:Tyler Cowen [Cowen, Tyler]

The Machine’s Place Not many people, from their standpoint as observers or as consumers of culture, want man and machine to converge. It seems that even when the machines are ...
( Category: Economic Policy March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Vaclav Smil [Smil, Vaclav]

Figure 19 James Watt’s steam engine (left) and detail of separate condenser (right) The typical power of Watt’s engines was about twenty-five horsepower (about 20 kW); the largest engines, built ...
( Category: Environmental Policy March 26,2014 )