Dangerous Loops
| Author | : Rex C.D. Lee |
| Publisher | : Xlibris Corporation |
| Total Pages | : 304 |
| Release | : 2011-04-26 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1456867784 |
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Generic Construction of Availability Calculation Models for Safety Loops in Process Industry
| Author | : Thomas Gabriel |
| Publisher | : Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH |
| Total Pages | : 193 |
| Release | : 2011 |
| Genre | : Mathematics |
| ISBN | : 383252892X |
A generic approach is proposed in this work that automatically constructs suitable calculation models from a herefore invented formal description language. Two positive effects arise from that: firstly, all inherently and explicitly contained complexity of Safety Instrumented Systems is identified once and condensed into a set of transformation formulas generating the actual calculation models. Secondly, providing a flexible and extensive description language encourages smart and quick engineering processes, enables for non-standard solutions, and relieves safety engineers from the challenge of actually deriving explicit calculation models by hand. A suitable new type of discrete time multiphase markov model is chosen as mathematical basis, and comes along with the required solver algorithms for retrieving the desired unavailability characteristics: the probability of failure on demand (PFD), and the probability of fail-safe (PFS), i.e. an operational unavailability as economical indicator.
The Loop
| Author | : Jacob Ward |
| Publisher | : Hachette UK |
| Total Pages | : 292 |
| Release | : 2022-01-25 |
| Genre | : Computers |
| ISBN | : 0316487228 |
This eye-opening narrative journey into the rapidly changing world of artificial intelligence reveals the dangerous ways AI is exploiting the unconscious habits of our minds, and the real threat it poses to humanity: "The best book I have ever read about AI" (New York Times bestselling author Roger McNamee). Artificial intelligence is going to change the world as we know it. But the real danger isn't some robot that's going to enslave us: It's our own brain. Our brains are constantly making decisions using shortcuts, biases, and hidden processes—and we're using those same techniques to create technology that makes choices for us. In The Loop, award-winning science journalist Jacob Ward reveals how we are poised to build all of our worst instincts into our AIs, creating a narrow loop where each generation has fewer, predetermined, and even dangerous choices. Taking us on a world tour of the ongoing, real-world experiment of artificial intelligence, The Loop illuminates the dangers of writing dangerous human habits into our machines. From a biometric surveillance state in India that tracks the movements of over a billion people, to a social media control system in China that punishes deviant friendships, to the risky multiple-choice simplicity of automated military action, Ward travels the world speaking with top experts confronting the perils of their research. Each stop reveals how the most obvious patterns in our behavior—patterns an algorithm will use to make decisions about what's best for us—are not the ones we want to perpetuate. Just as politics, marketing, and finance have all exploited the weaknesses of our human programming, artificial intelligence is poised to use the patterns of our lives to manipulate us. The Loop is call to look at ourselves more clearly—our most creative ideas, our most destructive impulses, the ways we help and hurt one another-so we can put only the best parts of ourselves into the thinking machines we create.
Making the Human
| Author | : Corinne Mitsuye Sugino |
| Publisher | : Rutgers University Press |
| Total Pages | : 147 |
| Release | : 2024-11-15 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1978839715 |
From the debate over affirmative action to the increasingly visible racism amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, Asian Americans have emerged as key figures in a number of contemporary social controversies. In Making the Human: Race, Allegory, and Asian Americans, Corinne Mitsuye Sugino offers the lens of racial allegory to consider how media, institutional, and cultural narratives mobilize difference to normalize a white, Western conception of the human. Rather than focusing on a singular arena of society, Sugino considers contemporary sources across media, law, and popular culture to understand how they interact as dynamic sites of meaning-making. Drawing on scholarship in Asian American studies, Black studies, cultural studies, communication, and gender and sexuality studies, Sugino argues that Asian American racialization and gendering plays a key role in shoring up abstract concepts such as “meritocracy,” “family,” “justice,” “diversity,” and “nation” in ways that naturalize hierarchy. In doing so, Making the Human grapples with anti-Asian racism’s entanglements with colonialism, antiblackness, capitalism, and gendered violence.
Shapo on the Law of Products Liability
| Author | : Marshall S. Shapo |
| Publisher | : Wolters Kluwer |
| Total Pages | : 3484 |
| Release | : 2012-10-22 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : 1454821477 |
A proliferation of lawsuits involving sport utility vehicles, defective tires, medical devices and drugs, and asbestos abounds. Public attention to products liability cases is at an all-time high, and awards routinely run into the millions of dollars. When developing a strategy in this high stakes world, attorneys can't afford to have anything other than the best information and insight into this evolving area of law. Lawyers need practical tools to assess a products liability case's potential and build their approach, and Shapo on the Law of Products Liability provides the tools to give you the winning edge. Through a holistic analysis of the law and its principal developments as witnessed in hundreds of cases, this treatise gives litigators a wide variety of perspectives on potential strategies, and the tools to support those strategies with persuasive arguments. This authoritative two-volume work will enable you to: Assess products liability case potential and build sound litigation strategies Dig deep into products liability law to build creative approaches to litigation Craft a winning case and reap the greatest reward for your clients Find the tools and information to support strategies with persuasive arguments Both federal and state courts contribute a rich mix of decisions to products liability law, which covers both consumer products and occupational hazards. This indispensable resource for the products liability practitioner helps you prepare your case. Is the product defective? Who is liable? What is the manufacturer's responsibility? Who can be sued? What kind of awards may be realized? How might this be defended? Shapo on the Law of Products Liability also includes coverage of: Asbestos litigation Chinese drywall Food and drug Medical devices Design/manufacturing defects claims Punitive damages Discovery rule Up to date analysis and commentary History and background on products liability law Damages Advertising material Packaging Marshall S. Shapo, the Frederic P. Vose Professor at Northwestern University School of Law, is a nationally recognized authority on torts and products liability law.
Human-in-the-Loop
| Author | : Ephraim Suhir |
| Publisher | : CRC Press |
| Total Pages | : 285 |
| Release | : 2018-03-28 |
| Genre | : Mathematics |
| ISBN | : 1351132490 |
Improvements in safety in the air and in space can be achieved through better ergonomics, better work environments, and other efforts of traditional avionic psychology that directly affect human behaviors and performance. Not limited to just the aerospace field, this book discusses adaptive probabilistic predictive modeling in human-in-the-loop situations and gets you familiar with a new, powerful, flexible, and effective approach to making outcomes from missions successful and safe. Covers the concepts, which are adaptable across other disciplines, and methodology for evaluating the likelihood of a successful outcome of an extraordinary situation Considers human performance and equipment/instrumentation reliability, as well as other possible sources of uncertainty Presents probabilistic assessment of an aerospace mission outcome Provides the most effective, physically meaningful, and cost-effective planning of an aerospace mission Offers how to organize and provide the most effective training of personnel
Classical Feedback Control with Nonlinear Multi-Loop Systems
| Author | : Boris J. Lurie |
| Publisher | : CRC Press |
| Total Pages | : 630 |
| Release | : 2019-08-02 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 1351011839 |
Classical Feedback Control with Nonlinear Multi-Loop Systems describes the design of high-performance feedback control systems, emphasizing the frequency-domain approach widely used in practical engineering. It presents design methods for high-order nonlinear single- and multi-loop controllers with efficient analog and digital implementations. Bode integrals are employed to estimate the available system performance and to determine the ideal frequency responses that maximize the disturbance rejection and feedback bandwidth. Nonlinear dynamic compensators provide global stability and improve transient responses. This book serves as a unique text for an advanced course in control system engineering, and as a valuable reference for practicing engineers competing in today’s industrial environment.
America’S Endless Loop Crisis
| Author | : Jayson Reeves |
| Publisher | : iUniverse |
| Total Pages | : 188 |
| Release | : 2016-05-06 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1491794534 |
AMERICAS ENDLESS LOOP CRISIS Anger and Technology in America JAYSON REEVES the author has witten this book about todays anger, violence, cyber crimes, and technology in America. These Non-Domestic Tranquility issues apart from him working professionally throughout computer programming issues, design, engineering, and business ownership has observed critical details of Loss of Life. His writing targets the recent years of 1990 to 2016 with violence, anger, mass-murders, and domestic-murder with occasional suicide. Also the good, bad, and complexity of satellite technology in the American society. This issue of interest includes the work, and observation of individuals, corporations, and government outlined with international & American advancements of technology with so many people asking WHY so much violent devastation? Then various people, technology, and government disciplines have become a foundation of his writing to enlighten the American general public about (Anger & Technology) conditionally Americas Endless Loop Crisis.
