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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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9780262036825 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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003.54 |
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MAC |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Mackenzie, Adrian |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Machine learners: archaeology of a data practice |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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MIT Press, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc |
2017 |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts: |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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xvi, 252 p. : |
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ill.; |
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23.5 cm. |
| 365 ## - TRADE PRICE |
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US$ |
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40.00 |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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Machine learning - programming computers to learn from data - has spread across scientific disciplines, media, entertainment, and government. Medical research, autonomous vehicles, credit transaction processing, computer gaming, recommendation systems, finance, surveillance, and robotics use machine learning. Machine learning devices (sometimes understood as scientific models, sometimes as operational algorithms) anchor the field of data science. They have also become mundane mechanisms deeply embedded in a variety of systems and gadgets. In contexts from the everyday to the esoteric, machine learning is said to transform the nature of knowledge. In this book, Adrian Mackenzie investigates whether machine learning also transforms the practice of critical thinking.Mackenzie focuses on machine learners -- either humans and machines or human-machine relations -- situated among settings, data, and devices. The settings range from fMRI to Facebook; the data anything from cat images to DNA sequences; the devices include neural networks, support vector machines, and decision trees. He examines specific learning algorithms -- writing code and writing about code -- and develops an archaeology of operations that, following Foucault, views machine learning as a form of knowledge production and a strategy of power. Exploring layers of abstraction, data infrastructures, coding practices, diagrams, mathematical formalisms, and the social organization of machine learning, Mackenzie traces the mostly invisible architecture of one of the central zones of contemporary technological cultures. |
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Information theory |
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Propagating subject positions |
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Materializing Objects |
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Taming of Machines |
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Probabilization |
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Machines finding functions |
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Vectorization |
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Diagramming Machines |
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Electronic data processing |
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Apprentissage automatique |
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Intelligence artificielle |
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Philosophy |
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Machine learning |
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Books |