Author: John CalvertPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Calvert's pocket wages table ... and compendium of the new Factory act
Author: John CalvertCalvert's Pocket Wages Table, 56 1/2 hours, and compendium of the new Factory Act, 1874, etc
Author: John CALVERT (Bookseller, of Manchester.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
Calvert's Pocket Book and Annual for Engineers, Mechanics & Builders
Author: Modern English Biography (volume 1 of 4) A-H
Author: Frederic BoasePublisher: Litres
ISBN: 5041269645
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 1860
Book Description
Modern English Biography
Author: Frederic BoasePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 878
Book Description
The Publishers' Circular and General Record of British and Foreign Literature
Author: Papers of the Manchester Literary Club
Author: Manchester Literary ClubPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 772
Book Description
The Irish Linen Trade Hand-book and Directory
Author: F. W. SmithPublishers' circular and booksellers' record
Author: Algorithmic Modernity
Author: Morgan G. AmesPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0197502423
Category : Algorithms
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
"The rhetoric of algorithmic neutrality is more alive than ever-why? This volume explores key moments in the historical emergence of algorithmic practices and in the constitution of their credibility and authority since 1500. If algorithms are historical objects and their associated meanings and values are situated and contingent-and if we are to push back against rhetorical claims of otherwise-then the genealogical investigation this book offers is essential to understand the power of the algorithm. The fact that algorithms create the conditions for many of our encounters with social reality contrasts starkly with their relative invisibility. More than other artifacts, algorithms are easily black-boxed. Rather than contingent and modifiable, they are widely seen as obvious and unproblematic-without context and without history. As an antidote, this volume keeps a clear focus on the emergence and continuous reconstitution of algorithmic practices alongside the ascendance of modernity. Its essays highlight the trajectory of an algorithmic modernity, one characterized by attitudes and practices that are best emblematized by the modernist aesthetic and inhuman efficacy of the algorithm. The volume moves from early modern algorithmic practices, centered on heuristics for arithmetic operations, emphasizing ruptures, shifts, and variations across times and cultures. By the age of Enlightenment, the term algorithm had come to signify any process of systematic calculation that could be carried out mechanically, but its meaning and implications are still distant from those familiar to us . It's in the nineteenth and twentieth century that the meaning of algorithm is sharpened through a new discipline and by adding sets of specific conditions-such as the condition of finiteness-which acquire new and crucial significance in the age of digital computing. Throughout, the connection between algorithms and modernity is one of our central concerns. Through detailed historical reconstructions of specific moments, thinkers, and cultural phenomena over the last five hundred years, these essays lead us to the definitions of algorithm most legible today and to the pervasiveness of both algorithmic procedures and rhetoric. This volume contributes a multi-faceted exploration of the genealogies of algorithms, of algorithmic thinking, and of the distinctly modernist faith in algorithms as neutral tools that merely illuminate the natural and social world"--