![]() ![]() ![]() Yet pattern discrimination is an essential part of human-and nonhuman-cognition. Algorithmic identity politics reinstate old forms of social segregation, such as class, race, and gender, through defaults and paradigmatic assumptions about the homophilic nature of connection.Instead of providing a more “objective”basis of decision making, machine-learning algorithms deepen bias and further inscribe inequality into media. By imposing identity on input data, in order to filter-that is, to discriminate-signals from noise, patterns become a highly political issue. How do “human”prejudices reemerge in algorithmic cultures allegedly devised to be blind to them?How do “human”prejudices reemerge in algorithmic cultures allegedly devised to be blind to them? To answer this question, this book investigates a fundamental axiom in computer science: pattern discrimination. ![]()
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Raven remembers dying in the arms of August. But safety amongst the humans is not what it seems. ![]() When the murder of his friend Raven leaves him in the protective company of August, a rebellious Nahx soldier, Xander is finally able to make his way back to human controlled territory and relative safety. For more than a year he has outsmarted, hidden from, and otherwise avoided the ruthless alien invaders, the Nahx, dodging the deadly darts that have claimed so many of his friends. Xander Liu survived the end of the world-just barely. The 5th Wave meets Beauty and the Beast in this fast-paced and heart-stopping follow-up to Zero Repeat Forever, which VOYA called an edge-of-your-seat page-turner. ![]() ![]() These manifestations can never contradict the content of faith, and must therefore have their focus in the core of Christ's proclamation: the Father's love which leads men and women to conversion and bestows the grace required to abandon oneself to him with filial devotion. Throughout history there have been supernatural apparitions and signs which go to the heart of human events and which, to the surprise of believers and non-believers alike, play their part in the unfolding of history. Now a veil is drawn back on a series of events which make history and interpret it in depth, in a spiritual perspective alien to present-day attitudes, often tainted with rationalism. The twentieth century was one of the most crucial in human history, with its tragic and cruel events culminating in the assassination attempt on the sweet Christ on earth. ![]() As the second millennium gives way to the third, Pope John Paul II has decided to publish the text of the third part of the secret of Fatima. ![]() ![]() ![]() Soon he tells his best friend, Zoey, but the longer he keeps his secret from his baseball teammates, the more he suspects they know something's up-especially when he stages one big cover-up with terrible consequences.Ī High Five for Glenn Burke is Phil Bildner's most personal novel yet-a powerful story about the challenge of being true to yourself, especially when not everyone feels you belong on the field. Burke was a gay baseball player in the 1970s-and for Silas, the presentation is his own first baby step toward revealing a truth about himself he's tired of hiding. ![]() When sixth grader Silas Wade does a school presentation on former Major Leaguer Glenn Burke, it's more than just a report about the irrepressible inventor of the high five. By Grade + Interest - K to 1st By Grade + Interest - 2nd to 3rd By Grade + Interest - 4th to 5thĪ 2021 NCTE Charlotte Huck Award Honor BookĪ Chicago Public Library Best Book of 2020Ī heartfelt and relatable novel from Phil Bildner, weaving the real history of Los Angeles Dodger and Oakland Athletic Glenn Burke-the first professional baseball player to come out as gay-into the story of a middle-school kid learning to be himself. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The metallic taste of that word, cinema, explains what happened when you put it alongside the name "Princess." 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