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Big box little box
A curious cat investigates every box it can find--and makes a mouse friend along the way.
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In defense of the black box
Black box algorithms can be useful in science and engineering The science fiction writer Douglas Adams imagined the greatest computer ever built, Deep Thought, programmed to answer the deepest question ever asked: the Great Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything. After 7.5 million years of processing, Deep Thought revealed its answer: Forty-two ( 1 ). As artificial intelligence (AI) systems enter every sector of human endeavor—including science, engineering, and health—humanity is confronted by the same conundrum that Adams encapsulated so succinctly: What good is knowing the answer when it is unclear why it is the answer? What good is a black box?
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A mighty fine time machine
An aardvark, an anteater, and an armadillo attempt to travel back in time when they turn a big box into a time machine.
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Escaping Al's Magic Black Box
Science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke said that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. The artificial intelligence (AI) technology of chatbots based on large language models (LLMs) is magical in just this sense. Speak a magic word to summon the AI and your wish is granted, with no explanation of how your preferred genie-ChatGPT, Claude, or Siri-does (or sometimes doesn't quite do) the trick. There are two sorts of magic: the supernatural magic of genies and demons, and the natural magic of magicians and escape artists such as Houdi-ni. Engineering technology should be of the second kind. Although a small number of users believe that their chat-bot is the voice of God, most accept it as the magic of engineering. What is unusual about LLMs today, however, is that the engineers themselves are not quite sure how the AI works; LLMs are spoken of as mysterious black boxes.
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Box : what would you do with a box?
When four toddlers find some toys in cardboard boxes, they play with them for a while. But, before long, the friends' interest in the toys wanes and their attention turns to the boxes themselves. What could they do with SO many boxes, they wonder?
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How does film adaptation influence box office performance? An empirical analysis of science fiction films in Hollywood
PurposeThis study aims to identify the factors that influence box office performance in the specific context of the adaptation of science fiction (SF) to film in Hollywood.Design/methodology/approachFifty-one film adaptation cases were collected and empirically analyzed with two-stage least-squares (2SLS) regression.FindingsEmpirical analysis demonstrates that the adaptation of the title, the popularity of the original novel and the director's experience in film adaptation have significant impacts on box office performance.Research limitations/implicationsThe study contributes to the literature by bridging the gap between two separate streams of the research literature on film performance and film adaptation. Moreover, the study has extended the literature on the prediction of film performance by examining important factors in the special context of SF film adaptation.Practical implicationsIn the case of film adaptation, recruiting an experienced director will be a good choice. Author power is also required for attracting more investment and increasing audience share in the short term. From a marketing perspective, pointing out in the title that the film is an adaptation of an original novel would be an advantageous approach.Originality/valueThis is among the pioneering research related to the effects of film adaptation on box office performance. The approach and results of this study direct future studies in many aspects.
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The silicon jungle
What happens when a naive intern is granted unfettered access to people's most private thoughts and actions? Young Stephen Thorpe lands a coveted internship at Ubatoo, an Internet empire that provides its users with popular online services, from a search engine and shopping to e-mail and social networking. When Stephen's boss asks him to work on a project with the American Coalition for Civil Liberties, Stephen innocently obliges, believing he is mining Ubatoo's vast databases to protect the ever-growing number of people unfairly targeted in the name of national security. But nothing is as it seems. Suspicious individuals--do-gooders, voyeurs, government agents, and radicals--surface, doing all they can to access the mass of desires and vulnerabilities gleaned from scouring Ubatoo's wealth of intimate information. Entry into Ubatoo's vaults of personal data need not require technical wizardry--simply knowing how to manipulate a well-intentioned intern may be enough.
Set in today's cutting-edge data mining industry,The Silicon Jungleis a cautionary tale of data mining's promise and peril, and how others can use our online activities for political and personal gain just as easily as for marketing and humanitarian purposes. A timely thriller,The Silicon Jungleraises serious ethical questions about today's technological innovations and how our most confidential activities and minute details can be routinely pieced together into rich profiles that reveal our habits, goals, and secret desires--all ready to be exploited in ways beyond our wildest imaginations.
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If I could drive, Mama
\"A boy turns a cardboard box into a car and imagines what it would be like to take his mama for a drive all around town\"-- Provided by publisher.
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