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Surviving 1,000 centuries : can we do it?
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ISBN: 9780387746357 0387746331 9780387746333 9786612824623 1282824627 0387746358 Year: 2008 Publisher: Berlin ; New York : Chichester, UK : Springer ; In association with Praxis,

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The circumstances that will shape the long-term future of our planet will be constrained by what is physically possible and what is not. This full color book provides a quantitative view of our civilization over the next 100,000 years, in comparison to the 40-60,000 years it took for modern humans to emerge from Africa, on the basis of contemporary scientific and technological knowledge. The evolution of the Earth’s atmosphere and the origin of water are highlighted as the most important factors for the emergence and the development of life. The authors consider both cosmic and natural hazards, pointing out that scientific information provided by satellites and communication systems on the ground could prevent many unnecessary casualties by forward planning and the installation of elementary precautions. The Earth’s evolving climate is considered, showing how greenhouse gases have played an important role in the past climate, whereas human industrial and agricultural emissions will greatly impact our future.

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Physics. --- Astronomy, Observations and Techniques. --- Popular Science in Astronomy. --- Climate Change. --- Renewable and Green Energy. --- Astronomy. --- Renewable energy sources. --- Climatic changes. --- Physique --- Astronomie --- Energies renouvelables --- Climat --- Changements --- Civilization --Forecasting. --- Forecasting. --- Forecasting --- Civilization --- Astronomy & Astrophysics --- History & Archaeology --- Physical Sciences & Mathematics --- Astronomy - General --- History - General --- Forecasts --- Futurology --- Prediction --- Barbarism --- Civilisation --- Renewable energy resources. --- Astrophysics. --- Cosmology. --- Alternate energy sources. --- Green energy industries. --- Climate change. --- Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology. --- Changes, Climatic --- Climate change --- Climate changes --- Climate variations --- Climatic change --- Climatic changes --- Climatic fluctuations --- Climatic variations --- Global climate changes --- Global climatic changes --- Climatology --- Climate change mitigation --- Teleconnections (Climatology) --- Green energy industries --- Energy industries --- Alternate energy sources --- Alternative energy sources --- Energy sources, Renewable --- Sustainable energy sources --- Power resources --- Renewable natural resources --- Agriculture and energy --- Astronomy --- Deism --- Metaphysics --- Astronomical physics --- Cosmic physics --- Physics --- Physical sciences --- Space sciences --- Natural philosophy --- Philosophy, Natural --- Dynamics --- Environmental aspects --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- Culture --- World Decade for Cultural Development, 1988-1997 --- Changes in climate --- Climate change science --- End of the world (Astronomy) --- Human ecology. --- Ecology --- Environment, Human --- Human beings --- Human environment --- Ecological engineering --- Human geography --- Nature --- End of the earth (Astronomy) --- Social aspects --- Effect of environment on --- Effect of human beings on


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The elements of statistical learning : data mining, inference, and prediction
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ISSN: 01727397 ISBN: 9780387848570 9780387848587 0387848576 0387848584 9786612126741 1282126741 Year: 2009 Publisher: New York (N.Y.): Springer,

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During the past decade there has been an explosion in computation and information technology. With it have come vast amounts of data in a variety of fields such as medicine, biology, finance, and marketing. The challenge of understanding these data has led to the development of new tools in the field of statistics, and spawned new areas such as data mining, machine learning, and bioinformatics. Many of these tools have common underpinnings but are often expressed with different terminology. This book describes the important ideas in these areas in a common conceptual framework. While the approach is statistical, the emphasis is on concepts rather than mathematics. Many examples are given, with a liberal use of color graphics. It is a valuable resource for statisticians and anyone interested in data mining in science or industry. The book's coverage is broad, from supervised learning (prediction) to unsupervised learning. The many topics include neural networks, support vector machines, classification trees and boosting---the first comprehensive treatment of this topic in any book. This major new edition features many topics not covered in the original, including graphical models, random forests, ensemble methods, least angle regression and path algorithms for the lasso, non-negative matrix factorization, and spectral clustering. There is also a chapter on methods for ``wide'' data (p bigger than n), including multiple testing and false discovery rates. Trevor Hastie, Robert Tibshirani, and Jerome Friedman are professors of statistics at Stanford University. They are prominent researchers in this area: Hastie and Tibshirani developed generalized additive models and wrote a popular book of that title. Hastie co-developed much of the statistical modeling software and environment in R/S-PLUS and invented principal curves and surfaces. Tibshirani proposed the lasso and is co-author of the very successful An Introduction to the Bootstrap. Friedman is the co-inventor of many data-mining tools including CART, MARS, projection pursuit and gradient boosting.

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Statistiekwetenschap --- Wiskundige statistiek --- Statistische fysica --- Moleculaire biologie --- Biologie --- Ingenieurswetenschappen. Technologie --- Programmering --- Informatiesystemen --- Artificiële intelligentie. Robotica. Simulatie. Graphics --- Computer. Informatica. Automatisering --- statistische kwaliteitscontrole --- industriële statistieken --- biologie --- informatica --- database management --- robots --- moleculaire biologie --- statistisch onderzoek --- Bioinformatics. --- Computational intelligence. --- Data mining. --- Forecasting. --- Inference. --- Machine learning. --- Statistics --- Supervised learning (Machine learning). --- Computerintelligentie. --- Statistiek --- Methodology. --- Methodologie. --- MACHINE LEARNING -- 516 --- STATISTICAL LEARNING -- 516 --- SUPERVISED LEARNING -- 516 --- Bioinformatics --- Data mining --- Forecasting --- Inference --- Machine learning --- 519.23 --- 519.2 --- 681.3*I26 --- Learning, Machine --- Artificial intelligence --- Machine theory --- Ampliative induction --- Induction, Ampliative --- Inference (Logic) --- Reasoning --- Forecasts --- Futurology --- Prediction --- Algorithmic knowledge discovery --- Factual data analysis --- KDD (Information retrieval) --- Knowledge discovery in data --- Knowledge discovery in databases --- Mining, Data --- Database searching --- Intelligence, Computational --- Soft computing --- Bio-informatics --- Biological informatics --- Biology --- Information science --- Computational biology --- Systems biology --- 519.23 Statistical analysis. Inference methods --- Statistical analysis. Inference methods --- 519.2 Probability. Mathematical statistics --- Probability. Mathematical statistics --- 681.3*I26 Learning: analogies; concept learning; induction; knowledge acquisition; language acquisition; parameter learning (Artificial intelligence)--See also {681.3*K32} --- Learning: analogies; concept learning; induction; knowledge acquisition; language acquisition; parameter learning (Artificial intelligence)--See also {681.3*K32} --- Methodology --- Data processing --- Machine Learning --- Computational intelligence --- Statistical methods --- Supervised learning (Machine learning) --- Apprentissage supervisé (Intelligence artificielle) --- EPUB-LIV-FT LIVMATHE LIVSTATI SPRINGER-B --- Mathematical statistics --- Artificial intelligence. Robotics. Simulation. Graphics --- Statistique mathématique --- Artificial intelligence. --- Probabilities. --- Statistics . --- Bioinformatics . --- Computational biology . --- Artificial Intelligence. --- Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery. --- Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes. --- Statistical Theory and Methods. --- Computational Biology/Bioinformatics. --- Computer Appl. in Life Sciences. --- Statistical analysis --- Statistical data --- Statistical science --- Mathematics --- Econometrics --- Probability --- Statistical inference --- Combinations --- Chance --- Least squares --- Risk --- AI (Artificial intelligence) --- Artificial thinking --- Electronic brains --- Intellectronics --- Intelligence, Artificial --- Intelligent machines --- Machine intelligence --- Thinking, Artificial --- Bionics --- Cognitive science --- Digital computer simulation --- Electronic data processing --- Logic machines --- Self-organizing systems --- Simulation methods --- Fifth generation computers --- Neural computers --- Mathematical statistics. --- Statistique mathématique --- Statistical decision. --- Statistics - Methodology

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