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This doctoral dissertation by Kai Sauerwald explores the semantics of belief change operators in intelligent agents, particularly focusing on iteration, postulates, and realizability. Rooted in the foundational work of Alchourrón, Gärdenfors, and Makinson (AGM), the study advances the theory of belief change, which is crucial for modeling intelligent behavior in dynamic environments. The dissertation examines the characterization of belief revision and contraction using total preorders over possible worlds, and it introduces novel revision operators that extend beyond classical theories. The work contributes significantly to the field by addressing both prioritized and non-prioritized belief changes, offering a comprehensive analysis of iteration principles, and proposing extensions relevant to cognitive logics. The intended audience includes researchers and professionals in artificial intelligence, particularly those interested in knowledge representation and reasoning.

Belief and doubt. --- Knowledge representation (Information theory) --- Belief and doubt

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"As a newly divorced single mom making $24,000 per year and facing down $77,000 in debt, Kumiko Love worried constantly about money. She saw what other moms had-vacations, birthday parties, a house full of furniture-and felt ashamed that she and her son lived in a small apartment and ate dinner on the floor. Worse, when her feelings began to exhaust her, she binge-shopped, reasoning that she'd feel better after a trip to the mall. On the day she needed to pay for a McDonald's ice cream cone with her credit card, she had an epiphany: Money is not the problem. Self-Doubt is the problem. Shame is the problem. Guilt is the problem. Society's expectations for her are the problem. She is the solution. Once she reversed the negative thinking patterns pushing her toward decisions that didn't serve her values or goals, her financial plan wrote itself. Now, she's not only living debt-free in her dream home, which she paid for in cash, but she has spread her teachings around the world and helped countless women envision better lives for themselves and their families. Building on the lessons she's taught millions as the founder of The Budget Mom, she shares a step by step plan for taking control back over your financial life-regardless of your level of income or your credit card balance. Through stories from navigating divorce to helping clients thrive through recessions, depression, eviction, layoffs and so much more, you will learn foundational practices such as: How to use your emotions to your financial advantage, instead of letting them control you; how to create a budget based on your real life, not a life of self-denial; how to create a motivating debt pay-off plan that makes you excited about your future, instead of fearing it. My Money My Way will give you the tools to align your emotional health with your financial health-to let go of deprivation and embrace desire. Love's paradigm-shifting system will teach you how to honor your unique personal values, driving emotions, and particular needs so that you can stop worrying about money and start living a financially fulfilled life"--

E-books --- Finance, Personal. --- Money. --- Self-doubt.

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This book describes how auditors exercise different levels of professional skepticism and how they are exposed to different types of affective information on clients’ behavior. Based on the author’s empirical study of 56 auditors, it shows that auditors’ skepticism and affective reactions towards a client interact to influence their appraisal of valuation problems. It also suggests that the effects of auditors’ affective reactions on their skeptical judgments depend on the level of risk in the audit engagement. .

Business. --- Accounting. --- Bookkeeping. --- Project management. --- Business and Management. --- Accounting/Auditing. --- Financial Accounting. --- Project Management. --- Skepticism. --- Skepticism --- Scepticism --- Unbelief --- Agnosticism --- Belief and doubt --- Free thought --- Industrial project management --- Management --- Accountancy --- Business enterprises --- Commerce --- Commercial accounting --- Finance --- Financial accounting --- Business --- Bookkeeping --- Accounting --- Bookkeeping . --- Double entry bookkeeping --- Business education

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An original deep history of the internet that tells the story of the centuries-old utopian dreams behind it--and explains why they have died today. Many think of the internet as an unprecedented and overwhelmingly positive achievement of modern human technology. But is it? In The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is, Justin Smith offers an original deep history of the internet, from the ancient to the modern world--uncovering its surprising origins in nature and centuries-old dreams of radically improving human life by outsourcing thinking to machines and communicating across vast distances. Yet, despite the internet's continuing potential, Smith argues, the utopian hopes behind it have finally died today, killed by the harsh realities of social media, the global information economy, and the attention-destroying nature of networked technology. Ranging over centuries of the history and philosophy of science and technology, Smith shows how the "internet" has been with us much longer than we usually think. He draws fascinating connections between internet user experience, artificial intelligence, the invention of the printing press, communication between trees, and the origins of computing in the machine-driven looms of the silk industry. At the same time, he reveals how the internet's organic structure and development root it in the natural world in unexpected ways that challenge efforts to draw an easy line between technology and nature. Combining the sweep of intellectual history with the incisiveness of philosophy, The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is cuts through our daily digital lives to give a clear-sighted picture of what the internet is, where it came from, and where it might be taking us in the coming decades.

Internet. --- Technology --- Technology and civilization. --- Civilization and machinery --- Civilization and technology --- Machinery and civilization --- Civilization --- Social history --- DARPA Internet --- Internet (Computer network) --- Wide area networks (Computer networks) --- World Wide Web --- Social aspects. --- Philosophy --- Abstraction. --- Analogy. --- Analytical Engine. --- Anthropomorphism. --- Antithesis. --- Artificial general intelligence. --- Artificial intelligence. --- Artificial language. --- Artificial life. --- Artificial stupidity. --- Artificiality. --- Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. --- Automaton. --- Binary code. --- Bullying. --- Caricature. --- Causality. --- Columnist. --- Computer science. --- Computer virus. --- Computer. --- Computing. --- Consciousness. --- Conspiracy theory. --- Controversy. --- Copyright. --- Counterfeit. --- Criticism. --- Curtailment. --- Cyberculture. --- Cybernetics. --- Declamation. --- Detriment (astrology). --- Dichotomy. --- Disputation. --- Distraction. --- Doubt. --- Dystopia. --- Evocation. --- Explanation. --- External storage. --- Fantasy literature. --- Fungus. --- Heresy. --- Hypothesis. --- Imposition. --- Indictment. --- Information overload. --- Information revolution. --- Instance (computer science). --- Intellectual property. --- Internet troll. --- Irony. --- Lie. --- LinkedIn. --- Materialism. --- Naked eye. --- Negation. --- Obesity. --- Ontology (information science). --- Opportunism. --- Outsourcing. --- Overlay network. --- Perception. --- Perversion. --- Pessimism. --- Philosophy. --- Police brutality in the United States. --- Police brutality. --- Printing. --- Processing (programming language). --- Protest. --- Punched card. --- Racism. --- Radicalization. --- Reason. --- Resentment. --- Robbery. --- Scarcity (social psychology). --- Sentience. --- Simulation hypothesis. --- Simulation. --- Slang. --- Slavery. --- Slime mold. --- State of nature. --- Subject (philosophy). --- Syllogism. --- Technology. --- Telecommunication. --- Terminology. --- Theory. --- Thought. --- Tinder (app). --- Twitter. --- Uncertainty. --- Understanding. --- Vandalism. --- Virtual world. --- Writing. --- Internet --- Artificial intelligence --- history. --- History. --- PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy. --- PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern. --- PHILOSOPHY / Social. --- COMPUTERS / Internet / Online Safety & Privacy. --- COMPUTERS / Internet / Social Media.