Manuel DeLanda: Deleuze: History and Science (2010)

2 March 2011, dusan

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This is a collection of essays, most published here for the first time, on Gilles Deleuze’s ideas about history and science. Its focus is on ontological or metaphysical questions: What are the legitimate social entities that can be used in historical explanations, given a materialist metaphysics? What are the legitimate inhabitants of the material world, natural and artificial, and what role should science play in determining their legitimacy? What can philosophy contribute to this enterprise?

Editor: Wolfgang Schirmacher
Publisher Atropos Press, 2010
ISBN 0982706715, 9780982706718
168 pages

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Jason Brownlee: Clever Algorithms: Nature-Inspired Programming Recipes (2011)

2 March 2011, dusan

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“This book provides a handbook of algorithmic recipes from the fields of Metaheuristics, Biologically Inspired Computation and Computational Intelligence that have been described in a complete, consistent, and centralized manner. These standardized descriptions were carefully designed to be accessible, usable, and understandable. Most of the algorithms described in this book were originally inspired by biological and natural systems, such as the adaptive capabilities of genetic evolution and the acquired immune system, and the foraging behaviors of birds, bees, ants and bacteria. An encyclopedic algorithm reference, this book is intended for research scientists, engineers, students, and interested amateurs. Each algorithm description provides a working code example in the Ruby Programming Language.”

First Edition. LuLu. January 2011
Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 Australia License
ISBN 9781446785065
436 pages

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