Strategic Learning and Its Limits
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In this book a distinguished economist suggests a conceptual framework for studying strategic learning, one of the key theoretical developments in current economics. He discusses the interactive learning problem; reinforcement and regret; equilibrium; conditional no-regret learning; prediction, postdiction, and calibration; fictitious play and its variants; Bayesian learning; and hypothesis testing.

Metaphor: Implications and Applications
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Research on metaphor has been dominated by Aristotelian questions of processes in metaphor understanding. Although this area is important, it leaves unasked Platonic questions of how structures of the mind affect such processes. Moreover, there has been relatively little work on how metaphors affect human behavior. Although there are numerous postdictive or speculative accounts of the power of metaphors to affect human behavior in particular areas, such as clinical or political arenas, empirical verification of these accounts has been sparse. To fill this void, the editors have compiled this work dedicated to empirical examination of how metaphors affect human behavior and understanding. The book is divided into four sections: metaphor and… [cont.]

Prediction: Futurology
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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Precognition, Nostradamus, Divination, Futurology, Predictions of Soviet Collapse, Earthquake Prediction, Futures Techniques, Prediction of Volcanic Activity, an Essay on the Principle of Population, List of Predictions, Prognostics, Prediction, After the Empire: the Breakdown of the American Order, Causal Layered Analysis, Singularitarianism, Web Bot, Postdiction, Liu Ji, Reference Class Forecasting, Race of the Future, Futurist, Charles Walmesley, Alarmism, Predictions for Human Evolution, Kaya Identity, Robert Nixon, Querent, Financial Astrology,… [cont.]

Advances in chemical engineering
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Understanding and modeling the kinetics of chemical reactions is crucial to any research and development effort aimed at process optimization and innovation. This volume provides four complementary points of view. It reflects state-of-the-art developments as well as views on the way to proceed by reporting on the efforts of a representative, sample of research and development groups. A first contribution by WH Green Jr. sets the scene. The author advocates a paradigm shift in chemical kinetics from "postdictive" to predictive models. The contribution from the Politecnico di Milano reports on the tremendous experience accumulated over the years in the field of steam cracking, one of the largest scale production processes of the… [cont.]