Pattern Recognition
by William Gibson · 2 Jan 2003 · 385pp · 99,985 words
WILLIAM GIBSON PATTERN RECOGNITION 1. THE WEBSITE OF DREADFUL NIGHT Five hours' New York jet lag and Cayce Pollard wakes in Camden Town to the dire and ever-circling
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footage at all, thereby momentarily escaping the film or films that you've been assembling, consciously or unconsciously, since first exposure. Homo sapiens is about pattern recognition, he says. Both a gift and a trap. She slowly depresses the plunger. Pours coffee into a mug. She's draped her jacket cape-style
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Tom Cruise with too many teeth, and longer, but still very white. "We have only risk management. The spinning of the given moment's scenarios. Pattern recognition." Cayce blinks. "Do we have a past, then?" Stonestreet asks. "History is a best-guess narrative about what happened and when," Bigend says, his eyes
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. "What I mean is, no customers, no cool. It's about a group behavior pattern around a particular class of object. What I do is pattern recognition. I try to recognize a pattern before anyone else does." "And then?" "I point a commodifier at it." "And?" "It gets productized. Turned into units
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Damien's German fridge. What if the sense of nascent meaning they all perceive in the footage is simply that: an illusion of meaningfulness, faulty pattern recognition? She's been over this with Parkaboy and he's taken it places (the neuromechanics of hallucination, August Strindberg's personal account of his psychotic
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by Maximilian Kasy · 15 Jan 2025 · 209pp · 63,332 words
. Oxford University Press, 1995. Moosavi-Dezfooli, S.-M., A. Fawzi, O. Fawzi, and P. Frossard. “Universal Adversarial Perturbations.” 2017 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2017, 1765–73. Paul, K., and D. Milmo. “Facebook Putting Profit Before Public Good, Says Whistleblower Frances Haugen.” Guardian, October 4, 2021. https://www
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by Tim Wu · 4 Nov 2025 · 246pp · 65,143 words
just the raw quantity of data. The data needs to reveal patterns that bear on the topic—the well-known difference between signal and noise. Pattern recognition is also easier when dealing with a confined game, such as a literal sports match or something like the weather. The limits just described help
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one area. Another is image recognition. Recognizing a drawing as a “cat” or a “dog,” when you get down to it, is an exercise in pattern recognition. And this helps explain why artificial intelligence has focused so heavily on images and why a database of millions of labeled images—the ImageNet—created
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to be fed with raw data and to automatically discover the representations needed for detection or classification.” Deep learning added the idea of approaching such pattern recognition in stages, beginning with lower-level categories (like letters) before higher-level categories (like words). Like much of the Connectionist work, however, it was dogged
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by Elizabeth Bear · 5 Mar 2019 · 596pp · 163,351 words
fast and perhaps they retracted into their ports when she was trying to look like she wasn’t a corsair. I started to doubt my pattern recognition just as Singer said, “Confirmed.” Cold settled into my gut. “How did they track us here? How did they get here ahead of us?” Connla
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by Quinn Slobodian · 16 Mar 2018 · 451pp · 142,662 words
. Such prediction was already innate to the way we navigate in the world. In 1964 he wrote of “the intuitive capacity of our senses for pattern recognition”—“we see and hear patterns as much as individual events without having to resort to intellectual operations.”61 Appealing like Hoppmann to ethology, or the
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by Bruce Schneier · 3 Sep 2018 · 448pp · 117,325 words
Apr 2015), “Deep neural networks are easily fooled: High confidence predictions for unrecognizable images,” in Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR ’15), https://arxiv.org/abs/1412.1897. 84A related research project was able: Christian Szegedy et al. (19 Feb 2014), “Intriguing properties of neural
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by Vivek Wadhwa · 1 Oct 2012 · 103pp · 24,033 words
the team hailing from India, seeks to create designer ceramics based on Andean culture. Biometry Cloud, with a team from Chile, is selling cloud-based pattern-recognition web services, APIs, and libraries for mobile devices. The company Dr. Busca, with a team from Brazil, allows patients to book doctor appointments online from
Pay Any Price: Greed, Power, and Endless War
by James Risen · 15 Feb 2014 · 339pp · 99,674 words
big in Hollywood, Montgomery and Trepp shifted their focus to the casino industry in Reno and Las Vegas. Montgomery later bragged that he had developed pattern recognition software specifically for casinos that could help identify cheaters. He even claimed he had technology that could identify high-value chips inside piles of chips
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by Simon Rich · 14 Oct 2014 · 178pp · 43,631 words
-da,” my father said. My mother was standing behind him, in her usual grooming position. Neither looked up at me. “They tested me on memory, pattern recognition, and object permanence,” I told them. “There were dozens of chimps, but I scored the highest.” “Good for you,” my father grumbled, his voice thick
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replacement. His truck was loaded with various testing apparatuses. I recognized a large plastic box from the day we’d met. It was a simple pattern-recognition test. You climbed inside and watched as three colored orbs lit up. If you hit the corresponding levers in the correct order, you won a
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by Brian Merchant · 19 Jun 2017 · 416pp · 129,308 words
patterns—often very well—that it has seen before. “The thing that’s good for is perception,” Gruber says. “The computer vision, computer speech, understanding, pattern recognition, and these things did not do well with knowledge representations. They did better with data- and signal-processing techniques. So that’s what’s happened
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if there were any ways he could harness his expertise to help benefit ocean conservation. So far, he’d met with teams to discuss using pattern-recognition software and Google Earth to catch poachers and polluters. “Those are kind of the superpowers that only science fiction was talking about a few years
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