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“gaurav suri”

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  • The Emergent Mind

    How Intelligence Arises in People and Machines

    by Gaurav Suri, Jay McClelland ...
    **A compelling journey into the inner workings of human and artificial minds“Deeply stimulating and disarmingly accessible” —Robert Sapolsky, author of DeterminedNamed a Best Book of the Year by New Scientist • Next Big Idea Club**When we are trying to solve a problem, what happens? We find ourselves weighing arguments, or relying on intuition, then reaching a conscious decision about what to do. ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • A Certain Ambiguity

    A Mathematical Novel (New in Paper)

    by Gaurav Suri, Hartosh Singh Bal ...
    While taking a class on infinity at Stanford in the late 1980s, Ravi Kapoor discovers that he is confronting the same mathematical and philosophical dilemmas that his mathematician grandfather had faced many decades earlier--and that had landed him in jail. Charged under an obscure blasphemy law in a small New Jersey town in 1919, Vijay Sahni is challenged by a skeptical judge to defend his belief ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

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    The Emergent Mind

    How Intelligence Arises in People and Machines

    by Gaurav Suri, Jay McClelland ...
    Narrated by Christopher Ragland ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours

    A “deeply stimulating and disarmingly accessible” (Robert Sapolsky, author of Determined) journey into the inner workings of human and artificial mindsWhen we are trying to solve a problem, what happens? We find ourselves weighing arguments, or relying on intuition, then reaching a conscious decision about what to do. What is going on behind the scenes?In The Emergent Mind, Gaurav Suri and Jay ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    “One of the most provocative new books of the year, and, for me, mindblowing.” ―Michael Pollan, author of The Omnivore's Dilemma and How to Change Your Mind“Kripal makes many sympathetic points about the present spiritual state of America. . . . [He] continues to believe that spirituality and science should not contradict each other.” ―New York Times Book Review“Kripal prompts us to reflect on our ... Read more

    $50.99 CAD

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    The Irrational Decision

    How We Gave Computers the Power to Choose for Us

    by Benjamin Recht ...
    Narrated by Eric Jason Martin ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 42 min

    This audiobook narrated by Eric Jason Martin reveals how the computer revolution shaped our conception of rationality—and why human problems require solutions rooted in human intuition, morality, and judgmentIn the 1940s, mathematicians set out to design computers that could act as ideal rational agents in the face of uncertainty. The Irrational Decision tells the story of how they settled on a ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    The Genius Myth

    A Curious History of a Dangerous Idea

    by Helen Lewis ...
    Narrated by Helen Lewis ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 6 min

    **From acclaimed Atlantic staff writer and host of BBC’s podcast “The New Gurus” Helen Lewis comes a timely and provocative interrogation of the myth of genius, exploring the surprising inventions, inspirations and distortions by which some lives are elevated to 'greatness' - and others are not*A Guardian, Financial Times, New Statesman and GQ Book for 2025***You can tell what a society values by ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

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    Third Millennium Thinking

    Creating Sense in a World of Nonsense

    by Saul Perlmutter, PhD, Robert MacCoun, PhD, John Campbell, PhD ...
    Narrated by Joe Paulino ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 10 min

    Based on a wildly popular UC Berkeley course, a primer on how to think critically, make sound decisions, and solve problems—individually and collectively—using scientists’ tricks of the trade.In our deluge of information, it's getting harder and harder to distinguish the revelatory from the contradictory. How do we make health decisions in the face of conflicting medical advice? Does that article ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

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    How Things Are Made

    A Journey Through the Hidden World of Manufacturing

    by Tim Minshall ...
    Narrated by Tim Minshall ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 17 min

    LONGLISTED AS A FINANCIAL TIMES AND SCHRODERS BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDSHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY TRIVEDI SCIENCE BOOK PRIZEAn illuminating tour through the manufacturing world and its seismic influence on our lives, from internationally renowned expert Tim MinshallWe live in a manufactured world. Unless you are floating naked through space, you are right now in direct contact with ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

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    Superjustice

    Law in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

    by Prof Samuel I. Becher, Prof Benjamin Alarie ...
    Narrated by Sean Pratt ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 42 min

    Artificial intelligence will transform law. That does not mean it will produce justice.Courts are backlogged. Legal help remains unaffordable for billions of people. Rules designed for an earlier age are struggling to keep pace with modern life. AI now gives us an extraordinary opportunity, not merely to digitize this failing system, but to redesign it.In Superjustice, leading law-and-technology ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    The Elements of Power

    A Story of War, Technology, and the Dirtiest Supply Chain on Earth

    by Nicolas Niarchos ...
    Narrated by Nicolas Niarchos ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 17 min

    **“A tale of rapacious colonialism, Cold War spy games, dazzling technical innovation, big business rivalry, big power geopolitics . . . Niarchos has produced an unflinching, landmark work on the nature of extractive capitalism.” —Patrick Radden Keefe, New York Times best-selling author of Empire of Pain and Say NothingEpic, shocking, and deeply reported, The Elements of Power tells the story of ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

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  • Our Mathematical Universe

    My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality

    by Max Tegmark ...
    Max Tegmark leads us on an astonishing journey through past, present and future, and through the physics, astronomy and mathematics that are the foundation of his work, most particularly his hypothesis that our physical reality is a mathematical structure and his theory of the ultimate multiverse. In a dazzling combination of both popular and groundbreaking science, he not only helps us grasp his ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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  • Superintelligence

    Paths, Dangers, Strategies

    by Nick Bostrom ...
    The human brain has some capabilities that the brains of other animals lack. It is to these distinctive capabilities that our species owes its dominant position. Other animals have stronger muscles or sharper claws, but we have cleverer brains. If machine brains one day come to surpass human brains in general intelligence, then this new superintelligence could become very powerful. As the fate of ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD