Tag: Humans

Synergetic Cooperation between Robots and Humans – Volume 2


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English | 2024 | ISBN: 3031472713 | 758 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 140 MB
CLAWAR 2023 is the 26th International Conference Series on Climbing and Walking Robots and Mobile Machine Support Technologies. The conference is organized by CLAWAR Association in collaboration with the Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Brazil, during October 2-4, 2023.

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Only Humans Need Apply Winners and Losers in the Age of Smart Machines


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English | 2020 | ISBN: B085S6TVKR | 10 hours and 9 minutes / Format: MP3 | 210 Mb
Nearly half of all working Americans could risk losing their jobs because of technology. It’s not only blue-collar jobs at stake. Millions of educated knowledge workers are threatened by accelerating advances in artificial intelligence.
The industrial revolution shifted workers from farms to factories. In the first era of automation, machines relieved humans of manually exhausting work. Today, Era Two of automation continues to wash across the entire services-based economy that has replaced jobs in agriculture and manufacturing. Era Three, and the rise of AI, is dawning. Smart computers are demonstrating they are capable of making better decisions than humans. Brilliant technologies can now decide, learn, predict, and even comprehend much faster and more accurately than the human brain, and their progress is accelerating.
In Only Humans Need Apply, Thomas Hayes Davenport and Julia Kirby reframe the conversation about automation, arguing that the future of increased productivity and business success isn’t either human or machine. It’s both. The key is augmentation, utilizing technology to help humans work better, smarter, and faster. Instead of viewing these machines as competitive interlopers, we can see them as partners and collaborators in creative problem solving as we move into the next era.

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Managing Humans Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager


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English | 2020 | ISBN: B08965CMSS | M4B@125 kbps | 5h 39m | 308 Mb
Listen to hilarious stories with serious lessons that Michael Lopp extracts from his varied and sometimes bizarre experiences as a manager at Apple, Pinterest, Palantir, Netscape, Symantec, Slack, and Borland. Many of the stories first appeared in primitive form in Lopp’s perennially popular blog, Rands in Repose. The third edition of Managing Humans contains a whole new season of episodes from the ongoing saga of Lopp’s adventures in Silicon Valley, together with classic episodes remastered for high fidelity and freshness.
Whether you’re an aspiring manager, a current manager, or just wondering what the heck a manager does all day, there is a story in this book that will speak to you – and help you survive and prosper amid the general craziness of dysfunctional bright people caught up in the chase of riches and power. Scattered in repose among these manic misfits are managers, an even stranger breed of people who, through a mystical organizational ritual, have been given power over the futures and the bank accounts of many others.
Lopp’s straight-from-the-hip style is unlike that of any other writer on management and leadership. He pulls no punches and tells stories he probably shouldn’t. But they are magically instructive and yield Lopp’s trenchant insights on leadership that cut to the heart of the matter – whether it’s dealing with your boss, handling a slacker, hiring top guns, or seeing a knotty project through to completion.

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Understanding the Bond Between Humans and Pets (Scientific American Explores Big Ideas)


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English | September 7th, 2023 | ISBN: 1725349574 | 160 pages | True EPUB | 1.86 MB
Tens of millions of households in the United States have pets. They are often considered integral parts of families and close companions. There is a long history of domesticating animals, and this volume in part considers the intertwined evolution of animals and domestic animals to examine how these relationships have developed. It discusses the characteristics and behaviors of cats, dogs, and other animals that allows humans to create such a strong bond with them. It also looks at recent research on the advantages pets have on physical and mental health.

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The Impact of Information on Modern Humans (2024)


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English | 2018 | ISBN: 3319753827 | PDF | pages: 763 | 27.8 mb
This book features contributions from various spheres of socio-humanitarian sciences presented at the scientific and practical conference on "Humans as an Object of Study by Modern Science," which took place in Nizhny Novgorod (Russian Federation) on November 23-24, 2017. The conference was organized by Kozma Minin Nizhny Novgorod State Pedagogical University and the non-profit organization "Institute of Scientific Communications." Presenting the results of multidisciplinary studies as well as new approaches, the target audience of the book includes postgraduates, lecturers at higher educational establishments, and researchers studying socio-humanitarian sciences. The complex study of humans by representatives of various socio-humanitarian sciences (philosophy, pedagogics, jurisprudence, social sciences, and economics) allows a comprehensive concept of the field to be developed. Selecting humans as an object of research opens wide possibilities for studying various issues related to their activities, while considering humans within multiple sciences means that the methods of induction and deduction can be combined to achieve precise results. This book includes the results of leading scientific studies on the following key issues: establishment of an information economy under the influence of scientific and technical progress: new challenges and opportunities; information and communication technologies as a new vector of development of the modern world economy; specifics and experience of using new information and communication technologies in developed and developing countries; problems of implementing new information and communication technologies in the modern economy; and priorities of using new information and communication technologies in the modern economy.

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Tiny Humans Big Emotions How to Navigate Tantrums Meltdowns and Defiance to Raise Emotionally Intelligent Children [Audiobook]


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English | ASIN: B0BT3MY2CW | 2023 | 10 hours and 13 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 289 MB
Author: Alyssa Blask Campbell, Lauren Elizabeth Stauble
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The Future is Emotionally Intelligent. From two early childhood experts, an essential guidebook that empowers parents to help their little ones navigate their big feelings-including tantrums, outbursts, and separation anxiety-while laying the groundwork for a lifetime of emotional intelligence. We’re in the midst of a parenting revolution that is radically changing the way we raise our kids. Gone are the days of minimizing emotions: Don’t Cry. You’re Fine. Don’t Make a Scene. As our understanding of developing brains has increased, today’s parents are looking for a new way to help their children understand their feelings and learn to process them. Emotional development experts Alyssa Blask Campbell, M.Ed. and Lauren Stauble M.S. are at the forefront of a movement to foster little ones’ emotional intelligence. Their revolutionary Collaborative Emotion Processing (CEP) method has been a game changer for parents and educators, and now they are sharing it with readers in this indispensable guide.

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Better Humans What the Mental Health Pandemic Teaches Us About Humanity [Audiobook]


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English | ASIN: B0CMJQX5MS | 2023 | 10 hours and 3 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 274 MB
Author: Janeane Bernstein
Narrator: Janeane Bernstein

When a global pandemic exacerbated a pre-existing mental health crisis, the US was left with a mental health pandemic. This opened a Pandora’s box revealing what was long denied-we must prioritize mental health in all aspects of society, eliminate disparities and stigma, and become better humans. The world was turned upside down March 2020 by a virus no one expected to turn into a global pandemic. While millions experienced loss and disruption of life, the pandemic put lives on pause, making the nation turn inward to question the life Americans were living pre-pandemic. Depression, anxiety, violence, substance abuse, and mental health illnesses soared in what became a mental health pandemic.

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Revealing Behavioural Synchronization in Humans and Other Animals Why Individuals Mirror Others


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English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2023 | 122 Pages | ISBN : 3031484487 | 12.3 MB
This book presents a thorough and up-to-date review of the scientific literature on behavioural synchronization and its underlying neurocognitive and neurophysiological processes, from the neuronal to the interindividual and group scale. This multi-disciplinary and multi-scale approach makes this book of interest to scientists and graduate students for both theoretical issues as well practical issues such as mobilizing animals and humans for group / mass actions (e.g. for climate change, diabetes, leading animals, etc.).

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