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• Thinking in Systems: A Primer by Donella H. Meadows: This is a classic book on systems theory that provides a great introduction to the concept.


• The Systems View of Life: A Unifying Vision by Fritjof Capra and Pier Luigi Luisi: This book offers a unified view of life, integrating life's biological, cognitive, social, and ecological dimensions.


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Thanks to their digital nature, e-books are treated much differently. They can’t be resold or given away. A library that wants to lend e-books must buy a license from the copyright holder. These subscriptions can be limited to a number of reads, or by periods of a year or two. Everything is tracked. Libraries own nothing.

Mixture of experts , MoE or ME for short, is an ensemble learning technique that implements the idea of training experts on subtasks of a predictive modeling problem.

In the neural network community, several researchers have examined the decomposition methodology. [...] Mixture–of–Experts (ME) methodology that decomposes the input space, such that

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Open systems – free speech, democracy, open content, open science – will sometimes produce results we do not like. That openness, of course, will be used by the powerful as well as the powerless. There will be cruel speech, bad democratic decisions and uses of openly licensed content with which we disagree. Thus, it is very easy to blame openness.... See more

The Information Age's emphasis on speed over expertise contributes to "superficial culture in which even the elite will openly disparage as pointless our main repositories for the very best that has been thought

When a physical book is sold, the “first sale” provision of copyright law says the author and publisher have no control over that volume’s fate in the world. It can be resold, and they don’t get a cut. It can be lent out as many times as readers demand. The information in the text flows freely through society without leaving a trace. Religions and... See more

There are con -cerns about the responsibilities of researchers and developers who use publicly available data to build AI. Copyright measures are not the best way to address these issues, and open licensing is not the best way to safeguard digital rights and uphold ethical behavior. To address the factors that contributed to the misuse of open... See more