Faces in a Cloud

1993

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Author: George E. Atwood

Publisher: Jason Aronson

ISBN: UOM:39015026860638

Category: Psychology

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Faces in the Clouds

1995-04-06

Now, in Faces in the Clouds, anthropologist Stewart Guthrie provides a provocative definition of religion in a bold and persuasive new theory.

Author: Stewart Elliott Guthrie

Publisher: Oxford University Press

ISBN: 0195356802

Category: Religion

Page: 670

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Religion is universal human culture. No phenomenon is more widely shared or more intensely studied, yet there is no agreement on what religion is. Now, in Faces in the Clouds, anthropologist Stewart Guthrie provides a provocative definition of religion in a bold and persuasive new theory. Guthrie says religion can best be understood as systematic anthropomorphism--that is, the attribution of human characteristics to nonhuman things and events. Many writers see anthropomorphism as common or even universal in religion, but few think it is central. To Guthrie, however, it is fundamental. Religion, he writes, consists of seeing the world as humanlike. As Guthrie shows, people find a wide range of humanlike beings plausible: Gods, spirits, abominable snowmen, HAL the computer, Chiquita Banana. We find messages in random events such as earthquakes, weather, and traffic accidents. We say a fire "rages," a storm "wreaks vengeance," and waters "lie still." Guthrie says that our tendency to find human characteristics in the nonhuman world stems from a deep-seated perceptual strategy: in the face of pervasive (if mostly unconscious) uncertainty about what we see, we bet on the most meaningful interpretation we can. If we are in the woods and see a dark shape that might be a bear or a boulder, for example, it is good policy to think it is a bear. If we are mistaken, we lose little, and if we are right, we gain much. So, Guthrie writes, in scanning the world we always look for what most concerns us--livings things, and especially, human ones. Even animals watch for human attributes, as when birds avoid scarecrows. In short, we all follow the principle--better safe than sorry. Marshalling a wealth of evidence from anthropology, cognitive science, philosophy, theology, advertising, literature, art, and animal behavior, Guthrie offers a fascinating array of examples to show how this perceptual strategy pervades secular life and how it characterizes religious experience. Challenging the very foundations of religion, Faces in the Clouds forces us to take a new look at this fundamental element of human life.
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Practical AI on the Google Cloud Platform

2020-10-20

Face detection, analysis and recognition have been around since the late 1990's
without the use of deep learning. The method used to identify faces is reasonably
low tech and just uses facial features as input features. The OpenCV library is ...

Author: Micheal Lanham

Publisher: O'Reilly Media

ISBN: 9781492075783

Category: Computers

Page: 394

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Working with AI is complicated and expensive for many developers. That's why cloud providers have stepped in to make it easier, offering free (or affordable) state-of-the-art models and training tools to get you started. With this book, you'll learn how to use Google's AI-powered cloud services to do everything from creating a chatbot to analyzing text, images, and video. Author Micheal Lanham demonstrates methods for building and training models step-by-step and shows you how to expand your models to accomplish increasingly complex tasks. If you have a good grasp of math and the Python language, you'll quickly get up to speed with Google Cloud Platform, whether you want to build an AI assistant or a simple business AI application. Learn key concepts for data science, machine learning, and deep learning Explore tools like Video AI and AutoML Tables Build a simple language processor using deep learning systems Perform image recognition using CNNs, transfer learning, and GANs Use Google's Dialogflow to create chatbots and conversational AI Analyze video with automatic video indexing, face detection, and TensorFlow Hub Build a complete working AI agent application
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Ignition of Coal Dust by Permissible Explosives

1952

In most mine tests the dust clouds were produced , as in the gallery tests , by
dispersing weighed amounts of dust ... Blown out shots from coal were fired in
some instances into a preformed dust cloud at the coal face and in other tests into
an ...

Author: Irving Hartmann

Publisher:

ISBN: UOM:39015078469676

Category: Coal mine accidents

Page: 18

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Report of Investigations

1952

In most mine tests the dust clouds were produced , as in the gallery tests , by
dispersing weighed amounts of dust from ... Blown out shots from coal were fired
in some instances into a preformed dust cloud at the coal face and in other tests
into ...

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ISBN: OSU:32435067622829

Category: Mineral industries

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Contexts of Being

2014-05-22

In this volume, the authors complete the circle begun with Faces in a Cloud (1979) and continued with Structures of Subjectivity (1984) and Psychoanalytic Treatment: An Intersubjective Approach (1987- with Brandchaft).

Author: Robert D. Stolorow

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9781317771470

Category: Psychology

Page: 158

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In this volume, the authors complete the circle begun with Faces in a Cloud (1979) and continued with Structures of Subjectivity (1984) and Psychoanalytic Treatment: An Intersubjective Approach (1987- with Brandchaft). They now extend intersubjectivity theory to a rethinking of the foundational pillars of psychoanalytic theory since they have already demonstrated the degree to which psychological theory is influenced by the subjective world of the psychological theorist, explored the various "structures of subjectivity" that organize the subjective world, and applied the intersubjective perspective to a broad array of clinical issues. Beginning with an in-depth critique of the concept of the isolated individual mind, Stolorow and Atwood argue that this myth has long obstructed recognition of the intersubjective foundations of psychological life. The authors then proceed to a series of chapters that reframe, from the standpoint of intersubjectivity theory, basic assumptions of the psychoanalytic theory of mental life. Concluding chapters on "varieties of therapeutic alliance" and "varieties of therapeutic impasse" further exemplify the ability of intersubjectivity theory to reorient the psychoanalytic therapist, thus providing fresh strategies for understanding and addressing the most challenging clinical contingencies. Contexts of Being is the conceptual culmination of Stolorow and Atwood's earlier studies, giving them a forum to explain why the perspective of intersubjectivity cannot be reduced to a clinical sensibility that can be grafted onto existing psychoanalytic theory. Rather, the authors argue, the intersubjective perspective has methodological and epistemological implications that mandate a radical revision of all aspects of psychoanalytic thought. Not only a cogent elaboration of these implications, the volume is also an important first step in effecting the sweeping revision that follows from them.
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The Elements of Plane and Spherical Trigonometry

1891

The shadow of a cloud is observed to fall upon a spot at a known distance on the
side of a hill . ... an odd and some have an even number of sides , shew that there
must be an even number of those faces which have an odd number of sides .

Author: John Charles Snowball

Publisher:

ISBN: UVA:X001126765

Category: Trigonometry

Page: 240

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Psalm LXIV Malachi

1859

He that sits on the throne , calle the man went in ; and the cloud a cherub , and
the second face was to the man clothed in linen , to go in between the wheels ,
and fill his hands with coals of filled the inner court . the face of a man , and the
third ...

Author: William Jenks

Publisher:

ISBN: PSU:000001707816

Category: Bible

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Round Table

1863

A star - sweet face , with floating clouds of hair Merari ' s daughter , dead
Manasses ' wife , Who ( since the barley - harvest when he ... Evermore His light
envelops us , and only those Who turn aside their faces droop and dio In utter
midnight .

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ISBN: PRNC:32101074880772

Category: New York (N.Y.)

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The Leisure Hour

1895

With a rapt face raised to the sky a young girl stood apart from the rest , with a fine
unconsciousness that inarked her ... not one arrayed in gold and purple ; but a
young virgin sky , clad in blue , with veiling of white cloud upon her face and ...

Author: William Haig Miller

Publisher:

ISBN: NYPL:33433081683413

Category: Great Britain

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The Scriptural Religions Histories and Prophecies Analyzed and Examined

1876

And when all the people saw it , they fell on their faces ; and they said , Adoni , he
is the god ; Adoni , he is the god . 1 Kings viii . 10. And it came to pass , when the
priests were come out of the holy place , that the cloud filled the house of Adoni ...

Author: John William Willcock

Publisher:

ISBN: HARVARD:32044069753242

Category: Bible

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Arcana Coelestia Exodus

1878

9 ; it is said in a mist of a cloud , because by a cloud is meant the Word in the
letter ; hence also when Moses entered in to ... down from mount Sinai , " the skin
of his faces shone when he spake ; and he put a vail over his faces , ” Exod .
xxxiv .

Author: Emanuel Swedenborg

Publisher:

ISBN: OSU:32435023704232

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A New and Complete Concordance to the Holy Scriptures

1875

18. as for her a cloud c . her COVERED sin or sins . Gen. 17. 2. m . c . between
me ... 24. he c . faces of judges Ezek . 34. 25. m . c . of peace ... 23. c . nakedness
of their father 32. with clouds he c . the light New COVENANT . 24. 65 , Rebekah
c ...

Author: Alexander Cruden

Publisher:

ISBN: OXFORD:600098713

Category: Bible

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A New and Complete Concordance to the Holy Scriptures on the basis of Cruden Edited by John Eadie With introduction by David King Sixteenth edition

1853

C. Make COVENANT . 30. 18. as for her a cloud c . her COVERED sin or sins .
fen . ... 24. he c . faces of judges Ezek . 34. 25. m . c . of peace ... 23. c .
nakedness of their father 32. with clouds he c . the light New COVENANT . 24. 65.
Rebekah c ...

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ISBN: BL:A0017091317

Category:

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A Complete Concordance to the Holy Scriptures

1858

18. as for her a cloud c . her COVERED sin or sins . Gen. 17.2 , m . c . between
me ... 24. he c . faces of judges Ezek . 31. 25. m . c . of peace ... 23. c , nakedness
of their father 39. with clouds he e . the light Nero COVENANT . 24. 65. Rebekah
c ...

Author: Alexander Cruden

Publisher:

ISBN: UIUC:30112058520807

Category: Bible

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Faces in Shem

1961

That is unusual in the desert where one sees nothing but the cloud of dust raised
by one ' s car . " They are coming back , ' he said , pointing at a cloud of dust on
the horizon . ' Wallahi — by Allah - they are coming . ' ' Stop , Idris , and let us ...

Author: Daniël Meulen

Publisher: London, J. Murray

ISBN: UOM:39015036722299

Category: Arabian Peninsula

Page: 194

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The Holy Bible in the Authorized Version

1875

664), a cloud of incense (ordered to be burnt on the golden altar in the Holy
Place before the Veil) went up in honour of ... There, where they ought to have
been prostrate on their faces, in sackcloth and ashes, turning their weeping eyes
and ...

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ISBN: COLUMBIA:0037101528

Category:

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Class R Miscellaneous

1901

A troop of mailed horsemen , with hideous grinning faces and hooked noses ,
ride to R , mounted on locusts , which breathe fire on to men on R. f . 10b . 31 . A.
John . The great angel surrounded by cloud , a rainbow over his head , raised ...

Author: Trinity College (University of Cambridge). Library

Publisher:

ISBN: UCAL:$C75810

Category: Manuscripts

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