Sentences with phrase «on a book project on»

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Sutton wrote the book on the field of reinforcement learning, a technique which allows AI to teach itself what the best actions are using a reward - punishment system of its own, an area of deep learning that played a role in the success of DeepMind's AlphaGo project.

By 8:30 a.m. (the time I usually ended up rolling out of bed), I had read several chapters of a good business book, listened to part of a podcast, spent time in prayer, done some P90X Yoga, and worked on a side - project that I'd been «too busy» to work on for years.

He's known for his writing on race and politics — so it makes sense that his latest project, a comic book series for Marvel called «Black Panther,» is about the first black superhero in mainstream U.S. comics.

I had imagined his new book idea would be another project based on my business experiences, but he said, «There's this great passage in your autobiography where you nearly get yourself killed.»

One of the most interesting things I found in researching my book Mapping Innovation is that the firms that invested in basic exploration eventually hit on something big, What's more, the massive return on investment it generated paid for all of the failed projects many times over.

The bank may also choose not to fill open positions, defer projects, and dial back spendings on pitch books and brochures.

A timely choice from The Life Project author Helen Pearson: «Reading or rereading this book should be compulsory, when so many of the issues it touches on — manipulated news, unwanted surveillance — are highly resonant today.»

Or we give up on that book we're writing or new online business we're starting because as we wade into the confusing middle of the project, complications pile up, and enthusiasm wanes.

You can tell yourself you're only going to write 200 words to get started on that book project, but your brain often does an end run around your intentions, paralyzing you with visions of savage critics and blown deadlines nonetheless.

Employing 43,000 people around the world, including 20,000 in Britain, Carillion has been fighting for survival since July, when it revealed it was losing cash on projects and had written down the value of its contract book by 845 million pounds.

Over the course of a 15 - minute conference call Uber executives projected that bookings — which saw a gross increase of 10 % in Q1 2017 on the previous quarter — would continue to rise and that losses would keep on narrowing, Bloomberg reports, citing unnamed sources familiar with the meeting.

This morning's show took on the topic of «teams» and highlighted research that Julia Rozovsky and Google has conducted called Project Aristotle and profiled in Charles Duhigg's book Smarter, Faster, Better.

I haven't read the book nor deeply reviewed Project Aristotle but the conversation on this morning's show really resonated with me.

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Cost reductions may also come from deferring projects, choosing not to fill open positions and spending less on printing pitch books or brochures, another person said, asking not to be identified discussing internal deliberations.

His recent works involve a research project on behalf of the International Labour Office, which has led to the publication of the book: Wage - led Growth: An Equitable Strategy for Economic Recovery (Palgrave - Macmillan, 2013).

With the inaugural launch of the super-powerful Falcon Heavy rocket now in the books, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is ready to set his sights on an ambitious project known as Starlink.

In The Goldwatcher, the book I co-wrote with John Katz, I expressed the importance of knowing which developmental stage of a mine's lifecycle a project currently falls into, as this has a strong influence on stock performance.

The conventional image of the railway as a national project owes much to the appeal of Pierre Berton's books, which drew on its construction — with all the blood, sweat and scandal that went into it — as a metaphor for nation building, a physical extension of Confederation into western Canada.

In the book that defined this field (titled, for some reason, Legal Project Management), I focused a critical chapter on the need to define «Done.»

This means it is willing to admit that some of its fossil fuel assets — possibly including the spanking $ 13 billion Kearl tar sands project in Northern Alberta — could be wiped off its books if governments start taking action on climate change.»

The Culture Book — a project in partnership between Culturati & Weeva, is a professional anthology of stories and advice on -LSB-...]

The miner reported a net loss of $ 314 - million, or $ 0.27 a share, compared with earnings of $ 425 - million, or $ 0.36 a share, a year earlier, as Barrick booked impairment charges in the period including $ 429 - million on the stalled Pascua - Lama project, straddling the Chile / Argentina border.

«Each month we will deliver a super fun activity kit featuring different hands on projects, books, puzzles, games, imaginative play, sensory activities and more!»

Silver Wheaton has a number of these deals on the books, but the projects aren't up and running yet.

Leon and his wife Amy, both professors at the University of Chicago, are preparing a book on the subject of marriage and courtship for one of our institute projects dealing with what we call «everyday ethics.»

That history, coupled with the generous use of interview narrative from rescuers, the rescued, and non-rescuers throughout the book, more than offsets any fear that the Oliners» project, by focusing on rescue activities, might diminish the horror of the Holocaust.

Would home churches that existed before Rome's building projects scratch their heads at books on institutional church administration as well?

Rory's in his twenties, and he works long, painful hours late at night on his passion project, a book.

I'm doing what I always wanted to do — making a living as a writer, traveling the country talking about my books, working on projects that I care about.

And while the focus has been placed on why Doug remains silent, don't forget that EVERY published US emergent author knew about this pattern and not only stood by silently, but defended Tony by participating in his projects, agreeing to speak at his conferences, endorsing his books and the like.

Focusing on the most hyperbolic elements of the project, and totally ignoring the legitimate questions I raise throughout the book, Keller and others have chastised me as silly, unable to handle basic biblical hermeneutics.

I am considering giving up on that book project of mine... But I think you are right, I should continue the project and see where the rabbit hole goes, and acknowledge that my ideas are provisional, as you say.

I want to add to this list my own expressions of thanks to those who made what might have been a difficult undertaking a rewarding one instead: Ruth Hopewell, who gave me the privilege of editing the book and consistently aided me in doing so; the Directors of Auburn Seminary, who granted a generous leave for my work on the project in Atlanta; Jim Waits and Elizabeth Smith, who anticipated everything I would need for the work to be done comfortably and efficiently; Lurline and James Fowler, who provided housing and friendship; Channing Jeschke, Candler's librarian, who made available and helped to arrange Hopewell's books and papers; Brooks Holifield, who worked with me on the last and knottiest problems in the text; and David Kelsey, on whose encouragement and sagacity I relied heavily when my assignment seemed most formidable.

(ENTIRE BOOK) The author deals with the question: Do we carry out our projects on a stage that is blind, neutral and indifferent?

In his clear and illuminating book, Scott Swain, a professor of systematic theology at Reformed Theological Seminary, takes seriously the Barthian project and seeks to evaluate it on a precise but profound point: Who, according to Barth, is God?

What I meant above is that I might give up on the book project in which I explain the violent portrayals of God in the OT in light of Jesus Christ.

This school is one part of the Rutgers Center of Alcohol Studies, an interdisciplinary project which engages in wide - ranging research, publishes the Quarterly Journal of Studies on Alcohol as well as a variety of books and articles, and maintains the «Classified Abstract Archives of the Alcohol Literature» with over 10,000 entries on punch cards for automatic retrieval by topic.

There are several speeches on Goethe, two autobiographical books, two volumes of a projected four on a general theory of civilization, smaller tracts on atomic testing and world peace, a collection of sermons, numerous anthologies of his sayings, and a half dozen books and pamphlets on his experiences in Africa.

Despite the many limitations I have imposed on the book, the project remains an ambitious one, and I am painfully aware that my historical knowledge is not adequate to it.

Of course, The Laurels and The Cedars are just two schools and much more could be said about the good work that is being done in schools across the country, about the sterling work done by Catholic home educators, and about a range of other initiatives including the steady growth of the Catechesis of the Good Shepherd and the projects arising out of Stratford Caldecott's two books on education: Beauty for Truth's Sake and Beauty in the Word.

On Sundays she carries books of Bible stories to read to the nursery kids and an art project in a box, all the pieces cut out to be assembled.

Yes, I have been working on a HUGE project over the past six months, and have not been able to put out books on my regular schedule of every 3 - 4 months.

The book concludes with his reflection on the «Common Ground Project» that he initiated shortly before his death.

To even consider such a project they would insist on being paid upfront, or they would have to be convinced that it would be a book of Great Unprecedented Historical Import.

Merle M. Ohlsen describes group counseling of adolescents and children in schools.9 Helen Driver reports on two groups for high school seniors, three groups for college students, and four leaderless teachers» groups.10 The second part of Driver's book reports on forty - four projects using small groups in elementary, high school, college, and graduate professional schools (as well as mental health settings), as described by the leaders of each group.

The book contains many good insights on the Sermon on the Mount, which I will incorporate into my future commentary projects.

This project, suggested to her by Robert Bly, energized her own writing: «I know that if I had not worked so hard on Akhmatova,» Kenyon remarked, «I would never have experienced that surge of power» that resulted in the poems in her second book, The Boat of Quiet Hours.

Products of the huge Pew - funded project on religion in the public square, both books of essays will be of interest to students of American Judaism.

Don C. Richter is associate director of the Valparaiso Project on the Education and Formation of People in Faith and author of Mission Trips That Matter: Embodied Faith for the Sake of the World (Upper Room Books).