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David Zen is an international lawyer and private equity investor, with particular interests in China, technology and green business. He is based in London and travels frequently. He aims to do for international investment novels what John Grisham has done for novels on the law. He is represented by Cassian Hall of Tin-Can Telephone Literary Agency (http://tctliteraryagency.com/). ...more

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	The Deal: 交易 Jiāo Yì 3.71 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 2014 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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BayesMaze -- Humans Teaching Language to Machines

A growing area of focus of my AI-related activities is how machines can learn directly from humans (rather than just from data), and conversely how we can better understand human behavior from AI behavior. I call this "human-machine learning". Such interactions will be a key part of the evolution from current (impressive but narrow) achievements of machine learning to artificial general intelligen Read more of this blog post »

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The Painted Skin : hua pi ; 画皮 Chinese Breeze Graded Reader Series, Level 3,

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