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Product type Book

Published in Aug 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781837632572

Pages 230 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Machine Learning

Author (1):

B McGraw

Table of Contents (25) Chapters

Preface

1. The Pirate Kitty Theory: How a House Cat Being Let Out Led to the Extinction of the Dodo Bird

2. Cows All the Way Down: Could Cow-Based Planetoids Support Methane Atmospheres?

3. Ecological Impacts of Re-Releasing Tourists into Yellowstone

4. The Great Rabbit War of 863AD: Myth or Historical Fact?

5. The Cat Homing Infrared Laser Drone Defense (CHILD) System: A Novel Approach to Suburban Defense

6. The Sarah Palin Mandela Effect: How America Believes in a Fictional Politician

7. Utilitarianism, Shame, and Mysticism: Autonomous Vehicle Moral Compass Design and Analysis

8. A Comparative Analysis of Trevor’s Mom: Age Estimation Methodology

9. Adaptive Smart Grids for Migratory Government Drones

10. Tracking International Communism Through Mycorrhizal Networks

11. Markov Models for Ruining Your Weekend: A Comparative Study

12. Novel Techniques for Random Number Generation: Toddler Behavioral Sampling

13. Computer Vision Object Permanence Detection Algorithm for My Clingy Robot Dog

14. Flavortown in the Brain: Localizing Generators of Hedonic Food Response in the Forebrains of Foodies

15. A Particle Physics Model of Why My Room Is Never Clean and Why My Mommy Shouldn’t Put Me In Time-Out for Something That’s Not My Fault

16. Me and My Best Friend Prove the 3n + 1 Problem Even Though It’s a REALLY Hard Problem

17. A Loopy Belief Propagation Factor Graph Simulation of My Grandma Nonna’s Insane Facebook Feed

18. Dietetic Benefits of Simple Carbohydrates and Bovine Byproduct in Low Earth Orbit

19. There Can Be No True Scottish Spoken Language System

20. Quantum Computing Applications in Competitive StarCraft

21. Full-Cycle Banana Fission Reactor Design and Analysis

22. A Computationally Efficient Solution to the SLAM Problem in Houses of Mirrors

23. Ray Tracing and the Optical Design of Healing-Crystal-Constructed Adaptive Optics

24. Index

The Sarah Palin Mandela Effect: How America Believes in a Fictional Politician

Dr. Booker DeWitt¹and Dr. R. Sanchez²

¹Department of Paranormal Psychology, Cranberry-Lemon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

²Department of Multiverse Physics, Cranberry-Lemon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Abstract

More than thirteen years after the turbulent 2008 presidential election, some people still believe that Sarah Palin is a real person. It seems far-fetched that people would believe that a gun-totin’, tea-partying, Alaskan governor from the north with a strong midwestern accent and an even more aggressive up-do would have been John McCain’s running mate. Regardless of how fantastical it is, many Americans are confident that she was not only a real person (and not just a Tina Fey SNL character) but she also ran as Vice President with the war hero John McCain against Obama and Biden in 2008 instead of the easy-to-forget Ohio Congressional Representative Jordan Dorf...