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It was published in 2003 as the first part of the blue ant trilogy, named after the marketingindustrial espionage agency that appears in all three novels. Set in august and september 2002, the story follows cayce pollard, a 32yearold marketing consultant who has a psychological sensitivity to corporate symbols. I recently bought this book and found it clear and covering wide. James author see all 3 formats and editions hide other formats and editions. Finding causal directions from observations is not only a profound issue for the philosophy of science, but it can also develop into. No previous knowledge of pattern recognition or machine learning concepts is assumed. For example we know that large, upright, flat rectangular pieces of wood are doors, and we know that we can open and close them to pass between different rooms. This book opens the series challenges in machine learning.