The Matrix In the movie The Matrix, several analogies and philosophies run through the story, as well as the clever naming of certain characters, places, and objects. Plato’s Theory of Ideas and the Myth of the Cave Plato believed that there were two worlds that existed, the world of the senses and the world of ideas. The sensory world was the physical matter, which was always changing and does not last forever, perceived through our senses. The world of ideas is eternal, and consists of
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A Day in an Insurance Agent's Life On a typical day an insurance agent might perform some of the following duties: prepare daily, monthly and annual reports Maintenance of track records Seeking new clients Relationship building with the existing and new clients In the event of filing of an insurance claim, assist the policyholders regarding filing of claims Certain insurance agents may also offer their clients comprehensive financial planning services viz. retirement planning or
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that I've been discussing with an insurance agency owner. This agency deals with personal lines as well as commercial lines of insurance and also focuses on health insurance and life insurance. Equipping insurance agents with iPads/iPhones that have multiple apps on them will allow the agent to do a better job in the field. They would be able to access their current client information, write new business, and make changes to existing business/policies (such as add a vehicle or drop a vehicle from a
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Meranda West Essay #1 Creation/The Hero’s Journey Neo’s Journey into his Real Life The Matrix shows Neo as he travels through a journey into the unseen and unknown to learn the truth about the life he has been living. Neo, otherwise known as Thomas Anderson, goes through an intense journey with the help of his mentor Morpheus. Thomas Anderson, Neo, works for a high end company in the day but at night he is a talented computer hacker and doing his side job of selling secret computer programs
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preference for particular parts of the structure. He also noticed how you could understand a story or speech by identifying how pairs interconnect; he referred to the scene-act ratio of Hamlet to give an example. The five elements explained are Scene, Act, Agent, Agency and Purpose. The scene is described as a “container” a place where the action of the act occurs and this includes the physical location and the contextual situation, occasion, event, time. People usually put emphasis here and believe that
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services are highly desired, including order notification and a clear return policy. ◗ Developing customer relationships. This includes building trust, providing security, and ensuring privacy protection (see Chapter 4). ◗ Agent profiling. The process of matching service agents directly with the needs and personalities of customers is a win-win situation for businesses, customers, and employees.
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Intelligence and Prolog Topic: Intelligent Agents Lecturer: M. Simfukwe Monday, 20 May, 2013 Outline • Agents and environments • Rationality • PEAS (Performance measure, Environment, Actuators, Sensors) • Environment types • Agent types Agents • An agent is any system that gets in some input and processes it to get some output. • Software agents in classical computer science • Hardware agents (robots), with sensors and actuators. Agents • An agent is anything that can be viewed as
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INTELLIGENT AGENTS In which we discuss what an intelligent agent does, how it is related to its environment, how it is evaluated, and how we might go about building one. 2.1 INTRODUCTION An agent is anything that can be viewed as perceiving its environment through sensors and acting upon that environment through effectors. A human agent has eyes, ears, and other organs for sensors, and hands, legs, mouth, and other body parts for effectors. A robotic agent substitutes cameras and infrared
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Costs (Fama and Jensen 1983) Contracting problem or principal/agent problem. Agent is person tasked to do something on behalf of the principal. Jensen and Meckling (1976) Definition: “ We define an agency relationship as a contract under which one or more persons (the principal(s)) engage another person (the agent) to perform some service on their behalf, this involves delegating some decision making authority to the agent”. Examples: Patient – Doctor (delegate authority to doctor to choose
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Principal-agent problems arise through the misalignment of interests between individuals or groups within an organisation. They can occur in various parts of an organisational structure, for instance in Labour; between an employer and an employee, Franchises; the franchisor and franchisee, Regulation; the regulator and the regulated company through to Investors; between the Shareholders and company Executives (Fingleton, J. 2012) The strength and alignment of these relationships are vital for the
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