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Traffic's up at New Savanna

Five weeks ago I reported, Too good to last, the New Savanna hit streak is over. As you may recall, New Savanna had been getting 4000 or more hits a day for... Read more

The 01 November 2017 by Bbenzon
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Direct Learning (Jacobs & Michaels, 2007)

The ecological hypothesis is that we perceive properties of the environment and ourselves using information variables that specify those properties. Read more

The 02 November 2017 by Andrew D Wilson
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Music Engages Mind and Body

Writing in Aeon, Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis says: In fact, the past few decades of work in the cognitive sciences of music have demonstrated with increasing... Read more

The 03 November 2017 by Bbenzon
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Evaluating 'Direct Learning'

In my previous post I laid out the direct learning framework developed by Jacobs Michaels (2007). In this post, I'm going to evaluate the central claims and... Read more

The 03 November 2017 by Andrew D Wilson
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"Philosophy Doesn't Do Nuance" – Will Computers Ever Be Able, You Know, to Think?

Luciano Floridi in Aeon: Philosophy doesn’t do nuances well. It might fancy itself a model of precision and finely honed distinctions, but what it really loves... Read more

The 04 November 2017 by Bbenzon
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Tracking “Xanadu” Around the Web

I'm gearing up to write a review of Franco Moretti's latest; well, actually, not just Moretti, but Moretti plus thirteen others: Mark Algee-Hewitt, Sarah... Read more

The 05 November 2017 by Bbenzon
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That Blade Runner Look

I've been watching the original Blade Runner and it occurred to me: THAT's where I got the look. That's why I like to take flicks like these: And I don't care i... Read more

The 05 November 2017 by Bbenzon
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Heart of Darkness as a Ring-composition

In the process of preparing a PowerPoint presentation for my talk at HEX01, the First Workshop on the History of Expressive Systems, I took another crack at... Read more

The 05 November 2017 by Bbenzon
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A Test of Direct Learning (Michaels Et Al, 2008)

Direct learning (Jacobs Michaels, 2007) is an ecological hypothesis about the process of perceptual learning. I describe the theory here, and evaluate it here. Read more

The 05 November 2017 by Andrew D Wilson
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Interior Journey in Heart of Darkness

This is just a quick and dirty note, as a reminder and for the record. The orange arrows in the figure below indicate Marlow’s narrative/journey in Heart of... Read more

The 06 November 2017 by Bbenzon
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