Bbenzon
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Humankind got its start on the African savannas some hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of years ago. At various times in our cultural history we’ve moved to distinctly new cultural ground, as it were. And so we are moving now, and have been for the past half century. This blog is how I see that move. Intellectually, I'm broadly interested in culture and the brain. Within that compass, anything could show up here. Literature and films (including animation), certainly, music as well, and graffiti. But, other things may show up as well. It's a blog, don't you know, it moves.
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New Savanna
http://new-savanna.blogspot.com/
Humankind got its start on the African savannas some hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of years ago. At various times in our cultural history we’ve moved to distinctly new cultural ground, as it were. And so we are moving now, and have been for the past half century. This blog is how I see that move. I'm broadly interested in culture and the brain. Within that compass, anything could show up here. Literature and films (including animation), certainly, music as well, and graffiti. But, other things may show up as well. It's a blog, don't you know, it moves.
LATEST ARTICLES ( 7356 )
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About the Ukraine, the WEIRDEST War, Part 2: On Cooperation in War
On Thursday I posted about the Ukraine war. The post had two parts. The first part was a standard kind of post on such matters, some links to news, a quote... Read more
Posted on 30 April 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Input to the Visual Cortex
Visual cortex gets input from different other brain regions depending on if it is for the center of your vision or the periphery [in primates]Very cool... Read more
Posted on 30 April 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Bye, Bye 9 to 5, Hello 9 to 2, Plus an Evening Shift
Emma Goldberg, Working 9 to 2, and Again After Dinner, NYTimes, April 29, 2022. For many remote workers, 9 to 5 has changed to something more fragmented. A... Read more
Posted on 29 April 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Two AI Companies Converging on (the Mythical) AGI from Different Directions
On Wednesday I blogged about Adept, which is approaching general intelligence by way of creating natural language interfaces for software packages used by end... Read more
Posted on 29 April 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Friday Fotos: Some Forsythia Flicks I Forgot
Posted on 29 April 2022
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From Harold Arlen, to Judy Garland, Through IZ by Way of the Theremin to the...
Somewhere over the rainbow" è la canzone che tutti noi cantiamo sotto la doccia, fischiettiamo quando siamo felici e associamo ai più spensierati sogni della... Read more
Posted on 29 April 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Is AGI Currently the Rome Toward Which All AI Research is Headed? [The Alchemica...
I came across this blog post first when the graphic about data moats was shared with me: pic.twitter.com/rgu4MyrVAV— Emily M. Bender (@emilymbender) April 29,... Read more
Posted on 29 April 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Peter Gärdenfors: Conceptual Spaces, Cognitive Semantics and Robotics
Peter Gärdenfors (Lund University, Sweden) gives a talk at the EROSS 2020 series entitled “Conceptual Spaces, Cognitive Semantics and Robotics”. Peter Gärdenfor... Read more
Posted on 29 April 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Pink and White
Posted on 28 April 2022
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About the Ukraine, the WEIRDEST War I Can Remember [the Bots Are Running the...
I’ve been thinking for some time now that I should post something about the Ukraine war. But what? I know relatively little about Ukraine or its history with... Read more
Posted on 28 April 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Intervene in the Operations of a Language Model Using an Interactive Debugger
LM-Debugger builds upon our findings from this work https://t.co/fnEBgFe4b8to provide three core capabilities for single-prediction debugging and model... Read more
Posted on 28 April 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Distinguishing Between Very Similar Musical Lines During Practice Sessions
I’ve been practicing (the melody of) a 12-bar blues that I’ve created, “Skippy’s Blues.” Bars 3, 7, and 11 are identical. Bars 4, 8, and 12 are each almost... Read more
Posted on 27 April 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
AI Tutors of the Future
Posted on 27 April 2022
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I Called It. Adept Intends to Make It So. [Neil Stephenson Was There in ‘95]
Back in July of 2020, I posted my first reactions to GPT-3 in a comment on Tyler Cowen’s Marginal Revolution: Machine learning was the key breakthrough. Read more
Posted on 27 April 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Newport Mall, Jersey City
Posted on 27 April 2022
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Why is Simple Arithmetic Difficult for Deep Learning Systems?
Marcus points this out at two points in the video: c. 18:25 (multiplication of 2-digit numbers), c. 19:49 (3-digit addition). Why is this so difficult for deep... Read more
Posted on 26 April 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Everything Everywhere All at Once [Media Notes 72]
I loved it! But first, I had to go to a theater to see it, a live in person in the round movie theatre. Which was OK. The theater had been revamped with recline... Read more
Posted on 26 April 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
It Looks Like Things Have Gotten Back to Normal on My Academia Page, Part 2
I'd previously reported that my view-count at Academia.edu was blowing up: What’s going on at my Academia page at the end of March 2022, and It looks like thing... Read more
Posted on 26 April 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Neural Connectivity During Various Activities [behavioral Mode]
Here's the first two tweets in a stream of 8 tweets: We used factor analysis to derive a measure of intrinsic connectivity that persists across rest and 8... Read more
Posted on 26 April 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
My Visit to Popeye's
Posted on 26 April 2022
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