Bbenzon
Description
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.
MY BLOGS
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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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The Rise and Fall of Rationality in Language [based on the Google Ngram Corpus,...
Scientists confirm the demise of rationalityhttps://t.co/woGhW2mpkQ— Sabine Hossenfelder (@skdh) December 28, 2021 Significance of the linked article, The rise... Read more
Posted on 28 December 2021 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Creatures from Longwood Gardens
Posted on 28 December 2021
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Did "The Matrix" Depict a More Optimistic Vision of the Future Than We Are Now...
Samuel Earle, "The Timeline We’re on Is Even Darker Than ‘The Matrix’ Envisioned," NYTimes, December 22, 2021. In original Matrix films had an undercurrent of... Read more
Posted on 22 December 2021 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Remember the Flowers
Posted on 21 December 2021
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Complex Systems and AI
Also check out this great position blog post by @risi1979, and read about why self-organization and self-assembly might be important stepping stones required... Read more
Posted on 21 December 2021 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Looking up
Posted on 18 December 2021
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Substrate Independence
The notion of substrate independence in is invoked in arguments about whether or not, at least in theory, a digital computer can do anything the human brain... Read more
Posted on 18 December 2021 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Neuromorphic Chips and Spiking Neurons
"Computational neuroscientists think that spiking neural networks will bring them closer to understanding the brain than is possible with current deep neural... Read more
Posted on 18 December 2021 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Vision Isn't "solved" [AI]
This reminds me of that anecdote, where some researchers had an amazing model distinguishing animals from non animals. Later turned out that animal pictures wer... Read more
Posted on 18 December 2021 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
It Shook Me, the Light
Bump! This post is from 2010, but it's been on my mind lately. So I'm bumping it to the head of the queue. During the early 1970s I'd played for two years with ... Read more
Posted on 02 December 2021 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Neural Architecture Search (NAS): A ML Technique for Automating the Creation of...
1) Reinforcement Learning: these models leverage reinforcement learning action-reward duality 2) Evolutionary Algorithms: population-based global... Read more
Posted on 16 November 2021 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Understanding the Role of Individual Units in a Deep Neural Network
https://t.co/97JH4ga3zy #NeuralNetwork— Data science (@Datascience__) November 10, 2021 Abstract from the linked article: Deep neural networks excel at finding... Read more
Posted on 10 November 2021 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Facebook's Metaverse, Ho Hum, WTF!
From Ethan Zuckerman, Hey, Facebook, I Made a Metaverse 27 Years Ago, The Atlantic, October 29, 2021: The metaverse Zuckerberg shows off in his video doesn’t... Read more
Posted on 03 November 2021 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Microsoft's Universal Image Language Representation Model
Turing Bletchley can perform image-language tasks in 94 languages using a common image-language vector space, without any metadata or surrounding text. Read more
Posted on 02 November 2021 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Teaching AI to Solve 'word Problems' in Grade-school Arithmetic
We've trained a system to answer grade-school math problems with double the accuracy of a fine-tuned GPT-3 model.Multistep reasoning is difficult for today's... Read more
Posted on 29 October 2021 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Hapy Birthday, Dizzy! [John Birks Gillespie]
John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie would have been 104 years old today. Gillespie was not only a brilliant trumpeter who expanded both the harmonic and rhythmic... Read more
Posted on 21 October 2021 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Abstract Representations Emerge in Neural Networks Trained on Multiple Tasks
Abstract representations emerge naturally in neural networks trained to perform multiple tasks https://t.co/DHreZEgw9E pic.twitter. Read more
Posted on 21 October 2021 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
When Sonny Rollins Plays His Subconscious Asserts Itself
"No, you can't reach into your subconscious. You just have to play and let it happen. I don't reach into my subconscious. My subconscious asserts itself." –... Read more
Posted on 16 October 2021 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Three Photos from August
Posted on 16 October 2021
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Population Size and the Evolution of Folk Tunes
This looks great, and very much in line with our https://t.co/xnbTBAUvC9 https://t.co/DFrNYhgGoQ— Alberto Acerbi (@acerbialberto) October 15, Read more
Posted on 16 October 2021 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY
