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.
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 ( 7635 )
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Blues @ 3 Quarks Daily [East Asian Style]
I’ve taken eight examples from my current series on the blues and written an article for 3 Quarks Daily: Tell me about the blues, 3 Quarks Daily, April 25,... Read more
Posted on 25 April 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Acute Angles [Manhattan, Hoboken]
Posted on 25 April 2022
CULTURE,
PHILOSOPHY,
SOCIETY
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On the Differences Between Artificial and Natural Minds: Another Version of My...
A couple weeks ago Tyler Cowen’s Emergent Ventures announced an interest in funding work in artificial intelligence (AI). I decided to apply. Read more
Posted on 25 April 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
One Problem with Deep Learning, Overfitting
“How wrong labels can lead to poor generalization”: I think this is the simplest effective visual explanation I have seen. From @fchollet’s Deep Learning with... Read more
Posted on 24 April 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Spatially Distributed Cortical Circuits
This is conceptually cool stuff Spatially distributed computation in cortical circuits https://t.co/vuVQgrHETa— Martin Vinck (@martin_a_vinck) April 24, 2022... Read more
Posted on 24 April 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
I Tip-toed Among Them, What Are They? [tulips]
Posted on 24 April 2022
CULTURE,
PHILOSOPHY,
SOCIETY
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Tell Me About the Blues: Trane, Ornette, Hannibal
Where have we been? We started with Old School jazz, Bessie Smith, Louis Armstrong, and Henry Allen. Then we zipped ahead a couple decades to hear the very... Read more
Posted on 23 April 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Crossing the Neuro-Symbolic [I'm Looking into It]
Jurassic-X: Crossing the Neuro-Symbolic Chasm with the MRKL System https://t.co/zlSHZoxZb2— Bill Benzon, aka The Danish Space Laser (@bbenzon) April 23,... Read more
Posted on 23 April 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Pink! Peekabo with the Sun
Posted on 23 April 2022
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Tell Me About the Blues: Bird, Monk, Mingus
Now we’re back to small-group jazz, which has dominated since the mid-1940s or so. The group may be as small as a piano trio – bass, drums, and piano – but is... Read more
Posted on 22 April 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Friday Fotos: On the Waterfront
Posted on 22 April 2022
CULTURE,
PHILOSOPHY,
SOCIETY
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The Imitation Game, a Trolley Problem [Media Notes 71]
Watched The Imitation Game (2014), which is about Alan Turing. The title has a double reference, of course. It refers both to the game that a homosexual had to... Read more
Posted on 22 April 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
You Didn't Think I'd Run out of Forsythia, Did You?
Posted on 21 April 2022
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Tell Me About the Blues: Count Basie, Duke Ellington
Now that we’ve seen some very different kinds of blues in jazz idioms – more or less traditional and more modern – let’s look at blues in Swing Era big band... Read more
Posted on 21 April 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Lillian Friedman Astor – First Woman Animator in a Major American Studio [Nina...
Here are her offer letters from Fleischer from 1933. pic.twitter.com/uUTWcSSPr0— Aaron Astor (@AstorAaron) April 20, 2022 And here's a sample of her work: "Bett... Read more
Posted on 21 April 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Beyond Cortico-centric Accounts of the Brain
2) Hopefully it will help eliminate the misplaced idea of "linear" brain evolution (Fig 2): pic.twitter.com/erb6IedfuH— Luiz Pessoa (@PessoaBrain) April 19, 202... Read more
Posted on 20 April 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Apocalypse, Now – If Not, When? [Ramblin’]
I’ve just run-up a post in which some denizens of Silicon Valley lose sleep worrying that the AI Apocalypse is advancing on us. And it is doing so through... Read more
Posted on 20 April 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Syntax and the Free-energy Principle
We use Turing–Chomsky Compression to align concerns of linguists with the normative account of self-organization furnished by the FEP, by marshalling evidence... Read more
Posted on 19 April 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
A Vision of the End [innocent Screams]
Posted on 19 April 2022
CULTURE,
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Is the World Coming to an End in 2033? That’s What the (AI) Crowd Says.
Not by nuclear fire, or an asteroid collision, or maybe another pandemic caused by a really deadly organism, but by a rogue AI. There are, however, some people... Read more
Posted on 19 April 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY
