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 ( 7356 )
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On Bringing Bioligcal Data to Bear on Artificial Neural Networks [I Think We're...
last thought: 100% agreed with @criticalneuro. Diverse data is needed to properly test the idea of constraining ANNs with biological data. Dr Who, Natural... Read more
Posted on 06 May 2021 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Do Wide and Deep Networks Learn the Same Things? [I Think We're Getting...
Today we present a systematic study comparing wide and deep #NeuralNetworks through the lens of their hidden representations and outputs. Read more
Posted on 05 May 2021 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
The Relationship Between Religiosity and Authoritarian Values Varies with...
The relationship between authoritarian values and religiosity is stronger for people with greater educational attainment and who live in a society with a... Read more
Posted on 05 May 2021 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Reality is Not Perceived, It is Enacted
– in a universe of great, perhaps unbounded, complexity. David Hays and I published that in a little article, we called it a note, we published over thirty year... Read more
Posted on 05 May 2021 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Humans Have Been Terraforming the Earth for 12,000 Years ['pristine' Habitats...
12,000 Years of gardening. "Lands now characterized as 'natural,' 'intact,' and 'wild' generally exhibit long histories of use" https://t. Read more
Posted on 04 May 2021 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Brockman’s Third Culture and the Emergence of a New Philosophical Regime
I’m wondering whether what literary agent John Brockman has called the third culture isn’t, in effect, philosophy in an mode of broad-ranging intellectual... Read more
Posted on 04 May 2021 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
This is Post Number 7500 at New Savanna [Milestone – To Infinity and Beyond!]
I made my first post at New Savanna on April 14, 2010. Before that I’d been blogging at The Valve, a now defunct group blog centered on literature. Read more
Posted on 03 May 2021 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Yellow, White, Red, Purple, Green
Posted on 03 May 2021
CULTURE,
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SOCIETY
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Analyze This! Seinfeld’s Narcissistic Parakeet [Hi, Mom!]
Notice what Seinfeld does with his voice, his face, and his gestures. Mirrors The ancient Greeks had a myth about a myth, well, not exactly, but close enough. Read more
Posted on 03 May 2021 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
The Perils of Animation [cartoons]
“The difficulty of working on ‘The Simpsons’ is that each episode takes about six to eight months from beginning to end, and if you’re on staff you’re always... Read more
Posted on 02 May 2021 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Kids and Music 5: Kwak DaKyung, Jazz Trumpeter [Born to Groove]
While I’m not sure it makes much sense to say that one musical instrument is more difficult to play than another getting a sound of, say, a violin or a piano... Read more
Posted on 02 May 2021 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
From Yesterday's Walk in Hoboken
Posted on 02 May 2021
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The Cultures of Spaceflight [airplanes Vs. Rockets]
Nicholas Schmidle, Richard Branson Wanted to Beat Elon Musk to Space. It’s Been a Wild Ride. NYTimes, May 1, 2021. Elon Musk’s SpaceX had dozens of rocket... Read more
Posted on 02 May 2021 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
My First "conversation" in Japanese, with the Help of Google Translate
Google Translate rendered hashyy's first message as: When I hear her gentle and smooth performance It's very calming. And the sound of Henry's studio very good. Read more
Posted on 01 May 2021 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Horgan’s The End of Science, a Reconsideration: All Wrapped up and Ready to Go
A new working paper: No End in Sight: John Horgan’s End of Science, Redux. Download at: Academia:... Read more
Posted on 01 May 2021 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Replication Collides with "Thinking Fast, Thinking Slow"
Over at Ulrich Schimmack's Replicability-Index, A Meta-Scientific Perspective on “Thinking: Fast and Slow”, December 20, 2020. Read more
Posted on 30 April 2021 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Friday Fotos: Things That Exist [I'll Take Object-oriented Ontology for $300.]
Posted on 30 April 2021
CULTURE,
PHILOSOPHY,
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Analyze This! Another Seinfeld Bit: The Arrogance of Life Cereal
It’s time to look at another bit from Jerry Seinfeld’s new book, Is This Anything? (Simon Schuster, 2020). I am going to use a different format from the one... Read more
Posted on 29 April 2021 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Why is AI So Damn Hard?
New paper by me: "Why AI is Harder Than We Think". https://t.co/kfhr85Gb9U Feedback is welcome! pic.twitter.com/dzp8qouE7h— Melanie Mitchell (@MelMitchell1)... Read more
Posted on 28 April 2021 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Kids and Music 4: Born to Groove @3QD [a Three Step Plan]
My most recent 3 Quarks Daily piece is up: Born to Groove: Up from Mud and Back to Our Roots. It’s about music, more specifically, children and music. Read more
Posted on 28 April 2021 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY
