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 ( 7846 )
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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 -
Vector Hermeneutics [digital Humanities]
Major claim: "[Vector space models] call for distinct modes of humanistic interpretation and explication that are related to but distinct from those that may... Read more
Posted on 11 October 2021 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Nina Paley’s Summa Quiltologica
I would like to perform the following experiment: Select two groups of people who are fairly sophisticated about the visual arts but who have never heard of Nin... Read more
Posted on 10 October 2021 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Video Primer on the Physics of Synchronization [Steven Strogatz]
Veritasium 10.2M subscribers How does order spontaneously arise out of chaos? This video is sponsored by Kiwico — go to https://www.kiwico.com/Veritasium50 for... Read more
Posted on 01 October 2021 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Why Neil deGrasse Tyson is Skeptical About Aliens Visiting Us in UFOs
One consideration: With all the images being made daily by smart phones, and all the images being made space-oriented telescopes and satellites and... Read more
Posted on 01 October 2021 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Deep Learning for Software Engineering, a Survey of the Literature
It finally happened! After 3ish years of hard work, our paper on surveying the deep learning for software engineering (DL4SE) research field has been accepted t... Read more
Posted on 27 September 2021 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Deep Learning's Diminishing Returns
Why GPT-6 or 7 may never come. Great essay on "Deep Learning’s Diminishing Returns" @IEEESpectrum https://t.co/VJDXjBejDZ— Gary Marcus... Read more
Posted on 26 September 2021 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
How Aardman Does Stop-motion Animation [Adam Savage]
On a Shooting Set of Aardman Animations' Early Man! Adam Savage’s Tested Adam Savage steps onto one of the film stages at Aardman Animations, where a complex an... Read more
Posted on 26 September 2021 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
How the Ubiquity of Search Engines is Changing People's Understanding of How...
Monica Chin, File Not Found, The Verge, Sept. 22, 2021. The article opens: Catherine Garland, an astrophysicist, started seeing the problem in 2017. Read more
Posted on 23 September 2021 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
A Third, a Third, and a Third, Approximately || Two Hallways in 51 Pacific...
Posted on 23 September 2021
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Beyond Human Nature
Amia Srinivasan, in a wide-ranging conversation with Tyler Cowen: I also think one error that is consistently made in this discourse, in this kind of... Read more
Posted on 23 September 2021 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY
