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 ( 7846 )
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Improving Prediction Accuracy and Interpretability of Deep Neural Netowrk Models
SurvNet: A Backward Procedure for Neural Networks. #BigData #Analytics #DataScience #AI #MachineLearning #IoT #IIoT #Python #RStats #TensorFlow #Java #JavaScrip... Read more
Posted on 11 May 2021 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Curious About Group Theory? Visual is the Way to Go
After hearing my podcast with Amie Wilkinson, someone asked me about books they could use to teach themselves group theory or abstract algebra. Read more
Posted on 10 May 2021 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Blue Green Yellow Orange Red
Posted on 10 May 2021
CULTURE,
PHILOSOPHY,
SOCIETY
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Paganini Caprice No. 24 Performed on Various Instruments [what a Glorious...
It’s not something I set out to investigate, Caprice No. 24 for violin by Niccolò Paganini. Paganini was an Italian violinist whose life straddled the... Read more
Posted on 10 May 2021 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Branches, Twigs, and Leaves
Posted on 09 May 2021
CULTURE,
PHILOSOPHY,
SOCIETY
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Thoughts About Recent Work, Where It’s Going [philosophy New, GPT-3 & AI]
Two recent lines of work have gotten me thinking, my reconsideration of John Horgan’s The End of Science and my dialog with GPT-3 about a Jerry Seinfeld bit.... Read more
Posted on 09 May 2021 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Hey, Kids! Let's Start Our Own Country! [all Things Virtual]
At balajis.com, How to Start a New Country, 9 April 2021. Why? We want to be able to peacefully start a new country for the same reason we want a bare plot of... Read more
Posted on 08 May 2021 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Friday Fotos: Hoboken Spring [Hallucinated City]
Posted on 07 May 2021
CULTURE,
PHILOSOPHY,
SOCIETY
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Analyze This! Screaming on the Flat Part of the Roller Coaster Ride [Does GPT-3...
Here’s Seinfeld’s first television appearance. It is from 1977 on Celebrity Cabaret, a nationally syndicated show. He’s doing a bit that starts with the... Read more
Posted on 07 May 2021 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Sketches After Latour: A Working Paper
Title above, abstract, contents, and introduction below. Download at: Academia: https://www.academia.edu/48804595/Sketches_After_Latour_A_Working_Paper. SSRN:... Read more
Posted on 06 May 2021 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
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,
PHILOSOPHY,
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
