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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Friday Fotos: Lincoln Harbor Station on the Hudson-Bergen Light Rail
Posted on 19 October 2018
CULTURE,
PHILOSOPHY,
SOCIETY
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Interface for Brain-to-brain Communication
BrainNet: A Multi-Person Brain-to-Brain Interface for Direct Collaboration Between Brains, L. Jiang, Andrea Stocco, +3 authors Rajesh P. N. Read more
Posted on 19 October 2018 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Dissertation: Symbolic Computation in Neuronal Networks
Giovanni Sirio Carmantini, Dynamical systems theory for transparent symbolic computation in neuronal networks, 2017. Abstract: In this thesis, we explore the... Read more
Posted on 19 October 2018 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Cosma Shalizi on Machine Learning, AI
A very good post by Cosma Shalizi, Revised and Extended Remarks at "The Rise of Intelligent Economies and the Work of the IMF". Read more
Posted on 19 October 2018 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Notes on the Mind as Neural Weather: Augustine’s Confessions, Psychoanalytic...
While I was working on my book on music, Beethoven’s Anvil (Basic 2001) my friend Tim Perper put me on to the work of Walter Freeman, a neuroscientist who has... Read more
Posted on 18 October 2018 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
57 of World's 200 Richest Entities Are Corporations, Not Governments
At the Heart of Global Woes, 157 of World's 200 Richest Entities Are Now Corporations, Not Governments - https://t.co/KyO24dLxd1 via @commondreams — Katrina... Read more
Posted on 18 October 2018 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Tyler Cowen on Wealth, Coal, Space, AI, & Stuff
Rob Wiblin interviews Tyler Cowen about his latest book, Stubborn Attachments. The core: WIBLIN: If I had to pick out 50 words from the book that summarized... Read more
Posted on 17 October 2018 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Heart of Darkness: Why Were Pilgrims on Board the Boat?
A couple of weeks ago I posted a fragment from an interview with Samuel Delany about the passage in Heart of Darkness when the boat pulled away from the shore a... Read more
Posted on 16 October 2018 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
The Seeds of a New Intellectual Structure for the Academy?
Years ago, when I was in graduate school, I observed that the Catholic Church was the institutional center of intellectual life in Medieval Europe. But then... Read more
Posted on 16 October 2018 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Our Planet Has a Fever
, an infection from greed and ignorance is spreading like a plague far worse than when rats infested Europe's towns. Our world is nauseous from the toxic air... Read more
Posted on 16 October 2018 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
A World’s Fair for a World That’s Permanently Fair @3QD
I’ve got a new piece up at 3 Quarks Daily: World Island: Zeal Means Hope [The World’s Got Talent]. It’s about my friend, Jerry Greenberg, who now goes by “Zeal”... Read more
Posted on 15 October 2018 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
The Whole Earth Catalog Evolves
Whole Earth Flashbacks takes you on a dazzling journey through time, from first Whole Earth Catalogs to Co-Evolution Quarterly, Whole Earth Review, Hackers... Read more
Posted on 15 October 2018 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
How Science Works
Path for Ph.D. pic.twitter.com/7hrk58OQIE — Manu Kumar Datyal (@manukumardatyal) October 13, 2018 H/t Mark Liberman. Read more
Posted on 14 October 2018 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Words, from "abysmal" to "incredible"
I absolutely love data like this. This chart shows how good or bad survey respondents think certain words are. Brilliant is more positive than superb and awful... Read more
Posted on 14 October 2018 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Optical Character Recognition for Japanese Manuscript Text
I took this manuscript photo last time when I visited the Tokyo National Museum (I got the permission). It's not in my whole dataset. I put it in OCR model.... Read more
Posted on 14 October 2018 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
In My First Post (back in 2013) About the MacArthur Fello...
In my first post (back in 2013) about the MacArthur Fellowships I quoted a 1997 New York Times article: There are at least a few observers who question the... Read more
Posted on 13 October 2018 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Precision and Recall in TALENT SEARCH [+ Leads Qualifying Closing]
First, a quick review of yesterday’s post, TALENT SEARCH: Generating leads, qualifying them, and closing [#EmergentVentures]. Second, a remark about the... Read more
Posted on 12 October 2018 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
TALENT SEARCH: Generating Leads, Qualifying Them, and Closing [#EmergentVentures]
Generating leads, qualifying them, and closing the deal, what do they have to with finding talent? Aren’t they sales processes? Same kind of process, I think. Read more
Posted on 11 October 2018 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Do the Most Important Artists Make the Most Expensive Paintings?
Galenson, David W., Do the Most Important Artists Make the Most Expensive Paintings? (October 2, 2018). University of Chicago, Becker Friedman Institute for... Read more
Posted on 11 October 2018 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
How Do We Know That Climate Change is Real and Happening Now?
Glenn Loury (Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, Brown University) discusses climate change with Patrick T. Brown (Stanford University). Read more
Posted on 10 October 2018 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY
