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 ( 7623 )
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Analyzing the Activity of Population of 1500 Neurons
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Posted on 20 October 2023 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Friday Fotos: Yesterday's Walk to and from the Library [Hoboken]
Posted on 20 October 2023
CULTURE,
PHILOSOPHY,
SOCIETY
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Are (at Least Some) Large Language Models Holographic Memory Stores?
That’s been on my mind for the last week or two, ever since my recent work on ChatGPT’s memory for texts [1]. On the other than, there’s a sense in which it’s... Read more
Posted on 20 October 2023 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Bye, Bye Prompt Engineering [for LLMs]
I have been saying prompt engineering is going away this paper shows whyIn a preregistered experiment, GPT4 was better able to solicit user preferences by jus... Read more
Posted on 20 October 2023 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Washington Street Shop Windows at Night [Hoboken]
Posted on 19 October 2023
CULTURE,
PHILOSOPHY,
SOCIETY
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Ramble on ChatGPT: Coming up on a One Year Anniversary, Time to Reflect on...
ChatGPT was released on November 31, 2022, and I started playing around with it on December 1, 2022. Perhaps early December 2023 would be a good time for me to... Read more
Posted on 19 October 2023 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Shimmy, Shimmy: Shake. River, River: Light.
Posted on 18 October 2023
CULTURE,
PHILOSOPHY,
SOCIETY
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Carla Bley Big Band - Festival De Jazz De Paris 1988 [+Iverson Interview]
Carla Bley has just died, so I'm bumping this to the top of the queue. It's excerpts from an interview with Ethan Iverson. Note the Louis Armstrong passage... Read more
Posted on 18 October 2023 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Why LLMs Are Poor at Planning [unroll]
@bbenzon Hello, the unroll you asked for: https://t.co/P4UEFiKnsg Share this if you think it's interesting. 𤗠Thread Reader App... Read more
Posted on 18 October 2023 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Hoboken at Night
Posted on 17 October 2023
CULTURE,
PHILOSOPHY,
SOCIETY
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ChatGPT Plays 20 Questions [sometimes Needs Help]
One of the questions that keeps coming up about LLMs, and certainly about ChatGPT, is: Can they reason? Well, it depends on what you mean by reason, no? Read more
Posted on 17 October 2023 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Childhood Deaths Are Down
One thing about the much-lamented rise of more intensively supervised childhood activities is that kids have in fact become a lot less likely to die.... Read more
Posted on 17 October 2023 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Highlights of the Fireside Chat with Ilya Sutskever & Jensen Huang: AI Today &...
This is the condensed version of the "Fireside Chat: With Ilya Sutskever and Jensen Huang: AI Today and Vision of the Future (March 2023)". Read more
Posted on 16 October 2023 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Front Porch, Blue Truck
Posted on 16 October 2023
CULTURE,
PHILOSOPHY,
SOCIETY
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The Five-Day Office Week Is Dead
Nicholas Bloom, The Five-Day Office Week Is Dead, NYTimes, Oct. 16, 2023. Why have the return-to-office maximalists lost? There seemed to be so much excitement... Read more
Posted on 16 October 2023 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Once More Unto the Breech! Shakespeare and Bankman-Fried
Over at 3 Quarks Daily, Joseph Shieber has a nice piece on the Bankman-Fried Shakespeare controversy that seems to have gotten so many folks riled up: "Oh,... Read more
Posted on 16 October 2023 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Precipitating Sunlight
Posted on 15 October 2023
CULTURE,
PHILOSOPHY,
SOCIETY
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Mapping ChatGPT’s Ontological Landscape, Gradients and Choices [interpretability]
By ontological landscape I mean the repertoire of different things it knows about. The parlor game, Twenty questions, was invented in the United States in the... Read more
Posted on 15 October 2023 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
The Effects of Adverse Childhood Experiences on Adults' Subjective Wellbeing
Blanchflower, David G. and Bryson, Alex, The Effects of Adverse Childhood Experiences on Adults' Subjective Wellbeing. IZA Discussion Paper No. 16479,... Read more
Posted on 15 October 2023 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Yann LeCun on the (near- and Mid-term) Future of AI
To those who say:"but closed source products have billions of investments behind them"I reply:In the mid-90a, Microsoft and Sun Microsystems battled to provide... Read more
Posted on 15 October 2023 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY
