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Monday, April 15, 2024

“The Hard Problem” (A Tom Stoppard Play)

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 11:32 am

See also http://m759.net/wordpress/?s="Hard+Problem".

Thursday, January 29, 2015

Hard Problem

Filed under: General — m759 @ 10:00 am

The Yale Daily News  on Sept. 9, 2014 —

Related material on "the hard problem" of consciousness—

Wikipedia on the problem, and Tom Stoppard's first new
play in nine years, "The Hard Problem."

See also, in this journal, the posts of Sept. 9, 2014, 
the date of the above Yale Daily News  story
"Research Suggests New Consciousness Hub."

The above scene from the new Stoppard play
suggests also a review of Kulturkampf for Princeton. 

Monday, April 15, 2024

Life of Pi:  Starting Over

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 11:54 am

"You need to import the NumPy library at the beginning of your script."
— Pi.ai yesterday

    Scene  from "The Hard Problem ," a play by Tom Stoppard.

Sunday, March 26, 2017

Four-Year* Date

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 11:00 am

"Eigenvalues. Fixed points. Stable equilibria.
Mathematicians like things that stay put.
And if they can't stay put, the objects of study
should at least repeat themselves on a regular basis. . . ."

— Barry Cipra, "A Moveable Feast," SIAM News , Jan. 14, 2006

Tuesday, March 18, 2014

Class of 64 continues…

Uncategorized — m759 @ 12:00 PM 

Mathematician Norbert Wiener reportedly
died on this date in 1964.

“Mathematics is too arduous and uninviting a field
to appeal to those to whom it does not give great rewards.
These rewards are of exactly the same character as
those of the artist. To see a difficult uncompromising material
take living shape and meaning is to be Pygmalion,
whether the material is stone or hard, stonelike logic."
. . . .

Wednesday, March 18, 2015

Play Is Not Playing Around

Uncategorized — m759 @ 1:00 PM

(A saying of Friedrich Fröbel)


. . . .

Friday, March 18, 2016

Southwestern Noir

Uncategorized — m759 @ 2:56 PM 

Kyle Smith on April 15, 2015, in the New York Post —

"The ludicrous action thriller 'Beyond the Reach'
fails to achieve the Southwestern noir potency
of 'No Country for Old Men,' but there’s no denying
it brings to mind another Southwestern classic
about malicious pursuit: the Road Runner cartoons."
. . . .

Saturday, March 18, 2017

Back to the Past

Uncategorized — Tags:  — m759 @ 7:35 PM 

"Old men ought to be explorers" — T. S. Eliot

. . . .

* For a full  four years, see also March 18, 2013.

Thursday, August 27, 2015

The Space of Art

Filed under: General — m759 @ 3:18 pm

"Thinking Outside the Square:
Support for Landscape and Portrait
Formats on Instagram"

Related material from March 18, 2015 —

Play Is Not Playing Around

— m759 @ 1:00 PM 

(A saying of Friedrich Fröbel)

 

See also the previous two posts,
Dude!  and Focus! .

Monday, June 8, 2015

The Secret Life of the Public Mind

Filed under: General — m759 @ 11:30 am

(Continued from May 25)

Above: Scenes from "The Hard Problem" and "Fun Home."

 

Wednesday, March 18, 2015

Play Is Not Playing Around

Filed under: General — m759 @ 1:00 pm

(A saying of Friedrich Fröbel)

See also the previous two posts,      
        Dude!  and Focus! .

Thursday, February 5, 2015

Core Problem

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 9:48 am

(As opposed to "The Hard Problem")

Sharon Gaudin at computerworld.com
on artificial intelligence (AI) today—

"Google's [Geoffrey] Hinton said he's most excited
about gains in neural networks that would enable
computers to understand the content of sentences
and documents.

'That is close to the core of Google because
it involves understanding sentences, and if you can
understand what a document is saying, you can do
a much better search,' Hinton said. 'That's a core
AI problem. Can you read a document and know
what it's saying?'" 

Sometimes. How about you?

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