Down the Rabbit Hole with Stephen King —
Friday, October 11, 2019
Tuesday, May 30, 2023
Benchmark
"He stopped at a bench where people could catch buses
from Somewhere to Elsewhere." — John Crowley, 1981
Hat tip to Stephanie Dick, now at Simon Fraser U.
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Wednesday, May 20, 2020
Something to Look At
Stephen Ornes in Quanta Magazine today —
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE:
Symbolic Mathematics Finally Yields to Neural Networks
“Another possible direction for the neural net to explore
is the development of automated theorem generators.
Mathematicians are increasingly investigating ways to
use AI to generate new theorems and proofs, though
‘the state of the art has not made a lot of progress,’
Lample said. ‘It’s something we’re looking at.’ “
As is Stephanie Dick.
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Thursday, May 6, 2021
Thursday, April 15, 2021
Upcoming Lecture
From thinking-machines.online/ —
“Online lecture series on artificial intelligence, summer 2021. . . .
The series will be jointly hosted by
the Research Institute for the History of Science and Technology, Deutsches Museum,
as part of their traditional »Montagskolloquium«,
the STS group at the European New School of Digital Studies, EUV,
Munich Center for Technology in Society (MCTS), TUM, and
the Philosophy of Computing group, ICFO, Warsaw University of Technology.”
From thinking-machines.online/dick/ —
“… it is urgent to unpack what is at stake….”
See as well the phrase “possible, necessary, and urgent”
in the April 10 post Bond.
And then there is Foreigner . . . .
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(For the “possible, necessary” part, see Modal Nietzsche.)
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Thursday, September 17, 2020
At the Intersection…
Or: Personal Shopping for T. S. Eliot
Fact check:
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Saturday, May 30, 2020
Monday, January 13, 2020
D8ing Continues
For the Church of Synchronology —
See as well this journal on the above lecture date: April 4, 2018,
in other posts now also tagged D8.
Update of 11:22 PM ET Jan. 13, 2020 —
Note the Christmas Eve date, and compare and contrast with the previous post.
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Sunday, November 17, 2019
Deep Beauty
From a Log24 search for Deep Beauty —
From a related search —
For the Church of Synchronology —
An image from this journal on the above Dick date, Feb. 9, 2011 —
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Monday, October 14, 2019
Thursday, October 20, 2011
Deep Craft
Stephanie Hlywak on author Mary Gaitskill (March 22, 2010)—
"In her most recent collection of short stories, Don’t Cry ,
now out in paperback, memory converges with present,
fantasy collides with reality, and sparse prose reveals deep craft."
Mary Gaitskill
See also Gaitskill in the Log24 post Plain Hunt Maximus,
Gaitskill on The Hunchback of Notre-Dame , and yesterday's
New York Times on the bells of Notre-Dame.
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