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Bill Benzon, BAM! Bootstrapping Artificial Minds @bbenzon

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Bill Benzon, BAM! Bootstrapping Artificial Minds@bbenzon
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Description 3: The Primacy of Visualization academia.edu/16835585/Descri… via @academia

Description 3: The Primacy of Visualization

Describing literary texts requires a mode of thought distinct from the discursive interpretation of them. It is a mode of thought in which various visual devices are central. These devices include:...

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The Genius Chronicles: Going Boldly Where None Have Gone Before? academia.edu/7974651/The_Gen… via @academia

The Genius Chronicles: Going Boldly Where None Have Gone Before?

The MacArthur Fellows Program would be more effective in supporting creatives if it simply stopped giving fellowships to people with secure jobs at elite institutions; they don’t need help in order...

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“Kubla Khan” and the Embodied Mind academia.edu/8810242/_Kubla_… via @academia

“Kubla Khan” and the Embodied Mind

Coleridge's "Kubla Khan" has a very coherent structure. Two movements of the poem are each divided into three sections; in both cases the middle of those three in turn has three subsections and...

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Serendipity in the Wild: Three Cases, With remarks on what computers can't do academia.edu/145860186/Seren… via @academia

Serendipity in the Wild: Three Cases, With remarks on what computers can't do

This paper examines intellectual creativity as it occurs in ordinary, open-ended scholarly practice, through three detailed case histories drawn from my own work in the humanities. Each case traces...

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NEW SAVANNA: Masterful control of all ten digits new-savanna.blogspot.com/202…
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Those who have not seen this Video, Must See till the End. She is *Roxana Küwen*, a German Circus Artist, graduated at Fontys Academy for Circus & Performance Art, Tilburg, Netherlands. Watch her Foot & Hand Movements With Five Balls, As If She has FOUR Hands !! Absolutely Amazing Control ...!!! ❤️
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To J. Hillis Miller, 2019: On the State of Literary Criticism academia.edu/40466672/To_J_H… via @academia

To J. Hillis Miller, 2019: On the State of Literary Criticism

J. Hillis Miller is one of the premier literary critics in the American academy over the last half-century. He is a first-generation deconstructive critic. I studied with him in the 1960s at Johns...

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Reading Morton’s Hyperobjects academia.edu/7877627/Reading… via @academia

Reading Morton’s Hyperobjects

Timothy Morton’s Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World, takes global warming as the starting point for a philosophical investigation our current moment. The world as we’d...

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Nina Paley
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Flooded fields. These are not actual ponds, just flooding from recent rains.
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Cage match on the White House lawn: Amazon vs. Anthropic. Thunderdome redux.
Gary Marcus
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Jun 13
1. WOW! Amazon is going to get some hate for this. 2. before judging myself I would love to know more about the nature and gravity of the exploits, and why these specific models were singled out, given that all LLMs are vulnerable.
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NEW SAVANNA: A sophisticated take on the AI bubble argument new-savanna.blogspot.com/202…
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Replying to @DailyPicTheme2
We're all in a spin!! #startrail #DailyPictureTheme
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NEW SAVANNA: Ezra Klein contra (extreme) Homo economicus [Don't torture pigs] new-savanna.blogspot.com/202…
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Abstract Patterns in Stories: From the intellectual legacy of David G. Hays academia.edu/34975666/Abstra… via @academia

Abstract Patterns in Stories: From the intellectual legacy of David G. Hays

Coleridge's " Kubla Khan " exhibits nested structures suggesting an underlying computational process. Seeking to understand that process I joined the computational linguistics research group of David...

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Apocalypse Now: Working Papers academia.edu/8105343/Apocaly… via @academia

Apocalypse Now: Working Papers

This is series of informal essays about Apocalypse Now that argues that the movie as a whole takes the form of a classic rite of passage as described by Durkheim and van Gennep. Particular attention...

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Spike Lee's Blues academia.edu/8196666/Spike_L… via @academia

Spike Lee's Blues

This is a full-dress article about Spike Lee’s film, Mo’ Better Blues, that I never published formally. The penultimate paragraph: “In attempting to construct the image of jazz, and its musicians, in...

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Ontology of Common Sense academia.edu/28723042/Ontolo… via @academia

Ontology of Common Sense

Opening paragraph: The ontology of common sense is the discipline which seeks to establish the categories which are used in everyday life to characterize objects and events. In everyday life steel...

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Gary Marcus
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Vibe Coding, 2025-2026 RIP 🪦 Turns out you do still need skilled software engineers in the loop, just like many of us said all along.
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Claude on Claude: Ten independent trials academia.edu/126681237/Claud… via @academia

Claude on Claude: Ten independent trials

In ten independent trials Claude 3.5 Sonnet was asked: “If you could conduct your own intellectual investigation, what would you study and how would you go about it?” While the answers were different...

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The Origins of LLMs – A long tectonic subduction event finally producing a visible volcanic eruption in November 2022, Version 2 academia.edu/167895960/The_O… via @academia

The Origins of LLMs – A long tectonic subduction event finally producing a visible volcanic...

Large language models are the result of a rich research tradition stretching back to the 1950s. This tradition involves a network of researcher doing work in the following: classical MT and computa...

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