This is a quote that has stuck with me over time: “History followed different courses for different peoples because of differences among peoples’ environments, not because of biological differences among peoples themselves.” — Jared Diamond–Guns,…
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Your brain on AlphaGo.
The recent Go match between the AI AlphaGo and Lee Sodol was fascinating. Several observers noted that they were impressed by the AI’s play and certainly learned something. Here’s what I picked up: When making…
Reality is form.
“And do you not know that they [the geometers] make use of the visible forms and talk about them, though they are not of them but of those things of which they are a likeness,…