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Sunday, June 21, 2020
William Benzon, 1912-1998: He Went Out Swinging and Smooth Shaven [born on Jan 31, 1912]
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My father, William Benzon, was born on Jan. 31, 1912 in Baltimore, MD, and died November 21, 1998 in Allentown PA. His parents were Dani...
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Plato’s Brain Contemplating Itself in the Guise of the Ideal Forms [the philosophical father of us all (in the West)?]
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To the head of the queue, from May 2011, on general principle. Since I've got progress on my mind these days, think of this as an exam...
Saturday, June 20, 2020
Contemporary reactions to blue-eyed soul from 1965, Righteous Brothers [time travel in music]
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Unchained Melody Pay close attention to how these women react to the singing: when they react, and how. They are enthralled by the music....
Thelonius Monk live in Palo Alto in 1968 [Epistrophy]
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At Pitchfork: Today, Impulse! Records has announced it is releasing a recording of that historic concert for the first time. Master ta...
Man on the Moon: Three Takes [Media Notes 38]
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What’s it like to have landed on the moon? I’ve not done it. Only a few have. The Crown There's an episode in The Crown where ...
Friday, June 19, 2020
Pink Helter Skelter
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A White Blackman [#Juneteenth]
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I'm bumping this to the top in honor of Juneteenth and my friend Ade Knowles. Rest in peace, my brother. * * * * * I published th...
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Friday Fotos: Out My Window [Hallucinated City]
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Thursday, June 18, 2020
Children’s hierarchical belief structure in real and non-real figures: From direct knowledge to presented-as-fiction
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Kapitány R, Nelson N, Burdett ERR, Goldstein TR (2020) The child’s pantheon: Children’s hierarchical belief structure in real and non-real ...
Transformer goes to work generating images
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Mark Chen, Alec Radford, Rewon Child, Jeff Wu, Heewoo Jun, David Luan, Ilya Sutskever, Generative Pretraining from Pixels , Proceedings of...
Flowers and leaves
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What’s the way to progress? Evolution, revolution, or revolution through evolution? [Progress Studies]
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I don’t know. But I suspect evolution, if only by default. I think we’re headed toward collapse or revolution, perhaps revolution via evolu...
Wednesday, June 17, 2020
Artistic progress, the case of films
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It was once common to talk of the history of art in terms of progress and, for all I know, it may still be [Arthur Danto said that in a pape...
Manhattan monolith?
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GPT-3 apocalypse now [?]
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OpenAI’s GPT-3 API automatically generates shockingly high quality text. Here are some samples: https://t.co/E4azTT0oVo What are the soc...
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