“He was showing that backpropagation would learn good filters for processing visual input in order to make good decisions, and that was a bit more obvious because we knew the brain did things like that. The fact that backpropagation would learn distributed representations that captured the meanings and the syntax of words was a big breakthrough.” ~ Geoffrey Hinton #[0] — I’m really enjoying this book. Grateful you recommended it in another conversation thread. I’m listening to the audible but also bought the Kindle version to quote & reread.
Tell me what you know about backpropagation.
#bookstr Architects of Intelligence
I was fortunate enough to have read the Iliad at a young age— a classic I encourage others to explore. If you like graphic novels and/or you have a young person in your life, I heard Gareth Hinds’ version of The Iliad & The Odyssey are great. https://www.amazon.com/Iliad-Gareth-Hinds/dp/0763696633 #bookster
I bought Hinds’ The Odyssey for my nephew. He’s in 4th grade going on 5th very soon. My sister said it’s a little spicy— he has all these questions about Circe & “the suitors” but as she said— he’ll be a young adult soon. Technically— I think they are recommending it for kids a little older. But I’m “that” Aunt. https://www.amazon.com/Odyssey-Gareth-Hinds/dp/0763642681
I was fortunate enough to have read the Iliad at a young age— a classic I encourage others to explore. If you like graphic novels and/or you have a young person in your life, I heard Gareth Hinds’ version of The Iliad & The Odyssey are great. https://www.amazon.com/Iliad-Gareth-Hinds/dp/0763696633 #bookster
Super upsetting the only coffee shop within walking distance of me closed & has not reopened. Love reading amongst others. I could drive to one nearby— but I changed my mind.
Tell me what you know about plurality #[2] & Susan Sontag
I preorder the new collection— looking forward to reading. #bookster
“It is the interviews that stand out as the secret treasures of “On Women,” for it is the interviews that make the most space for a plurality of style and thought that mirrored Sontag’s belief in the plurality of the self. “To be an intellectual is to be attached to the inherent value of plurality, and to the right of critical space (space for critical opposition within society),” she wrote in her journal. In the interviews, one finds a voice that is rigorous still, but bolder and freer and more gladiatorial in its pronouncements.” ~Merve Emre What Susan Sontag Wanted for Women https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/what-susan-sontag-wanted-for-women
Tell me what you know about plurality @dave
I preorder the new collection— looking forward to reading. #bookster
“It is the interviews that stand out as the secret treasures of “On Women,” for it is the interviews that make the most space for a plurality of style and thought that mirrored Sontag’s belief in the plurality of the self. “To be an intellectual is to be attached to the inherent value of plurality, and to the right of critical space (space for critical opposition within society),” she wrote in her journal. In the interviews, one finds a voice that is rigorous still, but bolder and freer and more gladiatorial in its pronouncements.” ~Merve Emre What Susan Sontag Wanted for Women https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/what-susan-sontag-wanted-for-women
Yes! Thank you. I like how you used both the word “category” and the phrase “realm of existence.”
I enjoyed how you used one of my summary words (mystery) and incorporated it into an extended response. Years ago when I first started studying poetry, I found this book helpful. https://www.amazon.com/Poetry-Handbook-Mary-Oliver/dp/0156724006
Tell me more about what you mean about “unknown being”
I enjoyed your summary. In regards to “otherness” — I would add the mystery that manifests in some form (a thought, an image, a new pattern) that emerges with our encounters.
“Of course there is the otherness,
right away inside you when
the doe steps carefully down
the embankment. Then clatter
of hoof and the dappled water
with leaf shade. The otherness
and the invisible until you came.”
~Linda Gregg #poem “The Otherness”
#[2] what do you think of this poem? 
Extremely intelligence person— and their “shitposts” were awesome because they were often thought traps— in the best way because they encouraged you to think & laugh.
One if the coolest things that happened to me during my short time on an instance via Mastodon was “SwiftOnSecurity” followed me.
After teaching an Orton Gillingham lesson to some middle students, we started reading a passage, I got from CommonLit called *What is the Metaverse.” The piece mentions Roblox— so I asked my students about their experiences. I was pretty impressed when a kiddo bursted out with, “It’s a form of childhood labor.” And he gave a convincing argument as to why he thought this— my students are great teachers themselves. 
A little preview… Elif Batuman & I are both Gen X & received our first emails in college.
“I didn't know what email was until I got to college. I had heard of email, and knew that in some sense I would "have" it. "You'll be so fancy," said my mother's sister, who had married a computer scientist, "sending your e, mails." She emphasized the "" and paused before "mail? That summer, I heard email mentioned with increasing frequency.
"Things are changing so fast," my father said. "Today at work I surfed the World Wide Web. One second, I was in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. One second later, I was in Anitkabir." Arutkabir, Atatürk's mausoleum, was located in Ankara. I had no idea what my father was talking about, but I knew there was no meaningful sense in which he had been "in" Ankara that day, so I didn't really pay attention.” ~Elif Batuman #TheIdiot #bookster 
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Attended an amazing book talk last night! Elif Batuman has a brilliant mind. Starting with THE IDIOT because Either/Or is sophomore year… I don’t want to skip ahead. 
