Desmond and Brubeck, among other jazz musicians, are fascinated by Sahl, because they feel that he improvises in much the way they do, first stating a theme and then letting his mind or his feelings vary it ad lib
it is a linguistic act that fails to produce a proposition -- Eric Winsberg offers a "file not found" solution to the Liar Paradox I really dont know how it happened, how it is that I came to feel myself equal to tackling the headiest of topics -- Rebecca Newberger Goldstein recalls getting hooked on the "ecstasy" of abstract ideas The core aspiration of the project was to create opportunities for the public to do the humanities rather than only learn about the humanities -- Stone Addington on "a game-like crash course" to demonstrate "the impressive depth of the humanities and its centrality to a full life" The science of poetry is relevant to its art [K]nowledge of what you can do in a poem, facilitates the writing of better poetry -- Brad Skow on knowing-how, knowing-that, and the obscure rules of meter If Churchland is right, reasoning just is the transformation of vectors in a high-dimensional activation space that maps the relevant cognitive realm -- Matt Brown on why anyone interested in whether and how AI's "think" should revisit Paul Churchland's work The moral ostrich category of human failing [people] ought to have been asking morally relevant questions but dismissed them because they valued plausible deniability above all -- Saba Bazargan-Forward and others are asked by the NYT about complicity & Epstein I once gave a talk in the economics department at Princeton where I described myself as someone with a Ph.D
Richards adopted daughter Eloise, now 14, as an infant in 2011
Why Does My House Smell Like Smoke
Impossible, heresy even
both dessert-like and refreshing
