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It's a reference to Murnau's "Nosferatu" where a letter from Orlok is written in a strange ideographic language that includes a picture of a house, evidently relating Orlok's request to buy a house.
how did this garbage wind up here?
I thought this was going to be about Yggdrasil. Why must every name in the world be destroyed by software labellers?
Leibniz's monads [...]have nothing in common with category theory monads except the name.[0]
The monad is something about which you can reason but you cannot look inside because it is windowless. No quibbling, please.
somehow turn an intellectually handicapped gardener into a psychic genius
waddya mean somehow? They got him to understand the Sacred Geometry. I saw it in San Francisco when it came out and the guy next to me said "oh shit! it's the SACRED GEOMETRY!"
sure it did, the stuff around SOAR and John Anderson, production systems that aimed to model cognitive load, Case-based reasoning, etc.
He is remembered for laffs, but he was a very very compelling composer.
Emotions are basically very fast predictions by the brain
This predicts that basically ChatGPT has emotions.
Capitalization Of Boilerplate Oriented Language
this is not only true of COBOL, my friend.
Queinnec's attitude was that ALL forms of scoping are useful. In the 80s there was a class struggle between Lexical scoping, which prevailed, and everything else, which Q. detailed.
trial and error
There's a clip of John Cleese showing how Beethoven in fact composed the 5th symphony by trial and error.
Reading Freud, Wittgenstein said "now here is something new."
It would seem to be checking sentence structure, and if "too complex" -- embedded clauses and such -- it follows a hard-wired rule to report AI.
If it all sounds the same to you it's because it is.
So it's not about canned orchestration?
"Pick the right tool for the job" --- exit
The left hand fingering of the example puts the thumb on a black key and trills fingers 4 and 5: not good.
"Snakehead"
Harmonically and formally not as adventurous as the scherzo of Symphony #1.
Vivaldi was a great musical genius.