CS + Graphics + ML + Vision + etc.etc.
What are ways we can mathematically and computationally model our world?
How do we hold the gap between those models and the world?
Is there room for a poetic computation that encourages and reveals nuance and ambiguity? Does mathematical thinking actually require a modernist command-and-control orientation or is there another way?
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Every time I read Jan Zwicky I feel this sense of clarity, she's writing from another world where the poetic and analytical minds are not separate. I recommend her piece in the latest issue of Brick magazine.
(Buy the magazine at https://brickmag.com or at a good bookstore like Flying Books or Issues in Toronto)
I'm definitely going to adopt this practice: @bret has his preferred contact on his website as a PO box.
I would also prefer to engage in high effort/care communication (also why my inbox has 8000 unread emails, I will give you my full attention over a dinner)
Anticipating social media, and its discarnate aggressors, in 86.
(Via The Immaculate Perception, Christopher Dewdney)
Labatut really does capture a kind of beautiful raging tragic madness in the pursuit of knowledge.
I find myself both drawn to his characters and recoiling at the many horrors they have wrought. Nobody else expresses the "greats" such as Von Neumann like this.
