Today marks the beginning of a decade-long project. It starts with the launch of a simple text analysis tool, and ends with the total digitization of meaning. https://t.co/iPAoWmmlvP
Donald Trump’s transformation of the Republican Party:
2017: Trump and Pence take office.
2018: Republicans lose the House.
2020: Republicans lose the presidency.
2021: Republicans lose the Senate.
Man, the promise of America is still there. A Jewish investigative journalist and a Black Reverend elected in the state of Georgia. That’s what this country is all about.
Facts of Thirdness, or Signs; and under their forms of Thirdness in the ideas of Signs of Firstness, or Feeling, i.e., things of beauty; Signs of Secondness, or Action, i.e., modes of conduct; and Signs of Thirdness, or Thought, i.e., forms of thought.
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In the ideas of Firstness, Secondness, and Thirdness, the three elements, or Universal Categories, appear under their forms of Firstness. They appear under their forms of Secondness in the ideas of Facts of Firstness, or Qualia, Facts of Secondness, or Relations, and
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wildest dreams...
Tennyson says "maybe wildest dreams / Are but the needful preludes of the truth." But I would doubt the 𝘮𝘢𝘺𝘣𝘦. Wildest dreams 𝘢𝘳𝘦 the necessary first steps toward scientific investigation.
- C. S. Peirce (1892)
Lowell Lectures on the History of Science
https://t.co/TPkHU9NIpa is an experiment using @OpenAI's API to create conversations with virtual historical figures.
Edgar Allen Poe can help you finish a poem. Isaac Newton will explain gravitation. Gottfried Leibniz will tell you how he feels about Newton...
I've been capturing articles and stories on Race in America over the past few years. Here's a link to what I've seen, read, and collected. It's hardly complete. But there's enough here to serve as an introduction to what's broken.
#race#racism#America
https://t.co/FxSw90Mvfr
Our virtual program, X Genesis One, is a wrap! I'm so proud of a group of our prospective CEOs (15 of them!), our ninjas & validators, & our X Genesis team. Our focus: the future of health, learning, & work in light the impacts of COVID. The X Genesis One Investor Day is 7/23!
“Every human society must justify its inequalities: unless reasons for them are found, the whole political and social edifice stands in danger of collapse.” Thomas Piketty, Capital and Ideology
A powerful introduction in these times.
it is produced, and its interpretant in itself. Now signs may be divided as to their own material nature, as to their relations, to their objects, and as to their relation to their interpretants.
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I am now prepared to give my division of signs, as soon as I have pointed out that a sign has two objects, its object as it is represented and its object in itself. It has also three interpretants, its interpretant as represented or meant to be understood, its interpretant as
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Introducing Jukebox, a neural net that generates music, including rudimentary singing, as raw audio in a variety of genres and artist styles. We're releasing a tool for everyone to explore the generated samples, as well as the model and code: https://t.co/EUq7hNZv62