Chess as Played by Artificial Intelligence
A terrific overview of the history of chess machines. It brought back memories of several of those iterations. Article is freely available here. Artificial intelligencechessPhilosophy of mind
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What can we learn from Michael Oakeshott’s effort to understand our world?
The dean of Oakeshott studies, Tim Fuller, has an online talk scheduled on the 29th. Michael OakeshottTim Fuller
Zeno’s Conscience: quotes (23)
And despite the fact that I was so different from him, I believe he reciprocated my affection with equal fondness. I would be more certain of this if he hadn’t died so soon. He continued assiduously giving me lessons after my marriage and he often seasoned them with shouts and insults, which I accepted, convinced…
Intellectual Freedom and the Culture Wars
Just published. classical liberalismcultureethicsfree speechintellectual freedomPiers Bennsocial epistemology
A Confederacy of Dunces: quotes (23)
Suddenly Mrs. Reilly remembered the horrible night that she and Mr. Reilly had gone to the Prytania to see Clark Gable and Jean Harlow in Red Dust. In the heat and confusion that had followed their return home, nice Mr. Reilly had tried one of his indirect approaches, and Ignatius was conceived. Poor Mr. Reilly.…
Hot Rats
Released on this day in 1969. Hot Rats’ genius lies in the way it fuses the compositional sophistication of jazz with rock’s down-and-dirty attitude — AllMusic. Frank Zappahot rats
Zeno’s Conscience: quotes (22)
A reputation for cleverness was very useful. For one thing, many came to seek his counsel, bringing him the latest news, while he gave them the most helpful advice, confirmed by experience accumulated ever since the Middle Ages. At times he happened to gain, along with the news, the possibility of selling some merchandise. Finally…
A Confederacy of Dunces: quotes (22)
Mr. I. Abelman, Mongoloid, Esq., We have received via post your absurd comments about our trousers, the comments revealing, as they did, your total lack of contact with reality. Were you more aware, you would know or realize by now that the offending trousers were dispatched to you with our…
COSMOS+TAXIS: Next Issue
Coming soon. classical liberalismcosmos & taxis
Zeno’s Conscience: quotes (21)
When I admire someone, I try at once to resemble him. So I also imitated Malfenti. I wanted to be very clever, and I felt that I was. Indeed, I once dreamed I was smarter than he. I thought I had discovered a flaw in his business organization: I decided to tell him immediately in…
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