Learning
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Ross: The Industries of the Future
The importance of a book like “The industries of the future”1 by Alec Ross can hardly…
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Il Dio dei matematici
Questa intervista al grandissimo Enrico Bombieri e’ molto profonda. A un certo punto B. dice: “Il Dio che viene…
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Deflation of human agency
One of the premier Art Deco buildings in London, the famed Senate House (above) keeps resonating…
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“It is not important what we cover, but what you discover” (Victor Weisskopf)
Otium, in ancient Roman time, was the time productively spent pursuing the agenda of your personal…
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“To enquire and to create”
There used to be an old concept in classical philosophy, the concept of the full and…
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Wiener on learning & Gödel
This is a marvellous paper by former colleague of Norbert Wiener, N. Levinson. The bibliography of…
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Engineering initial conditions (some words of thanks)
The human civilization stumbled first upon metric geometry (the Greeks), then it invented projective geometry (Italian…
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“What is the logical form of this?” on Sen, Gramsci, Sraffa and Wittgenstein
In a perceptive book, Ray Kurzweil, chief engineer at Google, and responsible for the Hidden Markov…
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Grammars vs feedback control
There was a point in which the AI community adopted Chomsky grammars. Grammars are Cartesian universals.…
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Arretratezza e folklore (Gramsci)
From “Quaderni del carcere”, by Antonio Gramsci Einaudi 2001, vol. II, pp. 1375-1395 (here). In the…
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