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18:3918:39, 28 January 2025 diff hist +4,143 Evolution of the Brain →Pattern Recognition
17:4717:47, 28 January 2025 diff hist +3,225 Evolution of the Brain →Temporal Distance Learning
17:1317:13, 28 January 2025 diff hist +21 Evolution of the Brain →The Cambrian Explosion
17:1217:12, 28 January 2025 diff hist +618 Evolution of the Brain →The Cambrian Explosion
17:0417:04, 28 January 2025 diff hist +411 N A Brief History of Intelligence Created page with "This was a perfect book for me to read at this moment, giving me insights into both the evolution of the brain and also AI learning methods, and I'll use his list of the five "breakthroughs" as the initial structure for my analysis: * 600m ya - Bilaterians and Steering * 500m ya - Vertebrates and Reinforcing * 200m ya - Mammals and Simulation * 15m ya - Primates and Metathinking * 100k ya - Humans and Speech"
16:5816:58, 28 January 2025 diff hist −34 Books →Books to Read
10:0110:01, 28 January 2025 diff hist +46 Books →Books to Buy

17:4117:41, 26 January 2025 diff hist +727 Evolution of the Brain No edit summary
17:2817:28, 26 January 2025 diff hist +3,362 N Evolution of the Brain Created page with "== 600m ya - Bilaterians and Steering == === Valence === * Bilaterians are the only animals that have brains * Nematodes (legless wormlike creatures about the size of a grain of rice) emerge in the Edicaran period from 635 to 539m ya. * Brain had 302 neurons (against 85 billion today * Initial steering is obtained through assessing the valence (goodness or badness) of a stimulus, and going towards the things that smelled good and away from the things that smelled bad...."
17:2717:27, 26 January 2025 diff hist −3,345 Brain →Evolution of the Brain
12:0212:02, 26 January 2025 diff hist +2,146 Brain No edit summary

17:5017:50, 21 January 2025 diff hist +2,377 N Kant and the Platypus Created page with "I enjoyed parts of this and other parts were hard-core philosophy arguing over positions in semiotics that I don't hold and am not interested in. The main thrust of Eco's position seems to be that we cannot understand and navigate in the world without categorizing the objects that we encounter but that these categorizations are: * never perfect, * never perfectly understood * personal to each one of us and when we communicate, the words we use are based on our own defin..."
17:2317:23, 21 January 2025 diff hist +4 Books →Books Read
17:2117:21, 21 January 2025 diff hist +2,093 N Foucault’s Pendulum Created page with "I had a very good memory of reading this maybe 20 years ago. This time around, I thought it started off pretty slow, but after 100 pages or so things got interesting and the last 100 pages turned into a real thriller. The main body of the novel is the construction of the "plan" by our three heroes, who construct, for fun, a thousand year plot to find a point on the earth where they can control its magnetic forces. I haven't done my due diligence, but I'm guessing that..."
16:2116:21, 21 January 2025 diff hist +4 Books →2025
16:2116:21, 21 January 2025 diff hist +72 Books →Books to Read

16:5216:52, 2 January 2025 diff hist +138 N Films Created page with "== Films to Watch == * Dune 2 == Films Watched == === 2025 === * === 2024 and Earlier === * The Big Lebowski * The Holiday * Love Actually"
16:4716:47, 2 January 2025 diff hist +11 Main Page No edit summary
16:3316:33, 2 January 2025 diff hist +904 N Project Created page with "== Thinking About Minds == I’m interested in getting to grips with four main things: * How did life evolve up to the point of producing human brains (13.4bn ya to 40,000 ya) * How did human culture develop to bring us to the current day * How do we interpret and interact with the world via our brains * Where are we going now (with a particular focus on screens, democracy, AI, and climate change) == Big Bang to Brains == How did the universe begin, how did life evolv..."
16:1616:16, 2 January 2025 diff hist +15 Main Page No edit summary
16:1516:15, 2 January 2025 diff hist +14 Main Page No edit summary
16:1116:11, 2 January 2025 diff hist +56 Main Page No edit summary
15:5015:50, 2 January 2025 diff hist +28 Books No edit summary

09:1909:19, 6 December 2024 diff hist +47 Books No edit summary
09:1909:19, 6 December 2024 diff hist +134 N David Lynch Created page with "* George Lucas wanted DL to [https://kottke.org/09/12/lucas-wanted-david-lynch-to-direct-return-of-the-jedi direct Return of the Jedi]"