Anecdotal Value
Hollis Robbins, Norma SanchoObservations informed by having paid attention for a long time.
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Why Can't a Model Be More Like a Man?
The most prophetic figure in George Bernard Shaw’s 1912 play Pygmalion (or the 1964 film My Fair Lady, if that’s the version you know) is not Eliza (after whom Joseph Weizenbaum named his proto-LLM) but Eliza’s dustman-turned-philosopher fa...
Let Us Now Praise Famous Shape Rotators
Should the U.S. graduate more engineers, or at least more people who work with their hands, now that LLMs are here to do people’s talking and writing for them? I’ve been thinking about this question a lot this past year, since Dan Wang’s ex...
How to Listen to a Tarantino Movie
To begin, start by assuming that Quentin Tarantino knows what he’s doing, because he does. I first started paying attention to his film soundtracks with Django Unchained (2012) and I still think this is the best example. The late great Enni...
Amor Fati Entropy
The way I used to teach Claude Shannon’s Mathematical Theory of Communication long ago is this: if someone slips a card with a heart on it under your dorm room door on February 14, it means something, but it may not mean a lot. People expec...
AI and the DMZ
Every terrific conference is terrific in its own way, especially when there’s recognition of the risks (if not the terror) of not getting it right. SAIPCON 2026 “Frontier Issues in AI Governance: Agents at the Gate” in Seoul, South Korea on...
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Scholar of language and bureaucracy writing on how AI is changing the world. PhD Princeton; MPP Harvard. Professor of English and former Dean of Humanities at University of Utah. All opinions here are solely my own.
Undergraduate of Pedagogy 2025-2028. Long-time learner of Jungian Analytical Psychology. Writer. Astrologer. Single. Mexican. 49. In Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Norma-Sancho-ebook/dp/B0H1NMVDMJ/
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