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It's a reference to Murnau's "Nosferatu" where a letter from Orlok is written in a strange ideographic language that includes a picture of a house, evidently relating Orlok's request to buy a house.

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how did this garbage wind up here?

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I thought this was going to be about Yggdrasil. Why must every name in the world be destroyed by software labellers?

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> Leibniz's monads [...]have nothing in common with category theory monads except the name.[0]

The monad is something about which you can reason but you cannot look inside because it is windowless. No quibbling, please.

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>somehow turn an intellectually handicapped gardener into a psychic genius

waddya mean somehow? They got him to understand the Sacred Geometry. I saw it in San Francisco when it came out and the guy next to me said "oh shit! it's the SACRED GEOMETRY!"

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sure it did, the stuff around SOAR and John Anderson, production systems that aimed to model cognitive load, Case-based reasoning, etc.

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He is remembered for laffs, but he was a very very compelling composer.

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> Emotions are basically very fast predictions by the brain

This predicts that basically ChatGPT has emotions.

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>Capitalization Of Boilerplate Oriented Language

this is not only true of COBOL, my friend.

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Queinnec's attitude was that ALL forms of scoping are useful. In the 80s there was a class struggle between Lexical scoping, which prevailed, and everything else, which Q. detailed.

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> trial and error

There's a clip of John Cleese showing how Beethoven in fact composed the 5th symphony by trial and error.

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Reading Freud, Wittgenstein said "now here is something new."