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In *Leviathan and the Air Pump*, S Shapin recounts the 1600s controversy between Hobbes, who held that true knowledge always originates in pure solipsistic reasoning (“ratiocination”) and Boyle, who argued that knowledge required external confirmation via physical evidence. We’re still at it.
Privileged psyches in particular hate giving up on the idea that what they conclude on their own, without checking it by the world, is true.

In lecture at Brown, Yann LeCun discusses a new approach to AI
No stranger to controversy, AI pioneer Yann LeCun told a capacity crowd that large language models are not the future of AI and that a new approach is needed if machines are to achieve human-like intelligence.

It hit 15°C today. That must explain why the air conditioning is on full blast in this lecture hall.

Octopus Plunge Pricing is coming to France. Users of the Electroverse app can benefit from discounted electricity at Powerdot stations, depending on market conditions.
https://www.automobile-propre.com/articles/powerdot-oc…

Jusqu’à 50 % moins cher… ces bornes de recharge changent de prix selon l’heure
Powerdot et Octopus Energy lancent une tarification dynamique pour la recharge des voitures électriques. Des remises de 20 à 50 % sont annoncées.

Series C, Episode 11 - Moloch
AVON: If interrogation were simply a way of satisfying your sadistic whims, you would cut the chat and get on with the torture.
LECTOR: [O.O.V.] We will. Don't worry.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/311/480 B7B5

Luistertip,
#podcast

A part of tomorrow's lecture is on the history of far-right organizing at the university where I work. I haven't taught the course for a few years. I'm curious - and sort of terrified - to see what the students make of it.

Tomorrow is my lecture on the history of pizza in Canada. Mrs. Brady (1957) will make a brief appearance.
#histodons

"I can and will inadvertently change any and all years to their equivalent in the nineteenth century," he thinks as he looks over his lecture slides about consumer society and car-centric suburbs that insist this all happened in the 1860s.

My last lecture of the year is in the books!

Though we never really spoke, I will miss the kid in my Tuesday morning lecture who sat in the same seat every week and might've jumped directly off the pages of Love and Rockets.