https://new-savanna.blogspot.com/2014/04/sun-ra-space-is-place-full-movie.html
NEW SAVANNA: Sun Ra - Space Is the Place [Full Movie]
space is the placenew savannasun rafullmovie
https://new-savanna.blogspot.com/2025/02/the-magic-of-french-toast-returns-to.html
NEW SAVANNA: The magic of French toast returns to New Savanna
new savannathe magicfrench toastreturns
https://new-savanna.blogspot.com/2020/09/friday-fotos-electric-empire-shaky-cam.html
NEW SAVANNA: Friday Fotos: Electric Empire [shaky-cam]
new savannafriday fotoselectricempireshaky
https://new-savanna.blogspot.com/2022/12/what-do-these-objects-have-in-common.html
NEW SAVANNA: What do these objects have in common?
new savannawhat doobjectscommon
https://new-savanna.blogspot.com/2015/10/evening-workout.html
NEW SAVANNA: Evening Workout
new savannaeveningworkout
https://new-savanna.blogspot.com/2023/11/friday-fotos-lets-say-bye-bye-to.html
NEW SAVANNA: Friday Fotos: Let's say "Bye, Bye!" to Halloween
new savannafriday fotosletsaybye
https://new-savanna.blogspot.com/2020/08/is-this-for-real-on-monday-morning.html
NEW SAVANNA: Is this for real, on a Monday morning?
new savannafor realmondaymorning
https://new-savanna.blogspot.com/2015/01/siri-getting-to-know-you.html
NEW SAVANNA: Siri, getting to know you
A recent study found that computers can judge your personality based on your pattern of Facebook "likes": In the study, a computer cou...
getting to knownew savannasiri
https://new-savanna.blogspot.com/2016/09/crane-over-hoboken.html
NEW SAVANNA: Crane over Hoboken
new savannacranehoboken
https://new-savanna.blogspot.com/2025/06/the-occupation-of-los-angeles.html
NEW SAVANNA: The occupation of Los Angeles (?)
Heather Cox Richardson, June 10, 2025 , Letters from an American , June 11, 1015. Today President Donald J. Trump made it clear that t...
new savannathe occupationlosangeles
https://new-savanna.blogspot.com/2015/12/painted-bird.html
NEW SAVANNA: Painted Bird
new savannapaintedbird
https://new-savanna.blogspot.com/2018/11/synchronous-and-asynchronous-applause.html
NEW SAVANNA: Synchronous and asynchronous applause at the end of a performance
I've posted before about synchronized applause: The Sound of Many Hands Clapping: Group Intentionality , and Synch and Society, Two Article...
at the endnew savanna
https://new-savanna.blogspot.com/2025/02/queen-annes-lace.html
NEW SAVANNA: Queen Anne's Lace
new savannaqueen annelace
https://new-savanna.blogspot.com/2020/06/origins-of-music.html
NEW SAVANNA: Origins of music
new savannaoriginsmusic
https://new-savanna.blogspot.com/2017/06/blue-and-green-flowers.html
NEW SAVANNA: Blue and Green (flowers)
blue and greennew savannaflowers
https://new-savanna.blogspot.com/2015/03/replication-of-experimental-results-and.html
NEW SAVANNA: Replication of experimental results and cultural evolution
Replication of experimental results has become a hot issue in the behavioral sciences and medicine. While some some of this reflects fraud,...
new savannaexperimental resultsreplicationculturalevolution
https://new-savanna.blogspot.com/2016/01/its-kids-and-their-parents-and-yes.html
NEW SAVANNA: It's the kids, and their parents, and, yes, their teachers
How to fix the nation's schools, in the NYTimes : Today Union City, which opted for homegrown gradualism, is regarded as a poster child ...
new savannathe kids
https://new-savanna.blogspot.com/2020/09/through-trees.html
NEW SAVANNA: Through the trees
new savannatrees
https://new-savanna.blogspot.com/2019/07/sunday-evening-at-dusk.html
NEW SAVANNA: Sunday evening at dusk
new savannasunday eveningdusk
https://new-savanna.blogspot.com/2010/11/underbelly-project.html
NEW SAVANNA: The Underbelly Project
So I wake up this morning, go on the web, and WHAM! It hits me, the Underbelly Project. As the article in the NYTimes says , it defies ever...
new savannathe underbellyproject
https://new-savanna.blogspot.com/2020/06/music-therapy-synch-and-biorhythms.html
NEW SAVANNA: Music therapy, synch, and biorhythms
At YouTube : Equipped with both the skills of a computer engineer and the artistry of an accomplished musician, Grace Leslie has devel...
new savannamusic therapysynchbiorhythms
https://new-savanna.blogspot.com/2015/12/jerry-coyne-on-irony-of-natural.html
NEW SAVANNA: Jerry Coyne on the Irony of Natural Selection
Mutations, though necessary for evolution, are general harmful. Jerry Coyne points out that there's an irony here : The irony to which I...
new savannajerry coyneon theironynatural
https://new-savanna.blogspot.com/2013/07/black-white-organic-disseminators.html
NEW SAVANNA: black white organic disseminators
new savannablack whiteorganic
https://new-savanna.blogspot.com/2024/04/how-is-llm-like-mechanical-clock.html
NEW SAVANNA: How is an LLM like a mechanical clock?
Let's think about LLMs a little more here, but first let's think about mechanical clocks. A clock movement is an arrangement of gears and ...
new savannallmlikemechanicalclock
https://new-savanna.blogspot.com/2015/05/underwood-and-sellers-2015-beyond-whig.html
NEW SAVANNA: Underwood and Sellers 2015: Beyond Whig History to Evolutionary Thinking
Evolutionary processes allow populations to survive and thrive in a world of contingencies In the middle of their most interesting and c...
new savanna
https://new-savanna.blogspot.com/2013/01/us-war-on-drugs-is-bust.html
NEW SAVANNA: U.S. War on Drugs is a Bust
Writing in The Wall Street Journa l, economists Gary Becker and Kevin Murphy argue that the war on drugs that Nixon started in 1971 has fai...
war on drugsnew savannabust
https://new-savanna.blogspot.com/2017/01/snow-on-tracks.html
NEW SAVANNA: Snow on the tracks
new savannaon thesnowtracks
https://new-savanna.blogspot.com/2011/10/twins.html
NEW SAVANNA: Twins
new savannatwins
https://new-savanna.blogspot.com/2021/10/when-sonny-rollins-plays-his.html
NEW SAVANNA: When Sonny Rollins plays his subconscious asserts itself
"No, you can't reach into your subconscious. You just have to play and let it happen. I don't reach into my subconscious. My subconscious as...
new savannasonny rollinsplayssubconsciousasserts
https://new-savanna.blogspot.com/2017/08/reflected-glory.html
NEW SAVANNA: Reflected glory
new savannareflectedglory
https://new-savanna.blogspot.com/2021/04/hoboken-blooms.html
NEW SAVANNA: Hoboken blooms
new savannahobokenblooms
https://new-savanna.blogspot.com/2024/05/is-there-robo-boss-in-your-future.html
NEW SAVANNA: Is there a robo-boss in your future?
David Streitfeld, If A.I. Can Do Your Job, Maybe It Can Also Replace Your C.E.O. , NYTimes , May 28, 2024. The opening paragraphs: As a...
new savannarobobossfuture
https://new-savanna.blogspot.com/2024/12/claude-35-sonnet-talks-about-tiger.html
NEW SAVANNA: Claude 3.5 Sonnet talks about Tiger Lilies
This is on 11th Street in Jersey City. What am I looking at? These are Tiger Lilies (Hemerocallis fulva), also known as Ditch Lilies o...
new savannaabout tigerclaudesonnettalks
https://new-savanna.blogspot.com/2020/06/ai-researchers-where-are-born-where-do.html
NEW SAVANNA: AI researchers, where are they born, where do they work?
The top AI researchers are born all over the world. But they mostly still come to the US to work. https://t.co/FiWwd3FmiR pic.twitter.com...
new savannaairesearchersbornwork
https://new-savanna.blogspot.com/2010/06/rant-theory-of-mind-not.html
NEW SAVANNA: Rant: Theory of Mind, NOT!
I posted this back in 2010, but I'm thinking about these things these days, so I thought I'd bump it to the top of the queue. Here's a com...
theory of mindnew savannarant
https://new-savanna.blogspot.com/2015/03/terrified-how-anti-muslim-fringe.html
NEW SAVANNA: Terrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream
This is new from Princeton University Press. I read it as a case study in cultural evolution: Bail, C.A: Terrified: How Anti-Muslim Frin...
new savannaterrifiedantimuslimfringe
https://new-savanna.blogspot.com/2018/04/the-uses-of-narratology-for-study-of.html
NEW SAVANNA: The uses of narratology for the study of interactive stories
A couple of weeks ago Mark Nelson posted some tweets that caught my attention: Interactive narrative isn't my research focus anymore, but if...
new savannausesnarratologystudyinteractive
https://new-savanna.blogspot.com/2013/07/green-so-zen.html
NEW SAVANNA: Green, so Zen
new savannagreenzen
https://new-savanna.blogspot.com/2010/04/lost.html
NEW SAVANNA: Silver 1
This is a moderately close shot of a bit of graffiti in Jersey City, NJ, so close that you can't see the design at all. It is of a kind know...
new savannasilver
https://new-savanna.blogspot.com/2014/04/the-economy-of-six-gun-experts-in-old.html
NEW SAVANNA: The economy of six-gun experts in the Old West
The Six-Shooter Marketplace: 19th-Century Gunfighting as Violence Expertise Jonathan Obert (2014). Studies in American Political Develo...
new savannathe economyexperts in
https://new-savanna.blogspot.com/2025/06/ai-and-economic-growth-short-term-vs.html
NEW SAVANNA: AI and economic growth: Short-term vs. long-term constraints
Here's Arnold Ling's whole column (title above) for June 30, 2025: Luis Garicano writes , When productivity crushes prices, quanti...
new savannaai andeconomic growthshort term
https://new-savanna.blogspot.com/2014/04/forsythias.html
NEW SAVANNA: Forsythias
new savanna
https://new-savanna.blogspot.com/2019/10/trajectories-in-story-telling-space-dh.html
NEW SAVANNA: Trajectories in story-telling space [#DH, #Macroanalysis]
This is an explanatory supplement to On the direction of literary history: How should we interpret that 3300 node graph in Macroanalysis ? ...
new savannastory tellingtrajectoriesspacedh
https://new-savanna.blogspot.com/2021/04/harold-bloom-on-shakespeares-greatness.html
NEW SAVANNA: Harold Bloom on Shakespeare's greatness
The late Harold Bloom was a bardolator without peer, so some have claimed. Whether he was the best I do not know, but bardolator he surely ...
new savannaharold bloomshakespearegreatness
https://new-savanna.blogspot.com/2024/04/current-perspectives-on-abstract.html
NEW SAVANNA: Current Perspectives on Abstract Concepts and Future Research Directions
new savannafuture researchcurrentperspectives
https://new-savanna.blogspot.com/2019/10/technology-adoption.html
NEW SAVANNA: Technology adoption
We overestimate how fast technology adoption has historically occurred. Take the transition from animal to mechanical: the first canaries ...
new savannatechnologyadoption
https://new-savanna.blogspot.com/2018/10/we-do-it-all-for-you.html
NEW SAVANNA: We do it all for you
we do it allnew savanna
https://new-savanna.blogspot.com/2026/03/a-canadian-goose-in-hoboken-by-hudson.html
NEW SAVANNA: Canadian geese in Hoboken by the Hudson River
new savannacanadian geeseby thehobokenhudson
https://new-savanna.blogspot.com/2017/02/bourdain-talks-at-google-new-york.html
NEW SAVANNA: Bourdain talks at Google, New York
Looks like I've got a Jones for Anthony Bourdain. I've been watching mostly Parts Unknown , but also A Cook's Tour , and I've even gone sco...
talks at googlenew savannabourdainyork
https://new-savanna.blogspot.com/2026/04/this-and-that-from-march.html
NEW SAVANNA: More this and that from March
this and thatnew savannamarch
https://new-savanna.blogspot.com/2020/06/wolfram-says-its-computation-all-way.html
NEW SAVANNA: Wolfram says it's computation all the way down
At John Brockman's Edge : One of the questions that comes about when you imagine that you might hold in your hand a rule that will gener...
all the waynew savannawolframsays
https://new-savanna.blogspot.com/2015/01/variations-on-moon-shot.html
NEW SAVANNA: Variations on a Moon Shot
Here's photo of the Moon that I took the other day. Nothing special, just a nice clean shot of the Moon in sky empty of clouds, contrails, ...
new savannavariationsmoonshot
https://new-savanna.blogspot.com/2025/11/in-canceling-gateway-project-trump.html
NEW SAVANNA: In canceling the Gateway project, Trump threatens the US economy
As you may know, Trump has decided to stop work on the Gateway Tunnel project , which involves creating a new rail line between New York ...
new savannathe gatewaycanceling
https://new-savanna.blogspot.com/2013/11/the-illuminati-leapin-lizards.html
NEW SAVANNA: The Illuminati: Leapin' Lizards!
Free the reptile within! From the Wikipedia : The Illuminati (plural of Latin illuminatus, "enlightened") is a name given to se...
new savannathe illuminatileapinlizards
https://new-savanna.blogspot.com/2015/10/finger-knowledge-note-about-me-and-my.html
NEW SAVANNA: Finger Knowledge, A Note About Me and My Machines
A couple of months ago, before I got my new machine, two keys on my keyboard failed. First the left Shift key failed, and then the left Co...
new savannaabout mefingerknowledge
https://new-savanna.blogspot.com/2013/11/light-and-relationships-ontology.html
NEW SAVANNA: Light and Relationships, an Ontology
new savannalightrelationshipsontology
https://new-savanna.blogspot.com/2019/01/chelsea-as-seen-from-hoboken.html
NEW SAVANNA: Chelsea as seen from Hoboken
new savannaas seenchelseahoboken
https://new-savanna.blogspot.com/2015/11/its-getting-colder-how-about-another.html
NEW SAVANNA: It's getting colder, how about another flower?
new savannahow aboutgettingcolderanother
https://new-savanna.blogspot.com/2015/11/kaos-graffiti-climbing-charts-on-flickr.html
NEW SAVANNA: KAOS: Graffiti climbing the charts on Flickr
I posted this to Flickr two days ago (Monday) and it's now gotten over 2000 views, making it my fourth most popular photo. And it's got...
new savannathe chartskaosgraffiticlimbing
https://new-savanna.blogspot.com/2022/12/abstract-concepts-and-metalingual.html
NEW SAVANNA: Abstract concepts and metalingual definition: Does ChatGPT understand justice and...
Our conceptual worlds are filled with abstract concepts, such as truth, love, beauty, and justice. Such concepts cannot be defined in physi...
new savannaabstractconcepts
https://new-savanna.blogspot.com/2015/12/literary-criticism-and-spiritual-crisis.html
NEW SAVANNA: Literary Criticism and Spiritual Crisis (?)
One of the things I keep thinking about is the sense of professional narcissism that had academic literary critics writing as though their ...
new savannaliterary criticismspiritualcrisis
https://new-savanna.blogspot.com/2018/11/temporal-processing-in-huma-memory.html
NEW SAVANNA: Temporal processing in human memory
Qiaoli Huang, Jianrong Jia, Qiming Han, Huan Luo, Fast-backward replay of sequentially memorized items in humans, eLife 2018;7:e35164, DOI:...
new savannain humantemporalprocessingmemory
https://new-savanna.blogspot.com/2017/08/urban-periodicity-with-shadows.html
NEW SAVANNA: Urban periodicity, with shadows
new savannaurbanperiodicityshadows
https://new-savanna.blogspot.com/2021/04/purple-dialectics-urban-pastoral.html
NEW SAVANNA: Purple dialectics, the urban pastoral [Matisse]
new savannathe urbanpurpledialecticspastoral
https://new-savanna.blogspot.com/2013/11/what-about-boxing.html
NEW SAVANNA: What about boxing?
Post by Bill Benzon .
new savannawhat aboutboxing
https://new-savanna.blogspot.com/2025/07/basic-foods.html
NEW SAVANNA: Basic foods
new savannabasicfoods
https://new-savanna.blogspot.com/2015/03/dogs-as-actors.html
NEW SAVANNA: Dogs as actors
From a NYTimes article about White God , a prize-winning Hungarian film with a cast of 200+ dogs who have to act in sophisticated ways: ...
new savannadogsactors
https://new-savanna.blogspot.com/2023/01/chatgpt-stories-and-ring-composition.html
NEW SAVANNA: ChatGPT, stories, and ring-composition
A lot of my interaction with ChatGPT has involved stories, simple stories, but stories nonetheless. Those stories deserve attention in them...
new savannachatgptstoriesringcomposition
https://new-savanna.blogspot.com/2020/07/2-brain-and-gpt-3-part-1-dimensions-and.html
NEW SAVANNA: 2. The brain, the mind, and GPT-3: Dimensions and conceptual spaces
[Edited, with a substantial addition, August 2, 2020] The purpose of this post is to sketch a conceptual framework in which we can under...
new savannathe brain
https://new-savanna.blogspot.com/2011/04/urban-pastoral.html
NEW SAVANNA: The Urban Pastoral
April 1, 2011: Another piece from the old days at The Valve. I figure if we're going to transform our urban environments, we've got to tak...
new savannathe urbanpastoral
https://new-savanna.blogspot.com/2020/09/ripples-ducks-mast-buildings.html
NEW SAVANNA: Ripples, ducks, a mast, buildings
new savannaripplesducksmastbuildings
https://new-savanna.blogspot.com/2010/08/old-chocolate-factory-1-life-in-fast.html
NEW SAVANNA: The Old Chocolate Factory 1: Life in the fast lane
This building, what was left of it, is off of Newark Avenue near the border between Jersey City and Hoboken. Word is that it used to be a ch...
new savannathe oldchocolate factorylife in
https://new-savanna.blogspot.com/2019/01/invariance-principles-of-brain.html
NEW SAVANNA: Invariance principles of brain connectivity
The two invariance principles I hypothesized govern brain connectivity; the data across brains from small to large confirm this hypothesis...
new savannaprinciplesbrainconnectivity
https://new-savanna.blogspot.com/2010/05/tools-of-civilization.html
NEW SAVANNA: Tools of Civilization
I took these photos in the same place, but at different times. Early in the 20th Century a trolley line went through this place, which is in...
new savannatoolscivilization
https://new-savanna.blogspot.com/2015/11/from-yesterdays-shoot.html
NEW SAVANNA: From Yesterday's Shoot
new savannayesterdayshoot
https://new-savanna.blogspot.com/2018/11/biological-vs-cultural-evolution.html
NEW SAVANNA: Biological vs. cultural evolution (language and music)
Dan Everett recently posted this tweet: Another definitional issue that keeps bothering me for no particularly good reason - people who s...
new savannacultural evolutionbiologicalvslanguage
https://new-savanna.blogspot.com/2024/12/bergen-arches-home-of-jersey-drones.html
NEW SAVANNA: Bergen Arches, home of the Jersey drones
new savannahome ofthe jerseybergenarches
https://new-savanna.blogspot.com/2018/11/an-old-green-villain-mural-gvm021-gvm021.html
NEW SAVANNA: An old Green villain Mural, GVM021 [#GVM021]
new savannaoldgreenvillainmural
https://new-savanna.blogspot.com/2018/04/family-problems-from-greene-to.html
NEW SAVANNA: Family Problems: From Greene to Shakespeare
This is revised and adapted, from a post I first published at The Valve and have since republished in a working paper which is available ...
new savannafamily problemsgreeneshakespeare
https://new-savanna.blogspot.com/2017/08/creativity-through-life-cycle.html
NEW SAVANNA: Creativity through the life cycle
Writing in the NYTimes , Alison Gopnik and Tom Griffiths , report the results of a study involve people of various ages: 4- and 5-year-old ...
new savannathe lifecreativitycycle
https://new-savanna.blogspot.com/2015/10/buoy-on-hudson.html
NEW SAVANNA: Buoy on the Hudson
new savannaon thebuoyhudson
https://new-savanna.blogspot.com/2013/08/crispin-on-pinker-on-science.html
NEW SAVANNA: Crispin on Pinker-on-Science
Over at Bookslut : Mary Midgley's Science and Poetry argues for a coming together of these two fields, without one trying to dominate t...
new savannacrispinpinkerscience
https://new-savanna.blogspot.com/2020/05/looking-up-iris.html
NEW SAVANNA: Looking up [Iris]
new savannalooking upiris
https://new-savanna.blogspot.com/2020/08/city-organic-by-river.html
NEW SAVANNA: City organic by the river
new savannaby thecityorganicriver
https://new-savanna.blogspot.com/2018/04/its-bird-its-plane-its-bhagwan-shree.html
NEW SAVANNA: It's a bird, it's a plane, it's Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh!
Netflix is currently streaming a 6-part documentary about how central Oregon was "invaded" by Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and his followers, int...
new savannabirdplanebhagwanshree
https://new-savanna.blogspot.com/2023/11/distinctive-features-in-phonology-and.html
NEW SAVANNA: Distinctive features in phonology and "polysemanticity" in neural networks
Scott Alexander has started a discussion of recent paper mechanical interpretability paper over at Astral Codex Ten: Towards Monosemantici...
new savannadistinctive featuresphonologyneuralnetworks
https://new-savanna.blogspot.com/2022/05/where-we-are-now-no-such-thing-as-agi.html
NEW SAVANNA: Where we are now [no such thing as AGI]?
(1) the research community is making *some* progress towards HLAI (2) scaling up helps. It's necessary but not sufficient, because.... (3) w...
where we are nownew savanna
https://new-savanna.blogspot.com/2015/10/prospects-limits-of-discursive-thinking.html
NEW SAVANNA: Prospects: The Limits of Discursive Thinking and the Future of Literary Criticism
Another working paper. The usual deal, links, abstract, contents, and introduction. Academia.edu: https://www.academia.edu/17168348/Pros...
new savannathe limits
https://new-savanna.blogspot.com/2023/11/sam-altman-we-need-another-breakthrough.html
NEW SAVANNA: Sam Altman: "We need another breakthrough."
Sam Altman (CEO of OpenAI): There are more breakthroughs required in order to get to AGI Cambridge Student: "To get to AGI, can we just ke...
new savannasam altmanneedanotherbreakthrough
https://new-savanna.blogspot.com/2019/10/about-those-california-wild-fires.html
NEW SAVANNA: About those California wild fires...
7. State's electricity system has been responding to all sorts of demands for all sorts of things. Equity, low rates, renewable energy, ef...
new savannacaliforniawildfires
https://new-savanna.blogspot.com/2019/01/and-this-is-progress-in-computing.html
NEW SAVANNA: And this is progress in computing?
I am really fascinated by the fact that a computer with 1000x faster processor and 100x more memory than 20 years ago can still feel slowe...
new savannaand thisprogresscomputing
https://new-savanna.blogspot.com/2015/10/if-its-not-online-and-free-then-its-not.html
NEW SAVANNA: If It's Not Online and Free, Then It's Not Published
That's by Scott F. Johnson and it's on his Academia.edu site : The explosion of free PDFs of scholarship published before 1922 facilitat...
new savannaif itonline and
https://new-savanna.blogspot.com/2025/04/road-work.html
NEW SAVANNA: Road work
new savannaroadwork
https://new-savanna.blogspot.com/2020/08/robot-researchers.html
NEW SAVANNA: Robot researchers
A small but growing crop of machines is learning to design and carry out its own experiments. How will this change the future of research? B...
new savannarobotresearchers
https://new-savanna.blogspot.com/2025/05/chasing-horizon.html
NEW SAVANNA: Chasing the Horizon
new savannachasinghorizon
https://new-savanna.blogspot.com/2020/06/america-has-become-low-trust-society.html
NEW SAVANNA: America has become a low-trust society
The extent to which America has rapidly evolved to become a low-trust society seems like something we should talk about more. https://t.co...
new savannaamericabecomelowtrust
https://new-savanna.blogspot.com/2018/04/what-have-we-here.html
NEW SAVANNA: What have we here?
new savanna
https://new-savanna.blogspot.com/2016/04/digital-humanities-public-and-saving.html
NEW SAVANNA: Digital Humanities, the Public and "Saving the Humanities"
Melissa Dinsman interviews Laura Mandell in the LARB : Another concern that has come up deals with public intellectualism, which many sc...
new savannadigital humanitiesthe publicsaving
https://new-savanna.blogspot.com/2015/03/another-r-g-b-study.html
NEW SAVANNA: Another R G B Study
new savannar ganotherbstudy
https://new-savanna.blogspot.com/2021/04/dinner-at-malibu-diner-pandemic.html
NEW SAVANNA: Dinner at the Malibu Diner [pandemic]
new savannaat thedinnermalibudiner