For those who have created prompts to write/answer in the style of someone, an author’s on the mark rebuttal that goes beyond the “get off of my lawn” level. #GödelEscherBach #AI https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/07/godel-escher-bach-geb-ai/674589/

If you want a deeper understanding of AI than just “10 ChatGPT prompts you MUST know,” check out this interview of Douglas Hofstadter, author of “Gödel, Escher, Bach,” a must-read if you want to understand the roots of AI.

#ArtificialIntelligence #AI #Hofstadter #DouglasHofstadter #GodelEscherBach #ChatGPT #LLM #LLMs #LargeLanguageModels #IChatThereforeIAm

https://www.globalnerdy.com/2023/07/03/douglas-hofstadter-godel-escher-bach-and-his-take-on-the-state-of-ai-today/

@ElaWild @Blumi147 Jeder sollte ein Vorzeigebuch haben 😏

Meines ist #GödelEscherBach #GEB 🧐

@Mathemagician @McPatrick
Tried to learn algebra on Khan Academy a few years ago and made a little progress, but my plate got really full. I'm also trying learn Spanish, get a blog, learn more about philosophy read a few important books and listen as much great music as possible. The clock is running out!

I'm hoping I'm at least smart enough to understand most of #GodelEscherBach. That's one of the books on my list.

@ErikJonker ook tegen boerenacties? Zou een recursieve actie zijn. Gedurfd. #gödelescherbach

@henryseg There are also more extreme examples of this, such as a digital sundial which has a different shadow every 20 minutes as the sun arcs across the sky.

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1068443
https://www.digitalsundial.com/background.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_sundial
#sundial #math #fractal #3dPrinting #GödelEscherBach

From reading #GödelEscherBach and its recursive chapter, through being a bit stumped a bit by the way the shown graphs are constructed, now all the way down considering an attempt to a custom #graphviz layout engine to replicate the tree layout from the book so I can actually "see" things better as I couldn't find a tool that does it like that (yet) https://graphviz.org/docs/layouts/writing-layout-plugins/ #RabbitHole

I really should be focusing on the actual problem here, rather than being nerd sniped, but there you go I-mode

I'm barely a few chapters into #GödelEscherBach and I already find myself applying " quote marks a lot more often to words, where I suddenly realise how we might be mixing up meanings of the same expressions in different systems. I guess that will make me that annoying co-worker until I work through this properly...

Somebody should make an #eBook #eReader case that (optionally) shows the cover of the book being read.

It would mean that people can strike up conversations in public spaces about the books they are reading.

How do the #geek kids show their friends that they are cool enough to be reading #GodelEscherBach or #TheDragonBook in #school nowadays?

#eBooks #Amazon #Kobo #Kindle #AmazonKindle #SocialMedia

Somebody should make an #eBook #eReader case that (optionally) shows the cover of the book being read.

It would mean that people can strike up conversations in public spaces about the books they are reading.

How do the #geek kids show their friends that they are cool enough to be reading #GodelEscherBach or #TheDragonBook in #school nowadays?

#eBooks #Amazon #Kobo #Kindle #AmazonKindle #SocialMedia

@SJohnRoss But recursion and metathinking are signs of intelligence, right??? (/s) #GodelEscherBach

It's a beautiful thing when three books by three individuals, one non-fiction, two fiction, have scads of connections that one's glad to have read at least half of each for an enriched perusal and a pharaonic level of connections.
#TheEight
#Cryptonomicon
#GodelEscherBach

@gemlog@mastodonten.de Thank you for sharing how #GodelEscherBach by #Hofstadter affected and shaped your thinking. I gratefully accept additional reviews from readers who love it. I am just a smidge daunted by its size and ideas and need encouragement to complete it in the next few days. @xmanmonk @papa