Jessica Flack
Professor, Santa Fe Institute | Director, Collective Computation Group @ SFI | Chair, SFI Public Events
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On Harold Bloom
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This was one of Bloom’s gifts, to hear in any single work many voices. Poems were not themselves. A voice was not just one voice. And Bloom as Falstaff was not Bloom either, only a mask, a shadow: “I call to the mysterious one who yet / Shall walk...
Courses: Research Experiences for Undergraduates | Santa Fe Institute
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Jessica Flack Are you an undergrad into complexity science? Apply to be summer REU! Two of my best students started as REUs, continued as C4 fellows while in grad school + , published thoughtful papers + became genuinely transdisciplinary 39h
NASA Live
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NASA brings you images, videos and features from the unique perspective of America's space agency. Get updates on missions, watch NASA TV, read blogs, view the latest discoveries, and more.
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What Is It Like to Be a Philosopher?
What Is It Like to Be a Philosopher? 89d 20 tweets
in-depth autobiographical interviews with philosophers
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Jessica Flack A fascinating + rich discussion w Rebecca Goldstein abt her labyrinthine intellectual trajectory + the people, places + ideas that irked + inspired her, from to Our Friend the Atom (a children's book) to Schopenhauer’s world-knot 3d
Implicature (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
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Jessica Flack Classic: Krebs + Dawkins Using context to reduce receiver uncertainty about signal meaning Grice's conversational implicature New theory for cooperative communication 4d
A mathematical theory of cooperative communication
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Cooperative communication plays a central role in theories of human cognition, language, development, and culture, and is increasingly relevant in human-algorithm and robot interaction. Existing models are algorithmic in nature and do not shed light...
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Jessica Flack Classic: Krebs + Dawkins Using context to reduce receiver uncertainty about signal meaning Grice's conversational implicature New theory for cooperative communication 4d
Physicist Explains One Concept in 5 Levels of Difficulty | WIRED
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Theoretical physicist Sean Carroll, PhD, is challenged to explain the concept of dimensions to 5 different people; a child, a teen, a college student, a grad...
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Fascinated to Presume: In Defense of Fiction
The New York Review of Books 20d 16 tweets
I’ve always been aware of being an inconsistent personality. Of having a lot of contradictory voices knocking around my head. As a kid, I was ashamed of it. Other people seemed to feel strongly about themselves, to know exactly who they were. I was...
Jessica Flack Fascinated to Presume by takes its title from a Dickinson poem + offers a profound take on the concept of individuality + why attempts to overcome, through fiction or other means, the isolation it implies are good even if they fail. 6d
Jessica Flack Fascinated to Presume by takes its title from a Dickinson poem+is one of the best essays I've read on the concept of individuality+why attempts to overcome—thru fiction or other means—the isolation it implies are good even if they fail 6d
Sultana: The Girl Who Refused To Stop Learning
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Caltech attracts some truly unique individuals from all across the globe with a passion for figuring things out. But there was one young woman on campus this past summer whose journey towards scien…
Closing Rikers: Competing Visions for the Future of New York City’s Jails
Anakwa Dwamena 🇬🇭 - The New York Review of Books 17d 5 tweets
At this moment in the country’s history, an unusual alignment has taken shape—of investment in and activism around criminal justice reform; widespread recognition of the failure of systems currently in place; political will from all levels of...
The Engineered Century
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A century hence, 2000 may be viewed as quite a primitive period in human history. It’s something to hope for. Fellow engineers, honored guests, ladies and gentlemen: It is National Engineers Week, and I am honored to be speaking on...
Jessica Flack Fabulous quote from "The Engineered Century", a talk Neil Armstrong delivered to the National Press Club in 2000 9d
Traveling with Odysseus
Scientific American Blog Network 9d 4 tweets
The intellectual value of movement through space
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Jessica Flack Was the 1st human machine team the Apollo 11 guidance system+astronauts? 's David Krakauer argues outsourcing computation was a critical innovation. On the horizon: new collective intelligence principles for hybrid human-machine systems. 9d
On Edgar Allan Poe
The New York Review of Books 13d 1 tweets
Edgar Allan Poe was and is a turbulence, an anomaly among the major American writers of his period, an anomaly to this day. He both amazed and antagonized his contemporaries, who could not dismiss him from the first rank of writers, though many felt...
Jessica Flack More on Poe & his 1848 poem, Eureka, in this outstanding essay by Marilynne Robinson. The first line..."Edgar Allan Poe was and is a turbulence, an anomaly among the major American writers of his period, an anomaly to this day." 13d
More Than a Feeling by Tyler Malone
Poetry Foundation 14d 2 tweets
In Eureka, Edgar Allan Poe laid out an intuitive theory of the universe and everything in it.
Jessica Flack In 1848 Poe published the prose poem, Eureka, in which he offered a theory for the origin+expansion of the universe. uses Eureka as a lens to explore the idea both poetry+science use aesthetic reasoning to discover universal laws 14d
Jessica Flack In 1848 Poe published the prose poem, Eureka, which offers a theory for the universe's origin+expansion. uses Eureka as a lens to explore the idea poets, as well as scientists, discover universal laws through aesthetic reasoning 14d
Data Leviathan: China’s Burgeoning Surveillance State
Kenneth Roth - The New York Review of Books 53d 2 tweets
Today, in Xinjiang, a region in China’s northwest, a new totalitarianism is emerging—one built not on state ownership of enterprises or property but on the state’s intrusive collection and analysis of information about the people there. Xinjiang...
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Jessica Flack The worrying singularity is not AGI but a full-fledged adaptive engineering of society thru control of individual + collective behavior using AI + big data Data Leviathan & the Surveillance State Document Number Nine 17d
LRB · John Lanchester · Document Number Nine: Chinese Cyber-Sovereignty
London Review of Books 17d 6 tweets
The People’s Republic of China had its seventieth birthday on 1 October. ‘Sheng ri kuai le’ to the world’s biggest and most populous example of … of … well, actually, that sentence is hard to finish. There’s no off-the-shelf description for China’s...
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Jessica Flack The worrying singularity is not AGI but a full-fledged adaptive engineering of society thru control of individual + collective behavior using AI + big data Data Leviathan & the Surveillance State Document Number Nine 17d
Octopus Dreaming
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Steve Silberman's Interview with Robert Hunter from Poetry Flash
Artsites.ucsc.edu 25d 1 tweets
Jessica Flack Such a pleasure to read—A lovely, labyrinthine discussion w + lyricist, Robert Hunter. Melville, Joyce, purring cats, Ashbery, Merrill, Rilke, + a Lew Welch line appear: "Trails go nowhere, they end exactly/ where you stop." 25d