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In deep learning’s forward–backward sweep of prediction–correction, it seems like the process of weaving back and forth has followed the history of programmable systems, from the first Jacquard weaving looms of the early nineteenth century, which were controlled by punched cards, to the deep learning systems of the twenty-first century.
Resisting AI
Dan McQuillan
And as any mixed-race person will tell you—to be half of two things is to be whole of nothing.
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Gabrielle Zevin
Though I could not have put it into words then, the sense had come to me that hunting as I knew it – the eagerness to kill something I did not need to eat – was an artificial relation to the place, when what I was beginning to need, just as inarticulately then, was a relation that would be necessary and meaningful.
The World-Ending Fire
Wendell Berry
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