I'm working on it, trying to be positive. I'm going to list all the nice things that have happened or gone well in the last week, just on a personal level because it's not worth looking elsewhere at the moment. I caught a train that I was completely going to miss. I didn't realize that... Continue Reading →
What Do We Need to Learn?
I'm fascinated, like all of us are, by the progress that LLM's have made and "artificial intelligence". I feel completely overwhelmed, though, as a teacher. I don't know what we need to be teaching. Okay, for one thing, I feel like we're all going to get hooked on using AIs for various things, and pretty... Continue Reading →
The Pursuit of Happiness
Once again, I'm promoting the excellent podcast Philosophize This! which talks about the history of philosophy. Stephen West has moved on to John Locke (episode no. 35), and I'm finding myself profoundly disturbed. I learned about John Locke, inadvertently, when I studied the US Constitution when I was in school: "We hold these truths to... Continue Reading →
Avicenna
So I'm new at this philosophy thing and I don't know all the names. The last few -- Plotinus, Boetinus and now Avicenna -- I'd never heard of. This is also because we're at an in-between stage in the history of philosophy. In Europe, the podcast Philosophize This! is delving into the Dark Ages. Stephen... Continue Reading →
Moove your cow, and your mind will follow. 