@GaryMarcus@NautilusMag Spot-on critique. Symbols are obviously needed, but the question remains: How does symbolic processing emerge in a radically distributed physical system with a non-von Neumann architecture?
@GaryMarcus@NautilusMag I think that our attempt to engineer symbolic - and even neurosymbolic - systems top-down will remain to clunky to ever generalize to AGI, though they may work very well on specific applications - just like deep learning!
Sep 25, 2020 • 220 tweets • >60 min read
درس ادیب اگر بود زمزمۂ محبتی
جمعه به مکتب آورد طفل گریز پای را
نظیری
If the lecturer’s lesson were the Song of Love, it would draw the reluctant pupil to school even on Fridays
Naziri
سراغِ وحدتِ ذاتش توان زکثرت جست
کہ سایر است در اعدادِ بی شمار یکی
غالب
His uniqueness can be discerned in the plentitude of things as the number “one” stands out among the infinity of numbers.
Ghalib
Sep 24, 2020 • 137 tweets • 22 min read
زبانِ اوست ترکی گوی و من ترکی نمیدانم
چہ خوش بودی اگر بودی زبانش در دہانِ من
حسرو دہلوی
Her tongue speaks Turkish, and Turkish I do not know. Oh what joy it would be if her tongue were in my mouth!
Khusro Dehlavi
درس ادیب اگر بود زمزمۂ محبتی
جمعه به مکتب آورد طفل گریز پای را
نظیری
If the lecturer’s lesson were the Song of Love, it would draw the reluctant pupil to school even on Fridays
Naziri
Oct 26, 2019 • 22 tweets • 4 min read
Really enjoying #TheAnarchy by @DalrympleWill. Great information and gripping narrative really takes you into the events. The characters come through in 3 dimensions and full color. But ....
... the book is marked by a small number of annoying and inexplicable errors in translation of Urdu/Persian/Arabic terms, including the following.....
