muizz
@ayokanme
We come and go, like ripples in a stream
muizz
@ayokanme
We come and go, like ripples in a stream
people who tell us how to think about a thing
people whose choices (resulting from their thinking) inspire us
A map, in other words, is an arrangement of symbols into a system of meaning — and we use maps because we understand the language of signs that undergirds them. If the mapping of space was a human invention, she explained, one could also invent a means of mapping time.
The maps of the world drawn by the medieval cartographers were so hopelessly inaccurate, so filled with factual error, that they elicit condescending smiles today when almost the entire surface of the earth has been charted. Yet the great explorers could never have discovered the New World without them. Nor could the better, more accurate maps of
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it takes a village(?)
listening to this, and then a podcast about the telephone made me comfortable that i could learn any and everything about how the internet worked.
Parallels between the how we think and how we get llms to mimic thinking