Syntax - Trees: Crash Course Linguistics #4
linguists typically represent language with branching diagrams called trees
Ernest Davis • Rebooting AI: Building Artificial Intelligence We Can Trust
Words shape our ideas, how we see the world, and how we relate to one another. As design teacher and researcher Anne Galloway says:
Language makes it possible for us to navigate places and relationships; to express needs and requirements; t... See more
“Language doesn’t just make things—it assembles, cobbles together, entire worlds and all the relations within.”
Language makes it possible for us to navigate places and relationships; to express needs and requirements; t... See more
Matt Felten • Words as Material
“So thinking is prior to language. What language contributes is to firm up certain particular ways of seeing the world and give fixity to them. This has its good side, and its bad. It aids consistency of reference over time and space. But it can also exert a restrictive force on what and how we think. It represents a more fixed version of the world... See more
The Master and His Emissary Quotes by Iain McGilchrist
essay here
still stumbling my way into fluency around AI stuff, so very open to corrections, additions, critiques, etc
https://t.co/YWd3aS6rcG