@Hamet I would be very interest to hear about your research!

I'm currently engaging in what I call "applied semiotics" in relation to automata

Old hand and computer programming and mythology and the humanities, but new to the maths

@Rand al'Thor the same goes for any insight or thoughts on the subject you might have. I'm working with the concept of negative and bi-polar ordinality in a semiotic and mathematical sense but I can't find any information on it.

Space Program: “T minus two, T minus one”

Left of Launch Strategy: Contains three sets “before launch, on launch pad, launched” that are most meaningfully and efficiently represented as (-1,0,1) or (-2,-1,1), although the zero us more meaningful because “on launch pad” does not have a spacial vector.

In a basic array m = (-1,0,1) the ordinals are the intrinsic vector of the coordinate in one dimension.

superpinging @Randal'Thor (hopefully this isn't an abuse of my mod powers)

I recently read this 200 page phd thesis on Calvino's Invisible Cities

academiccommons.columbia.edu/catalog/ac:166630

It was really good: it talked about how the mathematical idea of "complexity from simplicity" was one of the fundamental ideas in Calvino's work.

@DukeZhou I took a look at your website, it seemed really interesting

Excellent! Thanks for the link.

re: Website, it's a work in progress.

(My physicist friend says I sound like an idiot when I talk about math, but then again, she has only disdain for pure maths and fields like set and number theory;)

@Hamlet Your blog looks very interesting as well.

Might also be interested in this nous.org.uk/oulipo.html

It was the society that introduced Calvino to a lot of mathematical ideas

I really need to read Calvino again, specifically Six Memos for the Next Millennium

Excellent. That site looks quite interesting indeed.

@Hamlet That Calvino paper is particularly attractive for the extensive quoting of the author, with the Italian provided. Outstanding!

@DukeZhou have you checked out the site's main chat room yet? It's 75% debates about meta posts, and 25% very serious discussions about literature (I'm guessing you would be interested in the literature discussions)

worldcat.org/title/…

@DukeZhou I'm much more qualified in maths than in literature, and not much into the foundational parts of maths like logic and set theory. Not sure how much I can contribute here, but I'll definitely be lurking and reading!

@DukeZhou curious if you have any insight into artificial intelligence and/or neural networks.

e.g. this article medium.com/deep-learning-101/…

@Hamlet "The unimaginable mathematics of Borges' Library of Babel" is a buyer, since it will be cheaper than all the late fees. (I bet there's a lot about Cantor in there.)

First paragraph of the "Algorithms of the Mind already tells me it is a good antidote to "The Empty Brain" hit-job on Von Neumann by a psychologist with a shallow understanding of computing.

Initial Impressions:

"makes you wonder whether this is how the architecture of Intuition — albeit vastly simplified — is being expressed." doesn't matter if it is "the" Architecture of Intuition, because it is "an" Architecture of Intuition, that is clearly reproducible.

" In seeing with our brain, not with our eyes, language drives perception." is consistent with the concept of the Logos, as I'm sure you are aware--John I:i is a slightly different conception than Aristotle, but both are useful. (For Aristotle, "rational discourse" can be extended to data exchange and analysis, regardless of the form of the data, which is generally either photon or bits, in their most reduced, atomic form.

But the idea that labels are subjective and unnecessary is also correct, except in the need to communicate.

DeepMind is currently working on playing games via optics only, with no supervision.

techxplore.com/news/2016-11-deepmind-boost-ai-unreal-agent.html

theverge.com/2017/2/9/14558418/ai-deepmind-social-dilemma-study

(Thank you for that link! The further reading is a goldmine.)