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"extremely invigorating, also intellectually quite challenging to read—some very good synopses of everything from Saussure’s structuralism (which, Weatherby argues, is one of the best models the cultural humanities have for understanding how LLMs actually work)…
to the history of symbolic versus statistical AI paths (which may be overly dichotomized, in Weatherby’s view)…
really good but so dense!!" — Apr 24, 2026 08:06AM
"extremely invigorating, also intellectually quite challenging to read—some very good synopses of everything from Saussure’s structuralism (which, Weatherby argues, is one of the best models the cultural humanities have for understanding how LLMs actually work)…
to the history of symbolic versus statistical AI paths (which may be overly dichotomized, in Weatherby’s view)…
really good but so dense!!" — Apr 24, 2026 08:06AM
They say that the eminent monk Rennyo picked up a scrap of paper lying in the hallway one day and said, “Even this scrap of paper is given to us by the Buddha and must not be wasted.” The Japanese idea of not being wasteful is not just
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