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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
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