had probably one of the best shared-minds classes till now.
watched total pixel space, by jacob adler.
spoke about higher-dimensional spaces; representing entities in those spaces; and looking for semantic similarities.
“As our circle of knowledge expands, so does the circumference of darkness surrounding it.”
spoke about dimension reduction, using libraries such as umap.
the fact that my brain can make so many connections to the word ‘dog’ — each in its own unique space.
time as a fourth dimension is only going linearly; we don't move backwards in time.
what is the space of possibilities?
knowledge is emergent.
connection with people is not binary (democrat vs republican — we may agree on some things, and not on others. everyone has some grounds for similarity).
walker through latent space
how might one travel through space?
each space can be treated as a semantic relationship lens.
it is so strange that we find similarity in an infinite dimensional space when we make conversation.
replicate vs hugging face?
dimension reduction (umap for javascript).
gradient descent.
k - nearest neighbor.
where do we see meaning vs where does a machine see meaning (infinite multidimensional space).