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Ted Underwood 🦋
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Uses machine learning to study literary imagination, and vice-versa. Likely to share news about AI & computational social science / ciência social computacional / 計算社会科学. Information Sciences and English, UIUC. Author of Distant Horizons (Chicago, 2019).
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Yeah, the move that interests me would include STEM. I think we need to restore some prestige to the idea that there is a unity of learning. I know it's a lot tougher now than it was in 1500, but an educated person should still kind of have a big picture.

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The logical starting point is by looking at the failed attempt of the logical positivists to seamlessly unify all knowledge in the late 1800s to early-mid 1900s and how it nonetheless established some useful universal principles of reasoning.

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Ted Underwood 🦋
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Uses machine learning to study literary imagination, and vice-versa. Likely to share news about AI & computational social science / ciência social computacional / 計算社会科学. Information Sciences and English, UIUC. Author of Distant Horizons (Chicago, 2019).
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