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Techs on TextsEpisode #8: Jordan Tigani on The Analytical Language of John Wilkins by Jorge Luis BorgesJordan Tigani, duck herder and renowned "database person," gives us the gift of "The Analytical Language of John Wilkins" by Jorge Luis Borges. We talk about about the potential of language, the limits of language, compression, sloppy ontologies, LLMs, what thing the universe is, simulated annealing, our vague comprehension of what embeddings are, and why it's unfortunate that there's no way to not sound pretentious when talking about Borges.A few notes and links related to the conversation:Read "The Analytical Language of John Wilkins". It's quick!The Wikipedia article about the essay is pretty good...2024-09-221h 25