journal

what is a successful teaching career

teaching

thought

I think a rewarding teaching career must be defined by my relationships with students. If I go through my whole career without significantly impacting my students (i.e.…

music gestation

music

We think in language. True, we can experience our senses mentally, e.g., when we “see images” or “hear sounds” in our mind, but each of these mental concepts can be thought…

anthropomorphization of algorithms

ethics

AI

Daily human life is becoming increasingly intertwined with algorithms. The people who develop these algorithms (and, to a lesser extent, the implicit users of these…

on hume’s deontological response to skepticism

epistemology

deontology

In Hume’s Deontological Response to Scepticism (HDRS), Hsueh Qu from the National University of Singapore provides a novel interpretation of Hume’s take on the skeptical…

reinforcement learning and ethics

AI

music

In the short film Perfectly Natural (Alonso-Berbel 2018), we see a young couple, their new baby, and a simulated reality where the baby interacts with her artificially…

defining ai

AI

It’s worth noting that in this article, “AI” takes on its generalized form, not to be confused with “LLM”, or agents such as Claude Code, etc.

prometheus and google

society

linguistics

recommender systems

In creating media based on myths, symbols, and idols, we may lose the value and meaning of the original if recommender systems and search algorithms do not find a harmonic…