# T4T S01E05: Machine Learning for Thinking

a [[Tools for Thinking Podcast]] episode

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## Cover art

Here's the Stable Diffusion-generated cover image for this episode, from the prompt "language trees:"

![[e5.jpg]]

## Guests

- [Alice Albrecht](https://www.linkedin.com/in/alice-albrecht-6379868/), founder of [re:collect](https://www.re-collect.ai/)
- [Sam Arbesman](https://www.linkedin.com/in/arbesman/), scientist in residence at [Lux Capital](https://www.luxcapital.com/)

Host: [Jerry Michalski](https://www.jerrymichalski.com/)

## Audio podcast 

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## Video podcast  

- On [Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/episode/5NItz9ABy1SOQFe5KwrrKk)
- On [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbPxtMxdcHU)

Even better: the video, synced to a searchable transcript, all ready for conversation on [Hypothes.is](https://hypothes.is/), is [here](https://docdrop.org/video/qbPxtMxdcHU/). 

## Brain screen cap and link

![[T4T S01E05- Machine Learning for Thinking.jpg]]
https://bra.in/8jgDK2  <-- follow this link to browse this map

## Links mentioned

- [Are LLMs Just Stochastic Parrots?](https://bra.in/9vPeNJ)
- [Articles About Watson](https://bra.in/4q5o6V)
- [DevonThink](http://www.devontechnologies.com/)
- [Elicit](https://ought.org/elicit)
- [Evolutionary Computation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary_computation)
- [Extended Mind Thesis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_mind_thesis) (1998 EMT)
- [re:collect](https://www.re-collect.ai/) (2021)
- Render Session 6: [Leveraging ML for TfT](https://vimeo.com/740893906?embedded=true&source=video_title&owner=116593395)
- [Gary Marcus](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Marcus)
- [Knowledge Navigator](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_Navigator) (1987, Apple's Futuristic Video)
- [Literature-Based Discovery](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literature-based_discovery) (LBD)
- [Don R. Swanson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_R._Swanson)
	- [Undiscovered Public Knowledge](https://www.jstor.org/stable/4307965) (1986 pdf)
- [Mind Wandering Is Great for Creativity](https://bra.in/9pKKbr)
- [Naches](https://jel.jewish-languages.org/words/394)
- [Simulating the Rat Olfactory Cortex with Neural Networks](https://bra.in/5p63zP)
- [Skullcrusher Mountain](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXLlnreBwOQ)
- [StretchText](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StretchText) (1967)
- [Voxels](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voxel) (Volumetric Pixels)
- [Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned: The Myth of the Objective](https://www.amazon.com/Why-Greatness-Cannot-Planned-Objective-ebook-dp-B00X57B4JG/dp/B00X57B4JG/jerrymichalskisr)
- [Why I do what I do](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dx-6I9Sc6A)
- [Zoom Levels](https://bra.in/8qzdQ6)

- [Tools for Thinking Podcast](https://bra.in/2vGNna) (2022 T4T, TfT)

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