{"id":42855,"date":"2015-01-16T01:53:49","date_gmt":"2015-01-16T01:53:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=42855"},"modified":"2015-01-16T02:09:15","modified_gmt":"2015-01-16T02:09:15","slug":"intelligence-vs-the-artificial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=42855","title":{"rendered":"Intelligence vs the Artificial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; who believes that detours are the spice of life ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Craig Kaplan:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Craig-Kaplan.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Craig-Kaplan.png\" alt=\"Craig Kaplan\" width=\"602\" height=\"121\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-42859\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Craig-Kaplan.png 602w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Craig-Kaplan-300x60.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 602px) 100vw, 602px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Maurits Escher:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/M-Escher.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/M-Escher.png\" alt=\"M Escher\" width=\"602\" height=\"154\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-42858\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/M-Escher.png 602w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/M-Escher-300x77.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 602px) 100vw, 602px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a fasacinating article about Craig Kaplan and his work with tiling that I came across today, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/alexs-adventures-in-numberland\/2014\/sep\/09\/crazy-paving-the-twisted-world-of-parquet-deformations\">Crazy paving: the twisted world of parquet deformations<\/a> &#8212; I highly recommend it to anyone interested in pattern &#8212; and I highly recommend anyone uninterested in pattern to get interested!<\/p>\n<p>Kaplan himself is no stranger to Escher&#8217;s work, obviously enough &#8212; he&#8217;s even written a paper, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cgl.uwaterloo.ca\/~csk\/papers\/kaplan_bridges2008.pdf\">Metamorphosis in Escher\u2019s Art<\/a> &#8212; the abstract reads:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>M.C. Escher returned often to the themes of metamorphosis and deformation in his art, using a small set of pictorial devices to express this theme. I classify Escher\u2019s various approaches to metamorphosis, and relate them to the works in which they appear. I also discuss the mathematical challenges that arise in attempting to formalize one of these devices so that it can be applied reliably.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I mean Kaplan no dishonor, then, when I say that his algorithmic tilings, as seen in the upper panel above, still necessarily lack something that his mentor&#8217;s images have, as seen in the lower panel &#8212; a quirky willingness to go beyond pattern into a deeper pattern, as when the <a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=7648\">turreted outcropping of a small Italian town on the Amalfi coast becomes a rook in the game of chess<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>Comparing one with the other, I am reminded of the differences between quantitative and qualitative approaches to understanding, of SIGINT and HUMINT in terms of the types of intelligence collected &#8212; and at the philosophical limit, of the very notions of quantity and quality. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; who believes that detours are the spice of life ] . Craig Kaplan: Maurits Escher: ** There&#8217;s a fasacinating article about Craig Kaplan and his work with tiling that I came across today, Crazy paving: the twisted world of parquet deformations &#8212; I highly recommend it to anyone interested in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1122,384,526,529,239,721,655,875,626,758,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ai","category-art","category-charles-cameron","category-games","category-ic","category-italy","category-mathematics","category-metaphor","category-patterns","category-quant-qualit","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42855"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42868,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42855\/revisions\/42868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}