Quickly drawing on machine learning, practicing good spoiler hygiene, taking a trip with Doctor Strange, the audacious Arrival and Ted Chiang, a language of pure logic, thinking without language and testing episode storage capacity.

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Quick, Draw! [00:39]

• Google doodles with machine learning

The nature and role of spoilers [03:25]

• Darth Vader does the hula dance
• J.J. Abrams’ Into Darkness mea culpa

Doctor Strange [13:00]

• Homer’s space coyote chili pepper vision quest
• A treasure trove of tropes
• “The most widely cited and influential thought experiment about consciousness”
• With great power comes great responsibility

Arrival [24:20]

• Remembering the Story of Your Life
• The wonderful Ted Chiang, in his own words
• Down the wikipedia rabbit-hole with Sapir-Whorf

Can we think without language? [42:20]

• A taste of logical “Lojban”
• Deciphering inscrutable Hegel
• Faulkner attempts to go beyond in As I Lay Dying

.i coi do mi tavla fo la .lojban. .i .e’u do terbejbi’o la’o gy.Two Bit Geeks.gy. poi cravi ku’o te zu’e tu’a lo nu casnu lo cinri .e lo plixau .e lo se xalbo gi’e rinka lo nu pensi

Lojban translation and recording by {suzil}

Music by Lee Rosevere (CC by 4.0)