Stata of Art

Stata of Art#

The purpose of playing is to hold, as ‘twere, the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure. O, there be players that I have seen play—and heard others praise, and that highly—not to speak it profanely, that, … they imitated humanity so abominably - Hamlet

                1. f(t)
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           2. S(t) -> 4. y:h'(f)=0;t(X'X).X'Y -> 5. b -> 6. SV'
                      /
                      3. h(t)

Michael Tilson Thomas: Music and emotion through time has parallels with Dante’s Allegory. The Matrix encodes all of humanities knowledge be it art (imitation), science (prediction), technology (autoencoder), engineering (robots), aesthetics (kungfu), mathematics (vocabulary)

How lovely that thing you are playing is! I wonder, did Chopin write it at Majorca, with the sea weeping round the villa and the salt spray dashing against the panes? It is marvellously romantic. What a blessing it is that there is one art left to us that is not imitative! Don’t stop. I want music to-night - Lord Henry Wotton

ii Primo/Never in River Twice#

  • Hell-Geothermal/Aperitivo, Antipasto

  • Primo (opera)

  • Secondo, Contorno

V7 Dolce/Categorical Imperative#

  • Purgatory-Mountain/Insalata, Formaggi e Frutta, Dolce, Caffé, Digestivo (polyphony)

i Inferno/Beyond Good & Evil#

  • Goals-Solar/Dante’s allegory is the theme of S3E10: Tuscany 55 (transformations)

  • The structure of Dante’s Inferno: Hell, Purgatory, Goals is truly from our collective unconscious

Generalist#

Arte (Imitation) & Scienza (Prediction) = Tragedy (Representation). When the products of art, science, or tragedy resonate with us, they have been accurately decoded with all the parameter coefficients similar to our own

                     1. Observing
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           2. Time = Compute -> 4. Collective Unconscious -> 5. Decoding -> 6. Imitation-Prediction-Representation
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                                3. Encoding

Specificity#

  • With any individualized prediction in science, a patient can’t say “that resonates” with me. The numbers are abstract and they’ve never experienced the outcome

  • But with art or tragedy the eternal recurrence of the same is encoded in the latent-space or collective unconscious and so it can resonate

  • Our way around this is by handing the end-user an app in which they might update their risk-profile and see if it changes the risk prediction

  • If there’s no change, then we could say the app is “mirroring” humanity so abominably; the backend model has no beta-coefficients for what has been tested

  • The structure of this discourse is : \(\mu\): base-case, \(\sigma\) varcov-matrix, \(\%\) predictive-accuracy

\(\mu\) Base-case#

  • \(f(t)\) l’homme moyen

  • \(S(t)\) somewhere ages and ages hence

  • \(h(t)\) two roads diverged in a wood, and i—

\(\sigma\) Varcov-matrix#

  • var[\((X'X)^T \cdot X'Y\)] think: the variability of courses & items in italian cuisine & modes-qualities-relatives in chopin

\(\%\) Predictive-accuracy#

  • my palate craves very diverse things over time & i can only tell what i want on a given day

  • \(\ge 85\) only a very rich culture can throw me a bone to chew on that will keep me engaged

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