Snake oil serendipity?
Matthias Melcher,
x28's New Blog,
Feb 09, 2020
Matthias Melcher offers a short post that draws a distinction between learning by making connections ourselves, and learning by means of connections made by a machine (doing keyword matchging or some such thing) and trying to draw an inference from the pattern of connections that emerges. The process is called 'Zettelkasten', which has its origin in the German word 'zettel', which stands for the slips of paper we would sort and match. This made me think of one of Wittgenstein's lesser-known works, Zettel (it only has a stub on Wikipedia), a collection of paper-slip notes where he talks about intentions and expectations and the role they play in language. I thought I might find it online (my copy is in my office) but couldn't locate a copy. But instead I found a link to the complete works of Wittgenstein. Get it while you can.
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