Keith J. Holyoak

Nov 4, 2024 | thereader.mitpress.mit.edu | Rosmarie Waldrop |Catherine Corman |Keith J. Holyoak |Paul Stephens

BeeLine Reader uses subtle color gradients to help you read more efficiently. Influences? Every book I’ve read. Other influences? Yes. For instance, music, printing, and less tangible silences. In fall 1954 I started commuting (a half-hour train ride) to the University of Würzburg. I voraciously gobbled as many lectures in literature, art history, and musicology as I could fit into the week — and promptly got indigestion.

Feb 1, 2024 | bigthink.com | Keith J. Holyoak

“Time — a few centuries here or there — means very little in the world of poems.” There is something reassuring about Mary Oliver’s words. Especially in an era of rapid change, there is comfort to be had in those things that move slowly. But oceans rise and mountains fall; nothing stays the same. Not even the way poetry is made.

Nov 20, 2023 | thereader.mitpress.mit.edu | Michael Littman |Oliver Bown |Keith J. Holyoak |E.R. Truitt

BeeLine Reader uses subtle color gradients to help you read more efficiently. In 2017, Google researchers introduced a novel machine-learning program called a “transformer” for processing language. While they were mostly interested in improving machine translation — the name comes from the goal of transforming one language into another — it didn’t take long for the AI community to realize that the transformer had tremendous, far-reaching potential.