A README file for two python scripts emulating Roland Barthes’ step-by-step method in S/Z to ‘star the text’ into lexia (small reading units).
#20 Scratchnotes: MathPrompt
A quick experiment, applying a MathPrompt technique to convert the opening myth in Lévi-Strauss’ The Raw and the Cooked (M1. Bororo: o xibae e iari. ‘The macaws and their nest’) into symbolic mathematics (and reconverting to natural language interpretation).
#19 Train Less, Think More
Advancing Large Language Models Through Test-Time Compute: Smarter inference methods let smaller language models rival massive systems — without breaking the bank.
#18 Raw and the Cooked
Notes on ‘The Raw and the Cooked’, including distinction of Armature (mytheme), Code, and Message. RQ: How do we move from message to code, and then to compare the relevant codes to determine the armature?
#17 Interview with Lévi-Strauss (1972)
LLM translation of an interview with Claude Lévi-Strauss from 1972, at the end of his ‘Mythologies’ project, conducted by Raymond Bellour.
#16 Interview with Lévi-Strauss (1967)
LLM (Claude Sonate 3.5) translation of an interview with Claude Lévi-Strauss from 1967, published in Les Lettres françaises, conducted by Raymond Bellour.
#15 Elephant Language
A study in Nature Ecology & Evolution reveals elephants use individually specific calls to address one another, akin to using names. It challenges long-held belief that non-human animals do not use arbitrary labels to communicate.
#14 The Art of Coding
To pursue the objectives of a structuralist approach to AI it is pertinent to gain a more hands-on understanding of computer coding.
#13 Project Mytheme
Notes toward a practical, interdisciplinary investigation. In simple terms: to build a ‘mytheme machine’, or a second-order signification system.
#12 Chomsky: Basic Property
Notes on Chapter 1, ‘What is Language?’, from Noam Chomsky’s ‘What Kind of Creatures are We?’ (2016). Key focus: Basic Property of language as ‘language of thought’ (not communication).
Notes on Structuralism & AI 