Today we’ll look at 14 tercets in Canto 13 in one go, where St. Thomas explains the specific nature of King Solomon’s Wisdom and resolves the Pilgrim’s second doubt/question.
And through this, Dante also continues to build the whole canto as a “moving chariot”, with both of its wheels illuminating and giving us new wisdom, and spiritual insights.
Enjoy!
Today we’re talking about the early origins of the neural network language models behind chatbots like Claude.ai and ChatGPT in the 1940s and 50s, and how it was declared “dead” in 2012. But then in 2017, it all changed.
And the capabilities of these bots are very much an exploratory work in progress for everyone – as much of it is not planned by design!
Have a great Friday & Weekend,
and enjoy!
Today we’re looking at St. Thomas and his beautiful and evocative description of the Trinity, as Light emenating from a Source, in Love.
And we’ll digress slightly about Investment Projects, and Rick Rubin as the legendary Music Producer of Run DMC and Slayer, among countless other great bands.
The verses from Canto 13:
Ciò che non more e ciò che può morire
non è se non splendor di quella idea
che partorisce, amando, il nostro Sire;
ché quella viva luce che sì mea
dal suo lucente, che non si disuna
da lui né da l’amor ch’a lor s’intrea,
per sua bontate il suo raggiare aduna,
quasi specchiato, in nove sussistenze,
etternalmente rimanendosi una.
Enjoy!
Good Morning!
Today we’ll talk about verse 37-51 in Dante’s Paradiso Canto 13, and then look at the Techno-Optimist Manifesto by Silicon Valley billionaire and entrepreneur Marc Andreessen. (Starts at 09.50).
Enjoy!
Good morning! Today’s episode has three parts:
1. Dante Reading, with Claude. Tercet 11&12 from Paradiso 13.
2. A comment on Marc Andreessen’s thoughts on Growth, and his “Techno-Optimist Manifesto”. (Starts at 33 mins)
3. Contrasts between Greek and “Modern” thought, and where to lay the foundations for, or participate in, the growing forces of a New Renaissance. (Starts at 41 mins)
Enjoy!
After a few days of diving deep into the opening of Canto 13, we saw the “Chariot” and North Star this morning, in deep blue beauty and silence.
And we’ll talk about tercet 9 and 10, where Dante shifts the focus away from the opening, and towards more rational analysis. Just like the “two wheels”, working together in harmony.
Enjoy!
Today we’re looking at tercet 8 in Canto 13 of Paradiso, and how Dante connects everything in both the material and spiritual realms, through the imagery of a little beautiful river in Tuscany.
poi ch’è tanto di là da nostra usanza,
quanto di là dal mover de la Chiana
si move il ciel che tutti li altri avanza.
Enjoy!
In this episode we’re looking at tercet 6 and 7 in Paradiso Canto 13, where Dante concludes a major re-orientation of the Poem and whole Journey, as we now have the necessary “Chariot” built in Canto 10-12.
The tercets are:
e l’un ne l’altro aver li raggi suoi,
e amendue girarsi per maniera
che l’uno andasse al primo e l’altro al poi;
e avrà quasi l’ombra de la vera
costellazione e de la doppia danza
che circulava il punto dov’io era:
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Today we’re looking at tercet 5 in Canto 13 in Paradiso, which ties together the first 4 tercets into an overall guiding system for our further Journey into Paradiso, and for the spiritual Journey through Life in a bigger sense.
aver fatto di sé due segni in cielo,
qual fece la figliuola di Minoi
allora che sentì di morte il gelo;
Enjoy!
Commentary on the opening of Canto XIII in Paradiso, “resetting” the story and looking up to the North Star.
imagini la bocca di quel corno
che si comincia in punta de lo stelo
a cui la prima rota va dintorno
Here Dante describes the nature of the relationship between God and the Cosmos!
