Deleuzian machine learning, algebraic topology, and YOU! 😎

I’d like to give a brief, high level overview of some concepts from very different worlds that I’ve been seeing as rather inter-connectable.

We will take a very casual, low-stakes, unintimidating stroll through the fields of algebraic topology and machine learning to explore what is meant by the concept of desiring machines; we will cover:

• some ideas from Gilles Deleuze/Felix Guatari, Alain Badiou, Hegel, and Watsuji Tetsurō
• what persistent homology means, and why it’s useful
• what machine learning is, and how it ties into all this
• a principle that links art, beauty, curiosity, and remembering what matters

Don’t worry I will make sure to use plenty of pictures!

Topic: topology/data/philosophy
Time: Feb 3, 2022 07:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)

https://us05web.zoom.us/j/82742948516?pwd=UnEzR0xGakVSVlcxVmdiaFh4aU1nZz09