Walter Pitts: The Tragic Genius Behind AI | History Hyenas
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What is the story behind Walter Pitts’ wild childhood and how did he become a math prodigy?
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What's up, everybody? Welcome to another episode of History Hyhenas. I'm Chris Stefano, aka Chrissy Greenshirts. With me, as always, Giannis Papis, aka Yanni, no product in the hair, but still sexy. Today we're going all natural.
We're raw dogging it, baby. Now are you on Malcolmore's side or Ed Sheeran's side? Right out of the gate. I'd like to say Um I'd like to say right out of the gate. What do you want to say? I wanna say uh October seventh was a tragedy.
Yes.
Also what's happening in Palestine is a tragedy. Does that answer your question? That really does. Thank you. Is that the safest way? What is the safest way to respond to that? Yeah. Without creating iron in people.
It's like Ed, listen to me. You don't have to say sorry to anybody. Guess what? Your your algorithm probably showed you all the people that don't like you. They don't give a shit. You're real fans like me. I just want to hear you play the songs. So just get out the guitar, flip your red hair over to the other side, and just sing the songs. You don't need to say you're sorry for some okay, s some woman that would you know, used to have open for your concert. Macamore's a lady, I don't know, I'm not familiar with her music. She's just she seems like a nice lady, but she's just out to lunch a little bit, but she's you know, it's just some girl that does that does songs that we used to listen to back in the day.
Yeah. I just don't care anymore. Guy. Or Pat Finnegan, I told you Patty Fly Balls was at the concert when this happened. He was texting like, you never believe what this fucking jerk
off just said. You know, or what they could have done is just let him say it and moved on. Yeah. They should have just let him say that. I mean, you know what do you mean let him say it like the the popular opinion is just
In McLamore's favor. That's funny that McLamore insists this concert costume was not meant to be anti Semitic.
Yeah, yeah. Yeah, it's just what it is. What it is, yeah, what that is. Yeah. It was meant to be. Uh yeah. What you know the funny thing is? I can't even think of something else it was meant to be. Yeah. I can't even think of one. Yeah. I can't even think of an excuse.
It's actually one of and I don't you know, whatever. It's one of the most anti Semitic ca I would never put that on.
I just w can let's have a fun game. What else is that?
Yeah, what else could that possibly be? Yeah,
try to think
Um could it be well, it's got a big, huge, oversized nose. It's got hair and curls and a long beard. Yeah. Um, could it be is it like, you know, like a flamingo?
Could have been a flamingo. He could be uh is he a lounge, is he a Persian lounge singer? Yeah, could he be? Um I'm gonna guess he's making fun of Jews. Isn't that the answer? I'm gonna in court of law, what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna look at the record of things he's been saying and say that uh m that probably is a Puerto Rican bodega owner.
That's what it is. It's a
Puerto Rican bodega owner.
Is his name Felix? But what it is actually too is these people I see a black guy. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I see blackface. I think it's just um yeah, it's just people. I think they just like the waffs of their own shit a little bit.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the story behind Walter Pitts’ wild childhood and how did he become a math prodigy?
0:00–8:50
2
How did Pitts get the attention of Bertrand Russell and end up at the University of Chicago?
8:50–22:13
3
Why did Warren McCulloch take Pitts under his wing and what did their partnership produce?
22:13–42:00
4
How did Pitts and McCulloch’s 1943 paper define the artificial neuron and lay the groundwork for modern AI?
42:00–1:00:32
5
What surprising discoveries did the 1959 ‘Frog’s Eye’ paper reveal about early visual processing?
1:00:32–1:13:55
6
Why did Walter Pitts burn his dissertation and how did his personal tragedies affect the field?
1:13:55–1:20:03
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