Ἀρχὴ ἥμισυ παντός. The beginning is half of everything. So said Pythagoras — or someone who wanted Pythagoras to have said it, which amounts to the same thing.
This is our inaugural post. Not a manifesto, not a roadmap. Just a marker in time.
Why "Crow Intelligence"?
Crows are among the few animals that use tools, plan for the future, and recognize individual human faces. They hold grudges. They bring gifts to people who feed them. They teach their young which humans are dangerous — knowledge that persists across generations, a culture of caution transmitted without language as we know it.
Φύσις κρύπτεσθαι φιλεῖ. — Nature loves to hide. (Heraclitus)
We chose the name because we believe intelligence — artificial or otherwise — is less about raw computation and more about paying attention. To patterns. To language. To the gap between what people say and what they mean.
What You'll Find Here
This blog will collect our thinking on:
- Computational rhetoric — how metaphors move markets and shape policy
- Personality at scale — measuring the public-private divide in political language
- AI ethics in practice — not the abstract kind, but the kind that matters when you ship code
- Digital humanities — what happens when you point NLP at a 250-year-old economics treatise
Multum, non multa. — Much, not many. (Pliny the Younger)
We aim for depth over breadth. Fewer posts, more substance.
Viator, si huc usque legisti, gratias agimus. Redibimus. — Traveler, if you have read this far, we thank you. We shall return.