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Moving to where the sky is blue as faustocarcassi! Bye bye "X"
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Fausto Carcassi
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Fausto Carcassi
@CarcassiFausto
Sardinian. Assistant prof at @illc_amsterdam. Language & cognition w/ models & experiments. Roughly Bayesian. Past: Tübingen, @UoE_CLE (He/Him)
Amsterdam, the Netherlands Entrou em Ekim 2016
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It's time that linguistics seriously discusses formal training. We are a field that widely uses formal/mathematical tools (formal language theory, logic, probability theory, statistics), yet we do not provide strong systematic training of these tools to our students. why is that?
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Exploring a new "Template Expression" API design for symbolic regression that allows joint optimization of symbolic expressions with parameter vectors. Can be used for optimizing a neural network simultaneously with a symbolic model, finding parametric expressions, learning constants in fixed forms, and much more.
Would love feedback on the design!
github.com/MilesCranmer/S…
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We aren't the only primates who appreciate a good joke. New piece on the origins of humor by DISI Director Erica Cartmill!
scientificamerican.com/article/great-…
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My paper on hierarchical plans is out in Cognition!🎉
tldr: We ask participants to generate hierarchical plans in a programming game. People prefer to reuse beyond what standard accounts predict, which we formalize as induction of a grammar over actions.
authors.elsevier.com/a/1kBQr2Hx2xLNA
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👩🎓👨🎓Fully funded PhD position available to come work with me at @UniOslo using iterative learning experiments to understand the evolution of sound symbolism.
🔴Deadline is 12. Jan '24
⏲️Desired starting date is Mar/April '24
jobbnorge.no/en/available-j…
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SymbolicRegression.jl → 1.0 🎉
After several years of work, I'm thrilled to announce some major new features! Let me show you what's possible now:
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(1/5) Very excited to announce the publication of Bayesian Models of Cognition: Reverse Engineering the Mind. More than a decade in the making, it's a big (600+ pages) beautiful book covering both the basics and recent work: mitpress.mit.edu/9780262049412/…
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Updated @ESLRSociety jobs board! Highlights: 2 tenure-track psych jobs at @JohnsHopkins, postdoc on collective behavior w/@norijacoby at @Cornell, and multiple PhD positions at @MPI_animalbehav 🧠🕸️🐦 bit.ly/ESLR-Jobs
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Particle filters are genetic algorithms with guarantees 😛
François Chollet@fchollet
Similarly, there are several research directions today seen as long-abandoned failures, that are only waiting for the right amount of attention and the right level of compute scale to shine. Genetic algorithms are one of them.
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New pre-print (tx @ChrisMMCox!): The social context of turn-taking osf.io/preprints/psya… Comments welcome!
TL;DR: Response latency in conversation depends on a multidimensional interplay of individual differences, turn-by turn information flow & contextual affordances.
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'A Drive to Survive' is available for pre-order!
mitpress.mit.edu/9780262551328/…
And while it doesn't yet have a cover it does have some embarrassingly nice blurbs from @evantthompson and @CogsAndy, two of the philosophers who most inspired its content.
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Preprint from myself and Daphne Demekas. We propose a mechanism for synthetic data generation within active inference and present simulations to explore its implications for understanding states of 'pure consciousness'
osf.io/preprints/psya…
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And he describes this sense of it happening *to* him. Sometimes reasoning feels more like following a pattern with your eyes, with a large component of attentional direction, and sometimes more like smelling or hearing, happening spontaneously and even intrusively.
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(Who knows what Derrida really wants to say, but) to me this sounds like the former - though he calls it an "apparatus, or machine" rather than structure: youtu.be/BSsDRf2wnOk?si…
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The traditional theoretical question of whether maths is discovered or invented has a counterpart in the ambiguity of the *experience* of reasoning, which can feel like perception (of an already present structure) or action (building up the structure).
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Extremely honored to receive the NWO Vidi grant, which will be devoted to unpacking the origins of human language (and particularly, the evolution of compositionality and lying) using state-of-the-art virtual reality & swarm robotics tools at @Radboud_Uni 🙏🥹🎉 Watch this space!
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Deeply fascinating topic!
Jonathan Cannon@joncannon_neuro
@UniOslo_RITMO is recruiting a PhD student to study musical microrhythm, supervised by @annedanielsen and Rainer Polack. This is the best imaginable situation for a budding rhythm nerd. If you have any star undergrads in your lab open to a move to Norway...jobbnorge.no/en/available-j…
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