In three previous posts (here, here, and here) we talked about animal learning, particularly classical conditioning. However, some animals display complex abilities to learn that…
Category: Computation
A friend once needed cheering up because she felt all the magic in the world was dying. I told her about this quote from Fredrick…
Ideas and Implications In his 1990 talk “The Myth of the Standpoint” Karl Popper said: …the correct method of critical discussion is: What are the…
In this post, I continue to follow chapter by chapter from Category Theory for Programmers By Bartosz Milewski, this time looking at Chapter 3: Categories…
Is the study of Artificial General Intelligence identical to the study of consciousness? The word “consciousness” is bantered about as if it’s a specific thing.…
“Reinforcement Learning with Augmented Data,” (link) by Michael Laskin, et al introduces the idea of using data augmentation in Reinforcement Learning. Data augmentation is already…
Dennis Hackethal has proposed a theory he calls “The Neo-Darwinian Theory of the Mind”, which is intended to be a low-level explanation of how intelligent…
I was already signed up for Computer Vision when word came that there would be a new Deep Learning class next semester. I quickly got…
I wrote a post asking if humans had ‘inductive biases’ in the same sense that machine learning algorithms do. My conclusion was that they do…
In a past post, I made the claim that Induction was subsumed by Critical Rationalism and that all cases of induction ‘working’ are really cases…