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Why We Might Be Looking At The Brain In The Wrong Way

…with important implications for AI

Jan 16, 2021

Why We Might Be Looking At The Brain In The Wrong Way

Jan 16, 2021

Science, Chaos, and the Limits of AGI

Scientific progress has always been shaped by the interplay of experiment and theory: it required both Tycho Brahe, the eccentric Danish…

Mar 25

Science, Chaos, and the Limits of AGI

Mar 25

Truce in Paradise

It rains, but things could be worse as I slowly make my way into the Andaman Sea. Lush green of hills overgrown with rain forest enclose…

Nov 29, 2024

Truce in Paradise

Nov 29, 2024

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A Guide To Linearity and Nonlinearity in Machine Learning

…and their roles in decision boundaries, embeddings, dynamical systems, and next-gen LLMs

Oct 28, 2024

A Guide To Linearity and Nonlinearity in Machine Learning

Oct 28, 2024

How the Normal Distribution Keeps Crashing The Global Financial System

The only normal people are the ones you don’t know very well. — Alfred Adler

Feb 11, 2024

How the Normal Distribution Keeps Crashing The Global Financial System

Feb 11, 2024

Taiwan, NVIDIA, and the Fragile Future of AI

When Taiwan held its elections at the beginning of January, the world was waiting for the outcome with bated breath. The Chinese…

Feb 2, 2024

Taiwan, NVIDIA, and the Fragile Future of AI

Feb 2, 2024

My Five Favorite Books of 2023

I always enjoy discovering new books, so here I want to collect my five favorite non-fiction books that I read this year, in the hope that…

Dec 27, 2023

My Five Favorite Books of 2023

Dec 27, 2023

The Ironies of the 20th Century’s Grand Narratives

History is written by the victors. — Winston Churchill/Hermann Göring/some others before them

Nov 18, 2023

The Ironies of the 20th Century’s Grand Narratives

Nov 18, 2023

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Generative Models and the Dance of Noise and Structure

A Guide To Building Digital Dreamers

Oct 7, 2023

Generative Models and the Dance of Noise and Structure

Oct 7, 2023

The Biggest Unsung Tragedy of the 20th Century

History is a nightmare from which I’m trying to awake. — James Joyce

Sep 10, 2023

The Biggest Unsung Tragedy of the 20th Century

Sep 10, 2023

Genius and the Power of Mental Visualization

For the first time in my life, I played not merely with my hands, but with my mind. — Dr. B., Chess Novella

Aug 31, 2023

Genius and the Power of Mental Visualization

Aug 31, 2023

Oppenheimer or the Inevitability of Doom

“It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they are found because it was…

Aug 19, 2023

Oppenheimer or the Inevitability of Doom

Aug 19, 2023

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Why More is More (in Deep Learning)

How Large Neural Networks Generalize

Aug 15, 2023

Why More is More (in Deep Learning)

Aug 15, 2023

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Why There Kind of Is Free Lunch

On The Universality of Patterns in Neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence

Jun 27, 2023

Why There Kind of Is Free Lunch

Jun 27, 2023

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The Power of the Dot Product in Artificial Intelligence

How a simple tool gives rise to astonishing complexity

May 15, 2023

The Power of the Dot Product in Artificial Intelligence

May 15, 2023

What AI Safety Can Learn From Totalitarian States

We are taking continuous steps towards ever more intelligent and powerful AI systems, and it is clear that even narrow AI systems have…

Jan 28, 2023

What AI Safety Can Learn From Totalitarian States

Jan 28, 2023

World Cups and the Curse of Low Sample Sizes

“14 games is a fairly low sample size. If you want to determine who the best player is, you need more matches. If you want to find the best…

Dec 8, 2022

World Cups and the Curse of Low Sample Sizes

Dec 8, 2022

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Memory and Generalization in Artificial Intelligence

“The ability to generalize to unseen data is at the core of machine learning.”

Nov 9, 2022

Memory and Generalization in Artificial Intelligence

Nov 9, 2022

The Importance of Noise

On the role of uncertainty in evolution, markets, neuroscience, and AI

May 20, 2022

The Importance of Noise

May 20, 2022

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Understanding Markov Chains

And their Connections to Neuroscience, AI and Russian Poetry

Jan 5, 2022

Understanding Markov Chains

Jan 5, 2022

Manuel Brenner

Manuel Brenner

Postdoctoral researcher in AI, neuroscience and dynamical systems. Connect via LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/manuel-brenner-772261191

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