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

…with important implications for AI — The mind tries to understand the world in terms of concepts, most of which are dressed in language and in some cases, in mathematics. But our conceptual understanding of the world suffers from a chicken-and-egg problem: where do the concepts in which this understanding is modeled come from in the…

Neuroscience

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

10 min read


Sep 10

The Biggest Unsung Tragedy of the 20th Century

History is a nightmare from which I’m trying to awake. — James Joyce When we think of the 20th century we think of a fair share of profound tragedies. Some might think of famous disasters like the sinking of the Titanic or the Chernobyl disaster. Above most tragedies tower the…

Health

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The Biggest Unsung Tragedy of the 20th Century
The Biggest Unsung Tragedy of the 20th Century
Health

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Aug 31

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 In Stefan Zweig’s Chess Novella, the reigning world chess champion, Czentovic, is on board a ship from New York to Buenos Aires, and is challenged to a…

Visualization

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Genius and the Power of Mental Visualization
Genius and the Power of Mental Visualization
Visualization

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Aug 19

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 possible to find them.” J. Robert Oppenheimer In Hindu cosmology, the world cycles between birth, life, and destruction. At the ending stage of a…

Nuclear Weapons

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Oppenheimer or the Inevitability of Doom
Oppenheimer or the Inevitability of Doom
Nuclear Weapons

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Towards Data Science

·Aug 15

Why More Is More (in Artificial Intelligence)

How Large Neural Networks Generalize — Less is more. -Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Less is more only when more is too much. - Frank Loyd Wright Deep neural networks (DNNs) have profoundly transformed the landscape of machine learning, often becoming synonymous with the broader fields of artificial intelligence and machine learning. Yet, their rise would…

Artificial Intelligence

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Why More is More (in Deep Learning)
Why More is More (in Deep Learning)
Artificial Intelligence

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Towards Data Science

·Jun 27

Why There Kind of Is Free Lunch

On The Universality of Patterns in Neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence — ‘There ain’t no such thing as a free lunch.’ - Robert A. Henlein The “No Free Lunch” theorem in the realm of machine learning reminds me of Gödel’s incompleteness theorem within the world of mathematics. While these theorems are frequently cited, they are seldom explained in depth, and the implications…

Machine Learning

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Why There Kind of Is Free Lunch
Why There Kind of Is Free Lunch
Machine Learning

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Towards Data Science

·May 15

The Power of the Dot Product in Artificial Intelligence

How a simple tool gives rise to astonishing complexity — Taking something simple and scaling it up to achieve something more complex is a powerful idea, laying the foundation of life, computers (based on the simplicity of the Turing machine), and deep learning techniques (based on the idea of the neurons in a neural network). More is frequently different, which…

Artificial Intelligence

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The Power of the Dot Product in Artificial Intelligence
The Power of the Dot Product in Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence

9 min read


Jan 28

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 increasing influence over our lives. Understanding them and maintaining control over them might be one of the most existentially relevant tasks of the century. This task is…

History

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What AI Safety Can Learn From Totalitarian States
What AI Safety Can Learn From Totalitarian States
History

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Dec 8, 2022

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 player, you need to change the format to increase the chance of finding the best player.” Magnus Carlsen, World Chess Champion …

World Cup

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World Cups and the Curse of Low Sample Sizes
World Cups and the Curse of Low Sample Sizes
World Cup

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Towards Data Science

·Nov 9, 2022

Memory and Generalization in Artificial Intelligence

“The ability to generalize to unseen data is at the core of machine learning.” At the heart of much of current AI research is the question of how to make algorithms generalize to unseen data. In the context of machine learning, most models are trained and evaluated on data following…

Artificial Intelligence

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Memory and Generalization in Artificial Intelligence
Memory and Generalization in Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence

9 min read

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Manuel Brenner

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I love new ideas. My podcast: https://anchor.fm/acit-science Connect via LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/manuel-brenner-772261191

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