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AI is neither bringing the singularity nor is it a nothingburger ; making things requires intelligence and physical inputs
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Evolution, Reward, Curiosity: The Three Sources of Learning Signals
Learning requires training signals; where are they from?
Feb 23
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Forward vs Inverse problems: why high performance machine learning usually means little about how the world works
Understanding causality from machine learning is unfortunately usually impossible; life sciences take note
Feb 7
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What I built, what shifted my priors, and why I'm optimistic
What I built, what shifted my priors, and why I'm optimistic. (Pic from E11Bio)
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The Electric Motor and the Drill - we use AI in the wrong way
Power tools are better than general purpose tools for most applications, my science planning app planyourscience.com is a result of this philosophy
Dec 5, 2025
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How I contributed to rejecting one of my favorite papers of all time
I believe we should talk about the mistakes we make.
Dec 2, 2025
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Attractors are usually not mechanisms
The mathematical objects can not be. And the "attractor models" have not been established as mechanisms in mammals
Jul 8, 2025
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Want to bet all cells do gradient descent?
If I say brains do gradient descent I must posit that cells do so, too.
Jun 25, 2025
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