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Language/CogSci/Evolution: complexity, conventionality, information etc. @[email protected] @matspike.bsky.social

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2 years
OK then - here is a LINK to a really really long reading list for people who:.- are interested in LANGUAGE EVOLUTION.- are interested in ABANDONING HOPE OF SIMPLE EXPLANATIONS.- like 1970S COLOUR SCHEMES.
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RT @o_guest: Everybody, feel free to sign this even if you are not NL-based and ‼️ share ‼️ (anonymous signature is poss):. Open Letter: St….
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you: 'API Playground'.me: 'API Torture Garden'.we are not the same.
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RT @GordonBrianR: On the economics of recursive self-improvement in AI. A response and thread 🧵.
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RT @luislamb: [2304.09276] A Neural Lambda Calculus: Neurosymbolic AI meets the foundations of computing and functional programming https:/….
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WHY the FUCK this needs to be said AT ALL is beyond me, but that it needs to be pointed out to INDUSTRY INSIDERS FFS
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Optimal Balanced Binary Search Tree of Thought.
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Vibe Coding? it's pretty cool if you like that kind of thing, i guess. i'm more of a Bad Vibes Code kinda guy myself. it's pretty niche, you probably haven't heard of it.
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# CHORUS. Gary Marcus, Yann LeCun, Geoffrey Hinton, Yoshua. doom threads, panel wars, totally almost eureka. We didn’t start A-G-I. but in three-to-five years, that's what the slides say. 5/5.
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# Verse 3. AlphaGo, DeepMind, Protein Chess, Shut tf up Bengio. OpenAI, Apocalypse, Neckbeards, Microdosing fascists. Board-coup livestream, Sam’s back - new regime. Q-star panic, deck-slide leak, AGI IN JUST A WEEK. 4/5.
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# Verse 2. ANN, GPU, AlexNet I hate you. ReLU spike, dropout trick, bitter lesson, get rich quick. Andrew Ng JFC, Fei-Fei, Stanford, kill me. Thought leaders, talent wars, not understanding metaphors. (CHORUS). 3/5.
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# CHORUS. Gary Marcus, Yann LeCun, Geoffrey Hinton, Yoshua. doom threads, panel wars, totally almost eureka. We didn’t start A-G-I. but in three-to-five years, that's what the slides say. 2/5.
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WE DIDN'T START A-G-I.(apologies to Billy Joel). # Verse 1.Perceptron, Rosenblatt, defence funds pulled, winter’s back.Minsky paper, Bayes again, something something something brain.Back-prop, 86, Geoffrey Hinton, METRICS.Yann when he did solid work, put it up on mech turk. 1/5.
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RT @stevesi: Information Week March 1987 almost 40 years ago. So much to share. Stay tuned. This was during the depths of the AI winter a….
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EVERYTHING IS A STRONGLY TYPED MODEL AND CODING IS FUN AGAIN. EVEN TESTING IS FUN NOW, IT'S GO FULL COVER OR GO HOME, NOT A LINE OF PRODUCTION CODE IN SIGHT. THIS MUST BE WHAT HASKELL FEELS LIKE
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yes yes, sure whatever you want, mmhhmm alive, they can think. ya ya fo sho. anyway - HEAR ME OUT
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ahh yeah, good times
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**Committing Hume's host to REST** .Endpoint Essentialism, Pragma Realism, & Unnatural Requests: a Prolegomenon to Any Future.response() in 404 parts.
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BRAIN: heyheyhey you know what *time* it is?. ME: rest time, brain. shut up time. turn off, go away. BRAIN: hell YEAH let's KICK BACK. ME: <abyss looms>. BRAIN: ain't it WEIRD how. ME: how data processing pipelines and evolutionary theories of modularity have much to YOU BASTARD.
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