Five years of work come to light. Sharing Thoughts is out!! Oxford Philosophy Contributions from C Peacocke, I Dickie, F Recanati, M García-Carpintero, S Sawyer, L & F Schroeter, A Onofri, JL Bermúdez, R Goodman, A Gray, J Pollock, G Longworth, S Prosser. academic.oup.com/book/60759

Sifting the Signal from the Noise – Daniel Herrmann & Jacob VanDrunen Abstract in alt text or read the full paper here: journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/72… #philsci

The 3rd edition of my book Deep Learning with Python is being printed right now, and will be in bookstores within 2 weeks. You can order it now from Amazon or from Manning. This time, we're also releasing the whole thing as a 100% free website. I don't care if it reduces book

This is not obviously true if you’re a philosopher of mind

Finally in my hands!! 🤩🤩🥳🥳

Pre-PhD: “I don’t know” Post-PhD: “this is beyond the scope of my research”

Simon Goldstein and I have a new paper, “What does ChatGPT want? An interpretationist guide”. The paper argues for three main claims. Pictured, my hand, actual grass. 1/7

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The narrative around LLMs is that they got better purely by scaling up pretraining *compute*. In reality, they got better by scaling up pretraining *data*, while compute is only a means to the end of cramming more data into the model. Data is the fundamental bottleneck. You can't

Meanwhile, AGI will in fact get better by simply adding more *compute*. It will not be bottlenecked by the availability of human-generated text.

Average week in the life of an analytic philosopher

Can only meat machines be conscious? Opinion by Ned Block (Ned Block) Free access before Nov 26: tinyurl.com/yvurvp2p

Very well deserved — his work is incredibly thought through

While at Guinness, William Sealy Gosset developed a statistical method to infer population means from small samples, minimizing lab work and cost. Since Guinness forbade staff from publishing research, he signed his paper "Student". That's how the Student’s t-test, one of the

➡️New article out⬅️ The Bechtel Approach to the Scope and Limits of Mechanistic Explanation by Daniel C. Burnston Free reading link: rdcu.be/eLgQT

Imagine Eric Adam’s is in your philosophy grad school cohort. Reading Kripke and Frege with him in pro-sem 😯

How an ontological nihilist sees the world

These could just be a special section of a libraries computer lab, with an extra security guard or computers that don’t have wifi accessibility. What am I missing here