Deeply fascinating topic!

i'm often saying this!!

Preprint from myself and Daphne Demekas. We propose a mechanism for synthetic data generation within active inference and present simulations to explore its implications for understanding states of 'pure consciousness' osf.io/preprints/psya…

'A Drive to Survive' is available for pre-order! mitpress.mit.edu/9780262551328/… And while it doesn't yet have a cover it does have some embarrassingly nice blurbs from @evantthompson and Andy Clark, two of the philosophers who most inspired its content.

New pre-print (tx Christopher Cox!): The social context of turn-taking osf.io/preprints/psya… Comments welcome! TL;DR: Response latency in conversation depends on a multidimensional interplay of individual differences, turn-by turn information flow & contextual affordances.

Particle filters are genetic algorithms with guarantees 😛

"we don't know what to do with those chains yet, but I have the gut feeling that once we do, probabilistic programming will have another breakthrough" - Rémi 📎 on parallelizing 100s of MCMC chains with JAX

Updated ESLR Society jobs board! Highlights: 2 tenure-track psych jobs at Johns Hopkins University, postdoc on collective behavior w/Nori Jacoby at Cornell University, and multiple PhD positions at MPI-AB is on Bluesky @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social 🧠🕸️🐦 bit.ly/ESLR-Jobs

SymbolicRegression.jl → 1.0 🎉 After several years of work, I'm thrilled to announce some major new features! Let me show you what's possible now:

(1/5) Very excited to announce the publication of Bayesian Models of Cognition: Reverse Engineering the Mind. More than a decade in the making, it's a big (600+ pages) beautiful book covering both the basics and recent work: mitpress.mit.edu/9780262049412/…

👩‍🎓👨‍🎓Fully funded PhD position available to come work with me at Universitetet i Oslo using iterative learning experiments to understand the evolution of sound symbolism. 🔴Deadline is 12. Jan '24 ⏲️Desired starting date is Mar/April '24 jobbnorge.no/en/available-j…

My paper on hierarchical plans is out in Cognition!🎉 tldr: We ask participants to generate hierarchical plans in a programming game. People prefer to reuse beyond what standard accounts predict, which we formalize as induction of a grammar over actions. authors.elsevier.com/a/1kBQr2Hx2xLNA

We aren't the only primates who appreciate a good joke. New piece on the origins of humor by DISI Director Erica Cartmill! scientificamerican.com/article/great-…

A beautiful diagram of abstract algebra and other stuff! 👊 [bit.ly/3vPK46u]

Exploring a new "Template Expression" API design for symbolic regression that allows joint optimization of symbolic expressions with parameter vectors. Can be used for optimizing a neural network simultaneously with a symbolic model, finding parametric expressions, learning

It's time that linguistics seriously discusses formal training. We are a field that widely uses formal/mathematical tools (formal language theory, logic, probability theory, statistics), yet we do not provide strong systematic training of these tools to our students. why is that?