Mahault Albarracin
@mahault.bsky.social
Cognitive computing Ph.D. Director of Research Strategy at VERSES.
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Matt Walsh says white women aren't women
December 27, 2023 at 12:22 AM
Matt Walsh says white women aren't women
Excited to share our new preprint! We're exploring how agents co-construct reality through conscious temporal perception, integrating Husserlian phenomenology, Active Inference, and Category Theory.
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Shared Protentions in Multi-Agent Active Inference
In this paper, we unite concepts from Husserlian phenomenology, the active inference framework in theoretical biology, and category theory in mathematics to develop a comprehensive framework for under...
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December 26, 2023 at 1:02 PM
Excited to share our new preprint! We're exploring how agents co-construct reality through conscious temporal perception, integrating Husserlian phenomenology, Active Inference, and Category Theory.
preprints.org/manuscript/2...
#activeinference #categorytheory #consciousness
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#activeinference #categorytheory #consciousness
Emotion is directionality of focus and velocity relative to direction of travel relative to preference
October 26, 2023 at 9:13 PM
Emotion is directionality of focus and velocity relative to direction of travel relative to preference
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‘Ecological’ psychology is about the fact that who we are and how we live fundamentally shapes what we do and why
October 23, 2023 at 11:48 AM
‘Ecological’ psychology is about the fact that who we are and how we live fundamentally shapes what we do and why
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October 22, 2023 at 9:28 PM
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Also … the fact that National Review thinks this is Scorsese’s “first political movie” just shows they don’t really understand Scorsese’s movies.
I was 50-50 about seeing this movie in a theatre until I read this. Now I'm all in.
October 21, 2023 at 8:56 PM
Also … the fact that National Review thinks this is Scorsese’s “first political movie” just shows they don’t really understand Scorsese’s movies.
Capitalism leads to growth mindset and eventually extinguishes any good thing it might have produced.
October 21, 2023 at 5:53 PM
Capitalism leads to growth mindset and eventually extinguishes any good thing it might have produced.
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You will be shocked, shocked to hear that "The Theory That Men Evolved to Hunt and Women Evolved to Gather Is Wrong"! 🙄 Duh! OF COURSE IT'S WRONG. But now there's a cool article listing the biological and evidentiary reasons, along with nifty diagrams.
www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...
www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...
October 21, 2023 at 1:22 AM
You will be shocked, shocked to hear that "The Theory That Men Evolved to Hunt and Women Evolved to Gather Is Wrong"! 🙄 Duh! OF COURSE IT'S WRONG. But now there's a cool article listing the biological and evidentiary reasons, along with nifty diagrams.
www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...
www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...
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5/ Far from disappearing after tenure, gendered attrition is actually largest among tenured faculty, especially among full professors. Here, we’re showing odds ratios between women and men faculty, adjusting for career age, employer prestige, and PhD training.
October 20, 2023 at 6:38 PM
5/ Far from disappearing after tenure, gendered attrition is actually largest among tenured faculty, especially among full professors. Here, we’re showing odds ratios between women and men faculty, adjusting for career age, employer prestige, and PhD training.
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1/ New paper! “Gender and retention patterns among U.S. faculty” w/ N Laberge KH Wapman @samzhang AC Morgan M Galesic BK Fosdick @danlarremore @aaronclauset: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
A systematic study of gendered rates & reasons for faculty attrition in US academia 🧵
A systematic study of gendered rates & reasons for faculty attrition in US academia 🧵
October 20, 2023 at 6:36 PM
1/ New paper! “Gender and retention patterns among U.S. faculty” w/ N Laberge KH Wapman @samzhang AC Morgan M Galesic BK Fosdick @danlarremore @aaronclauset: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
A systematic study of gendered rates & reasons for faculty attrition in US academia 🧵
A systematic study of gendered rates & reasons for faculty attrition in US academia 🧵
Empathy is the computationally cheaper way to not have to entertain a million other models of entities.
October 19, 2023 at 11:14 PM
Empathy is the computationally cheaper way to not have to entertain a million other models of entities.
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It's here!!!!!!!
October 10, 2023 at 6:19 PM
It's here!!!!!!!
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during my residency at the library of congress, i came across a show that hasn’t been written about in 2 decades.
that talk show, “for you black woman,” was the first national show with a black woman host. i found the host, now 80, and profiled her for @nytimes.com
that talk show, “for you black woman,” was the first national show with a black woman host. i found the host, now 80, and profiled her for @nytimes.com
She Was Oprah Before Oprah
Alice Travis might not be a familiar name now, but in the late 1970s she became the first Black woman to host a nationally syndicated talk show.
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October 17, 2023 at 5:48 PM
during my residency at the library of congress, i came across a show that hasn’t been written about in 2 decades.
that talk show, “for you black woman,” was the first national show with a black woman host. i found the host, now 80, and profiled her for @nytimes.com
that talk show, “for you black woman,” was the first national show with a black woman host. i found the host, now 80, and profiled her for @nytimes.com
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There is no "male-only" or "female-only" sex hormone. Yep, you read that right. You've probably heard that testosterone is the male and estrogen the female sex hormone, but what if I told you that we all usually have both?!
(1/x) #HiSciSky #Scicomm #SexSteroids
(1/x) #HiSciSky #Scicomm #SexSteroids
October 16, 2023 at 12:38 PM
There is no "male-only" or "female-only" sex hormone. Yep, you read that right. You've probably heard that testosterone is the male and estrogen the female sex hormone, but what if I told you that we all usually have both?!
(1/x) #HiSciSky #Scicomm #SexSteroids
(1/x) #HiSciSky #Scicomm #SexSteroids
No, neo-idealism is not the same as neo-materialism and no amount of appeal to authority or belittling will make it so.
October 16, 2023 at 5:32 PM
No, neo-idealism is not the same as neo-materialism and no amount of appeal to authority or belittling will make it so.
Sneak peek on my interview with Machine Learning Street Talk. I believe I may have watched one too many Ancient Alien episodes...
October 16, 2023 at 4:51 PM
Sneak peek on my interview with Machine Learning Street Talk. I believe I may have watched one too many Ancient Alien episodes...
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The evidence is very clear that every aspect of our mental lives depends on physical operations in our bodies and brains.
We basically know for sure (as sure as one can be in science) that there is nothing immaterial underlying our minds.
We basically know for sure (as sure as one can be in science) that there is nothing immaterial underlying our minds.
What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders?
I'll start: Amazon makes more money out of their Cloud services than out of their e-commerce platform.
I'll start: Amazon makes more money out of their Cloud services than out of their e-commerce platform.
October 16, 2023 at 2:44 PM
The evidence is very clear that every aspect of our mental lives depends on physical operations in our bodies and brains.
We basically know for sure (as sure as one can be in science) that there is nothing immaterial underlying our minds.
We basically know for sure (as sure as one can be in science) that there is nothing immaterial underlying our minds.
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Twin girls, Nuha and Fatina, were born in a collapsing hospital in southern Gaza on Saturday, days after their mother had to leave another struggling health center in the north. Her babies were born prematurely and need formula, but water is scarce. nyti.ms/46zH7dw
October 16, 2023 at 3:26 PM
Twin girls, Nuha and Fatina, were born in a collapsing hospital in southern Gaza on Saturday, days after their mother had to leave another struggling health center in the north. Her babies were born prematurely and need formula, but water is scarce. nyti.ms/46zH7dw
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Theory matters. Models matter. Assumptions and assumption violations matter. Methods are not equivalent in their assumptions or statistical guarantees. We do not have the luxury of making inference in a vacuum. That's also why reproducibility/replicability doesn't mean what people think it means.
October 13, 2023 at 6:16 PM
Theory matters. Models matter. Assumptions and assumption violations matter. Methods are not equivalent in their assumptions or statistical guarantees. We do not have the luxury of making inference in a vacuum. That's also why reproducibility/replicability doesn't mean what people think it means.
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Why yes we did capture the annular eclipse. Photographed from Rio Rancho, New Mexico, by my husband Jeff Kanipe with a 600mm lens and solar filter.
October 14, 2023 at 8:25 PM
Why yes we did capture the annular eclipse. Photographed from Rio Rancho, New Mexico, by my husband Jeff Kanipe with a 600mm lens and solar filter.
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Join us for the next talk in the ROTO lecture series! Yasmin Haddad (@yashaddad.bsky.social) from Dalhousie University will present the case for a realist metaphysics for interventionist theories of causation. Please register in this link 👇https://rotorub.wordpress.com/roto-lecture-series/ #PhilSci
October 11, 2023 at 4:00 PM
Join us for the next talk in the ROTO lecture series! Yasmin Haddad (@yashaddad.bsky.social) from Dalhousie University will present the case for a realist metaphysics for interventionist theories of causation. Please register in this link 👇https://rotorub.wordpress.com/roto-lecture-series/ #PhilSci
Reminder: the toxicity on Twitter isn't entirely due to the people. It's also due to the system itself and what it leads to. Echo-chamber formation was huge driver of the certainty certain people developed in misinformation, anti-vaccination and conspiracy theories... /1
October 11, 2023 at 11:34 AM
Reminder: the toxicity on Twitter isn't entirely due to the people. It's also due to the system itself and what it leads to. Echo-chamber formation was huge driver of the certainty certain people developed in misinformation, anti-vaccination and conspiracy theories... /1
Oof. Deleted twitter from my phone today... Misinformation shouldn't be given more fuel.
October 11, 2023 at 6:10 AM
Oof. Deleted twitter from my phone today... Misinformation shouldn't be given more fuel.