Max Taylor-Davies
@maxtaylordavies.bsky.social
phd student building computational models of social cognition @ edinburgh | prev imperial, ucl, inria
https://maxtaylordavi.es
https://maxtaylordavi.es
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3 papers from @flowersinria team are presented this week at the @alife2025.bsky.social , leveraging curiosity-driven AI to explore complex behaviors in #Lenia
All first authors are attending the conference if you want to discuss with them.
Link to interactive websites, papers and code below:
All first authors are attending the conference if you want to discuss with them.
Link to interactive websites, papers and code below:
October 8, 2025 at 8:34 AM
3 papers from @flowersinria team are presented this week at the @alife2025.bsky.social , leveraging curiosity-driven AI to explore complex behaviors in #Lenia
All first authors are attending the conference if you want to discuss with them.
Link to interactive websites, papers and code below:
All first authors are attending the conference if you want to discuss with them.
Link to interactive websites, papers and code below:
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My Lab at the University of Edinburgh🇬🇧 has funded PhD positions for this cycle!
We study the computational principles of how people learn, reason, and communicate.
It's a new lab, and you will be playing a big role in shaping its culture and foundations.
Spread the words!
We study the computational principles of how people learn, reason, and communicate.
It's a new lab, and you will be playing a big role in shaping its culture and foundations.
Spread the words!
August 17, 2025 at 11:52 AM
My Lab at the University of Edinburgh🇬🇧 has funded PhD positions for this cycle!
We study the computational principles of how people learn, reason, and communicate.
It's a new lab, and you will be playing a big role in shaping its culture and foundations.
Spread the words!
We study the computational principles of how people learn, reason, and communicate.
It's a new lab, and you will be playing a big role in shaping its culture and foundations.
Spread the words!
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"the computational metaphor" in cognitive science is not a metaphor. computational processes are attributed to the mind/brain in the most dead-literal sense. one can disagree with it but (1) it's not as simple as discarding a metaphor and (2) boy is there a lot of data that has to be explained!
August 10, 2025 at 7:41 PM
"the computational metaphor" in cognitive science is not a metaphor. computational processes are attributed to the mind/brain in the most dead-literal sense. one can disagree with it but (1) it's not as simple as discarding a metaphor and (2) boy is there a lot of data that has to be explained!
At #CogSci2025 and curious about resource-rational models of social cognition? Come to Nob Hill A at 11:14 tomorrow to hear me talk about work with @tadegquillien.bsky.social where we use the information bottleneck to study stereotype use and the outgroup homogeneity bias!
August 1, 2025 at 8:40 PM
At #CogSci2025 and curious about resource-rational models of social cognition? Come to Nob Hill A at 11:14 tomorrow to hear me talk about work with @tadegquillien.bsky.social where we use the information bottleneck to study stereotype use and the outgroup homogeneity bias!
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Just out in Cognitive Psychology
Lossy encoding of distributions in judgment under uncertainty
By @tadegquillien.bsky.social , me & Chris Lucas
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
We find people's 'best guesses' sneakily encode distribution information that guesser & others can reconstruct later
Lossy encoding of distributions in judgment under uncertainty
By @tadegquillien.bsky.social , me & Chris Lucas
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
We find people's 'best guesses' sneakily encode distribution information that guesser & others can reconstruct later
Lossy encoding of distributions in judgment under uncertainty
People often make judgments about uncertain facts and events, for example ‘Germany will win the world cup’. Judgment under uncertainty is often studie…
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June 24, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Just out in Cognitive Psychology
Lossy encoding of distributions in judgment under uncertainty
By @tadegquillien.bsky.social , me & Chris Lucas
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
We find people's 'best guesses' sneakily encode distribution information that guesser & others can reconstruct later
Lossy encoding of distributions in judgment under uncertainty
By @tadegquillien.bsky.social , me & Chris Lucas
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
We find people's 'best guesses' sneakily encode distribution information that guesser & others can reconstruct later
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Our new paper with Max Taylor-Davies introduces a resource-rational model of Theory of Mind.
The model can explain many of the successes and failures of mindreading in human adults and children, and non-human primates. 🧵
The model can explain many of the successes and failures of mindreading in human adults and children, and non-human primates. 🧵
March 31, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Our new paper with Max Taylor-Davies introduces a resource-rational model of Theory of Mind.
The model can explain many of the successes and failures of mindreading in human adults and children, and non-human primates. 🧵
The model can explain many of the successes and failures of mindreading in human adults and children, and non-human primates. 🧵
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Very happy that our paper received both the EvoApps best paper and the EvoStar best student paper! Congrats team!!
Emergent Kin Selection of Altruistic Feeding via Non-Episodic Neuroevolution
arxiv.org/abs/2411.10536
Emergent Kin Selection of Altruistic Feeding via Non-Episodic Neuroevolution
arxiv.org/abs/2411.10536
May 12, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Very happy that our paper received both the EvoApps best paper and the EvoStar best student paper! Congrats team!!
Emergent Kin Selection of Altruistic Feeding via Non-Episodic Neuroevolution
arxiv.org/abs/2411.10536
Emergent Kin Selection of Altruistic Feeding via Non-Episodic Neuroevolution
arxiv.org/abs/2411.10536