Natesh Ganesh
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In no particular order - AI, physics, hardware, consicousness, football.
My abstract for the Ernst Mach workshop on 'Conscious AI? Functionalism & it's Alternatives' was rejected. Might just go ahead & put out a blog post/video discussing the work instead. Convinced that we need to augment functionalism with stat-mech to ground the realizers.
March 24, 2025 at 5:34 PM
My abstract for the Ernst Mach workshop on 'Conscious AI? Functionalism & it's Alternatives' was rejected. Might just go ahead & put out a blog post/video discussing the work instead. Convinced that we need to augment functionalism with stat-mech to ground the realizers.
I am open to not understanding something fundamental, but imo these just look like made-up assumptions. There is no reason to buy into these principles, unless you already think IIT is correct. What am I missing?
March 21, 2025 at 6:35 PM
I am open to not understanding something fundamental, but imo these just look like made-up assumptions. There is no reason to buy into these principles, unless you already think IIT is correct. What am I missing?
Hoffman's claim is that our perception gives us absolutely no truth about the underlying reality...because maths. Okay, how do we learn -ve payoffs? 1/2
Taking Hoffman & his theories on consciousness is really a self-report. In that way, it is useful.
December 11, 2024 at 3:03 AM
Hoffman's claim is that our perception gives us absolutely no truth about the underlying reality...because maths. Okay, how do we learn -ve payoffs? 1/2
Taking Hoffman & his theories on consciousness is really a self-report. In that way, it is useful.
December 10, 2024 at 11:36 PM
Taking Hoffman & his theories on consciousness is really a self-report. In that way, it is useful.
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Today's Nobel lecture by John Hopfield is brilliant and moving. Fascinating to hear how hard he worked at finding the right problem. And how he arrived at that fateful discovery that got many of us into neuroscience. (And how it was useful that PNAS was unreviewed!)
www.youtube.com/live/lPIVl5e...
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December 8, 2024 at 10:24 PM
Today's Nobel lecture by John Hopfield is brilliant and moving. Fascinating to hear how hard he worked at finding the right problem. And how he arrived at that fateful discovery that got many of us into neuroscience. (And how it was useful that PNAS was unreviewed!)
www.youtube.com/live/lPIVl5e...
www.youtube.com/live/lPIVl5e...
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Amen, brother. "My goal here is to argue that any theory of consciousness that ontologizes information will fail to account for consciousness because the kind of information that subserves consciousness is epistemological, not ontological."
Ontological conceptions of information cannot account for consciousness
Epistemological and ontological conceptions of information are contrasted. The former are based on acts of decoding of extrinsic inputs that result in…
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December 8, 2024 at 8:27 PM
Amen, brother. "My goal here is to argue that any theory of consciousness that ontologizes information will fail to account for consciousness because the kind of information that subserves consciousness is epistemological, not ontological."
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Because the below skeet went viral here, and people are arguing over it, I'm going to share some more info about it from a thread I did at the other place. I really need to just do an article about it but haven't done that yet. Until then, I hope readers find this thread useful. 🧵
Denver gave people experiencing homelessness $1k/month. A year later, nearly half had housing.
They also had fewer ER visits, nights spent in a hospital, and jail stays.
The report estimates that this reduction in public service use SAVED the city $589k.
www.businessinsider.com/denver-basic...
They also had fewer ER visits, nights spent in a hospital, and jail stays.
The report estimates that this reduction in public service use SAVED the city $589k.
www.businessinsider.com/denver-basic...
Denver gave people experiencing homelessness $1,000 a month. A year later, nearly half of participants said they had housing.
Participants in Denver's basic-income program reported having more-secure housing, though results were similar in the trial and control groups.
www.businessinsider.com
November 26, 2024 at 3:18 PM
Because the below skeet went viral here, and people are arguing over it, I'm going to share some more info about it from a thread I did at the other place. I really need to just do an article about it but haven't done that yet. Until then, I hope readers find this thread useful. 🧵
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My deep learning course at the University of Geneva is available on-line. 1000+ slides, ~20h of screen-casts. Full of examples in PyTorch.
fleuret.org/dlc/
And my "Little Book of Deep Learning" is available as a phone-formatted pdf (nearing 700k downloads!)
fleuret.org/lbdl/
fleuret.org/dlc/
And my "Little Book of Deep Learning" is available as a phone-formatted pdf (nearing 700k downloads!)
fleuret.org/lbdl/
November 26, 2024 at 6:15 AM
My deep learning course at the University of Geneva is available on-line. 1000+ slides, ~20h of screen-casts. Full of examples in PyTorch.
fleuret.org/dlc/
And my "Little Book of Deep Learning" is available as a phone-formatted pdf (nearing 700k downloads!)
fleuret.org/lbdl/
fleuret.org/dlc/
And my "Little Book of Deep Learning" is available as a phone-formatted pdf (nearing 700k downloads!)
fleuret.org/lbdl/
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If you find yourself with too much free time over the (long) weekend / holidays, I have ~3h Building an LLM from the Ground Up workshop on YouTube that may come in handy: m.youtube.com/watch?v=quh7...
Building LLMs from the Ground Up: A 3-hour Coding Workshop
YouTube video by Sebastian Raschka
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November 27, 2024 at 4:39 AM
If you find yourself with too much free time over the (long) weekend / holidays, I have ~3h Building an LLM from the Ground Up workshop on YouTube that may come in handy: m.youtube.com/watch?v=quh7...
Toying with the idea that 1st and 3rd person descriptions of a conscious experience are some analogue of complementary observables. A system cannot know both precisely & simultaneously. The hard problem in a way is what is missing in 3rd person description vs 1st person. 1/2
November 26, 2024 at 4:00 PM
Toying with the idea that 1st and 3rd person descriptions of a conscious experience are some analogue of complementary observables. A system cannot know both precisely & simultaneously. The hard problem in a way is what is missing in 3rd person description vs 1st person. 1/2