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Patricia Diaz
@patdiaz.bsky.social
I learn about learning, think about thinking, and know about knowledge
First 2026 book in my library. Excited to learn how can the heart generate its own electrical stimulus from Denis Noble who discovered an answer and tells the story of its many consequences over the several decades that followed.
December 14, 2025 at 6:52 AM
New book has arrived: very intrigued by Martin Stevens' Secret Worlds
October 17, 2025 at 4:48 AM
Reposted by Patricia Diaz
Ever wondered why presenting more facts can sometimes *worsen* disagreements, even among rational people? 🤔

It turns out, Bayesian reasoning has some surprising answers - no cognitive biases needed! Let's explore this fascinating paradox quickly ☺️
January 7, 2025 at 10:25 PM
I like Boisot's iSpace framework* to think about knowledge structure arising from codification (akin to this paper's fine-grained semantic distinctions) working in tandem with abstraction to give humans the flexibility LLMs lack per this paper's fascinating findings.

* youtu.be/N23DbNetkTw
June 12, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Reposted by Patricia Diaz
I'm looking to hire a student researcher to work on an exciting project for 6 months in DeepMind Montreal.

Requirements:
- Full-time masters/PhD student 🧑🏾‍🎓
- Substantial expertise in multi-agent RL, ideally including publication(s) 🤖🤖
- Strong Python coding skills 🐍

Is this you? Get in touch!
March 20, 2025 at 12:29 AM
AI for Science 🧪
Humans remain the only intelligent system capable of solving the hard problem, namely, the formulation of the problem (as opposed to its solution where AI can indeed help)
www.arxiv.org/abs/2408.14508
Artificial intelligence for science: The easy and hard problems
A suite of impressive scientific discoveries have been driven by recent advances in artificial intelligence. These almost all result from training flexible algorithms to solve difficult...
www.arxiv.org
September 6, 2024 at 5:08 AM
Reading again #IofTheVortex by neuroscientist Rodolfo Llinas 💙📚
September 4, 2024 at 11:55 AM