How humans generalize is a key questions that cognitive scientists are trying to to understand. Animals and computers cannot generalize like humans can. Most of the time when we think of computational generalization, we are thinking about perception and classification, but it applies to action and movement just the same, if not, even more. I… Continue reading Generalization in action
Month: February 2022
Minimal concepts needed to encode human language in a computer
I propose that there exists a minimal set of concepts that can be used to describe and encode almost all meaning of human language. From this base set of concept primitives, complex conjoined concepts can be created due to compositionality and abstract structures. One cannot learn complex concepts like quantum mechanics, calculus, or homework without… Continue reading Minimal concepts needed to encode human language in a computer
Read, Review, and Relink. On growing your zettelkasten
I have been writing this zettelkasten now for about 3 months. It has absolutely been growing crazily. Sometimes I write several posts in a single day. When I am writing my posts, I interlink them with whatever relevant posts and I have already written. In that way, my zettelkasten grows. If you truly want to… Continue reading Read, Review, and Relink. On growing your zettelkasten
Grid Cells: The next building block in Artificial Intelligence research?
Current Machine Learning research has made huge progress in the past 20 years thanks to Deep Learning. We have computers we can talk to, powerful image recognition, and (almost) self-driving cars. Almost of these technologies are built on artificial neural networks , which in turn use perceptrons, a very simplified model of neurons. What we… Continue reading Grid Cells: The next building block in Artificial Intelligence research?
How to Live as Long as Possible
Why would you want to live longer: To have a better quality of life as you get older, you don’t want to be in complete pain at 70. To work on your passions longer. To spend more time with family and loved ones. Supposedly “Lifespan” is a good book about living longer. I didn’t actually… Continue reading How to Live as Long as Possible
Speed Cells
Speed cells are neurons who’s firing rate depends on the speed of the organism moving throughout an environment. They were discovered in 2005. These cells are located in the Endorhinal Cortex (EC) and are believed to be used together with grid cells and head direction cells for mapping the environment. Main paper: “Speed cells in… Continue reading Speed Cells
Object Vector Cells
Object Vector Cells are a type of neuron in the Endorhinal Cortext (EC). They were discovered in 2019. They are unique and have interesting properties compared to other neurons. They seem to fire when an organism is at a specific distance and direction to an object. It doesnt matter where the objects are in the… Continue reading Object Vector Cells
Head direction Cells
Another type of neuron in the Endorhinal Cortex (EC). These head direction cells fire when the organism moves in a certain direction. What is very interesting about them is that they have also been implicated to fire when moving in certain directions in the mind, essentially navigating a conceptual space. It looks like these cells… Continue reading Head direction Cells
Types of work I often see myself doing
Ideation – I have practiced growing my “idea muscle” for many years by taking any topic or idea I am interested in and listing out ways to expand, experiment, grow it, or any other way I want to explore that idea. This allows me to be able to make progress on any idea that I… Continue reading Types of work I often see myself doing
How to build a Research Lab
If you have an idea and want to grow it, you may need a team. A Principal Investigator (PI) is usually someone who has done research for others before and has a PhD and now wants to go create their own research with the help of others. You will probably want to have some papers… Continue reading How to build a Research Lab