My notes on ”A Benchmark for Systemic Generalization in Grounded Language Understanding”

I meant to read this paper for a long time and finally got around to it. Paper link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.05161v2 Laura Ruis is the main author, I hope she goes on to do more work in this “general direction” 🙂 Jacob Andreas of NTM fame is a co-author, awesome! Brenden Lake who does tons of interesting… Continue reading My notes on ”A Benchmark for Systemic Generalization in Grounded Language Understanding”

What is grounded language learning

“An unknown, but potentially large, fraction of animal and human intelligence is a direct consequence of the perceptual and physical richness of our environment, and is unlikely to arise without it”. – John Locke (1632-1704) Powerful state of the art machine learning systems such as word2vec and GPT-3 are powerful machine learning models that seem to… Continue reading What is grounded language learning

Notes on “A language of thought for the mental representation of geometric shapes”

I’m going to try to write notes on the papers I read in this blog as well. Here is my first one. Link to paper: https://psyarxiv.com/28mg4 Authors: Mathias Sablé-Meyer, Kevin Ellis, Joshua Tenenbaum, Stanislas Dehaene Both Joshua Tenenbaum and Stanislas Dehaene are 2 of my favorite researchers, so I had to read this joint paper… Continue reading Notes on “A language of thought for the mental representation of geometric shapes”

Examining concepts through different filters

I think the human mind an autonomous interlinked model building database of the world. I define models and concepts to be the same thing. One important aspect of this system that has been nagging me is the idea that the human mind can examine ideas/models/concepts from different filters. In my article about the mind as… Continue reading Examining concepts through different filters

Ideas for meeting interesting researchers

offer office hours have paper reading sessions have a ML mastermind group reach out to researchers join a journal club join other researchers’ office hours mentor researchers find a research mentor teach an online course study online courses and send questions to the professors

Do grid like cells appear in the neocortex?

Grid cells exist in the entorhinal cortex (EC) and are known to fire for spatial navigation on a hexagrid structure. Grid cells along with the other cells in the EC are implicated as a key component that allows for generalization and conceptual maps in the human brain. Recently I was reading “A Framework for Intelligence… Continue reading Do grid like cells appear in the neocortex?

The human mind is an autonomous interlinked model building database of the world

My definition of intelligence has become refined over time. In my article about the the human mind being a simulation engine, I already wrote out some of the points I am going to make, but my thinking has on the topic has become more clear. The human mind is composed of tens of thousands of… Continue reading The human mind is an autonomous interlinked model building database of the world