One thing that recently just struck me is that people (including me) often have a strong intutive sense of the just world fallacy when it comes to personal traits. People assume that if somebody has some great strength they must also have a great weakness. That if they are really...
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Intellectual Progress in 2020
The yearly intellectual progress report is a little late this year due to having to write up a PhD. Now that the PhD thesis beast is at least somewhat tamed, in a breather, I can try to figure out what progress I have made this year.
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How the Tails Come Apart
To play with the code directly, please look at the github
repository
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Walkthrough of "Hopfield Networks are all you need"
To play with the code directly, please check out the accompanying colab notebook.
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Thoughts on the Falsifiability of the Free Energy Principle
Since the publication of the defining Particular Physics monograph, a question which has been repeatedly raised is whether the Free Energy Principle (FEP) is falsifiable. In the literature, it is argued that the FEP is merely a principle and thus supposedly immune from falsification. This point is often made with...
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