Sardinian. Assistant prof at @illc_amsterdam. Language & cognition w/ models & experiments. Roughly Bayesian. Past: Tübingen, @UoE_CLE (He/Him)
Joined October 2016
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24 Jan 2025
Moving to where the sky is blue as faustocarcassi! Bye bye "X"
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6 Jan 2025
It's time that linguistics seriously discusses formal training. We are a field that widely uses formal/mathematical tools (formal language theory, logic, probability theory, statistics), yet we do not provide strong systematic training of these tools to our students. why is that?
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3 Jan 2025
Exploring a new "Template Expression" API design for symbolic regression that allows joint optimization of symbolic expressions with parameter vectors. Can be used for optimizing a neural network simultaneously with a symbolic model, finding parametric expressions, learning constants in fixed forms, and much more.
Would love feedback on the design!
github.com/MilesCranmer/Symb…
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We aren't the only primates who appreciate a good joke. New piece on the origins of humor by DISI Director Erica Cartmill!
scientificamerican.com/artic…
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3 Dec 2024
My paper on hierarchical plans is out in Cognition!🎉
tldr: We ask participants to generate hierarchical plans in a programming game. People prefer to reuse beyond what standard accounts predict, which we formalize as induction of a grammar over actions.
authors.elsevier.com/a/1kBQr…
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22 Nov 2024
👩🎓👨🎓Fully funded PhD position available to come work with me at @UniOslo using iterative learning experiments to understand the evolution of sound symbolism.
🔴Deadline is 12. Jan '24
⏲️Desired starting date is Mar/April '24
jobbnorge.no/en/available-jo…
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18 Nov 2024
SymbolicRegression.jl → 1.0 🎉
After several years of work, I'm thrilled to announce some major new features! Let me show you what's possible now:
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(1/5) Very excited to announce the publication of Bayesian Models of Cognition: Reverse Engineering the Mind. More than a decade in the making, it's a big (600 pages) beautiful book covering both the basics and recent work: mitpress.mit.edu/97802620494…
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14 Nov 2024
Updated @ESLRSociety jobs board! Highlights: 2 tenure-track psych jobs at @JohnsHopkins, postdoc on collective behavior w/@norijacoby at @Cornell, and multiple PhD positions at @MPI_animalbehav 🧠🕸️🐦 bit.ly/ESLR-Jobs
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8 Nov 2024
"we don't know what to do with those chains yet, but I have the gut feeling that once we do, probabilistic programming will have another breakthrough" - @remilouf on parallelizing 100s of MCMC chains with JAX
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6 Nov 2024
Particle filters are genetic algorithms with guarantees 😛
6 Nov 2024
Similarly, there are several research directions today seen as long-abandoned failures, that are only waiting for the right amount of attention and the right level of compute scale to shine. Genetic algorithms are one of them.
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6 Nov 2024
New pre-print (tx @ChrisMMCox!): The social context of turn-taking osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/zw… Comments welcome!
TL;DR: Response latency in conversation depends on a multidimensional interplay of individual differences, turn-by turn information flow & contextual affordances.
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31 Oct 2024
'A Drive to Survive' is available for pre-order!
mitpress.mit.edu/97802625513…
And while it doesn't yet have a cover it does have some embarrassingly nice blurbs from @evantthompson and @CogsAndy, two of the philosophers who most inspired its content.
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29 Oct 2024
i'm often saying this!!
28 Oct 2024
every “traditional” social norm was invented by advertisers in 1957 and every “newfangled social phenomenon” has been around for 3000 years
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30 Oct 2024
Preprint from myself and Daphne Demekas. We propose a mechanism for synthetic data generation within active inference and present simulations to explore its implications for understanding states of 'pure consciousness'
osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/w6…
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27 Oct 2024
The traditional theoretical question of whether maths is discovered or invented has a counterpart in the ambiguity of the *experience* of reasoning, which can feel like perception (of an already present structure) or action (building up the structure).
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27 Oct 2024
(Who knows what Derrida really wants to say, but) to me this sounds like the former - though he calls it an "apparatus, or machine" rather than structure: youtu.be/BSsDRf2wnOk?si=AEO9…
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27 Oct 2024
And he describes this sense of it happening *to* him. Sometimes reasoning feels more like following a pattern with your eyes, with a large component of attentional direction, and sometimes more like smelling or hearing, happening spontaneously and even intrusively.
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Deeply fascinating topic!
22 Oct 2024
@UniOslo_RITMO is recruiting a PhD student to study musical microrhythm, supervised by @annedanielsen and Rainer Polack. This is the best imaginable situation for a budding rhythm nerd. If you have any star undergrads in your lab open to a move to Norway...jobbnorge.no/en/available-jo…
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We're delegating too much of probability to computers. When's the last time you even picked a colored ball from an actual urn?
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