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Social Learning and Biases
In our pursuit to perfect neural networks, we often look to how humans learn for reference, which has had varying degrees of success....
Ethan Smith
Jun 55 min read
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Recurrent Parameterless Attention is a Consensus Algorithm
In another post, I wrote about parameterless (boneless) attention as a means of mixing information across datapoints weighted by their...
Ethan Smith
May 242 min read
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The mean preference is a bad estimate of preferences.
I felt compelled to make this post after seeing yet another reinforcement learning paper for diffusion models that does spectacularly in...
Ethan Smith
May 186 min read
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How do we tackle noisy recognition?
Something I've been thinking about a lot lately is how humans handle noisy recognition. Maybe you recognize the image above, if not you...
Ethan Smith
Apr 913 min read
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