Oh how lovely :)

a woman is smiling with her hand on her chest and says `` awwwwww , i love it . ''

Alt: a woman says 'awww, I love it'

Been gone for a while. What's new over here in bluesky land?

Long overdue thread on: ✨The generalised hierarchical Gaussian filter (gHGF)✨ Ever wanted to build your own HGF without deriving/implementing new equations? Ever wondered how volatility beliefs in the HGF relate to predictive coding? Check this out: arxiv.org/abs/2305.10937

The generalized Hierarchical Gaussian Filter

Hierarchical Bayesian models of perception and learning feature prominently in contemporary cognitive neuroscience where, for example, they inform computational concepts of mental disorders. This...

Thanks! The 'brain-ping' idea comes from www.nature.com/articles/nn.... , who used the impulse response to single flashes ('pings') to decode brain states. We think of RIFT as 'temporally extended pinging' - concatenating many impulse responses to track the *temporal evolution* of a brain state.

BUT WHAT WILL HAPPEN IF I DO

My 4yo bilingual son: Daddy daddy I got a sticker at school! Me: <thinking> "I am child"? It's a school, they're all children, why have they given him a sticker for that? <a million years pass> Me: Oh. Sticker says 'I am kind'. In Dutch, 'kind' (rhymes with 'pinned') = 'child'

Absolutely awesome stuff.

Those people are getting brighter in one sense, and definitely not in the other sense.

Maybe more men would get therapy if we rebranded it as auto-debugging.

Using only a restaurant, tell us where you went to college.