Fausto Carcassi

Sardinian. Assistant prof at @illc_amsterdam. Language & cognition w/ models & experiments. Roughly Bayesian. Past: Tübingen, @UoE_CLE (He/Him)

[Fausto Carcassi @CarcassiFausto]

Moving to where the sky is blue as faustocarcassi! Bye bye "X"

[Masoud @linguistMasoud]

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?

[Miles Cranmer @MilesCranmer]

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!
https://t.co/rhJyJHCZOZ

[Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute #DISI @DivIntelligence]

We aren't the only primates who appreciate a good joke. New piece on the origins of humor by DISI Director Erica Cartmill!
https://t.co/KhKCfxTQTe

[carlos g. correa @_cgcorrea]

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.

https://t.co/3nJ2Ei8LtB

[Timo Roettger @TimoRoettger]

👩‍🎓👨‍🎓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

https://t.co/MDLa3RtOQn

[Miles Cranmer @MilesCranmer]

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:

[Griffiths Computational Cognitive Science Lab @cocosci_lab]

(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: https://t.co/5dnLpcMQzu

[Mason Youngblood @MasYoungblood]

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 🧠🕸️🐦 https://t.co/IfqHYqfNHY

[Gilad @giladturok]

"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

[Nicola Branchini @Branchini_Nic]

Particle filters are genetic algorithms with guarantees 😛

[Riccardo Fusaroli @fusaroli]

New pre-print (tx @ChrisMMCox!): The social context of turn-taking https://t.co/Mj0dHIlwYT Comments welcome!
TL;DR: Response latency in conversation depends on a multidimensional interplay of individual differences, turn-by turn information flow & contextual affordances.

[Kate Nave @KathrynNave]

'A Drive to Survive' is available for pre-order!
https://t.co/FoRsbG8Y9G

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.

[Rose @rose_jlab]

i'm often saying this!!

[George Deane @georgejwdeane]

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'
https://t.co/mB8HW6yBGs

[Fausto Carcassi @CarcassiFausto]

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.

[Fausto Carcassi @CarcassiFausto]

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).

[Fausto Carcassi @CarcassiFausto]

(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: https://t.co/Iw9Jct7A1a

[Fausto Carcassi @CarcassiFausto]

@Limor_Raviv @Radboud_Uni Congrats!!!

[Fausto Carcassi @CarcassiFausto]

Deeply fascinating topic!

[Jonathan Cannon @joncannon_neuro]

@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...https://t.co/mMRuQiXB90