SK

Applied mathematics, systems engineering, neuroscience
100% homosexual
🇨🇦

[Antonio Lupetti @antoniolupetti]

"Introduction to Probability" is an excellent set of freely available MIT lecture notes on probability theory.

The book covers probabilistic models, conditional probability, independence, Bayes' rule, discrete and continuous random variables, probability distributions, expectation, variance, covariance, correlation, conditional expectation, transforms and convolutions, Bernoulli and Poisson processes, Markov chains, the laws of large numbers, and the central limit theorem.

The explanations are clear, the mathematics is rigorous without being unnecessarily complicated, and the book includes many examples and problems with complete solutions. It is especially useful for self-study or as a reference when you need to review a specific topic in probability.

Save it to your bookmarks. It may be useful.

https://t.co/MEBjTdhPgy

[SK @psyengsk]

All models are false. Some models are truer than others.

[SK @psyengsk]

@TivadarDanka It ‘woke me up’ as if

[SK @psyengsk]

@engineers_feed 🤔 my CPU doesn’t think guess I need the new AI CPU update

[SK @psyengsk]

@martinmbauer Is mathematics invented or discovered?

[SK @psyengsk]

@paulg I wouldn’t do that. I would want to understand how LLMs work, will read about it, will realize that it’s a big “black box” between inputs and outputs, and will lose interest.

[SK @psyengsk]

@PessoaBrain Horizontal and Sagittal

[SK @psyengsk]

@PessoaBrain Interesting

[SK @psyengsk]

@Kinai_24 The diagram looks pretty 🤩

[SK @psyengsk]

@petefirman Nice demonstration of negative afterimages

[SK @psyengsk]

@thesupermanmx That seems to be a statistical model/curve fitting, not a deductive proof.

[SK @psyengsk]

Interesting read

[SK @psyengsk]

One needs better premises to support the claim ‘scientific data is neutral between physicalism, dualism, panpsychism etc.’

[SK @psyengsk]

The statement “abortion is morally permissible” is a prescriptive statement. The statement “panpsychism is true” is a descriptive statement. I don’t think the comparison between philosophical theories and abortion works.

[Philip Goff @Philip_Goff]

Physicalism, dualism, panpsychism, and idealism are *philosophical theories*.

The scientific data on consciousness is, and always will be, neutral between all of these.

It's like asking: How can we test experimentally the thesis that abortion is morally permissible?

[SK @psyengsk]

@Philip_Goff ….the philosophical theories. Just because a theory is proposed in philosophy doesn’t make it neutral and exempt from inductive probabilistic interpretations

[SK @psyengsk]

@Philip_Goff The statement “abortion is morally permissible” is a prescriptive statement. The statement “panpsychism is true” is a descriptive statement. I don’t think the comparison you’re making here works. You need better premises to support the claim ‘scientific data is neutral between…

[SK @psyengsk]

@MacrinePhD “40% of voxels with significant BOLD changes during various tasks showed reverse oxygen metabolism particularly in the DMN”
That’s the expected result considering the brain doesn’t recruit DMN during active tasks. IMO the story here is consistent with classic fMRI interpretations

[SK @psyengsk]

Or ‘best of all possible’ hairstyles

[SK @psyengsk]

“Rationally” and analytically optimized hairstyle:

[SK @psyengsk]

I think William James was correct. Everyone knows what attention is.