Good Will Hunting in reverse: the real-life story of Peter Putnam, promising physicist turned janitor.
HT @cdarwin
https://nautil.us/finding-peter-putnam-1218035/
#PeterPutnam #GoodWillHunting #NautilusMagazine #AmandaGefter #TheoreticalNeuroscience #ScienceMastodon #ScienceStories #JohnArchibaldWheeler #GayHistory #NeuralModels #LongReads #PrincetonUniversity #RobertFuller #HistoryOfPhysics #HistoryOfScience
NeuroWulf - I'm sure it's totally coincidental, but this happens to be great music to accompany studying the development of mental representations. 😀
#representation
#neuralmodels
#sokolov
#neuroscience
#developmentalpsychology
#piaget
#infantdevelopment
In his new paper https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~hinton/FFA13.pdf, G. Hinton points our how current #neuralmodels based on #backpropagation should be replaced by mechanisms that don't contradict biological evidence and that "may be superior to backpropagation as a model of learning in cortex and as a way of making use of very low-power analog hardware without resorting to #reinforcementlearning".
In "Cognitive Design for Artificial Minds", 2021 (https://www.amazon.com/dp/1138207950/), I argued the same! #AI & #CogSci converge again!
