PJ

how many British actors? yes

Good to hear about AT

Gotta have sun to grow tomatoes in Melbourne

I'm in Sri Lanka and my mother in law made this beautiful kulfi

Get ready to take up arms when they invade little buddy. Godspeed.

Reminded me of Fred Lowen
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Lo...
The chairs are great if you ever run into a pair

The Thomas Mann read is going so well.

Skills Dilina, skills

I did the same just now. No luck. Likely exists outside the Internet which is always exciting (and frustrating)

I started a new job, it's challenging but I have the confidence level of both of the current American presidents so I should be good.

Hey this sounds cool but unfortunately I don't remember anything like this :(
Sorry!

SOON

Boox

An article from The Onion featuring a humorous headline about an SUV shopper's preference for safety in accidents: “Conscientious SUV Shopper Just Wants Something That Will Kill Family In Other Car In Case Of Accident”. The image shows a smiling woman driving an SUV.

So many replies like this

Fantastic to see Leonard and Hungry Paul on the 2024 bestseller list at @trumanbooks.bsky.social almost six years on from its release.

Independent bookshops have been the book's patron saints from the very start 💛

The Collected Short Stories of Roberto Bolaño (new hardback collection)

part of the contents of The Collected Short Stories of Roberto Bolaño

Got my filthy paws on the new complete(?) collected Bolaño stories. I've included the contents list of the "new" stories here for people like me who already have LAST EVENINGS ON EARTH/THE RETURN/THE INSUFFERABLE GAUCHO--there's about 140p of new stuff.

Massive rabbit hole I should probably avoid!

The idea that human cognition is, or can be understood as, a form of computation is a useful conceptual tool for cognitive science. It was a foundational assumption during the birth of cognitive science as a multidisciplinary field, with Artificial Intelligence (AI) as one of its contributing fields. One conception of Al in this context is as a provider of computational tools (frameworks, concepts, formalisms, models, proofs, simulations, etc.) that support theory building in cognitive science. The contemporary field of Al, however, has taken the theoretical possibility of explaining human cognition as a form of computation to imply the practical feasibility of realising human(-like or -level) cognition in factual computational systems; and, the field frames this realisation as a short-term inevitability. Yet, as we formally prove herein, creating systems with human(-like or -level) cognition is intrinsically computationally intractable.

🚨Our paper `Reclaiming AI as a theoretical tool for cognitive science' is now forthcoming in the journal Computational Brain & Behaviour. (Preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...)

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#metatheory #AGI #AIhype #cogsci #theoreticalpsych #criticalAIliteracy

What Makes a Good Theory, and How Do We Make a Theory Good? - Computational Brain & Behavior I present an ontology of criteria for evaluating theory to answer the titular question from the perspective of a scientist practitioner. Set inside a formal account of our adjudication over theories, ...

🎶 When the weather outside is frightful, and the theory so delightful - It's the Christmas edition of #ReproducibiliTea & we discuss @olivia.science's paper 'What makes a good theory and how do me make a theory good' while munching on Christmas cookies 😋🍪 Check it out: doi.org/10.1007/s421...

The Hotel Room by Adrian Ghenie

Sun Avoidance xkcd.com/3029

Merry Christmas!

we share it and i find excuses to type on it. I may get another! don't really like modern laptop keyboards :(

Good eye! its a classic T480 that my wife sometimes uses for writing :D

La piscine. Le jour de Noël.

Fucking shelf update 24

I usually come with lots of statistics instead 😈

😭

Help your friends. Sin.

A jar of rillettes

Voila