Readings
Books, papers, articles, and references worth tracking.
- ·researchThe Brain from Inside Out
Gyorgy Buzsaki's inside-out account of brain function, emphasizing self-organized activity and action-led cognition.
- ·researchRhythms of the Brain
Gyorgy Buzsaki's major synthesis of neural oscillations, timing, and the rhythmic organization of cognition.
- ·researchPretrained Transformers as Universal Computation Engines
A study of frozen pretrained transformers as reusable computation engines across non-language sequence tasks.
- ·researchOn the Measure of Intelligence
Francois Chollet's proposal to measure intelligence as skill-acquisition efficiency rather than task skill alone.
- ·researchLanguage Models are Few-Shot Learners
The GPT-3 paper that made in-context learning a central empirical phenomenon in modern AI.
- ·researchAttention Is All You Need
The Transformer paper that made attention-only sequence modeling the default substrate for modern language models.
- ·writingA Beautiful Loop
Current reading notes on the active-inference account of consciousness and the recursive loop that makes a model include itself.