Zaid Al Kazemi
Building Caravan Notes: a thinking accelerator, not a replacement
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Decoding human and machine intelligence to build Caravan Notes
Articles
The Spiral of Stupidity
My weight update after reading: “Rational Choice and the Structure of the Environment” by Herbert Simon
AI: Nagging Nanny or Mega Muse?
My weight update after reading: “Scaling Laws for Neural Language Models” by Kaplan, McCandlish et al
What Is Intelligence?
My weight update after reading: “On the Measure of Intelligence” by Chollet
Paradise Found
My weight update after reading: “The Bitter Lesson” by Sutton
Your Mind is a Garden But Are You The Gardener?
My weight update after reading: “Predictive Coding in the Visual Cortex” by Rao & Ballard
You're Dreaming Wrong
My weight update after reading: "World Models" by Ha & Schmidhuber
Beyond Logic and Sequence
My weight update after reading: “BERT” by Devlin et al
The Anti-Luck Filter (And How it’s The Key to Survival)
My weight update after reading: “Proximal Policy Optimization” by Schulman et al
The Extinction of Thinking
My weight update after reading: “A Neuronal Model of a Global Workspace” by Dehaene, Kerszberg, Changeux
The Sixth Sense: Mathematics
My weight update after reading: “Attention Is All You Need” by Vaswani et al
Stakes
My weight update after reading: “Mastering the Game of Go Without Human Knowledge” by Silver et al
How to Build a Self-Optimizing System
My weight update after reading: “Human-level Control through Deep Reinforcement Learning” by Mnih et al
Nudges and Leaps
My weight update after reading: “Adam: A Method for Stochastic Optimization” by Kingma, Ba
Mixability
My weight update after reading: “Dropout” by Srivastava, Hinton et al
Thinking Mapped
My weight update after reading: “Efficient Estimation of Word Representations (Word2Vec)” by Mikolov et al
Token Maxing
My weight update after reading: “Long Short-Term Memory” by Hochreiter, Schmidhuber
Auto-Averaging Machine
My weight update after reading: “Learning Representations by Back-propagating Errors” by Rumelhart, Hinton, Williams
Can Machines Feel Pleasure?
My weight update after reading: “Computing Machinery and Intelligence” by Turing