Zaid Al Kazemi
Building Caravan Notes, a quiet place to write, refine, and grow your ideas
Zaid's Newsletter
Studying paradigm-shifting research papers on AI and cognition to build a thinking accelerator, not a replacement
Articles
Your Mind is a Garden But Are You The Gardener?
Reaction to reading: “Predictive Coding in the Visual Cortex” by Rao & Ballard
You're Dreaming Wrong
Reaction to reading: "World Models" by Ha & Schmidhuber
Beyond Logic and Sequence
Reaction to reading: “BERT” by Devlin et al
The Anti-Luck Filter (And How it’s The Key to Survival)
Reaction to reading: “Proximal Policy Optimization” by Schulman et al
The Extinction of Thinking
Reaction to reading: “A Neuronal Model of a Global Workspace” by Dehaene, Kerszberg, Changeux
The Sixth Sense: Mathematics
Reaction to reading: “Attention Is All You Need” by Vaswani et al
Stakes
Reaction to reading: “Mastering the Game of Go Without Human Knowledge” by Silver et al
How to Build a Self-Optimizing System
Reaction to reading: “Human-level Control through Deep Reinforcement Learning” by Mnih et al
Nudges and Leaps
Reaction to reading: “Adam: A Method for Stochastic Optimization” by Kingma, Ba
Mixability
Reaction to reading: “Dropout” by Srivastava, Hinton et al
Thinking Mapped
Reaction to reading: “Efficient Estimation of Word Representations (Word2Vec)” by Mikolov et al
Token Maxing
Reaction to reading: “Long Short-Term Memory” by Hochreiter, Schmidhuber
Auto-Averaging Machine
Reaction to reading: “Learning Representations by Back-propagating Errors” by Rumelhart, Hinton, Williams
Can Machines Feel Pleasure?
Reaction to reading: “Computing Machinery and Intelligence” by Turing