Valeria Burdea

Tversky Neural Networks Psychologically Plausible Deep Learning with Differentiable Tversky Similarity

Of course Tversky paves the road to interpretable AI:
gonzoml.substack.com/p/tversky-ne...

In an essay called "To Act As If", Inger Christensen writes "It's nothing new for art and science to operate at the boundary between meaning and meaninglessness." Got me thinking about how the many "as if" assumptions in (behavioral) econ might be distributed around this boundary...🤔

Why "irrationally" 🙃?

Ha! I can see that and now I feel like I've been missing out on good discussions about shoes 🥲

While I do agree with you, I feel like it's better if these people can now talk to their friends about a book, rather than...dunno...shoes?

*interference :)

After reading the White House letter about the internal review process of the Smithsonian exhibitions, I think I found a way they can legitimately avoid all this interreference: submit one thing of the many requested and say the indexing suggested they were all one and the same :)

In an attempt to see the glass half full, my takeaway is: keep applying--as early and as often as possible 🤓

A group of handdrawn fish.

Why I 🧡 the web.

drawafish.com

Just draw the fish. Trust me. 🐟

I am quite hopeful that these tools will give us more time to think, and to think more deeply

Frank O'Hara

slightly better quality: www.youtube.com/watch?v=11p0... :)

YouTube video by scaynes David Lynch on Cooking Quinoa

almost as compelling as David Lynch cooking quinoa: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSP-...

with a bit of a delay, since Bluesky's feed is a bit random, but I was there, and it was a great talk! Here's a summary of it: dennievandolder.com/post/impact-...

🔵Coming up this Monday!
Join us on July 14 at 𝐌𝐢𝐜𝐫𝐨 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐩 with @atavoni.bsky.social (𝐔𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐁𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐧𝐚), who will present "Tipping in Coordination Games: An Experimental Approach"

🔗https://www.unibo.it/sitoweb/alessandro.tavoni/en

#EconSky

There are many good things about learning with an LLM. But one key advantage of learning with other people is that they can ask you questions that make you realize you actually don't know what you're talking about :)

Frust über Universitätskarrieren: Gerichtsentscheidung gegen Dauerstellen ist für den Nachwuchs bitter Junge Wissenschaftler müssen weiter auf faire Beschäftigungsbedingungen warten. Das Bundesverfassungsgericht traf eine negative Entscheidung zu einer Berliner Regelung gegen Kettenbefristungen.

Humboldt University just won a court case against its own boss, the government of Berlin. 😲

The case was about limited-term employment for scientific staff.

Here's a quick-and-dirty explainer, esp. for non-German readers who may be affected. 1/n

www.tagesspiegel.de/wissen/frust...

I hope the Italians are not too jealous, but 🕺>🤌

I’m excited to read this! Currently feeling like people are t feeling enough blame for what they should have known 😅

YouTube video by Switzerland BBC: Spaghetti-Harvest in Ticino | Switzerland Tourism

😯 spaghetti don't grow in trees?! This was a lie: youtu.be/tVo_wkxH9dU?... !???

I know! So sad!!!

Probably the reason he didn't get the Nobel prize for literature 😢😥😥

For example: I love Nabokov's Pale Fire. But even after the second reading, I think I missed many of the references or ideas, that I am looking forward to reading Brian Boyd's take on it (title: Nabokov's "Pale Fire": The Magic of Artistic Discovery) [2/2]

I see. I totally agree that people should read the original. But, sometimes the original is so cryptic, or, full of so many layers, that someone else's insights could be illuminating. [1/2]

I guess I can't imagine a book about someone else's work *not* containing a new spin on that work. This means that either I've been lucky in finding only the very few exceptions, or I've spent my time wisely and read very few of such books :)

You may not feel like reading about yet another depressing state of affairs, with all that's going on in the world right now. But this book is so full of interesting insights, so personal yet universal, that I couldn't help but feel hopeful by the end of it. Highly recommended!

I don't know. Conditional on reading the seminal work as well, isn't that what many lectures in uni are all about? Reading a book in that style may not be as engaging, but it's certainly more accessible, in that you don't have to go to a certain institution to have access to that discussion

Have a look at the first edition of the Berlin Micro Theory & Behavioral Econ PhD Conference, and recommend your students to apply next time!
sites.google.com/view/berlin-...

The entire Remembrance of Earth's Past trilogy should be on that list, imo

Finally had a chance to read this paper and I think it's interesting, even if you're not doing research on lie detection. The issue of the correlation between second- and first-order beliefs and actions is relevant to any information processing environment.