Charles Han

what happened between 'em？(The criticism clearly can't stand...)

A Rough Picture of Various Forms of Syntactic Merge Merge is the core computational device in Minimalism, below I draw a tree of various forms of merge.  Figure 1

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Mathematical Structure of Syntactic Merge The Minimalist Program advanced by Noam Chomsky thirty years ago, focusing on the biological nature of human language, has played a central role in our moder...

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Mathematical Structure of Syntactic Merge
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Headline about FDA “AI” making up studies for drug approvals

The purpose of a system is what it does

Need some nice introductory books on political philosophy, any recommendations？ many thx

nice！

Dope！

Explore consciousness theories and implications A global hub for theories of consciousness—authenticated by leading theorists, designed for professional consciousness communities, and open to all

Interested in consciousness? The Landscape of Consciousness website has you covered. It has everything from science to not science.
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Check out this amazing course manual by @olivia.science for her course ‘AI as a Science’.

Cite as:

Guest, O. (2020). AI as a Science: Course Manual. Radboud University Nijmegen. doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

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People asked me often over the years... now it's over but finally sharing it: Course manual — including readings, instructions on how to write essays and give presentations — for the course AI as a Science that I taught from 2020/21 to 2024/25 in the School of AI. doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Fascism, the War on Complexity, and the End of Science On February 11, 2025, the current US government published a website of the US Senate Commerce Committee (Chairman Ted Cruz) announcing the results of an

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The Algebraic Structure of Morphosyntax Within the context of the mathematical formulation of Merge and the Strong Minimalist Thesis, we present a mathematical model of the morphology-syntax interface. In this setting, morphology has compos...

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Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia

Our demands, see link

Hello & HAPPY FRIDAY, as promised an open letter by my lovely colleagues and myself. Everybody, feel free to sign this even if you are not NL-based and ‼️ share ‼️ (anonymous signature is poss):

Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia

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Origins of numbers: a shared language-of-thought for arithmetic and geometry? Concepts of exact number are often thought to originate from counting and the successor function, or from a refinement of the approximate number system (ANS). We argue here for a third origin: a share...

Origins of numbers: a shared language-of-thought for arithmetic and geometry?: Trends in Cognitive Sciences www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

Biological Theory Biological Theory is devoted to theoretical advances in the fields of evolution and cognition with an emphasis on the conceptual integration afforded by ...

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The Illusion of Thinking: Understanding the Strengths and Limitations of Reasoning Models via the Lens of Problem Complexity Recent generations of frontier language models have introduced Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) that generate detailed thinking processes…

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All due respect, I'm gonna have to disagree. True progress comes slowly.

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✨We are organising (again) an online workshop on Theoretical Modeling for PhD candidates and Master students in cognitive science and psychology. Check out the website and the schedule: Registration is open! (closes July 1, spaces are limited) 🧵1/n computationalcognitivescience.github.io/workshop/

#Harvard filled a complaint and says a temporary restraining order will follow 💪 for the unlawful action to revoke the authority to host J and F- visa holders

"As we pursue legal remedies, we will do everything in our power to support our students and scholars" 💜

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Agree.

interesting study

I've been looking the full book for a while, it's said to be open access. Anyone know where to find it? Many thx

The deadline for abstract submission has passed, but you can still register for the summer school.
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Distinct synaptic plasticity rules operate across dendritic compartments in vivo during learning Synaptic plasticity underlies learning by modifying specific synaptic inputs to reshape neural activity and behavior. However, the rules governing which synapses will undergo different forms of plasti...

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NIH ban on renewing senior scientists adds to assaults on its in-house research Policy follows firings of tenure-track scientists and suspension of training programs

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Fundamental Principles of Linguistic Structure are Not Represented by o3 A core component of a successful artificial general intelligence would be the rapid creation and manipulation of grounded compositional abstractions and the demonstration of expertise in the family of...

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