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"Clear thinking becomes clear writing; one can’t exist without the other." - William Zinsser
Jul 7, 20245 min read
How does a marmoset know which vocalizations are his own?
How can an individual correctly determine that the perceived sounds are indeed self-produced, rather than coming from an external source?
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Feb 3, 20241 min read
Variational Autoencoders, UMAP and birdsong
Using the paper Goffinet et al., 2021 and birdsong data, I explain how Variational Autoencoders and UMAP works.
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Aug 10, 20238 min read
Talking to a crow will be possible in 50 years
“The Dr. Dolittle Challenge - can you build an AI that communicates with animals”? Corvids, neuroscience, and multimodal AI, can handle it.
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Jan 16, 202313 min read
Brain-body size divergence in birds: An evolutionary, morphological and ecological case
Named after Edward Cope, Cope’s rule states that species in mammalian clades tend to increase in size over the Cenozoic era (Hone and Benton
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Dec 1, 20227 min read
Understanding religious violence beyond the 'modernity-religion' dichotomy
When trying to understand religious violence, Western media often adopts a substantive and private conceptualization of religion.
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Oct 25, 202234 min read
The evolution of the posterior cingulate cortex: Landmarks, autobiographical memories, and self
Many have pointed out that the neuronal dynamics in the hippocampus or entorhinal cortex enabling spatial navigation, may also facilitate...
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May 8, 20223 min read
Getting to know AI
‘Select all squares with traffic lights’ is a common online prompt to prove that you’re not a robot. It is also a typical task in machine...
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Feb 9, 20223 min read
Shooting your shot: Using reinforcement learning approaches to study place learning
Would you be able to find a café after just one previous visit? The answer for human and non-human animals is yes: they have the ability...
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Mar 1, 202118 min read
Foucault, social media and climate change deniers: Disciplining abnormality through internet memes
Internet memes about climate change deniers are typically seen as harmless. Yet, when understanding the denialist critique of climate...
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Feb 27, 202110 min read
What is real and what is observable are not the same
Let's imagine the following thought experiment. A primary school child finds out that besides all the other colours she is aware of,...
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Nov 5, 20205 min read
Drop-outs: Not just a Problem in Schools
Are drop-out rates in therapy the new “elephant in the room”? No, it’s probably worse; the elephant has been standing there for decades....
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