Feb 31 minVariational Autoencoders, UMAP and birdsongUsing the paper Goffinet et al., 2021 and birdsong data, I explain how Variational Autoencoders and UMAP works.
Aug 10, 20238 minTalking 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.
Jan 16, 202313 minBrain-body size divergence in birds: An evolutionary, morphological and ecological caseNamed after Edward Cope, Cope’s rule states that species in mammalian clades tend to increase in size over the Cenozoic era (Hone and Benton
Dec 1, 20227 minUnderstanding religious violence beyond the 'modernity-religion' dichotomyWhen trying to understand religious violence, Western media often adopts a substantive and private conceptualization of religion.
Oct 26, 202234 minThe evolution of the posterior cingulate cortex: Landmarks, autobiographical memories, and selfMany have pointed out that the neuronal dynamics in the hippocampus or entorhinal cortex enabling spatial navigation, may also facilitate...
May 9, 20223 minGetting 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...
Feb 9, 20223 minShooting your shot: Using reinforcement learning approaches to study place learningWould 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...
Mar 1, 202118 minFoucault, 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...
Feb 27, 202110 minWhat is real and what is observable are not the sameLet's imagine the following thought experiment. A primary school child finds out that besides all the other colours she is aware of,...