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My name is Hessam Akhlaghpour. I am currently a postdoc in the Maimon lab studying insect path integration. My twitter handle is @theHessam. You can find more.
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Are Transformers Turing-complete? A Good Disguise Is All You Need.
I will avoid an introduction and get straight to it. I'll assume that you know what Turing-complete means, that you are familiar with transformers, and that you care about the question: Are transformers Turing-complete? (I may later write about what that
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Wallace's Thought Experiment on Understanding How Life Works
I recently finished The World of Life, by Alfred Russel Wallace. Wallace was a naturalist and contemporary of Darwin. He doesn't get enough credit for the fact that he independently came up with the theory of natural selection, perhaps because he was much
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It's Not Intelligent If It Always Halts: A Critical Perspective on Current Approaches to AGI
Imagine a conversation with one of these newly released AI chatbots. You ask it it to solve a tricky math problem. It responds with "That seems kind of hard. Give me some time to think.". After a few minutes it comes back with "I haven't solve it yet. And
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The Researcher's Guide for Being Mind Blown by a Neural Network
Every so often a new neural network makes headlines for solving a computation problem. It is sometimes hard for me to judge how impressive these achievements are without diving into the details of the models. But my criteria are always the same and it sho
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The Truth About the Not So Universal Approximation Theorem
Computation is usually conceptualized in terms of input/output functions. For instance, to compute the square root of a number is to somehow solve the function that takes a number as an input and outputs its square root. It is commonly stated that feed-fo
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