Monthly Archives: March 2008

Financial simulation wisdom of the day

When building simulations of rational agents trading in dynamic markets over extended periods of time, tell your optimiser to solve everything down to 1 part in 100 million. If you don’t, all those tiny little errors will start to interact … Continue reading

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Neural correlates of consciousness

I just saw another neuroscience paper on neural correlates of consciousness. When I first heard about this idea in a lecture series given by Christof Koch, I thought it was a good idea. I now suspect, however, that this line … Continue reading

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Compiler constants in universal intelligence

In my opinion, the biggest theoretical problem with universal intelligence is the dependence on the reference UTM. The invariance property of Kolmogorov complexity provides some protection, but it’s not really enough. Years ago I thought about a number of ways … Continue reading

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“In ten years, this computer will be talking to us.”

– Henry Markram in this article. Maybe, but I suspect he will be beaten by people working on ANNs.

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