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The Spectator
Personal blog · blog.shakirm.comaidata
The Spectator is a personal blog at blog.shakirm.com about ai and data. Since 2015, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The one comment does not discuss the writing; it concerns neuroscience-inspired machine learning and a talk on how the brain inspires AI, so the linked posts appear to cover that topic.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Shakir's Machine Learning Blog
What Hacker News says?
There was a rather interesting talk at the Forbes Under 30 summit last month on this, "How The Brain is Inspiring AI" [1], but I cannot find the video. Lavin argued neuro and cognitive science -inspiration, not derivation, is useful at varying levels of abstraction, i.e. Marr's levels [2]. He showcased three works at the respective levels: Tenenbaum et al at MIT [3], some Vicarious research [4], and Blake Richards'…
Comment linking /2013/04/marrs-levels-of-analysis/
on “Ask HN: Is neuroscience-inspired machine learning the next big thing?”Submitted Machine Learning Trick of the Day: Instrumental Thinking as a story · 125 points
HN discussionSubmitted Machine Learning Trick of the Day: Tricks with Sticks as a story · 35 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Statistical View of Deep Learning as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Cognitive Machine Learning as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Bayesian Reasoning and Deep Learning as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Machine Learning Trick of the Day: Log Derivative Trick as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Memory-Based Bayesian Reasoning and Deep Learning as a story · 1 points
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