Fausto Carcassi @CarcassiFausto
Sardinian. Assistant prof at @illc_amsterdam. Language & cognition w/ models & experiments. Roughly Bayesian. Past: Tübingen, @UoE_CLE (He/Him) faustocarcassi.com Amsterdam, the Netherlands Joined October 2016-
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It's time that linguistics seriously discusses formal training. We are a field that widely uses formal/mathematical tools (formal language theory, logic, probability theory, statistics), yet we do not provide strong systematic training of these tools to our students. why is that?
Exploring a new "Template Expression" API design for symbolic regression that allows joint optimization of symbolic expressions with parameter vectors. Can be used for optimizing a neural network simultaneously with a symbolic model, finding parametric expressions, learning…
We aren't the only primates who appreciate a good joke. New piece on the origins of humor by DISI Director Erica Cartmill! scientificamerican.com/article/great-…
My paper on hierarchical plans is out in Cognition!🎉 tldr: We ask participants to generate hierarchical plans in a programming game. People prefer to reuse beyond what standard accounts predict, which we formalize as induction of a grammar over actions. authors.elsevier.com/a/1kBQr2Hx2xLNA
👩🎓👨🎓Fully funded PhD position available to come work with me at @UniOslo using iterative learning experiments to understand the evolution of sound symbolism. 🔴Deadline is 12. Jan '24 ⏲️Desired starting date is Mar/April '24 jobbnorge.no/en/available-j…
SymbolicRegression.jl → 1.0 🎉 After several years of work, I'm thrilled to announce some major new features! Let me show you what's possible now:
(1/5) Very excited to announce the publication of Bayesian Models of Cognition: Reverse Engineering the Mind. More than a decade in the making, it's a big (600+ pages) beautiful book covering both the basics and recent work: mitpress.mit.edu/9780262049412/…
Updated @ESLRSociety jobs board! Highlights: 2 tenure-track psych jobs at @JohnsHopkins, postdoc on collective behavior w/@norijacoby at @Cornell, and multiple PhD positions at @MPI_animalbehav 🧠🕸️🐦 bit.ly/ESLR-Jobs
"we don't know what to do with those chains yet, but I have the gut feeling that once we do, probabilistic programming will have another breakthrough" - @remilouf on parallelizing 100s of MCMC chains with JAX
Particle filters are genetic algorithms with guarantees 😛
Particle filters are genetic algorithms with guarantees 😛
New pre-print (tx @ChrisMMCox!): The social context of turn-taking osf.io/preprints/psya… Comments welcome! TL;DR: Response latency in conversation depends on a multidimensional interplay of individual differences, turn-by turn information flow & contextual affordances.
'A Drive to Survive' is available for pre-order! mitpress.mit.edu/9780262551328/… And while it doesn't yet have a cover it does have some embarrassingly nice blurbs from @evantthompson and @CogsAndy, two of the philosophers who most inspired its content.
i'm often saying this!!
i'm often saying this!! https://t.co/6TjVqHOy7E
Preprint from myself and Daphne Demekas. We propose a mechanism for synthetic data generation within active inference and present simulations to explore its implications for understanding states of 'pure consciousness' osf.io/preprints/psya…
Deeply fascinating topic!
We're delegating too much of probability to computers. When's the last time you even picked a colored ball from an actual urn?

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