Sardinian. Assistant prof at @illc_amsterdam. Language & cognition w/ models & experiments. Roughly Bayesian. Past: Tübingen, @UoE_CLE (He/Him)
Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Joined October 2016
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Fausto Carcassi retweeted
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?
Fausto Carcassi retweeted
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 constants in fixed forms, and much more.
Would love feedback on the design!
github.com/MilesCranmer/Symb…
Fausto Carcassi retweeted
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/artic…
Fausto Carcassi retweeted
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/1kBQr…
Fausto Carcassi retweeted
👩🎓👨🎓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-jo…
Fausto Carcassi retweeted
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:
Fausto Carcassi retweeted
(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/97802620494…
Fausto Carcassi retweeted
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
Fausto Carcassi retweeted
"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
Fausto Carcassi retweeted
Particle filters are genetic algorithms with guarantees 😛
Fausto Carcassi retweeted
New pre-print (tx @ChrisMMCox!): The social context of turn-taking osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/zw… Comments welcome!
TL;DR: Response latency in conversation depends on a multidimensional interplay of individual differences, turn-by turn information flow & contextual affordances.
Fausto Carcassi retweeted
'A Drive to Survive' is available for pre-order!
mitpress.mit.edu/97802625513…
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.
Fausto Carcassi retweeted
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/psyarxiv/w6…
Fausto Carcassi retweeted
Think the unix command "rm" is too dangerous for normal use? Try "rip"!
I revived this awesome rust package in my fork of the original, where I have been adding some new goodies over the past half year:
github.com/MilesCranmer/rip2 (partly because I really like this tool and want to keep it alive, and partly to get better at Rust 😄)
Fausto Carcassi retweeted
hooray, the "Bayesian Models of Cognition" book is out, for all your Bayesian models of cognition needs :)
(I contributed to 3 chapters in the book -- development, intuitive physics, theory of mind -- that can be read on the ol' website)
Fausto Carcassi retweeted
Congrats to Mazviita Chirimuuta and her book THE BRAIN ABSTRACTED for being short-listed for the 2024 Nayef Al-Rodhan International Book Prize in Transdisciplinary Philosophy!
@mitpress @RIPhilo
royalinstitutephilosophy.org…
Fausto Carcassi retweeted
What is a suitable paper to introduce cognitive science and computational linguistics students to the concepts of iterated learning from computational and experimental perspectives? Tagging @CarcassiFausto @SimonKirby
Fausto Carcassi retweeted
An old talk Richard Evans gave on the topic, for more details. Way more interesting than a lot of the "generative agent" stuff today IMO:
youtu.be/DVMs5_B611E?feature…