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49 from 16 Apr 2019 to 9 Oct 2026
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now and then (3 in the last year)
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2026 3

  1. AI for Philosophy: An Exploration of Commitment-Based Preference Change
  2. Paper and Talk: Contrafactives and the Importance of Distributions
  3. Upcoming Masterclass on Philosophy of AI: Additional Materials

2025 5

  1. Notes on the Symbol Grounding Problem
  2. Poster at Upcoming CoNLL
  3. Assumptions about Learning: A Hard Lesson
  4. Two Upcoming Talks on Philosophy and AI
  5. Revisiting Politeia

2024 10

  1. End of 2024: Transformers and Transformation
  2. LLMs, Symbol Grounding, and other Problems
  3. Two Upcoming Events
  4. Bob Stern (1962-2024)
  5. ELM3: Contrafactives and Interdisciplinary Work
  6. A Debate about Words
  7. Daniel Dennett (1942-2024)
  8. Suggestions for Better AI Criticism
  9. Compositionality and Word Meaning
  10. Book Publication: Preference Change

2023 10

  1. Generative Senses: A Prolog Exercise
  2. Compositionality and Transformers: A Paper
  3. LLMs and Human Cognition: Shifting Arguments, Same Assumptions
  4. Transformers Converging with Cognition: More Papers
  5. Groningen Cognitive Modeling Spring School
  6. Transformer Models Do Not Just Learn Surface Statistics
  7. Are Transformer LLMs Minds?
  8. Speculations about Transformers and Compositionality
  9. 10 Years of word2vec: Motivations and Success
  10. Zotero BibLaTeX Style

2022 3

  1. Personal Reflections on 2022
  2. Transformers and the Brain: Literature Notes
  3. The Unmasking of Dictionaries by Strong Opinion

2021 6

  1. We Know So Little
  2. On the State of Analytic Philosophy
  3. Using Prolog for Sudoku Variants
  4. Notes on Standing and Occasion Meaning
  5. Follow Up: Why Learn Prolog in 2021?
  6. Why Learn Prolog in 2021?

2020 7

  1. End of Year Post: 2020
  2. Simulating Basic Logic with Tensors
  3. Exploring Basic Distributional Representations
  4. Conceptual Grain
  5. New Paper (CJP): Social-Computation-Supporting Kinds
  6. Presentation at the 2020 Social Ontology Conference
  7. More Social Ontology Highlights

2019 5

  1. Best of Social Ontology 2019
  2. A Different Map of the Tractatus
  3. Upcoming Talk (August 2019)
  4. Parsing Hegel
  5. Two New Publications