Cognitive Scientist on Becoming a Productive Writer @RahulSam

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An excerpt of my conversation with analytical philosopher and cognitive scientist Prof. Paul Thagard. In this episode, we discuss AI, neural networks, ChatGPT and LLMs, Karl Friston's free energy principle, explanatory coherence, philosophy of science and mitigating misinformation: youtu.be/UqFk1Zpbag8?si=Vi-kNEz3eMzSzPhW

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$Cognitive Scientist on Becoming a Productive Writer #shorts An excerpt of my conversation with analytical philosopher and cognitive scientist Prof. Paul Thagard. In this episode, we discuss AI, neural networks, ChatGPT and LLMs, Karl Fristons free energy principle, explanatory coherence, philosophy of science and mitigating misinformation: https://youtu.be/UqFk1Zpbag8?si=Vi-kNEz3eMzSzPhW {Podcast} Substack: https://rsampod.substack.com/ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4ryEqjut4r6SMtfxLdM1Le Anchor: https://anchor.fm/rahul-samaranayake {Website} https://rahulsam.me/ {Social Media} https://twitter.com/trsam97 https://www.instagram.com/name_is_rahul/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/rahul-samaranayake-981a9315b/ If the ideas I discuss in this channel evoke your interest, consider visiting https://theunhappyman.substack.com/ Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statutes that might otherwise be infringing. If you are or represent the copyright owner of materials used in this video and have a problem with the use of the related material, please email me at trahulsam@gmail.com, and we can sort it out. Thank you.$ $Effective Java By Joshua Bloch Item 10: Obey The General Contract When Overriding Equals (Part 3) Part 3 of my disquisition on Item 10 of Effective Java by Joshua Bloch: Obey The General Contract When Overriding Equals. I also cover properties (consistency and non-nullity) of the Java equals method that implements equivalence relations. Part 2: https://youtu.be/ay5VioknoJA Part 4: https://youtu.be/9DSbN8dEiCA GitHub repository: https://github.com/TRahulSam1997/Effective-Java-Joshua-Bloch/tree/main/src/main/java/chapter3/item10 Joshua Blochs GitHub repository: https://github.com/jbloch/effective-java-3e-source-code/tree/master/src/effectivejava/chapter3/item10 Book: https://www.amazon.com.au/Effective-Java-Joshua-Bloch/dp/0134685997/ Full playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcJ6nqGscKrd2UxeLTY-fIr0dzdMIOHAK {Podcast} Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4ryEqjut4r6SMtfxLdM1Le Anchor: https://anchor.fm/rahul-samaranayake {Website} https://rahulsam.me/ {Social Media} https://twitter.com/trsam97 https://www.minds.com/trahulsam/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/rahul-samaranayake-981a9315b/ https://trahulsam.medium.com/ https://www.instagram.com/name_is_rahul/ Facebook Group: https://goo.gl/JoL9CA {Reference Links} https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/essential/concurrency/immutable.html https://www.baeldung.com/java-immutable-object If the ideas I discuss in this channel evoke your interest, consider visiting https://theunhappyman.substack.com/ Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statutes that might otherwise be infringing. If you are or represent the copyright owner of materials used in this video and have a problem with the use of the related material, please email me at mrrahulmaxcontact@gmail.com, and we can sort it out. Thank you. The description may contain affiliate links to products. I receive a commission for purchases made through these links. I only recommend products that have genuinely helped me.$ $Love Is a Truth Procedure | Žižek, Badiou, and Kierkegaard “Beneath itself, it exists; beyond itself, it inexists. It can always be said that it is an almost-nothing of the state, or that it is a quasi-everything of the situation. If one determines its concept, the famous ‘so we are nothing, let’s be everything’ [nous ne sommes rien, soyons tout] touches upon this point. 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If the truth happens to be only in a single subject it exists in him alone; and there is greater Christian joy in heaven over this one individual than over universal history or the system.” ― Søren Kierkegaard Original piece: https://theunhappyman.substack.com/p/on-writing-without-lies-machinations {Podcast} Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4ryEqjut4r6SMtfxLdM1Le Anchor: https://anchor.fm/rahul-samaranayake {Social Media} https://twitter.com/trsam97 https://www.minds.com/trahulsam/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/rahul-samaranayake-981a9315b/ https://trahulsam.medium.com/ https://www.instagram.com/name_is_rahul/ Facebook Group: https://goo.gl/JoL9CA If the ideas I discuss in this channel evoke your interest, consider visiting REALM: https://www.realmprojectau.com/ Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. 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In this episode, we discuss Gödel, Tarski, set theory and the philosophy of mathematics. You can find more of Prof. Hamkinss work at https://jdh.hamkins.org and https://www.infinitelymore.xyz. 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