Recap from Recent Saturday Morning NeuroSim Discussions
If you have been keeping up with the Orthogonal Research and Education Lab YouTube channel, you will see that we have been engaged in quite a few wide-ranging discussions over the past several weeks. Here is but a sampling:
- a review of the NeuroTechX virtual conference (Rishabh Chakrabarty).
- Speakers list (hosted by Queen’s University, Canada).
2. several papers covering animal cognition, the evolutionary development of the brain (for behavior), cultural innovation, and gene-culture co-evolution (Bradly Alicea).
- Andrew Whiten, The burgeoning reach of animal culture. Science, 372(46), eabe6514 (2021).
- Marco Smolla et.al, Underappreciated similarities and differences between cultural and biological evolution, and the future of cultural evolution thinking. SocArXiv, doi:10.31235/osf.io/3xvdw (2020).
- James Winters, Is the cultural evolution of technology cumulative or combinatorial? SocArXiv, doi:10.31235/osf.io/aypnx (2020).
- Alex Mesoudi and Alex Thornton, What is cumulative cultural evolution? Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 2852018071220180712 (2018).
3. a discussion on the evolution of brain and behavior, and parallels with computational agent development (Bradly Alicea and Jesse Parent).
- Paul Cisek, Resynthesizing behavior through phylogenetic refinement. Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics, doi:10.3758/s13414–019–01760–1 (2019).
4. a discussion on the evidence for and against Cultural Universals (Bradly Alicea)
- Interview with Michael Tomasello, Some basic notions of fairness are culturally constructed. BOLD: Blog on Learning and Development (2016).
- Sam Passmore and Fiona M. Jordan, No universals in the cultural evolution of kinship terminology. Evolutionary Human Sciences, 2, e42, 1–14 (2020).
- Artin Arshamian et.al, The perception of odor pleasantness is shared across cultures. bioRxiv, doi:10.1101/2021.03.01.433367 (2021).
5. a brief introduction to resources for Auditing Block Box Predictive Models (Krishna Katyal).
- FairML Github repo (Julius Adebayo and Micha Gorelik).
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