#66 ALEXANDER MATTICK - [Unplugged / Community Edition]

We have a chat with Alexander Mattick aka ZickZack from Yannic's Discord community. Alex is one of the leading voices in that community and has an impressive technical depth. Don't forget MLST has now started it's own Discord server too, come and join us! We are going to run regular events, our first big event on Wednesday 9th 1700-1900 UK time.  Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mlst Discord: https://discord.gg/HNnAwSduud YT version: https://youtu.be/rGOOLC8cIO4 [00:00:00] Introduction to Alex  [00:02:16] Spline theory of NNs  [00:05:19] Do NNs abstract?  [00:08:27] Tim's exposition of spline theory of NNs [00:11:11] Semantics in NNs  [00:13:37] Continuous vs discrete  [00:19:00] Open-ended Search [00:22:54] Inductive logic programming [00:25:00] Control to gain knowledge and knowledge to gain control [00:30:22] Being a generalist with a breadth of knowledge and knowledge transfer [00:36:29] Causality [00:43:14] Discrete program synthesis + theorem solvers

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