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Esther Mondragón
@emp1.bsky.social
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Hic sunt dracones I represent myself, no one else. Computational and associative learning. Biologically-inspired AI. She/They https://cit-ai.net/people.html#Mondragon https://www.city.ac.uk/about/people/academics/esther-mondragon
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Esther Mondragón @emp1.bsky.social · Jun 9
Ablation study and resulting optimal architecture that considerably improves recent research on CNN-Hebbian learning integration with competition mechanisms.
with @julian-jn.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Advancing the Biological Plausibility and Efficacy of Hebbian Convolutional Neural Networks
The research presented in this paper advances the integration of Hebbian learning into Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) for image processing, syst…
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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 3d
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The UK’s independent scientific bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation - over the past 5 months I've been working with @martinmckee.bsky.social to map out their vulnerabilities and it's not good news.

Today our report is published!
www.ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/n...

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UK’s arm’s length public bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation
Seven in ten Britons say it is important for top scientific institutions to be independent in exclusive new polling.
www.ucl.ac.uk
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 1d
This Is Fascism
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Esther Mondragón @emp1.bsky.social · 1d
Have a nice weekend, you all.
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Esther Mondragón @emp1.bsky.social · 1d
The same sentence caught my attention as I read it. Sadly, more often than not, they are not

(An alliteration to hide the real cacophony)
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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 1d
“Deloitte “misused AI and used it very inappropriately: misquoted a judge, used references that are non-existent,” Pocock told Australian Broadcasting Corp. “I mean, the kinds of things that a first-year university student would be in deep trouble for.””

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Deloitte was caught using AI in $290,000 report to help the Australian government crack down on welfare after a researcher flagged hallucinations | Fortune
The updates “in no way impact” the report’s findings and recommendations, the Big Four firm said.
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Esther Mondragón @emp1.bsky.social · 2d
Indeed! During the ISI and ITI the context of learning is active and might become a significant cue. For the role of context as occasion setters, you can look at this
In N. A. Schmajuk & P. C. Holland (Eds.), Occasion Setting: Associative learning and cognition in animals
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Esther Mondragón @emp1.bsky.social · 2d
Coño! Bravo!
(Oh WOW!)
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Nobel Peace Prize 2025 live updates: Venezuelan democracy activist Maria Corina Machado wins
Nominations closed in January but US President Donald Trump had led a public campaign to win the award.
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Fintan Mallory @fintanmallory.com · 3d
This is quite interesting
www.anthropic.com/research/sma...
A small number of samples can poison LLMs of any size
Anthropic research on data-poisoning attacks in large language models
www.anthropic.com
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Esther Mondragón @emp1.bsky.social · 3d
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Esther Mondragón @emp1.bsky.social · 3d
Archetypal in Jungian terms too.

Allow me to answer his insipid rhetorical question.
Yes, indeed. It will increase in relevance in the long term.
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Esther Mondragón @emp1.bsky.social · 3d
Nero and his demented court.
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Tim Verstynen @tdverstynen.bsky.social · 3d
Expertise is a joke to this administration.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 3d
Casey Means left her surgical residency in 2018. She's frequently suggested Americans should question advice from medical authorities.

Now, she’s HHS Sec. Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s pick for surgeon general, one of the nation’s most trusted medical posts. https://wapo.st/3KMq0im
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Esther Mondragón @emp1.bsky.social · 3d
and boys dressed in pink cloths, of course!
Girls no, they don't count.
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 3d
Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."
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Esther Mondragón @emp1.bsky.social · 3d
One more for the boy! Poor boys, it is like they needed help. 9/1

Is this the supermacho Trump effect? 😏
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Esther Mondragón @emp1.bsky.social · 3d
I was reading some posts and wow! I thought that leaving Twitter we had got rid of pedantic and ill-mannered individuals (read men, since this is often the case) who believe themselves entitled to correct other people's posts. I was obviously wrong.
Bah!
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Esther Mondragón @emp1.bsky.social · 3d
One more for the boy! Poor boys, it is like they needed help. 9/1

Is this the supermacho Trump effect? 😏
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Esther Mondragón @emp1.bsky.social · 4d
8/1 so far. The Nobel Prize, at its best, perpetuating gender inequality. Not a surprise, but a shame.
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Mark Haselgrove @markhaselgrove.bsky.social · 5d
Always nice to see papers out in the wild.

Opening the batting in this month's @qjep.bsky.social is "Apparent statistical inference in crows may reflect simple reinforcement learning"

By @davidgeorge.bsky.social, Dominic Dwyer, Me & @mikelepelley.bsky.social

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Esther Mondragón @emp1.bsky.social · 5d
minutiae 🙃
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Esther Mondragón @emp1.bsky.social · 5d
Excellence is a subjective quality.
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Esther Mondragón @emp1.bsky.social · 6d
Never mind that! With a bit of luck, the "AI" (agent?) will develop lab allergies (to rats, humans, dust, and, why not, conspecifics while running the replication experiments and cha chan 🥁 problem solved!
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Esther Mondragón @emp1.bsky.social · 6d
He is a very clever boy!
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Esther Mondragón @emp1.bsky.social · 6d
What is more important than that?
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Esther Mondragón @emp1.bsky.social · 6d
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Esther Mondragón @emp1.bsky.social · 6d
Oooh! Gorgeous!
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Esther Mondragón @emp1.bsky.social · 7d
With that, I 100% do 😜 ❤️
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