Francesco Lässig
Francesco Lässig
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If LLMs Are Just Parrots, Humans Are Just Gene Propagators
Pointing at a loss function is not a valid substitute for an actual engagement with the behaviors and internal representations a model has developed.
Last updated on Mar 29, 2026
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Neurons, Representations and Consciousness
Some thoughts on the connection between neurons as physical objects, neural representations, and subjective experience.
Last updated on Feb 25, 2024
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Hard, Real, and Core Problems of Consciousness
A look at three formulations of the problem of consciousness, their metaphysical assumptions, and their implications for science.
Last updated on Jan 14, 2023
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Probabilistic Forecasting in Darts
A blog post introducing probabilistic forecasting in the
Darts
open source time series library, including an artificial and a real-world example.
Last updated on Dec 29, 2022
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Darts
A Guide to Building a Financial Transaction Anomaly Detector
A blog post outlining a very simple approach to building a system for detecting fraudulent transactions using the
Isolation Forest
algorithm.
Last updated on Dec 29, 2022
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Temporal Convolutional Networks and Forecasting
How a convolutional network with some simple adaptations can become a powerful tool for sequence modeling and forecasting.
Last updated on Dec 29, 2022
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