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Synergizing reinforcement learning with functional deep quantum neural manifold learning

It’s been more than a few years since I’ve actually played around with any gambling tasks, and in the intervening time, models of sequential decision making based on…

ChatGPT experiment log pt. 1: Learning basic statistics

It has to be good for something, right? I thought it would be fun to experiment with some tasks for which ChatGPT is widely used in data science; or, at least, for which…

Spurious dynamics in functional brain networks

Network neuroscience (NN) as a field lacks statistical and theoretical justification for almost any of it’s techniques. The discipline consists largely of ad hoc measures…

More spurious modular structure in functional brain networks

Even in the absence of any true underlying network structure, functional brain networks can easily show complex, modular structure, possibly due to a combination of the…

Spurious modular structure in functional brain networks

EDIT (Feb 26, 2019): So it turns out I’m not the first to notice this. Jaroslav Hlinka et al. identified this problem as early as 2012. They even attribute it to the same…

In a room sit three textbooks…

I’ve argued before that poor statistics education in the sciences is a major contributing factor to scientists’ general lack of understanding of basic statistical concepts.…

Cargo cult statistics

The failure of scientists, and particularly students in the sciences, to properly understand the most commonly used statistical concepts in their field has been extensively…