Is this you? As a journalist, you can create a free Muck Rack account to customize your profile, list your contact preferences, and upload a portfolio of your best work.
Claim your profile
Articles by Adam Shai
How Does A Blind Model See The Earth? — LessWrong
Sometimes I'm saddened remembering that we've viewed the Earth from space. We can see it all with certainty: there's no northwest passage to search for, no infinite Siberian expanse, and no great uncharted void below the Cape of Good Hope. But, of all these things, I most mourn the loss of incomplete maps. In the earliest renditions of the world, you can see the world not as it is, but as it was to one person in particular.
Computational Mechanics Hackathon (June 1 & 2) — LessWrong
Join our Computational Mechanics Hackathon, organized with the support of APART, PIBBSS and Simplex. This is an opportunity to learn more about Computational Mechanics, its applications to AI interpretability & safety, and to get your hands dirty by working on a concrete project together with a team and supported by Adam & Paul. Also, there will be cash prizes for the best projects! Read more and sign up for the event here.
Transformers Represent Belief State Geometry in their Residual Stream — LessWrong
Produced while being an affiliate at PIBBSS. The work was done initially with funding from a Lightspeed Grant, and then continued while at PIBBSS. Work done in collaboration with @Paul Riechers, @Lucas Teixeira, @Alexander Gietelink Oldenziel, and Sarah Marzen. Paul was a MATS scholar during some portion of this work. Thanks to Paul, Lucas, Alexander, and @Guillaume Corlouer for suggestions on this writeup.
What’s up with LLMs representing XORs of arbitrary features? — LessWrong
Thanks to Clément Dumas, Nikola Jurković, Nora Belrose, Arthur Conmy, and Oam Patel for feedback. In the comments of the post on Google Deepmind’s CCS challenges paper, I expressed skepticism that some of the experimental results seemed possible.
Schizophrenia as a deficiency in long-range cortex-to-cortex communication — LessWrong
(Written in a hurry. I was almost going to title this “My poorly-researched pet theory of schizophrenia”. Hoping for feedback and pointers to relevant prior literature. I am very far from a schizophrenia expert. Really. I cannot emphasize this enough. Like, if I took an undergraduate psych test on schizophrenia right now, I might well flunk it.) My hypothesis is that the root cause of schizophrenia is (…drumroll…) a deficiency in medium- to long-range cortex-to-cortex connections.
Dendritic Compartmentalization of Learning-Related Plasticity
Research ArticleResearch Article: New Research, Neuronal Excitability eNeuro 9 (3) ENEURO.0060-22.2022; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0060-22.2022 Abstract The dendrites of cortical pyramidal neurons receive synaptic inputs from different pathways that are organized according to their laminar target. This architectural scheme provides cortical neurons with a spatial mechanism to separate information, which may support neural flexibility required during learning.
Deep Learning: Branching into brains
Deep learning is a subfield of machine learning that focuses on training artificial systems to find useful representations of inputs. Recent advances in deep learning have propelled the once arcane field of artificial neural networks into mainstream technology (LeCun et al., 2015). Deep neural networks now regularly outperform humans on difficult problems like face recognition and games such as Go (He et al., 2015; Silver et al., 2017).
Show More
loading
Actions
Is this you?
As a journalist, you can create a free Muck Rack account to customize your profile, list your contact preferences, and upload a portfolio of your best work.Get in touch with Adam
Contact Adam, search articles and posts on X, monitor coverage, and track replies from one place.
Learn more about Muck Rack