"surprise is believed to be a necessary trigger for associative learning" sciencedirect.com/science/articl
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"an event is surprising when the distance between posterior and prior distributions of beliefs *over all models* is large" (emphasis mine)
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Been, reading it backwards starting from your last related tweet. This is really interesting!
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this is the final piece of this week's upcoming ribbonfarm post
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Ah, surprise. My favorite emotion. Sometimes I think it's the only one I'm capable of.
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to self-analyze, surprise does seem to trigger all sorts of pattern matching algorithms in muh brain.
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I have this theory that a surprise is movement in a non-metrizable space.
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touche! I now propose principle of conservation of human ether
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things i didn't expect for today: going down a rabbit hole on non-metrizable spaces. surprise! ha!
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Given your line of work, shouldn't you be believing 6 impossible things before first smoke?
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