"surprise is believed to be a necessary trigger for associative learning" http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0042698908004380 …
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Replying to @sarahdoingthing
"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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Replying to @sarahdoingthing
@sarahdoingthing Been, reading it backwards starting from your last related tweet. This is really interesting!1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
Replying to @LogicalAnalysis
@LogicalAnalysis this is the final piece of this week's upcoming ribbonfarm post1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
Replying to @sarahdoingthing
@sarahdoingthing@LogicalAnalysis Ah, surprise. My favorite emotion. Sometimes I think it's the only one I'm capable of.2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes -
Replying to @vgr
@vgr@sarahdoingthing@LogicalAnalysis to self-analyze, surprise does seem to trigger all sorts of pattern matching algorithms in muh brain.2 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @otisfunkmeyer
@otisfunkmeyer@sarahdoingthing@LogicalAnalysis I have this theory that a surprise is movement in a non-metrizable space.2 replies 0 retweets 4 likes -
Replying to @vgr
@vgr@otisfunkmeyer@LogicalAnalysis surprise-ether? ;)2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
@sarahdoingthing @otisfunkmeyer @LogicalAnalysis cultural ether + surprise ether = constant while alive.
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