Matt Spike
> Language + CogSci + Evolution + NLP/ML/AI
COMPLEXITY, FUNCTION & FORM in
- language, culture, cognition
- evo dynamics
- info & computation
- explanation
homeostatic property cluster at large
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- THIS. CHANGES. EVERYTHING.
- in 2026, all loops will be strictly metaphysical. all procedural loops will be punished by summary execution
- The first but by no means the last annoying rock star I refused to serve AND I STAND BY EVERY DECISION
- Working in the Parade Gardens tea room a lifetime ago I watched @matspike.bsky.social tell Paul Weller he couldn't have tea because it was 5pm and we were closing.
- MY GRAMMAR OPINIONS? FROM A MACHINE LEARNING ENGINEER? WITH A SIDELINE IN POLITICAL PUNDITRY? ON THEIR BLOG OR FCKIN PODCAST OR SOME SHIT LIKE THAT? INDEED THEY ARE SIR, INDEED THEY ARE
- Reposted by Matt SpikeHi everyone! We are the Evolutionary Modelling Group! We are interested in many topics, from the evolution of microbial mutational robustness to the evolution of language and culture in humans. We rely on a variety of methods, both computational (evolutionary simulations) and mathematical.
- Reposted by Matt SpikeI taught (and co-taught) a course on human population genetics from 2000-2024. Having retired, I'm now making all the course materials public: github.com/alanrogers/p... #popgen #evbio
- Reposted by Matt SpikeFinished teaching my first seminar course today! Had tons of fun introducing my students to the rational foundations of human-like cooperation. Now that the course is over, I'm sharing the syllabus more widely!
- Reposted by Matt SpikeHave we figured out what Kant said yet?
- Reposted by Matt Spikethe best answer i got for this:
- Reposted by Matt SpikeNew analysis by The Australia Institute finds the Australian National University has a $90 million surplus, not a $142 million deficit!
- Reposted by Matt SpikeThanking the reviewers
- Reposted by Matt SpikeHibernian's Erich Schaedler models the first sponsored football shirt in Scotland. (1977)
- Reposted by Matt SpikeNew Cambridge Element in the Philosophy of Biology series—fully #openaccess! @thomasreydon.bsky.social explores how evolutionary theory crosses over from biology into other fields, showing how these crossovers embody a broader style of reasoning: 'evolutionary thinking' bit.ly/48z3h36 #HPbio #evosky
- Reposted by Matt SpikeLouis Armstrong playing the trumpet for his wife Lucille. #vintagephoto #louisarmstrong #egypt #sphinx
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- Reposted by Matt Spike"Knight Rider" (1984) s02e17, Garthe Knight (Michael Knight's evil twin) breaks out of prison. Now in glorious HD.
- Reposted by Matt SpikeI've found it kind of a pain to work with resources like VerbNet, FrameNet, PropBank (frame files), and WordNet using existing tools. Maybe you have too. Here's a little package that handles data management, loading, and cross-referencing via either a CLI or a python API.
- Reposted by Matt SpikeDelighted to speak in Tokyo next October at this fantastic event ! 😎 Thank you for having me🙏! Will be talking about embodiment and Artificial Agents osf.io/preprints/ps...
- Reposted by Matt SpikeGreat news from the @erc.europa.eu today: I received an ERC Starting Grant to study the cultural evolution of literature 🔥 www.eva.mpg.de/press/news/a...
- Reposted by Matt SpikeI can
- the whole AI Herrenvolk Thoughocracy schtick annoys me way less these days - it's the intellectual equivalent of a clown in underpants slapping themself on the back, like, whatevs, have at it their TOTAL IGNORANCE OF FOUNDATIONAL COMPUTER SCIENCE, on the other hand, DRIVES ME INTO WILD FITS OF RAGE
- And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts And I looked and behold, a pale horse And his name that sat on him was Death And a json followed with him
- i've seen jsons you people wouldn't believe
- Reposted by Matt SpikeJust published… I argue that preregistration does not improve the transparent evaluation of the severity of hypothesis tests (a) in Popper’s approach or (b) in Mayo’s error statistical approach when preregistration is treated as “a plan, not a prison.” Open Access: doi.org/10.1007/s112...
- Reposted by Matt SpikeConsciousness needs a subject osf.io/preprints/ps... - new preprint with Carolyn Dicey Jennings @cdj.bsky.social (commentary on Anil Seth's BBS piece)
- Is the brain a computer? Well, yes and no - it's not just *any* computer! It's an Amstrad PCW512, originally targeted at the word processing and home office market but, with the expansion to 512k of memory, made the big move into cognition in 1987
- Reposted by Matt SpikeThis is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.
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- Reposted by Matt Spike"Remember when there were no ads on bluesky and mastodon was legal? Man I miss every youtuber shilling for a scam in between 30s ads. Smartphones with no pop-ups baked into the UI? Good old times. Yesterday my rental bicycle asked me to write a 200 word essay to feed GPT13's training dataset."
- "The Breakfast-Time of Language argues that it was not hunting, fighting, or tool-making that forced early humans to speak, but in fact a very particular combination of waffles and syrup"
- Reposted by Matt SpikeDo the disfluencies and gestures we produce when we speak act as metacognitive cues? Our new paper is out now to answer this question! Great work led by Begüm Yılmaz @begumyilmaz.bsky.social 👐💬 #CogPsych #PsychSciSky
- New publication from L&C Lab led by our PhD student Begüm Yılmaz in collaboration with Reyhan Furman, Tilbe Göksun, and Terry Eskenazi! @begumyilmaz.bsky.social @reyhanfurman.bsky.social @tilbegoksun.bsky.social Read the article 👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
- Reposted by Matt SpikeMethods in the Philosophy of Science: A User's Guide is now a real, live book. My chapter offers an appraisal of philosophy of science in its engagement with applied mathematics. With immense gratitude for the vision and execution of @phieveigl.bsky.social and @adrian-currie.bsky.social sky.social.
- Reposted by Matt SpikeI finally had time to update PyCX to ver. 1.2! Many new models and bug fixes. Enjoy!! github.com/hsayama/PyCX
- my life is rich and fulfilling
- Reposted by Matt SpikeExcited to announce my new EP “Deep Delirium” drops next week with Piston Recordings (Portugal)! 🇵🇹 With a remix from the legend himself Jaemus (Josh Jackson)! 💥 Very stoked about my first European release 😍 Stay tuned, EP drops Aug 1! 🚀
- Reposted by Matt SpikeBeen really enjoying the Complexity Science Discussion Group hosted by Paul Middlebrooks, where we're working our way through the Santa Fe Institute's "Classic Papers in Complexity Science". The group is open for anyone interested: braininspired.co/complexity-g...
- aah, a rookie error: it allows for the philosopher's unshakeable convinction that anyone who REQUIRES this clarification is either an idiot, or wrong and also an idiot
- Channel 4, Sat 8pm-9.30pm FALSE, SIR! (1974) Sir Karl Popper comes a cropper in this justly overlooked late-career Ealing comedy: armed with nothing but a wagging finger and a pocket full of versimilitude, Sir Karl comes out of retirement *one last time* to fight the enemies of Open Science. 2/10
- Reposted by Matt SpikeFinally out in Transactions of @aclmeeting.bsky.social: "Understanding Epistemic Language with a Language-augmented Bayesian Theory of Mind" ToM work in AI often treats statements about beliefs as strictly true/false. We built a Bayesian model assigning prob. ratings to belief statements instead.
- Reposted by Matt SpikeExcited to announce that I'll be on a panel at SD Comic Con "The Evolution of AI Through Film and In Reality" with the Fleet Science Center! We will discuss how depictions of artificial intelligence have changed from Metropolis (1927) to Ghost in a Shell and Ex Machina! Fri 7/25 5:30pm-6:30pm!
- Reposted by Matt SpikeSo excited about this too, thanks Matt for your wonderful introduction, and to the other brilliant scholars who helped us introduce & highlight the field-changing scholarship of the incomparable James Griesemer, a true inspiration hopefully to even more people through this book! #philsci
- Excited to share that "Scaffolding: Selected Contributions of James R. Griesemer to History, Philosophy, and Biology" is out. I introduce Jim's chapter on formalization. (My original title, "Undermining Dichotomies and the Friends You Make Along the Way." doi.org/10.1007/978-...
- Reposted by Matt SpikeCartoon by Ellis Rosen for The New Yorker.
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