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“Goal-directed behavior is a fundamental means by which animals can flexibly solve the challenges” https://t.co/Wcz2FrIl8q
“Neurocuriosity: Novelty and inductive generalization in human reinforcement learning” https://t.co/buZRQwhV7y
“Theories of motivation, particularly of intrinsic motivation, place novelty and surprise among the primary factors” https://t.co/Gjm5SNvCra
“play is not just joyful and energizing — it's deeply involved with human development and intelligence. ” https://t.co/pgxYznShbh
Neoconstructivism: The New Science of Cognitive Development by Scott Johnson https://t.co/T6ipnSaO59
Rational Constructivism in Cognitive Development (Advances in Child Development and Behavior) https://t.co/K4DULzBtdr
.@MarkovChainMe did you see that they found foraging strategies of adjacent possible follow zipf's law?https://t.co/gBGpLg4vlD https://t.co/7gVHxVfmPB
Reading about Aposematism and find references to foraging behavior and risk based decision making in predators. Neathttps://t.co/p7atnWYROl https://t.co/VO7XreCkPA
This crowd-sourcing mechanism incorporates bayesian optimization on a gradient space thru a ratchet effect. Novelty?https://t.co/hbFeKjaaYJ
Also a good description of bayesian optimization method: https://t.co/T1C5lgo9mQ
Here's an example of something similar to that being done with a self-learning robot.https://t.co/kN5K07AtQp
And something a little more impressive:https://t.co/Fm8gqLORLb
Connecting this train of thought to crowd sourcing creativity and "the myth of the objective function": https://t.co/b8vX8ls98r
"I just wanna take a moment and try and explain to you some of the innovations that alpha go came up with..."https://t.co/gUOmZWmZ3k
“Babies and young children are like the R&D division of the human species” https://t.co/MD6qDhtsFI
“paradoxical thing about novelty [...] can be extremely attractive to an animal when he can voluntarily approach” https://t.co/hcrgwR4gcQ
"[Learning is] the result of unhampered participation in a meaningful setting."https://t.co/uCyxuYM5h6 (HT @omosanzalette)
"He then tests this hypothesis on future Goombas, comparing the expected outcome with the actual result.” https://t.co/jF6G8pR2Zu
We can measure cortisol in our saliva, blood, feces, & tears. What about faces? Is there a 'tell' in social humans?https://t.co/7yVjkIzluN
The thing with gamification / learning: it can't be compulsory.Novelty + Stress = Fear.Novelty + Calm = Curiosity,https://t.co/jq7xuB3bzY
What does your fear say?"Activation of the amygdala by threatening stimuli then influences cognitive processes" https://t.co/s8cBEzyJoH https://t.co/9b91tKKAB5
