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Esther Mondragón

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Hic sunt dracones I represent myself, no one else. Computational and associative learning. Biologically-inspired AI. She/They https://cit-ai.net/people.html#Mondragon https://www.city.ac.uk/about/people/academics/esther-mondragon

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Esther Mondragón @emp1.bsky.social · Jun 9

Ablation study and resulting optimal architecture that considerably improves recent research on CNN-Hebbian learning integration with competition mechanisms.
with @julian-jn.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Advancing the Biological Plausibility and Efficacy of Hebbian Convolutional Neural Networks

The research presented in this paper advances the integration of Hebbian learning into Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) for image processing, syst…

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Esther Mondragón @emp1.bsky.social · 1m

The same sentence caught my attention as I read it. Sadly, more often than not, they are not

(An alliteration to hide the real cacophony)

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 15m

“Deloitte “misused AI and used it very inappropriately: misquoted a judge, used references that are non-existent,” Pocock told Australian Broadcasting Corp. “I mean, the kinds of things that a first-year university student would be in deep trouble for.””

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Deloitte was caught using AI in $290,000 report to help the Australian government crack down on welfare after a researcher flagged hallucinations | Fortune

The updates “in no way impact” the report’s findings and recommendations, the Big Four firm said.

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Esther Mondragón @emp1.bsky.social · 19h

Indeed! During the ISI and ITI the context of learning is active and might become a significant cue. For the role of context as occasion setters, you can look at this
In N. A. Schmajuk & P. C. Holland (Eds.), Occasion Setting: Associative learning and cognition in animals
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Esther Mondragón @emp1.bsky.social · 23h

Coño! Bravo!
(Oh WOW!)
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Nobel Peace Prize 2025 live updates: Venezuelan democracy activist Maria Corina Machado wins

Nominations closed in January but US President Donald Trump had led a public campaign to win the award.

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Fintan Mallory @fintanmallory.com · 1d

This is quite interesting
www.anthropic.com/research/sma...

A small number of samples can poison LLMs of any size

Anthropic research on data-poisoning attacks in large language models

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Esther Mondragón @emp1.bsky.social · 1d

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Esther Mondragón @emp1.bsky.social · 1d

Archetypal in Jungian terms too.

Allow me to answer his insipid rhetorical question.
Yes, indeed. It will increase in relevance in the long term.

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Esther Mondragón @emp1.bsky.social · 1d

Nero and his demented court.

Tim Verstynen @tdverstynen.bsky.social · 1d

Expertise is a joke to this administration.

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 1d

Casey Means left her surgical residency in 2018. She's frequently suggested Americans should question advice from medical authorities.

Now, she’s HHS Sec. Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s pick for surgeon general, one of the nation’s most trusted medical posts. https://wapo.st/3KMq0im

Esther Mondragón @emp1.bsky.social · 1d

and boys dressed in pink cloths, of course!
Girls no, they don't count.

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 1d

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

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Esther Mondragón @emp1.bsky.social · 1d

One more for the boy! Poor boys, it is like they needed help. 9/1

Is this the supermacho Trump effect? 😏

Esther Mondragón @emp1.bsky.social · 1d

I was reading some posts and wow! I thought that leaving Twitter we had got rid of pedantic and ill-mannered individuals (read men, since this is often the case) who believe themselves entitled to correct other people's posts. I was obviously wrong.
Bah!

Esther Mondragón @emp1.bsky.social · 1d

One more for the boy! Poor boys, it is like they needed help. 9/1

Is this the supermacho Trump effect? 😏

Esther Mondragón @emp1.bsky.social · 2d

8/1 so far. The Nobel Prize, at its best, perpetuating gender inequality. Not a surprise, but a shame.

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Mark Haselgrove @markhaselgrove.bsky.social · 3d

Always nice to see papers out in the wild.

Opening the batting in this month's @qjep.bsky.social is "Apparent statistical inference in crows may reflect simple reinforcement learning"

By @davidgeorge.bsky.social, Dominic Dwyer, Me & @mikelepelley.bsky.social

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Esther Mondragón @emp1.bsky.social · 3d

minutiae 🙃

Esther Mondragón @emp1.bsky.social · 3d

Excellence is a subjective quality.

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Esther Mondragón @emp1.bsky.social · 4d

Never mind that! With a bit of luck, the "AI" (agent?) will develop lab allergies (to rats, humans, dust, and, why not, conspecifics while running the replication experiments and cha chan 🥁 problem solved!

Esther Mondragón @emp1.bsky.social · 4d

He is a very clever boy!

Esther Mondragón @emp1.bsky.social · 4d

What is more important than that?

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Esther Mondragón @emp1.bsky.social · 4d

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Esther Mondragón @emp1.bsky.social · 4d

Oooh! Gorgeous!

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Esther Mondragón @emp1.bsky.social · 5d

With that, I 100% do 😜 ❤️

Esther Mondragón @emp1.bsky.social · 5d

I need to find the time, which, sadly, will not be this week.
Most likely, I will not fully agree with what l *guess* is said here, but chances are that I will concur and sympathise with the main point and the general approach.

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 7d

New preprint 🌟 Psychology is core to cognitive science, and so it is vital we preserve it from harmful frames. @irisvanrooij.bsky.social & I use our psych and computer science expertise to analyse and craft:

Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. doi.org/10.31234/osf...

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Cover page of Guest, O., & van Rooij, I. (2025, October 4). Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/dkrgj_v1

Table 1 Guest, O., & van Rooij, I. (2025, October 4). Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/dkrgj_v1

Table 2 Guest, O., & van Rooij, I. (2025, October 4). Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/dkrgj_v1

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Esther Mondragón @emp1.bsky.social · 5d

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 5d

Narrator: “No they don’t. They do not even extend it to women.”

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 6d

Do all these AI bros defending the personhood of chatbots etc extend their ethics to their interactions with non-human animals or no

Because I’m very curious now

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