Ethan Ganz

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A short guide to what's on this site, in case the rest of it is a lot to click through.

Who I am

I'm a student working toward original research in neuroscience, recording how I think we actually get there.

Ponder

Unavailable… for now.

What I'm investigating

Neuroscience, AI Ethics, AGI — see Research for what I actually want to understand more deeply.

RNN Flip-Flop Study → — Regularized vs. unregularized RNNs on the 3-bit flip-flop task, analyzed with Sussillo & Barak's fixed-point method.

How I Define AGI → — A follow-up essay: a working definition of AGI, how it will come about, and the precautions it needs.

Something I built

RNN Flip-Flop Study → — Regularized vs. unregularized RNNs on the 3-bit flip-flop task, analyzed with Sussillo & Barak's fixed-point method.

What I'm trying to figure out

Does regularization make small RNNs more robust to noise, or did the regularized network just start from a lower baseline loss? Retraining both from different random starting points, with matched training, is the next test.

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