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all this talk about changes in p-value magnitude being interpreted as an increase in the "quality of evidence" necessitates that i share this. we all should share and actually read this in fact (for starters). #stats #metasci

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Out now in TiCS, something i've been thinking about a lot: "Physics vs. graphics as an organizing dichotomy in cognition" (by Balaban & me) relevant for many people, related to imagination, intuitive physics, mental simulation, aphantasia, and more authors.elsevier.com/a/1lBaC4sIRv...

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✨We are organising (again) an online workshop on Theoretical Modeling for PhD candidates and Master students in cognitive science and psychology. Check out the website and the schedule: Registration is open! (closes July 1, spaces are limited) 🧵1/n computationalcognitivescience.github.io/workshop/

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🧠 Check out the classic examples from Bayesian Cognitive Modeling: A Practical Course (Lee & Wagenmakers, 2013), translated into step-by-step tutorials with BayesFlow! Interactive version: kucharssim.github.io/bayesflow-co... PDF: osf.io/preprints/ps...

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WHY the FUCK this needs to be said AT ALL is beyond me, but that it needs to be pointed out to INDUSTRY INSIDERS FFS

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Optimal Balanced Binary Search Tree of Thought

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I wonder why *in the intelligence world* it might be difficult to export information directly off a computer

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Vibe Coding? it's pretty cool if you like that kind of thing, i guess. i'm more of a Bad Vibes Code kinda guy myself. it's pretty niche, you probably haven't heard of it

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Vibe Coding? it's pretty cool if you like that kind of thing, i guess. i'm more of a Bad Vibes Code kinda guy myself. it's pretty niche, you probably haven't heard of it

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Seeing as it's getting topical again, my book INNATE lays out how we can think about genetic influences on behavior without being essentialist about it. Barb Kaiser called it "A powerful antidote to genetic determinism"... press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

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new 'Black Bag' movie is a huge disappointment - it is **not** the long-overdue cinematic debut of a well-loved childhood favourite, but apparently some kind of james bond rip-off

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are you ready for the deep kerning revolution

submitted 9 days ago • 3 comments

there's only two things I hate in this world: people who are intolerant of other people's academic disciplines, and evolutionary psychologists

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there's only two things I hate in this world: people who are intolerant of other people's academic disciplines, and evolutionary psychologists

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Pinker's race science enabling grift is one of the MANY MANY reasons I hold him in *especial* contempt, over and above his role as Grifter King of High-Church EvoPsych Grift

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broooo checkit OUT bro I put the worst bits of skinner and the worst bits of computationalism in the same box and it smells like NECKBEARD bro

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

this is an amazingly good idea for dumbos like me who always end up crying in frustration out in 6 dimensional numpy indexing hell. i shall not even speak of torch

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# WE DIDN'T START A-G-I (with apologies to Billy Joel) ## Verse 1 Perceptron, Rosenblatt, defence funds pulled, winter’s back Minsky paper, Bayes again, something something something brain Back-prop, ’86, Geoffrey Hinton, METRICS Yann when he did solid work, put it up on mech turk 1/5

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"data: everything that happened in the 1990s"

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"data: everything that happened in the 1990s"

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New in corpus building tools: the NPR Corpus Builder, which lets you search NPR content and download pre-formatted files, ready to import into your choice of corpus analysis software. corpustools.prendrelangue.fr/nprcorpusbui... #linguistics

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

Pydantic: less a data validation framework, more a way to abstract away from boring 'real-world data' & 'processing' & go to ♾️ HAPPY MODEL LAND 🤖⚡ YOU don't need 'dataloaders' YOU need an ABSTRACT INTERFACE 'code quality'? PATHETIC WORM. I MANDATE CONTRACTS, I ENFORCE PROTOCOL

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

yes yes, sure whatever you want, mmhhmm alive, they can think. ya ya fo sho anyway - HEAR ME OUT

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