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Developmental psych phd student @ Cornell Spatial skills | methods | limits to generalizability over time

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Right, that does not sound like generative ai? It sounds like grammarly-esque tools. Am I misinterpreting?

17.07.2025 12:47 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Surely i did. What did i miss?

17.07.2025 12:40 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Surely there are some good uses for generative AI in your organization.

There is no way the optimal amount is 0.

17.07.2025 11:23 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Okay but this would actually be fantastic for multiverse analyses

17.07.2025 00:54 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Beautiful! Thank you!

16.07.2025 00:38 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

More curious about this! Color palette or writing R in sublime??

16.07.2025 00:25 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
KiVA Challenge @ ICCV 2025

🧠How β€œold” is your model?

Put it to the test with the KiVA Challenge: a new benchmark for abstract visual reasoning, grounded in real developmental data from children and adults.

πŸ† Prizes:
πŸ₯‡$1K to the top model
πŸ₯ˆπŸ₯‰$500
πŸ“… Deadline: 10/7/25
πŸ”— kiva-challenge.github.io
@iccv.bsky.social

15.07.2025 19:19 β€” πŸ‘ 22    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Am I understanding right that they are advocating to reduce teaching of the value of hardwork in favor of accepting whatever a person is born into? Surely I’m misunderstanding??

10.07.2025 18:17 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Normally I’d say keep it up!

08.07.2025 14:00 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Found it

08.07.2025 13:55 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Apologies for the extreme lurker comment, but i think i actually included a screenshot of one of your tweets about incomprehensibility of Pearl in my qualifying exam as a way to reduce the reviewers’ expectations. It was effective so thank you!

08.07.2025 13:54 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Still unclear if you can use the sandwich estimator here

04.07.2025 14:43 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

They don’t want you to know this, but if you use computational methods, you’re allowed to get a little snack while the computer thinks for you

29.06.2025 12:50 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It’s nice how local news still looks like it was filmed in 2004. A simpler time

26.06.2025 23:39 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Reading papers while listening to brainrot; balance in all things

23.06.2025 18:50 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I’m making a new remote touchscreen task for 2-6 year olds - any platform recommendations?

It needs the ability to do an adaptive staircase and open source is preferred! Should i just build it out in js?

22.06.2025 14:58 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I’m trying to learn about topic modeling but the paper keeps summoning ghosts

19.06.2025 15:01 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

That’s fair!

18.06.2025 21:49 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

What’s the issue with GitHub? I like it more than osf (excluding for preregistrations)

18.06.2025 15:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Been reading bibliometric analysis, and it’s weird, every method seems to be entirely bottom up with almost no interpretation from the theory or knowledge base of the field. Seems like a good way to miss something.

17.06.2025 23:18 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Would be particularly helpful for text gen, where certain writing styles seem to be strong attractors

12.06.2025 21:56 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Whoever came up with the word β€˜synthetic’ nailed it. What a fun word

12.06.2025 14:59 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Now officially out with nice formatting and all πŸ₯³ "Thinking clearly about age, period, and cohort effects" -- a gentle introduction to the age-period-cohort problem and how to "solve" it through various types of assumptions.

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

06.06.2025 07:37 β€” πŸ‘ 270    πŸ” 69    πŸ’¬ 12    πŸ“Œ 6

I am looking forward to the movie!

04.06.2025 14:08 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Why is it supposedly hard to write Superman since he’s β€˜too strong’, but it works seamlessly for every isekai?

04.06.2025 13:58 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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A call for psychological and behavioural science on degrowth - Nature Human Behaviour Degrowth is a socioeconomic paradigm that prioritizes planetary health and human wellbeing through a democratically planned reduction of unnecessary production and consumption. We urge psychological a...

This is shameful and should be rejected in the strongest terms. This is suffering by another name. The authors mean well but advocate tragedy.

Economists do not support degrowth. Should psychologists study how to encourage raw milk drinking? Or cigarette smoking?

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

31.05.2025 03:16 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

cc adobe, I will never want to read the ai summary of the book pdf I’m reading

28.05.2025 15:01 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

80% power is such a weirdly low target and completely at odds with our general significance obsession.

Wherefore 80%??

27.05.2025 13:16 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Sorry, I read it, i guess

23.05.2025 16:10 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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