Tomer Ullman

"what's up everybody welcome back to the channel, today we'll be traveling back in time to rescue a Soviet street dog from a life of ill fame, but first don't forget to Laika subscribe"

the Bayesian Models of Cognition book can teach you a lot about intuitive physics, e.g.:

Antara Bhattacharya in her CogSci #cogsci2025 debut, presenting on The Humorous Hill and doing a smashing job

(seen in pic: Antara also printed examples of model outputs for people to chuckle at, or not)

going to the Exploratorium at SF and looking at the brain/psych exhibit and going Nope, Nope, Kinda, Not Really and then going to the other parts and going Huh, Didn't Know That, Oh Wow

Computational Cognitive Development Lab Presents at CogSci 2025 Learning from thought experiments in early childhood Igor Bascandziev, Garvin Brod, Patrick Shafto, and Elizabeth Bonawitz Poster Number: P1-B-9 In Person Poster Session 1 - Thursday, July 31 1-2:15 PM Salon 8 Stumped! Learning to think outside the box in 3-7 year old children Junyi Chu, Misha O’Keeffe, Silvia Kancong Liu, Elizabeth Bonawitz, and Tomer D. Ullman Talks 27.3: Learning and Development 2 Friday, August 1 1-2:30 PM Salon 6

CoCoDev @ CogSci!
Come check out cool work by Igor & @junyi.bsky.social

This is unfortunate:
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/u...
I wrote to the president of Harvard. I hope other faculty will speak their conscience, even if it means more struggle ahead.

the logical conclusion for the direction the funding landscape has been going in the US is to make each award 10,000,000$ and the odds of getting it 0%.

Looking forward to #cogsci2025!

Loki is lowkey goated when goats are the vibe

this comes to mind every time I see the score distribution for NeurIPS papers (first round)

found a beekeeper

Our latest on the cognitive science of LLMs! To be presented @CogSci‬2025 🎉

LLMs are increasingly involved in human collaborations. How do LLMs assign responsibility and reward to collaborators? Is it similar to how humans do it? 🤖🧑

📃 gershmanlab.com/pubs/XiangBi... (1/4)

i was thinking of doing that but then the fig 1 sketch would show the proposed 3 figure set up, in which sub-figure 1 would be the sketch, showing the 3 figures, in which...

"but Tomer, what if my dog is being kept hostage and the only way to free her is to break this structure"

sure, there are going to be exceptions

while we're here: people don't read papers in order, and they usually look at figures first, so try to have the figures tell the whole story.

Fig 1: schematic, what are we talking about, main Q
Fig 2: what did you actually do
Fig 3: what did you find, main results

figure making tip for academics: make figures

(it is astounding how many papers do not follow this advice)

I read this quickly as "causal inference" and it seemed fine till my brain caught up

'AI researcher foolishly loses mind after entering hall of mirrors and thinking there are infinite copies of himself. My reporting reveals that it is actually full of infinite copies of myself.'

in my decision making class I start by having the students write down a real decision they need to make and are actively thinking about and the modal response is something like "which consulting internship should I take this summer" which secretly makes me sad

took the boy to a drone show, woke up to this headache

יום שבת: אוי
יום ראשון: אוי!

Born Curious: How Kids Build Theories About the World Science To People · Episode

🎧 New episode drop!
Kids aren’t blank slates—they’re born curious!
We talk with Harvard’s Dr. Elizabeth Bonawitz (@ebonawitz.bsky.social) ‬ about how children build theories and ask questions.

Listen on spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/28LE...

#podcast #children #parenting #teaching

עוד דוגמאות:

׳הארץ׳ מנתח פניות לנט״ל לאורך זמן וגוזר מסקנות, ״כמו אק׳ג לנפש״:

אחרי חילוץ גופות יש עליה, אחרי התנקשרות בהניה ירידה וכו׳

אבל אם פשוט מניחים שיש 150 פניות בימי א-ה, ו-50 בשישבת, מקבלים את הקו השחור.

שיושב על זה בול.

www.haaretz.co.il/news/magazin...

'Ew, It's Beautiful' (Joshua Barkman) is a good book

reading Tobia (2020) on 'ordinary meaning' in Law (basically, "how would an ordinary person understand term X");

it's fun and all, but I love that in page 12 we're thrown for a loop about "what is 'ordinary meaning'? well...it depends what ordinary people understand by 'ordinary' & 'meaning'..."

YouTube video by Octopus Panda The Simpsons - Barbecue pit

(context:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8HZ...

)

"ah, yeah, that's one fine looking Materials Building..."