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@contextlab.bsky.social

A motley crew of science nerds trying to understand the inner workings and limits of human memory. Plus some Bayesian stuff...and ๐Ÿง. Director: @jeremyrmanning.bsky.social https://www.context-lab.com

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DataWrangler โ€” datawrangler 0.4.0 documentation

๐Ÿค  New release announcement for our datawrangler package! Try it using:

pip install --upgrade pydata-wrangler

Lots of awesome performance improvements (including native polars support!), simplified API, support for @hf.co text embeddings, etc. More info here: data-wrangler.readthedocs.org

14.06.2025 12:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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a group of men and women are standing next to each other on a stage dancing . ALT: a group of men and women are standing next to each other on a stage dancing .

We're super excited to announce that we've officially convinced @cgonciulea.bsky.social to join our rag-tag (but VERY classy) team of science nerds this fall as a @dartmouthpbs.bsky.social PhD student ๐ŸŽ‰๐Ÿฅณ๐Ÿค“๐Ÿง ๐Ÿง‘โ€๐Ÿ”ฌ๐ŸŽ“!!

25.04.2025 03:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 16    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Just finished a draft of my Models of Memory (grad) course that I'm teaching this spring! Please share/borrow/re-use/follow along as desired, and if you have feedback or suggestions I'd really love to hear (especially while I can still change it)!

All materials are here: github.com/ContextLab/m...

13.02.2025 18:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 54    ๐Ÿ” 21    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Re-sharing from Xitter-- new paper out in @pnas.org (lead: Lucy Owen)!

We show how the informativeness and compressibility of brain activity patterns change under different levels of cognitive engagement: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Lots of neat stuff in there!

26.11.2024 01:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Excited to have this out in @natureportfolio.bsky.social!

We found that real & fictional people communicate roughly 1.5x more about the past than the future.

In turn, this influences the interferences we make about past & future events in *other* people's lives.

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

19.11.2024 03:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 24    ๐Ÿ” 9    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Now live in SoftwareX!

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

19.12.2023 17:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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...and beyond

30.11.2023 15:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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maximum level of typical

30.11.2023 15:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Can we go higher?

30.11.2023 15:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Aiming for even *more* typicality...

30.11.2023 15:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Jumping on the "make it more" bandwagon to depict an *extremely* typical day in our lab!

30.11.2023 15:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Add a new package, `davos`, to the set of preinstalled packages in colaboratory to help manage depen... Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. I've run into several dependency-related "frustrations" when sharing colaboratory notebooks: Importing packages that aren't included i...

Imagine Google Colab notebooks that support:
โœ”๏ธ Automatic dependency installs
โœ”๏ธ Pinned package versions
โœ”๏ธ Ability to download/run locally without additional setup

"pip install davos" today!

Share + vote for "default" Colab integration by clicking the ๐Ÿ‘ here: github.com/googlecolab/...

01.11.2023 14:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 12    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

๐Ÿšจ Updated preprint (lead: @xxming.bsky.social) on how inferences about unobserved past/future events are informed by conversations! osf.io/yp2qu/ ๐Ÿšจ

This update includes a new pre-registered replication + meta analysis. We think we've found some neat fundamental properties of human conversation!

๐Ÿงช๐Ÿง 

31.10.2023 19:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

๐Ÿ“ฃ: Just updated our "modeling Khan Academy learning" preprint (lead: @paxt0n4.bsky.social)!

We're excited about this revision and grateful to our reviewers-- lots of neat new analyses using text embeddings to show how knowledge changes over time + conceptual content.

Link: osf.io/preprints/ps...

25.10.2023 12:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 12    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

This release adds an awesome (automated!) system for managing notebook dependencies that's isolated from the runtime environment.

Importing Davos into your notebook makes your notebook a "fully enclosed" + shareable doc (w/ code/figures/data/text) that installs its own dependencies!

Check it out!

03.10.2023 13:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Excited to announce the latest release of our "Davos" #python package (v0.2.3)! ๐ŸŽ‰๐Ÿฅณ

Add Davos to a Jupyter notebook by:
- inserting a new cell with this code at the top:

%pip install davos
import davos

- replacing all uses of "import" with "smuggle"

More info here: github.com/ContextLab/d...

03.10.2023 13:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

Hello blue sky! Our lab studies #learning & #memory. We do roughly 50% cog sci style studies and 50% brain networky things, with some overlap where possible. Lately we've been excited about real-world memory in classrooms and conversations. We'll use this account to share our papers/software!

๐Ÿง‘โ€๐Ÿ”ฌ๐Ÿงช๐Ÿง ๐Ÿง‘โ€๐Ÿ’ป

18.09.2023 14:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0