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New externality just dropped, don't miss it!

I finally put my finger on why AI voice menus enrage me so much...if I'm picking up the phone at all, it's because Computer already failed me, and I need a human who can override something. The algorithmic phone menus were annoying enough, but at least there's a deterministic path to get a person.

Want to know what we learned from all those many babies? Of course you do! Short & sweet summary of outcomes but also all the different kinds of methodological and measurement issues we've been able to study!

Wow and also Oh No!

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Funniest workshop I went to in grad school was an even split of cognitive scientists (slides), linguists (15 page 10pt handout), and philosophers (reading prepared text verbatim!!!) We were all so scandalized by each others' talk norms, it was a great ice breaker.

Psych-DS is spellcheck for your datasets, and it has an R package now! Available in beta now, made by the excellent Brian Leonard, instructions here: psych-ds.github.io/psychds-r/

Textiles!!! If you haven't spent at least some time sewing or a related craft, let me tell you that with some rare exceptions (quilters cotton), all textiles are basically Haunted in terms of their material properties. Textiles are a REALLY HARD PROBLEM.

My toddler's approach to question syntax in 1L acquisition: she's just 100 percent dedicated to avoiding all question forms. Everything is a sentence completion task for us - "Daddy has a...." "Mama's feeling a little..." Not sure if this is a documented strategy but she's been on it for months!

Getting ready to head to the session children's beliefs about AI & technology, I passed this alarmingly fast-moving egg delivery robot. I have to say I didn't care for it, but the junior colleague seemed highly intrigued by the little cat-face screen on the front. #CDS2026

were all trying to find the guy that did this hotdog dot gif

I'll join the chorus of people who are not even quite sure what to say about this absolute behemoth of a project, except for YAY! I worked full time on SCORE from 2019-2021 with the COS team, designing and implementing the system for identifying claims in the literature, developing protocols to...

PSA to all of us with international collaborations that the Chaos Weeks start on Sunday (US/Canada goes into DST but the EU/UK don't until near the end of March). Check your meetings!

a judge is sitting at a table in a courtroom and pointing at someone .Alt: Judge Judy angrily taps her watch then bangs on the table.media.tenor.com

Forever mad about the barely acknowledged existence of unscented Febreze. Bizarre consequence of human perception: we get nose blind to our own stink, so the unscented stuff appears to have no effect, and people wouldn't buy it until it actively smelled like something. I hunt it on the internet.

Fire as a new technology if it was AI: HEY I PUT FIRE ON YOUR WAGON, WAGONS HAVE FIRE NOW! No I think I just would like to try cooking my own... WE GOTTA SPECIAL ON FIRE SHOES! Like I've learned to use new things before, can I just see if I can... ITS A THATCHED ROOF, BUT WITH FIRE!!!