Ross Otto

being fourth author on a seven author paper

@gershbrain @RMBattleday Today I have low drift rate

Actors have method acting, and I think scholars should have 'method thinking' (h/t to @RMBattleday for this term) where they really embody their object of study.

@arossotto i do have an impression i can show you. if i'm lucky i'll get a chortle

should this be my new academic profile pic [no]

@no_goblins paging @abmarkman

I'm accepting a graduate student this application cycle (Clinical or Developmental)! Please share with anyone interested in studying the development of cultural risk and resilience processes among minoritized youth and families!

@gershbrain bro we're there

AI discovered policies to cut emissions: science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… But none of these include limiting extreme energy expenditures by AI companies?

@brain_apps nice frame size dude

Today was a NEW BIKE DAY, which is one of the best days. Love at first sight.

@wouterkool @PNASNews That's cool, dovetails nicely with some stuff (w @orielf ) looking at imparting fairness preferences on people in a RL-like way! arxiv.org/abs/2405.06500

Check out Lauren's awesome work in @PNASNews on how humans change their behavior when they are training AI. Our university wrote a nice article covering this work, with some awkward quotes from yours truly. artsci.wustl.edu/ampersand/huma…

Does learning context bias cognitive effort evaluations? A study with Sophie Desjardins and with Mathieu Roy (among others) suggests that effort evaluation, like everything else, "is all relative" link.springer.com/article/10.375…

'brace yourselves' I think this is a cool result, happy to have been a part of this

bro there's a heat wave, isn't ad tech supposed to be like, artificially intelligent or something

haha Research Rants Office

@cornu_copiae corsi, though it's visual WM.... i like the OSPAN but it's long....

Say you only have 5-8 minutes in an online assessment and want to measure working memory capacity. Which test would you pick? Any recommendations? Bonus points for an entertaining task that people like doing.

@nathanieldaw are you that prof now

my steve albini story is in college, during finals, I ran out of clean clothes and wore my songs about fucking tshirt (with the cover art) to a philosophy final. classmate balked. the prof, bless his heart, interrupted everything to announce "that's the best album of the 80s!"

you said it

haha why would you call a conference this , like literally pick any other word

ref: doi.org/10.2307/2548836

Samuelson ends his Pure Theory of Consumer's Behaviour in a pretty alpha way

American academic conferences: 8:15-10:00: Panel A 10:30-12:15: Panel B 13:45-15:30: Panel C 16:00-17:45: Panel D European academic conferences: