tony chen

I'm on my way to Purdue to attend my first SPP @socphilpsych! I will be presenting a new computational framework for modeling ~explanation~ as a kind of rational communication. (Pictured: co-authors @chentoast1 @tzumaoli @jrk @MITCoCoSci demonstrating the phenomenon we studied!)

the secret life of walter mitty (2023) - dir. t chen #NeurIPS2023

You are invited to @chentoast1 and my poster, tomorrow morning at #NeurIPS2023! partiful.com/e/1oaxdVDEfOaK…

@_k_a_c_h_ The sphinx was bested, and Oedipus was granted entry. His exploits survive and are detailed in our NeurIPS 2023 paper, “Inferring the Future by Imagining the Past” (w/ @tzumaoli, @jrk, @MITCoCoSci). arxiv.org/abs/2305.17195

@chentoast1 One day, Graduate Student Oedipus found himself at the feet of the sphinx. “May I pass?” he asked, and was met with the riddle. “I know this,” said Oedipus: “Because we can simulate both by Monte Carlo path tracing!”

Once upon a time, a mighty sphinx, the Area Chair of Thebes, terrorized all who dared to cross the mountain path into the city. Travelers would be asked the riddle: “How is a photon like a rational agent?” Failure to answer resulted in an immediate desk reject. #NeurIPS2023

Huge win for @MITGradUnion tonight! *First ever* grad employment contract SECURED including pay raises, benefits, non-discrimination reforms, and union security. You will read about this in the news tomorrow.

@tbliu maybe you should have come to the poster~

Panic! at the conference #CogSci2023

I’m excited to share the first paper of my PhD! arxiv.org/abs/2306.10168 1/

they’re coming for my job

The Saxe Lab at @MIT (PI: @rebecca_saxe) is hiring for ✨2✨ post-bac positions: a lab manager and a lab tech! I have been the lab manager for two years and it has been a wonderful experience (see why in 🧵). * Apply at: bit.ly/saxelabmanager & bit.ly/saxelabtechnic…!

Anonymous CogSci submission Title Abstract Keywords: slow burn|enemies to lovers|BL|150k words

@neurostrow well, 17 new friends! :) there’s this one new guy that i never quite got along with

@chentoast1 and 18 great new friends made too I hope :)

Wrapped up my first semester of grad school :) A summary of my achievements: - 15 ‘update README’ commits - 34 utterances of “I’ve been thinking a lot about this lately” when I in fact had not been thinking about it at all - 101 pages of Fodor read - 0 pages of Fodor understood