looks really cool! cognitive scientists should especially pay attention to this we can now procedurally generate environments. will be key for scaling up complexity of experimental designs while maintaining experimental control! see arxiv.org/abs/2502.20349 for discussion!

Excited to share project specifying a research direction I think will be particularly fruitful for theory-driven cognitive science that aims to explain natural behavior! We're calling this direction "Naturalistic Computational Cognitive Science"

preprint on research direction we're calling "Naturalistic Computational Cognitive Science" below is a summary of our argument. if you disagree with us, please let me know! feedback very welcome arxiv.org/abs/2502.20349

77 years ago this week Claude Shannon ushered in the field of information theory with his paper "A Mathematical Theory of Communication," which has been cited over 100,000 times: bit.ly/44rfByX

Excited to share a new project spanning cognitive science and AI where we develop a novel deep reinforcement learning model---Multitask Preplay---that explains how people generalize to new tasks that were previously accessible but unpursued.

super cool stuff from a super cool person!!!

Excited and humbled by this feature from the Kempner Institute at Harvard University Harvard University: Leveraging Modern AI to Catalyze a New Era in Naturalistic Computational Cognitive Science kempnerinstitute.harvard.edu/news/leveragin…

ICYMI: HAPPY 3,4,5 ALL-SQUARED DAY!! Today's date, 9/16/25, is a trio of squares (in a perfectly squared year, no less!) – and if that weren't exciting enough on its own, those squares correspond to the Pythagorean theorem applied to a 3,4,5 right triangle. Many of us saw the

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I am very pleased. thecrimson.com/article/2025/1…

who's asking who for hints now, Claude? 😤

did you mean... π-thon?

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i kinda like popup bagels — and am a bagel fanatic, as any of my friends could easily tell you — but that doesn't change the fact that this piece by HGL in this week's Fifteen Minutes Magazine made me giggle: thecrimson.com/article/2025/1…

We’re super excited to introduce DIRT: The Distributed Intelligent Replicator Toolkit: github.com/aaronwalsman/d… DIRT is a GPU-accelerated multi-agent simulation platform enabling artificial life research in dynamic, open-ended environments at unprecedented scales. 1/n

Our latest post explores on-policy distillation, a training approach that unites the error-correcting relevance of RL with the reward density of SFT. When training it for math reasoning and as an internal chat assistant, we find that on-policy distillation can outperform other

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