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"I am a number 12 stan" - @JKBye

Gesture folks: For many years, I have collected examples of gestures that I find interesting. Not sure I did this right, but I am starting a blog for sharing these examples & thoughts about them! First post is up -- please follow along & comment! gesturesinthewild.wordpress.com

It was wonderful to share my work with Stanislas Dehaene @standehaene.bsky.social today at #CogSci2022 in Toronto! Come say hi if you want to know more about the way people (of different ages and cultures) intuitively extract summary information from noisy datasets :)

This fall, I teach my first non-stats lecture course in a long time! I detest PowerPoint (and slides in general) for teaching. I'm glad that the 2019 version of me documented my hacky solution, using a combination of emacs, org mode, and 90s-era LaTeX :) github.com/tomfaulkenberr…

I've been very happy with the current administration, despite their flaws. I hope people reelect their representatives to the House and Senate. I had lost all hope in the Iran Deal coming back. nytimes.com/2022/08/16/wor…

It's a good time to check if you are vaccinated for poliovirus

Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene had $183,504 in PPP loans forgiven. x.com/Acyn/status/15…

Yessssssssss arstechnica.com/science/2022/0…

I wonder about the consequences of teaching of literature and writing together in high school. I love literature, I love writing, but I still detest writing about literature in the high school style. So many writers must have convinced themselves that they hated writing...

Transcription has now become painless and easy, it mostly becomes error correction using OpenAI's free model. The more tiring part of thinkaloud research is over! assemblyai.com/blog/how-to-ru…

Hoping the best for the people of Iran! nytimes.com/2022/09/24/wor…

Today in our lab meeting, instead of a research presentation, we held a Q&A session, in which undergraduates could ask question of our graduate students and postdoc. (The idea to do this came from one of our undergraduates.) 1/x

Spread the word: Matthew Butterick (“Typography for Lawyers”) is helping pursue GitHub Copilot, the AI project that siphons contributors’ code and redistributes it — without any clearances from, or attributions to, its authors. githubcopilotinvestigation.com/#

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Everyone moving from twitter to mastodon is very likely to fail because it is a collective action problem, benefits depend on others actions. Here's how it can succeed. It will require your commitment for 1 month to do a few things. Read and retweet if you commit to do them.

Librarian Amy Riegelman and Lisa Von Drasek discuss “The Grieving Brain” by Mary-Frances O'Connor on this installment of Read This Book. If you've lost a loved one, this book can help you. loom.ly/1Q-Yk4s #brain #grief

I felt gross about Twitter, so I moved to Mastodon, and I recommend you do too. I understand that academic Twitter helps some of us network and find papers to read, but I think we should weigh the good and bad consequences of continuing to use Twitter. Some thoughts/feelings ...