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Undervalued graduate programs?
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The score
Occasionally I post comments here on other people's books or articles, and sometimes I email the authors to get their feedback. Here's the score: Responded: John Clute Richard Florida Malcolm Gladwell Sander Greenland Daniel Gross Mickey Kaus Paul Krugman Andrew...
Learning structural forms
Josh Tenenbaum sent me a link to a paper, The discovery of structural form, by C. Kemp and himself. Also commentary by Keith Holyoak and some supporting information. Code and datasets are here. For my own thoughts on this work,...
The great chain of being
In his talk on mental models of the structure of the world, Josh Tenenbaum talked about how people think of animals as being classified in a tree structure, and how this structure might differ from those implied by different scientific...
Real statistics and folk statistics: modeling mental models
I was lucky to see most of the talk that Josh Tenenbaum gave in the psychology department a couple weeks ago. He was talking about some experiments that he, Charles Kemp, and others have been doing to model people's reasoning...
Bayesian parameter estimation is not quite the same thing as Bayesian prediction
Chris Paulse pointed me to this magazine article entitled "Bayes rules: a once-neglected statistical technique may help to explain how the mind works," featuring a paper by Thomas Griffiths and Joshua Tenenbaum (see quick review here by Michael Stastny). The...
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