David Tompkins
@davidntompkins.bsky.social
Developmental psych phd student @ Cornell
Spatial skills | methods | limits to generalizability over time
Spatial skills | methods | limits to generalizability over time
Quick, someone who’s good at computers - is this good??
November 3, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Quick, someone who’s good at computers - is this good??
Has anyone seen any running lists of replication attempts in developmental psychology? Surprisingly hard to find!
October 18, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Has anyone seen any running lists of replication attempts in developmental psychology? Surprisingly hard to find!
A master student and an undergrad in the lab told me that I remind them of their dads.
They must have very young and extremely cool dads!
They must have very young and extremely cool dads!
an elderly woman is blowing out candles on a cake with the number 102 on it
ALT: an elderly woman is blowing out candles on a cake with the number 102 on it
media.tenor.com
October 2, 2025 at 9:48 PM
A master student and an undergrad in the lab told me that I remind them of their dads.
They must have very young and extremely cool dads!
They must have very young and extremely cool dads!
Came back to my computer after a long weekend away - this image is up in Google search. No recollection of what i was working on.
September 30, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Came back to my computer after a long weekend away - this image is up in Google search. No recollection of what i was working on.
I got an inter-library book to read up on historical changes in childhood - and a flyer on pandemic era book sanitation practices fell out. Really on the nose
September 23, 2025 at 4:43 PM
I got an inter-library book to read up on historical changes in childhood - and a flyer on pandemic era book sanitation practices fell out. Really on the nose
The most ominous door in the Ithaca Mall
August 27, 2025 at 12:59 PM
The most ominous door in the Ithaca Mall
Learning about IRT is like finding a hammer and suddenly everything looks like nails
August 27, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Learning about IRT is like finding a hammer and suddenly everything looks like nails
Hate to say it, but the older i get, the more i like kebab-case
August 25, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Hate to say it, but the older i get, the more i like kebab-case
Last call before it returns to storage!
Anyone need some old MiniDV tapes digitized? I’ve been digitizing an old dataset and have a whole setup ready to go. Will do for free if it’s research or planned for open access!
August 21, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Last call before it returns to storage!
Anyone need some old MiniDV tapes digitized? I’ve been digitizing an old dataset and have a whole setup ready to go. Will do for free if it’s research or planned for open access!
August 15, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Anyone need some old MiniDV tapes digitized? I’ve been digitizing an old dataset and have a whole setup ready to go. Will do for free if it’s research or planned for open access!
Digitizing old camcorder tapes, eating doritos, and drinking a monster. 2008 all over again
August 15, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Digitizing old camcorder tapes, eating doritos, and drinking a monster. 2008 all over again
Reposted by David Tompkins
🧠How “old” is your model?
Put it to the test with the KiVA Challenge: a new benchmark for abstract visual reasoning, grounded in real developmental data from children and adults.
🏆 Prizes:
🥇$1K to the top model
🥈🥉$500
📅 Deadline: 10/7/25
🔗 kiva-challenge.github.io
@iccv.bsky.social
Put it to the test with the KiVA Challenge: a new benchmark for abstract visual reasoning, grounded in real developmental data from children and adults.
🏆 Prizes:
🥇$1K to the top model
🥈🥉$500
📅 Deadline: 10/7/25
🔗 kiva-challenge.github.io
@iccv.bsky.social
KiVA Challenge @ ICCV 2025
kiva-challenge.github.io
July 15, 2025 at 7:19 PM
🧠How “old” is your model?
Put it to the test with the KiVA Challenge: a new benchmark for abstract visual reasoning, grounded in real developmental data from children and adults.
🏆 Prizes:
🥇$1K to the top model
🥈🥉$500
📅 Deadline: 10/7/25
🔗 kiva-challenge.github.io
@iccv.bsky.social
Put it to the test with the KiVA Challenge: a new benchmark for abstract visual reasoning, grounded in real developmental data from children and adults.
🏆 Prizes:
🥇$1K to the top model
🥈🥉$500
📅 Deadline: 10/7/25
🔗 kiva-challenge.github.io
@iccv.bsky.social
They don’t want you to know this, but if you use computational methods, you’re allowed to get a little snack while the computer thinks for you
June 29, 2025 at 12:50 PM
They don’t want you to know this, but if you use computational methods, you’re allowed to get a little snack while the computer thinks for you
It’s nice how local news still looks like it was filmed in 2004. A simpler time
June 26, 2025 at 11:39 PM
It’s nice how local news still looks like it was filmed in 2004. A simpler time
Reading papers while listening to brainrot; balance in all things
June 23, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Reading papers while listening to brainrot; balance in all things
I’m making a new remote touchscreen task for 2-6 year olds - any platform recommendations?
It needs the ability to do an adaptive staircase and open source is preferred! Should i just build it out in js?
It needs the ability to do an adaptive staircase and open source is preferred! Should i just build it out in js?
June 22, 2025 at 2:58 PM
I’m making a new remote touchscreen task for 2-6 year olds - any platform recommendations?
It needs the ability to do an adaptive staircase and open source is preferred! Should i just build it out in js?
It needs the ability to do an adaptive staircase and open source is preferred! Should i just build it out in js?
I’m trying to learn about topic modeling but the paper keeps summoning ghosts
June 19, 2025 at 3:01 PM
I’m trying to learn about topic modeling but the paper keeps summoning ghosts
Been reading bibliometric analysis, and it’s weird, every method seems to be entirely bottom up with almost no interpretation from the theory or knowledge base of the field. Seems like a good way to miss something.
June 17, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Been reading bibliometric analysis, and it’s weird, every method seems to be entirely bottom up with almost no interpretation from the theory or knowledge base of the field. Seems like a good way to miss something.
Whoever came up with the word ‘synthetic’ nailed it. What a fun word
June 12, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Whoever came up with the word ‘synthetic’ nailed it. What a fun word
Reposted by David Tompkins
Now officially out with nice formatting and all 🥳 "Thinking clearly about age, period, and cohort effects" -- a gentle introduction to the age-period-cohort problem and how to "solve" it through various types of assumptions.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
June 6, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Now officially out with nice formatting and all 🥳 "Thinking clearly about age, period, and cohort effects" -- a gentle introduction to the age-period-cohort problem and how to "solve" it through various types of assumptions.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Why is it supposedly hard to write Superman since he’s ‘too strong’, but it works seamlessly for every isekai?
June 4, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Why is it supposedly hard to write Superman since he’s ‘too strong’, but it works seamlessly for every isekai?
This is shameful and should be rejected in the strongest terms. This is suffering by another name. The authors mean well but advocate tragedy.
Economists do not support degrowth. Should psychologists study how to encourage raw milk drinking? Or cigarette smoking?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Economists do not support degrowth. Should psychologists study how to encourage raw milk drinking? Or cigarette smoking?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A call for psychological and behavioural science on degrowth - Nature Human Behaviour
Degrowth is a socioeconomic paradigm that prioritizes planetary health and human wellbeing through a democratically planned reduction of unnecessary production and consumption. We urge psychological a...
www.nature.com
May 31, 2025 at 3:17 AM
This is shameful and should be rejected in the strongest terms. This is suffering by another name. The authors mean well but advocate tragedy.
Economists do not support degrowth. Should psychologists study how to encourage raw milk drinking? Or cigarette smoking?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Economists do not support degrowth. Should psychologists study how to encourage raw milk drinking? Or cigarette smoking?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
80% power is such a weirdly low target and completely at odds with our general significance obsession.
Wherefore 80%??
Wherefore 80%??
May 27, 2025 at 1:16 PM
80% power is such a weirdly low target and completely at odds with our general significance obsession.
Wherefore 80%??
Wherefore 80%??
Reposted by David Tompkins
It’s frustrating that LLMs are, by a mile, the most transformative consumer technology to emerge in living memory, and the modal opinion on this website is “fake trash, lmao, bubble’s gonna burst, fuck you for even talking about it.”
Take it seriously. You’ll have to for the rest of your life.
Take it seriously. You’ll have to for the rest of your life.
May 21, 2025 at 2:01 AM
It’s frustrating that LLMs are, by a mile, the most transformative consumer technology to emerge in living memory, and the modal opinion on this website is “fake trash, lmao, bubble’s gonna burst, fuck you for even talking about it.”
Take it seriously. You’ll have to for the rest of your life.
Take it seriously. You’ll have to for the rest of your life.