Gary Lupyan
@glupyan.bsky.social
Browsing through the doordash infographics is something else.. They can't even interpret their own data!
November 12, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Browsing through the doordash infographics is something else.. They can't even interpret their own data!
The deadline for EvoLang 2026 has been extended to Nov 3rd. Evolang is truly special (I've been to each one since 2002!) - an amazing community doing top-notch interdisciplinary work. Submit your work and hope to see you in Plovdiv, Bulgaria! sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/e...
October 28, 2025 at 7:35 PM
The deadline for EvoLang 2026 has been extended to Nov 3rd. Evolang is truly special (I've been to each one since 2002!) - an amazing community doing top-notch interdisciplinary work. Submit your work and hope to see you in Plovdiv, Bulgaria! sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/e...
Somehow people are finding plenty of time to game though ~2hrs/day though! (And that was back in 2022). There isn't one answer, but it sure does seem like all the other entertainment options (most of which are >$ than books) have more to do with the decline?
October 7, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Somehow people are finding plenty of time to game though ~2hrs/day though! (And that was back in 2022). There isn't one answer, but it sure does seem like all the other entertainment options (most of which are >$ than books) have more to do with the decline?
...it went into crisis mode... This is just an excerpt of a much longer bout of hand-wringing. It then proceeded to forfeit the game and apologized for a "flawed experience".
October 1, 2025 at 4:39 AM
...it went into crisis mode... This is just an excerpt of a much longer bout of hand-wringing. It then proceeded to forfeit the game and apologized for a "flawed experience".
Problem: The hashes it then spit out do NOT match SHA256! After a few more exchanges where it tried to self debug and offered reasonable possibilities (invisible characters), it kept assuring me that its hashes were correct. I then accused it of cheating. And then...
October 1, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Problem: The hashes it then spit out do NOT match SHA256! After a few more exchanges where it tried to self debug and offered reasonable possibilities (invisible characters), it kept assuring me that its hashes were correct. I then accused it of cheating. And then...
I protested... and it offered a clever solution!
October 1, 2025 at 4:33 AM
I protested... and it offered a clever solution!
It's not biting... Its solution is that it will make a choice and then reveal it to me.
October 1, 2025 at 4:32 AM
It's not biting... Its solution is that it will make a choice and then reveal it to me.
A wild exchange with Gemini Pro 2.5. In preparing some examples for my seminar (cogsci-llms.netlify.app) I remembered @randomwalker.bsky.social old tweet about playing Rock paper scissors with LLMs. Decided to see what it's like now ....
October 1, 2025 at 4:31 AM
A wild exchange with Gemini Pro 2.5. In preparing some examples for my seminar (cogsci-llms.netlify.app) I remembered @randomwalker.bsky.social old tweet about playing Rock paper scissors with LLMs. Decided to see what it's like now ....
I see Google now uses its special "AI" metric in its distance calculations
September 2, 2025 at 11:14 PM
I see Google now uses its special "AI" metric in its distance calculations
Gemini does one better!
April 22, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Gemini does one better!
From Masha Gessen’s op/ed. Uniting in scholarship and education outreach probably is the only way for US universities to survive this. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/o...
April 17, 2025 at 4:00 PM
From Masha Gessen’s op/ed. Uniting in scholarship and education outreach probably is the only way for US universities to survive this. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/o...
My neighbors' Tesla was defaced the other day. There are flyers in the area with Musk's nazi salute & a call to "Sell your Tesla." (uhm, sellers need buyers!). This is idiotic activism. If someone disagrees, please respond & we can debate.
February 27, 2025 at 11:41 PM
My neighbors' Tesla was defaced the other day. There are flyers in the area with Musk's nazi salute & a call to "Sell your Tesla." (uhm, sellers need buyers!). This is idiotic activism. If someone disagrees, please respond & we can debate.
Anyone know if indiv differences in visual imagery predict differences in performance on image-generation tasks? e.g., Kosslyn's letter-imagery? My inability to find a positive result suggests file-drawer..?
February 27, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Anyone know if indiv differences in visual imagery predict differences in performance on image-generation tasks? e.g., Kosslyn's letter-imagery? My inability to find a positive result suggests file-drawer..?
Painting over core values at the FBI Academy. I don't usually repost, but saw this on reddit (h/t @phedrebeth) and a comment from someone who hoped to live long enough to see this in the history books.
February 1, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Painting over core values at the FBI Academy. I don't usually repost, but saw this on reddit (h/t @phedrebeth) and a comment from someone who hoped to live long enough to see this in the history books.
I swear it's gonna be *that* big!
December 3, 2024 at 11:38 PM
I swear it's gonna be *that* big!
Inbox is the sole box. I do wonder what the correlation is b/w "unread" emails and number of files in the Downloads folder :)
December 2, 2024 at 5:26 PM
Inbox is the sole box. I do wonder what the correlation is b/w "unread" emails and number of files in the Downloads folder :)
Registration for #Evolang2024 is now open! And in addition to a great regular program, we have 7 amazing workshops! evolang2024.github.io
December 22, 2023 at 6:08 PM
Registration for #Evolang2024 is now open! And in addition to a great regular program, we have 7 amazing workshops! evolang2024.github.io
We are hiring in perception & cognitive/perceptual development! Open Rank. Madison's awesome! Apply! psych.wisc.edu/psychology-d...
September 22, 2023 at 6:34 PM
We are hiring in perception & cognitive/perceptual development! Open Rank. Madison's awesome! Apply! psych.wisc.edu/psychology-d...