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April 07, 2013

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10:30 AM | The question of question understanding
I had a very long flight on my last easter vacation and I decided to use that spare time to reread some chapters from Physics of the impossible by Michio Kaku. While I was reading the robots chapter I began to ponder about some of the ideas mentioned. I understand that some scientists argue that [...]

April 05, 2013

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1:57 PM | R 3.0.0 Released
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April 04, 2013

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2:38 PM | Josh Wills: Data Scientist Definition
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March 30, 2013

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3:50 PM | Visual Analytics Meetup on April 4th
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3:11 PM | New Blog on Optimization
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March 27, 2013

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2:32 PM | New Berkeley Computational Social Science Lab
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3:35 AM | Cargo cult science and the value of “incremental” work
“When I was at Cornell, I often talked to the people in the psychology department. One of the students told me she wanted to do an experiment that went something like this–it had been found by others that under certain circumstances, X, rats did something, A. She was curious as to whether, if she changed [...]

March 26, 2013

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5:56 PM | Skiing trip to the Catskills
Last week, the lab hit the slopes in upstate New York. Read on for the full trip report!
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2:47 PM | Data Science For Software Engineers
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March 22, 2013

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2:29 PM | Visualize And Analyze The Web As You Browse
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March 20, 2013

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2:30 PM | Data Journalism Handbook
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March 19, 2013

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9:07 PM | Global exchange at the Computation and Cognition Lab
Each summer a select number of undergraduate research assistants join the lab to learn, first-hand, about our research. Last summer Sachith Cheruvatur joined us from NYU Abu Dhabi as part of the NYU Global Network University initiative. Sachith is a sophomore philosophy major at NYUAD but also has an interest in computational cognitive science. During his time in the lab, Sachith helped to develop a new class for psychology majors at NYU on the relationship between robotics, neuroscience, […]
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2:52 PM | Visualizing How Things Go Viral?
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March 13, 2013

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9:00 PM | Evaluating Amazon’s Mechanical Turk as a Tool for Experimental Behavioral Research
A new paper from the lab with Matt Crump was published in PLOSOne today. The paper attempts to replicate a large number of classic findings in cognitive psychology online using Amazon Mechanical Turk. Most of the replications were successful, but a number of important lessons about online data collection are shared.
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6:27 PM | Brainwave at Rubin Museum of Art
Todd is going to be part of an exhibit/performance on the cognitive science of memory with US Memory Champion Nelson Dellis at the Rubin Museum of Art Wednesday March 20, 2013 @ 7:00 PM. Tickets available here.
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1:47 PM | How to Estimate the Facebook Account Creation Date
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