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but when she wove her hand in mine
my rushing heart beat out a code
now writ behind my eyes
an order cut into my dreams
to blacken out the skies
I post about computational cognitive science (she/her ❤️🧡🤍🩷💜)
but when she wove her hand in mine
my rushing heart beat out a code
now writ behind my eyes
an order cut into my dreams
to blacken out the skies
I post about computational cognitive science (she/her ❤️🧡🤍🩷💜)
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Sometimes I really wish I could just say to an undergraduate "this is a computational cognition lab, we are not here to study LLMs".
Recently I just haven't wanted to post. Actually, I've been struggling with the motivation to engage with my field altogether.
January 28, 2026 at 8:17 AM
Recently I just haven't wanted to post. Actually, I've been struggling with the motivation to engage with my field altogether.
This debate was a welcome turn since the business with Davies a few months ago. Unfortunately only Lewis has a genuinely serious and principled stance, but if he won he'd be one of the few western social democratic leaders who does.
NDP Leadership Debate on Palestine
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January 25, 2026 at 6:55 AM
This debate was a welcome turn since the business with Davies a few months ago. Unfortunately only Lewis has a genuinely serious and principled stance, but if he won he'd be one of the few western social democratic leaders who does.
Lately finding motivation is really hard, and I'm not sure where to catch my wind from. My interest in my work has just been gone. This is the longest stretch I've felt this way in most of a decade. Instead I've been writing speculative anthropology about Carboniferous frog wizards.
January 22, 2026 at 6:58 AM
Lately finding motivation is really hard, and I'm not sure where to catch my wind from. My interest in my work has just been gone. This is the longest stretch I've felt this way in most of a decade. Instead I've been writing speculative anthropology about Carboniferous frog wizards.
I appreciate how massive modularity and g-factor theory manage to be diametrically opposed, mutually exclusive theories, and yet somehow equally chuddy
January 18, 2026 at 1:52 AM
I appreciate how massive modularity and g-factor theory manage to be diametrically opposed, mutually exclusive theories, and yet somehow equally chuddy
I like how peaceful this place is but it'd be nice if every third post wasn't a bunch of people arguing about who's impotently seething about the same 3 things in the most correct way
December 27, 2025 at 10:13 PM
I like how peaceful this place is but it'd be nice if every third post wasn't a bunch of people arguing about who's impotently seething about the same 3 things in the most correct way
I'm becoming a CBC mum and I think this is the right life path for me
December 17, 2025 at 3:15 AM
I'm becoming a CBC mum and I think this is the right life path for me
Over the years I've grown pretty tough towards my dear friends with BPD splitting on me, and to be honest I think they need to be cut a lot more slack, people are not sufficiently resilient to sudden conflict and that's part of the reason why people acquire traumagenic personality and mood disorders
December 13, 2025 at 5:55 AM
Over the years I've grown pretty tough towards my dear friends with BPD splitting on me, and to be honest I think they need to be cut a lot more slack, people are not sufficiently resilient to sudden conflict and that's part of the reason why people acquire traumagenic personality and mood disorders
I know it's a marketing thing but whenever someone says AI cracked a math proof they're burying the lede about something a lot more interesting. Proof assistants like Lean and Rocq have had partial proof synthesis, using AI techniques, forever. But, cracking proofs is a computationally hard problem.
December 4, 2025 at 9:44 AM
I know it's a marketing thing but whenever someone says AI cracked a math proof they're burying the lede about something a lot more interesting. Proof assistants like Lean and Rocq have had partial proof synthesis, using AI techniques, forever. But, cracking proofs is a computationally hard problem.
Most of the writing I'm the proudest of will never be read except by my editors and coauthors and that makes me sort of sad
December 1, 2025 at 6:21 AM
Most of the writing I'm the proudest of will never be read except by my editors and coauthors and that makes me sort of sad
When I was 18 I spent all my time on Tumblr. When I was 20 it gave me an anxiety disorder so I quit it. I'm more regulated now but I can't get my addiction to microblogging to come back enough to get traction. I just don't find it edifying anymore. Instead, you get occasional rambling text walls.
November 30, 2025 at 9:54 PM
When I was 18 I spent all my time on Tumblr. When I was 20 it gave me an anxiety disorder so I quit it. I'm more regulated now but I can't get my addiction to microblogging to come back enough to get traction. I just don't find it edifying anymore. Instead, you get occasional rambling text walls.
I want to hate on Steve Paikin for a second.
So him teaming up with Tony Clement and some Alberta Liberal to give Don Davies advice on how to win an election *is* ridiculous. But let's pretend there it was good faith when they said the NDP should drop the woke stuff to be a labour party.
So him teaming up with Tony Clement and some Alberta Liberal to give Don Davies advice on how to win an election *is* ridiculous. But let's pretend there it was good faith when they said the NDP should drop the woke stuff to be a labour party.
November 26, 2025 at 7:58 PM
I want to hate on Steve Paikin for a second.
So him teaming up with Tony Clement and some Alberta Liberal to give Don Davies advice on how to win an election *is* ridiculous. But let's pretend there it was good faith when they said the NDP should drop the woke stuff to be a labour party.
So him teaming up with Tony Clement and some Alberta Liberal to give Don Davies advice on how to win an election *is* ridiculous. But let's pretend there it was good faith when they said the NDP should drop the woke stuff to be a labour party.
Most people see history as kind of compressed, like the farther out you go, the closer events seem to fall together. When you study history, though, things often change. Written sources write about life on the same time scales we do, and the world through their eyes exposes the past on their time.
November 20, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Most people see history as kind of compressed, like the farther out you go, the closer events seem to fall together. When you study history, though, things often change. Written sources write about life on the same time scales we do, and the world through their eyes exposes the past on their time.
Interesting problem in communicating epistemology is that there's a certain lay understanding that it's possible to merely report data without hypothesis testing, and that there can be true statements about that data that are derivable from it directly, and also are meaningfully insightful.
November 12, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Interesting problem in communicating epistemology is that there's a certain lay understanding that it's possible to merely report data without hypothesis testing, and that there can be true statements about that data that are derivable from it directly, and also are meaningfully insightful.
My supervisor once told me lesbianism wouldn't fix me.
Today I got to bring her lunch.
On the menu: HER WORDS.
Today I got to bring her lunch.
On the menu: HER WORDS.
November 11, 2025 at 8:08 PM
My supervisor once told me lesbianism wouldn't fix me.
Today I got to bring her lunch.
On the menu: HER WORDS.
Today I got to bring her lunch.
On the menu: HER WORDS.
So in Westminster systems like Canada it's pretty typical for a minority government to use a budget failure to consolidate power by criticizing the other parties for obstructing a disagreeable budget and in Canada that usually works. In 🍁 majority governments, it's impossible for a budget to fail.
November 10, 2025 at 5:48 PM
So in Westminster systems like Canada it's pretty typical for a minority government to use a budget failure to consolidate power by criticizing the other parties for obstructing a disagreeable budget and in Canada that usually works. In 🍁 majority governments, it's impossible for a budget to fail.
Slopbots have given humanity one wonderful gift, in that one can now apply a test, whereby one checks if a person in one's mentions has produced at least as thoughtful a thing to say as might say a literal P-zombie before replying. In this way, one can most reliably discern the presence of a soul.
October 29, 2025 at 5:31 AM
Slopbots have given humanity one wonderful gift, in that one can now apply a test, whereby one checks if a person in one's mentions has produced at least as thoughtful a thing to say as might say a literal P-zombie before replying. In this way, one can most reliably discern the presence of a soul.
Loved the bit in Frankenstein where Dr. Frankenstein's brother turns to Frankenstein and says "you were the real monster" and then dies
October 26, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Loved the bit in Frankenstein where Dr. Frankenstein's brother turns to Frankenstein and says "you were the real monster" and then dies
Man it does really pmo actually how hard people cling to the whole "tech for good" lie. You are a programmer. You make something infinitely replicable for free. All the money is in charging rents on this stuff, and there's no money in doing anything else. Your income comes from exploiting someone.
October 25, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Man it does really pmo actually how hard people cling to the whole "tech for good" lie. You are a programmer. You make something infinitely replicable for free. All the money is in charging rents on this stuff, and there's no money in doing anything else. Your income comes from exploiting someone.
I did my undergrad in CS. When I was first getting into it, the "programming will change the world" bandwagon was in full swing. I eventually realized computing was beautiful in itself, but man, holy shit, was that ever a huge fucking lie.
October 24, 2025 at 11:50 PM
I did my undergrad in CS. When I was first getting into it, the "programming will change the world" bandwagon was in full swing. I eventually realized computing was beautiful in itself, but man, holy shit, was that ever a huge fucking lie.
When people talk about the circular AI economy, it bothers me that it's usually unnoted why it being a ponzi is bad for you and me. Sure, it's bad for the CPP, but most investor haircuts aren't skinning my nose. If someone gets scammed, sucks for them, but I'm sympathetic, not an injured party.
October 22, 2025 at 8:15 AM
When people talk about the circular AI economy, it bothers me that it's usually unnoted why it being a ponzi is bad for you and me. Sure, it's bad for the CPP, but most investor haircuts aren't skinning my nose. If someone gets scammed, sucks for them, but I'm sympathetic, not an injured party.
Today I went to parl dot gc dot ca and read all the private members' bills that will never make it past first reading. Why? Because no matter how small, every life deserves to be remembered.
October 22, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Today I went to parl dot gc dot ca and read all the private members' bills that will never make it past first reading. Why? Because no matter how small, every life deserves to be remembered.
Chat, should I pin this for the meme?
Cripes, a Peterson fan.
October 21, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Chat, should I pin this for the meme?
At what age did you learn that justice isn't real? When did you find out that none get their comeuppance, not that we will ever live to see? That all there is to do is the slow, wearisome work of moulding the heads of the next generation, so that, God willing, they are that much less evil than we?
October 21, 2025 at 4:44 AM
At what age did you learn that justice isn't real? When did you find out that none get their comeuppance, not that we will ever live to see? That all there is to do is the slow, wearisome work of moulding the heads of the next generation, so that, God willing, they are that much less evil than we?
Where my epistemology-first metaphyiscal commitments land somewhere particularly interesting, imo, is when we have to deal with the philosophy of consciousness. But I'll get into that another time, I'm sleepy.
October 14, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Where my epistemology-first metaphyiscal commitments land somewhere particularly interesting, imo, is when we have to deal with the philosophy of consciousness. But I'll get into that another time, I'm sleepy.
What I mean to say is that being atheist and taking that seriously is, philosophically speaking, hard to do, and demands biting yucky bullets. And I'm just more interested in the genuine curiosity and respect for disagreement that it takes to be that than the smug douche atheism that got big online.
October 14, 2025 at 8:32 AM
What I mean to say is that being atheist and taking that seriously is, philosophically speaking, hard to do, and demands biting yucky bullets. And I'm just more interested in the genuine curiosity and respect for disagreement that it takes to be that than the smug douche atheism that got big online.