adam /otimes osth

Associate professor @unimelb. Episodic memory, decision making, mathematical psychology. Friend to all cats. He/him.

[Kareem Carr, Ph.D. @kareem_carr]

Nassim Taleb has written a devastatingly strong critique of IQ, but since he writes at such a technical level, his most powerful insights are being missed.

Let me explain just one of them. 🧵

[adam /otimes osth @AdamOsth]

@Jack_Lakeland @cenkuygur this is hilarious. your candidate won but you seem to have a hard time accepting it!

[adam /otimes osth @AdamOsth]

@Jack_Lakeland @cenkuygur by your own logic, what happened to the 5m more voted Trump got in 2020?

ruh roh

[adam /otimes osth @AdamOsth]

@Jack_Lakeland @cenkuygur it’s not a 20 million difference. look it up. the votes are still being counted lol

[adam /otimes osth @AdamOsth]

@IUtochkin distinctive features (like if multiple items share them). My suspicion is that with very large sets, these features are unlikely to be shared across multiple items.

[adam /otimes osth @AdamOsth]

A lot of studies have focused on memorability for individual items. But what the heck is memorability anyway? In this preprint with Rob Nosofsky, we attempt a theoretical account using models of recognition memory. https://t.co/MDhi0wYdyw

[adam /otimes osth @AdamOsth]

@IUtochkin in the global matching framework can generally account for this. Hit rates are likely to be much more stable! I don't think we totally have an understanding of all of the ways that hit rates vary. Nosofsky has found some cases where participants change the weighting of

[adam /otimes osth @AdamOsth]

Once these other types of matches were included in the model, it could account for variation in hit rates very well!

[adam /otimes osth @AdamOsth]

To account for hit rates, we rely on the hybrid similarity framework. In this model, self similarities can be augmented through other types of matches. We were able to accomplish this through distinctiveness ratings.

[Itai Yanai @ItaiYanai]

Doing good science is 90% finding a science buddy to constantly talk to about the project.

[Jace @JaceSerrano]

Haley Joel Osment should win an Emmy for his portrayal of JD Vance trying to buy a donut