David Tompkins

Developmental Psychology PhD student @ Cornell, likes making stuff

[David Tompkins @DavidNTompkins]

I spent a year building https://t.co/7xXfclXk1x; today I shut it down.

Open source version now available on https://t.co/Kd4OJcJ7Nt (includes frontend/backend and instructions to run locally)

It was a good way to learn some code and lose a bunch of money. Thanks for playing!

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@andrewgwils Saw this recently in a university posting looking for feedback on their new GenAI Policy

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RT @YiLu_lois: 📣 New paper out! 🎉
We often assume older adults are more risk-averse — but why? Our new study shows that age-related stereo…

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Canva is so good - but its maximum size limits make it unusable for scientific posters (which can be as big as ~8ft in a dimension).

Any chance this limit could be removed? @canva

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@ikirigin @robinhanson I think Loeb has been pretty good at identifying his suggestions as relatively low probability but high expected value. I don’t think he takes definitive stances really

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Something deeply inefficient in airport vending. A million kiosks in LAX and not a single Peach Vibe Celsius?

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@GuiveAssadi @tszzl @jachiam0 The updated version has much cleaner writing imo

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Might be LK-99’ing myself again, but i fully believe in 3I/ATLAS

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@SavarSareen It’s a pretty fun way to try vibing a new style/stack

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@SavarSareen I’ve been doing game jams with claude code the last three weeks! There’s a good 3-hr one called trijam: https://t.co/NNsDiZW1ch

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@HotForMoot The man you’re looking for is @PaulTompkinsRE - Catholic, ambitious, and very handsome. I can put in a good word if interested

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“Action asymmetry hypothesis”: The way perceptual systems are organized in the brain depends on the way we perform actions with our hands, according to a new theory proposed by @CornellPsychDpt scholars. @APA @CornellCHE https://t.co/tpqJDeEaUw

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@goblinodds Mostly true in toy industry too, but with parents, less with kids. Parents claim to want educational toys where they can play together with their kids. They mostly want toys that will keep their kids entertained separately from themselves

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@isidentical 🚀🚀🚀

[David Tompkins @DavidNTompkins]

When i left my job at Hasbro for grad school, I left a parting gift for my colleagues. Today, five years later, it remains on the wall.

The carpets have changed, the cubicles have changed, but I remain.

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In developmental psychology, do interventions select for historically fragile phenomenon? I've been trying to figure this out!

If you'd like to hear more and see some early/prelim. data - I'm giving a '4th year' talk about this on March 5th, 12:20 EST, in person or on zoom (dm)

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Openai's deep research - is it worth it? I switched over to anthropic a few months ago. Worth switching back?

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Certainly, here’s your title: Generative AI as an emerging research malpractice

[Cairo Smith @cairoasmith]

Here are some giveaway ChatGPT responses in research papers I collected, because I woke up too early this morning and thought it would be funny.

[Paul @FamilyOfficeCA]

Is there any public push I can assist/join to make this happen? Happy to talk to politicians I know, etc.

For reference: In 2020 approximately 48,000 housing units, or HALF of all that were approved that year, were held up in CEQA lawsuits.

We have to fix this.

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@seconds_0 @FAL weird! I made the two I posted on it, but the model on fal (with playground) is here: https://t.co/xNJXIpO3PZ