Matthew Jensen Hays, Ph.D. 💙💛

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[Matthew Jensen Hays, Ph.D. 💙💛 @MatthewHaysPhD]

The dynamic Ebbinghaus illusion. The dot in the center does not change size. Your brain disagrees.

[Matthew Jensen Hays, Ph.D. 💙💛 @MatthewHaysPhD]

@rpondiscio I feel like the same data could support the claim that I made a midterm so easy that it ran into a ceiling effect, but then used that information to better calibrate a final exam to my students' ability.

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@Noahpinion https://t.co/CPrmXSZvUW
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@Noahpinion Hey Noah! Here's a thing I don't understand: Inflation-adjusted dollar income increased, but year-matched buy-stuff income didn't. Shouldn't those correlate better?

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@Gong_io
I have a meeting coming up in less than two hours. Forwarding the invite (to the new email address) didn't work; it somehow couldn't find the Teams link in the invite. Clicking the support link returned a 404. Would you please help?

[Matthew Jensen Hays, Ph.D. 💙💛 @MatthewHaysPhD]

“The university will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights.”

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Who knew the heels would be doomed by their toes? #DukeVsUNC

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Who knew the heels would be doomed by their toes? https://t.co/sgQpghxe7Z

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I can't think of the right word to describe dismantling the Department of Education. Symbolic? Representative? What's the opposite of the opposite of irony?

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filni - Scandinavian - the new to-do list items spawned by crossing something off your to-do list

ex: taking out the trash and putting the new bag in the can
but it's the last bag, so +2 filni
--> throwing away the empty box of bags
--> adding trash bags to your shopping list

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@tomowenmorgan @RakeTheGates I wonder the extent to which it's a reflection of how frequently in its corpus that is the response, and therefore what it is most likely to generate given the prompt.

[Brandon Bird @Brandon_Bird]

I would like to share this passage from Patrick Stewart’s autobiography, in which he comes to America and eats a hamburger.

[Matthew Jensen Hays, Ph.D. 💙💛 @MatthewHaysPhD]

"LLMs work best when combined with humans"

This week, I've found that putting regular I around AI can make it do some pretty amazing things.

[Jeremy Howard @jeremyphoward]

My message here is: LLMs work best when combined with humans.

That means the thing to be most excited (or scared) of is the power of computers+humans, not just computers on their own

...which is something Douglas Engelbart pointed out in 1962!
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[Journal of Intelligence @JIntell_MDPI]

Welcome to read the 11th paper from the Special Issue "The Intersection of #Metacognition and #intelligence edited by @lisakimson @BarnardCollege .

Metacognitive Management of Attention in #OnlineLearning by @MatthewHaysPhD et al.

https://t.co/wIW8SpI3SW

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@themartonfi @philfreo @BenjaminDEKR An LLM does not really "know" almost anything. It uses a statistical model to simulate what someone would say in response to what someone else said. In context, the thing most common after "did you search the internet" is "yes"

... but it doesn't really know what "yes" means.

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Thin Mints!

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#psynom23 presenters are really killing it this year

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Having some n-envy at Cox et al's #psynom23 talk (15.6M)

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Undorf et al are presenting a 17-experiment talk at #psynom23. That has to be a record.

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Now this is what you come to #psynom23 for

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Is anyone aware of research on the extent to which students go to college just to get a degree / for work / to have gone? As opposed to (or in conjunction with) the extent to which they go because they actually want to learn?

[Matthew Jensen Hays, Ph.D. 💙💛 @MatthewHaysPhD]

I found research indicating that the proportion of educators who say learners are unmotivated is about triple the percentage of learners who agree...but I suppose I'm looking for extrinsic vs intrinsic motivation for taking college classes and doing coursework.