EG Gaffin-Cahn

Doctoral student and life enthusiast

[EG Gaffin-Cahn @egaffincahn]

Read my blog post!

[Perceptive Automata @perceptive_auto]

Can self-driving vehicles and #cyclists safely coexist? We studied where people #bike in #Boston to find out. Psychophysics engineer EG Gaffin-Cahn, Ph.D., talks about it in our latest blog post. https://t.co/JOovGLF7zb

#mobility #safetyfirst #autonomousvehicles #ai #innovation

[Perceptive Automata @perceptive_auto]

What does the future of human-robot social engagement look like? Are #robots just tools? Our CEO Bruce Reading answers those questions and more in our latest blog post: https://t.co/fjdmmgyuh7

#Boston #AVs #Auto #Autonomous #autonomousvehicles #artificialintelligence

[EG Gaffin-Cahn @egaffincahn]

The power imbalance between the NCAA and student athletes is appalling. Changes are happening but they're slow and long overdue. https://t.co/fIpYxyFdVR

[EG Gaffin-Cahn @egaffincahn]

Great writeup! @Psychonomic_Soc @BenWolfeVision

[Psychonomic Society @Psychonomic_Soc]

How much money would shift your response bias? New post by @benwolfevision on #psynomAPP paper by @ShannonMLocke1, @egaffincahn, @NadiaHosseini7 et al @SpringerPsych

https://t.co/g9QBXcEAo8

[EG Gaffin-Cahn @egaffincahn]

How good is your model? I wrote (a few years ago) a step-by-step walkthrough of (part of) a Bayesian model evaluation method (Vehtari, Gelman, & Gabry, 2017) - an improvement on importance sampling in leave-one-out cross validation called PSIS-LOO 🙃 https://t.co/pa05S81HF4

[Shannon M Locke @ShannonMLocke1]

Every wondered how priors and payoffs interact with perceptual confidence? Check out our now officially published paper: https://t.co/2814LA2pTc. Big thanks to my awesome collaborators @egaffincahn, @NadiaHosseini7, Pascal Mamassian, and Mike Landy!

[EG Gaffin-Cahn @egaffincahn]

@sarahelnozahy Because you have to start somewhere!

[Dan Levenstein @dlevenstein]

@sarahelnozahy I like to consider two different strategies:
The "physics" approach - build the most abstract model that can account for the phenomenon.
The "kitchen sink" approach - build the least abstract model you have data to support.

Both have their uses!

[EG Gaffin-Cahn @egaffincahn]

Very cool! How many years until I can get a xenobot pet? @techreview https://t.co/aWzotR0043

[EG Gaffin-Cahn @egaffincahn]

If a choice is rewarded more, we'll be more confident in our decision. @ShannonMLocke1
@NadiaHosseini7 biorRxiv v2 out now! https://t.co/wLLWePpbx2

[EG Gaffin-Cahn @egaffincahn]

@yalmoz @propublica "The consultants found it difficult to attach a dollar figure to the standards themselves" Apparently, if estimating value is hard, value can just be zero.

[Shannon M Locke @ShannonMLocke1]

Excited to finally share my work on sensorimotor confidence. We examined how humans introspect about their visuomotor tracking. TL;DR: they mainly monitored tracking performance from feedback, but with a recency bias. Preprint: https://t.co/OGJqlO6Tyi

[EG Gaffin-Cahn @egaffincahn]

Because #Verizon doesn't have email-based customer service. Here's some feedback so other customers don't have to bang their head against a wall. @verizon @VerizonSupport @verizonfios

[Shannon M Locke @ShannonMLocke1]

Sharing this resource for my fellow students at NYU (GSAS) who wish to write their PhD thesis in Latex and want a general template to start from. Comments, good or bad, are welcome.
https://t.co/yXfXLbCsIP

[Shannon M Locke @ShannonMLocke1]

Our first preprint is now available! (@egaffincahn). We found confidence judgements incorporate priors and/or payoffs incorrectly: https://t.co/4ccP1XhNdr

[ScAAN @ScientistAction]

We are excited to release our interactive map of storm surge-vulnerable sites in New York City, made in collaboration with @NYCEJAlliance.

Check it out below:
https://t.co/RUZ3r3qJvz

[EG Gaffin-Cahn @egaffincahn]

@flor @Terminal5NYC @jphever In my 🧠 and my ♥️, you're the headliner.

[ScAAN @ScientistAction]

New @sciam article by ScAAN member @KPpipes: "Inmates in solitary confinement have far fewer protections than the nonhuman species we use in lab experiments"
https://t.co/wDIteetliq

[EG Gaffin-Cahn @egaffincahn]

@scipolnetwork @SEPANYC Thank you so much for the awesome symposium today! I learned a ton and it was heartening to see so much enthusiasm for science policy. #NSPNsymposium18