claude down, david dumb

We recently needed to backup a pretty large (~150gb) volume hosted on Databrary Project (which I adore) In case you ever need to do this too, here is a powershell script & instructions that you can use to bulk download any number of sessions. 💖 github.com/DavidNTompkins…

There is no greater evil, no greater corruption to academe than Citation Formatting rules. To bear fiction upon reality as though it law is to pervert the soul of science. Just let me say I saw it on twitter.

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without fail, windows updates in the middle of batch operations

Anyone have tips for navigating secure/confidential data and cloud GPU providers? Working on a thing

Where do you go with data that is merely suggestive of a problem? Data that is coherent with a problem but not explicitly indicative of it? Is there a good format for papers that say "Maybe we should be concerned, but we don't have enough evidence yet"?

I have a data set of paper abstracts that I wanted to read, but had no tool for it. Thanks to Claude now I do. Kind of wild how easy it is to make things nowadays. This was 20 minutes and has been pretty stable

The original LLM (large labrador model)

Yesterday at a talk, someone asked where we saw 'the future of child development / human ecology going'. I gave a pretty non-answer on the spot, but with the benefit of a day to think, here's a more thought out answer. I think in the next ten or so years we're going to have to

Do you correct for multiple testing in linear models with multiple predictors? If you're reporting individual predictors as significant - you should! Here's a simulation. At 5 predictors, it's a 20% false positive rate 😱 (y ~ x1+x2+x3+x4+x5)

I wonder if academics in theology start their emails with “Sorry for Cross posting”

This in a 2018 article in a flagship journal in developmental psychology. The article has 40 citations. I am losing my mind.

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

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

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)

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.

“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 Cornell Psychology scholars. American Psychological Association Cornell Human Ecology news.cornell.edu/stories/2025/0…