Did you know that the word ‘gullible’ isn’t in the dictionary?
When I get rich enough that I can build products without caring whether the market size is 1, I’d like to print a dictionary missing the word ‘gullible’.
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Word pools for psychology experiments
Ah, you came to the right place for words, sonny boy. Roll up, roll up. We gots big words, little words, sad words, rude words, words you didn’t know, words that haven’t been invented yet, words your mother whispered to you in your sleep as a boy, words that cure warts, words that raze forts. […]
“Oh, that should be easy – maybe a few minutes…”
Hearing those words makes me feel like I’m tied mutely to a railway track, unable to scream for help as a train thunders towards me. We humans are walking sacks of blood, bile and bias, and estimating how long things will take brings out the worst in us. A product manager recently asked me if one can […]
PhD thesis: Weakening memories by half-remembering them
[Back to Research] For my thesis, I worked on a series of behavioral and fMRI memory experiments to understand a little more about forgetting, called ‘Weakening memories by half-remembering them’ (PDF). Here’s the gist. The act of remembering something – dredging it up from your memory and letting it blossom fully into a recollection – is […]
Old writing
mumblings and misconceptions – half-formed thoughts about AI, cognitive science and philosophy (250K) blatherings and babblings about more or less (80K) and even more The Oxford Consciousness Society webpage (now very defunct) I tried stand-up comedy a couple of times. This was an early version Statement of purpose for application to MIT Media lab Project proposal, smattering of ideasand final paper for Deb Roy‘s Computational Semantics class – […]
Neuroscience notes
The neuroscience notes for my PhD qualifying exam are now online as a single compressed tarball and as browsable individual webpages. If you use Emacs Muse, then you can also grab the muse files as a tarball (or by changing the .html to .muse) too. The notes are in wiki form – in other words, […]
The Turing tournament – a proposal for a reformulation of the Turing Test
Introduction Describing the Turing Tournament Comparing the Turing Test and the Turing Tournament Devising new rules, and non-linguistic competitors But is it intelligent? MH: Are you a computer? Dell: Nope. MH: You’d be surprised how many fall for that one. Dell: Not me. —— MH: What’s fifty-six times thirty-three? Dell: One thousand eight hundred forty-eight. […]
Greg Detre 