Stories by yamrzou

Normality: Part descriptive, part prescriptive (2017)

The Case for Moderation

Scale Space

Building machines that learn and think like people by learning to write programs

What Is a “Now Page”?

The Child as Hacker (2020) [pdf]

WebPPL – Probabilistic Programming for the Web

Games and Puzzles as Multicomputational Systems

Learning a Hierarchy (2017)

Prior Knowledge for Pattern Recognition

Simplest Shapes First! Using Cognitive Science to Specify What “Simple” Means

Self-classifying MNIST Digits (2022)

Hierarchy and Emergence (2008)

The Amazon Tax (2016)

Is There Math Beyond the Equal Sign?

The Decline of Strict Etiquette

Why Nostr Matters

The Psychology of Emotional Escalation (2018)

Is Motivated Reasoning Bad Reasoning? Part I (2014)

Motivated Reasoning as Mis-Applied Reinforcement Learning