Mark Ho
@mark_ho_
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computational cog sci • problem solving and social cognition • asst prof @NYUPsych • https://t.co/gdqtrgIGOA
New York City, New York
Joined July 2018
1/ I'm excited to share our new paper, now in @Nature! Paper: https://t.co/y2KA9wFnoF PDF: https://t.co/hRGO8s7oo3 Summary 🧵: We present a new theory of problem simplification to answer an old question in cognitive science and AI: How do we represent problems when planning?
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Nature - Strategically perceiving and conceiving problems facilitates the effective use of limited cognitive resources.
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Excited to see our NMH paper featured here for #WorldMentalHealthDay! https://t.co/ij54cQIDHK Many psychiatric symptoms are inherently social. @XiaosiGu, @JoeBarnby, & I call for models that reflect processes most relevant to our questions, esp. for those about social symptoms
🚨To celebrate #WorldMentalHealthDay, our October issue includes a Focus that examines the advances in computational psychiatry and the challenges of developing and deploying computational models to address mental health disorders. ➡️ https://t.co/xiqXgXeIvK 🧵(1/8)
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People with PhDs in Comparative Literature could be the greatest coders in human history but we simply choose to spend our time on more useful pursuits
The biggest predictor of coding ability is Language Aptitude. Not Math. A study posted in Nature found that numeracy accounts for just 2% of skill variance. Meanwhile, the neural behaviors associated with language accounted for 70% of skill variance.
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📢 New paper out now in @NatureComms Shared computations underlie how we acquire behaviors that simultaneously affect the self and others, incl. actions that benefit the self at the expense of others & actions that benefit others at the expense of self 🧵 https://t.co/2XiptFEsez
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I was a faculty fellow not to long ago. It's a great opportunity especially for computational cog sci folks!
📢 One more position I'm excited to help recruit for! NYU CDS is hiring it's next cohort of Faculty Fellows, can't stress enough how great of an opportunity these positions are! 💯 Link in thread 👇
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Princeton also has a postdoc position associated with this multi-institution project focused on modeling human decision-making and human-AI trust. The link to apply for the Princeton position is:
We’re hiring! @sucholutsky and I are seeking a postdoc and RA for a project on trust in AI systems with folks at NYU, Princeton, BU, and Cornell Positions open until filled. Apply soon! Please share 🔁 postdoc: https://t.co/iARVtYrMLN RA:
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📢 Mark and I are recruiting an RA and a postdoc for a big collaboration on trust in AI! 🧠🤖🤔 If you're interested, see the job posting links in Mark's post.
We’re hiring! @sucholutsky and I are seeking a postdoc and RA for a project on trust in AI systems with folks at NYU, Princeton, BU, and Cornell Positions open until filled. Apply soon! Please share 🔁 postdoc: https://t.co/iARVtYrMLN RA:
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Applying to our PhD program in Cognition & Perception? Join one of our webinars (on Oct 27 or Nov 6) to learn about the program and how to craft your application. Read more and sign up here: https://t.co/t9g7p6cwRt
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We’re hiring! @sucholutsky and I are seeking a postdoc and RA for a project on trust in AI systems with folks at NYU, Princeton, BU, and Cornell Positions open until filled. Apply soon! Please share 🔁 postdoc: https://t.co/iARVtYrMLN RA:
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Thrilled to announce I’ll be joining @PurdueCS as an Assistant Professor in Fall 2026! My lab will work on AI thought partners, machines that think with people rather than instead of people – I'll be recruiting PhD students this upcoming cycle so reach out & apply if interested!
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Thrilled to see our TinyRNN paper in @nature! We show how tiny RNNs predict choices of individual subjects accurately while staying fully interpretable. This approach can transform how we model cognitive processes in both healthy and disordered decisions.
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Nature - Modelling biological decision-making with tiny recurrent neural networks enables more accurate predictions of animal choices than classical cognitive models and offers insights into the...
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Today we open-sourced a new project for developing behavioral experiments online. It is called Smile. Announcement of v0.1.0: https://t.co/1EsVGYMqRu... Smile has been used internally in my lab for several years and has substantially increased our productivity.
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How do people teach? 🍎🧑🏫 We know mentalizing is important for teaching (eg simulating a learner's mind) but that can take effort 🤔 New work led by @harootonian expands this picture by examining how people also teach with *less effortful heuristics*
🚨 New preprint alert! 🚨 Thrilled to share new research on teaching! Work supervised by @cocosci_lab, @yael_niv, and @mark_ho_. This project asks: When do people teach by mentalizing vs with heuristics? 1/3 https://t.co/EnFTJrlOSz
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🚨 New preprint alert! 🚨 Thrilled to share new research on teaching! Work supervised by @cocosci_lab, @yael_niv, and @mark_ho_. This project asks: When do people teach by mentalizing vs with heuristics? 1/3 https://t.co/EnFTJrlOSz
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Are you considering attending @cogsci_soc this year? Come to our workshop, 'Reasoning Across Minds and Machines', which features an exciting lineup of interdisciplinary research in AI and CogSci about reasoning. The workshop is W2 and visible along with the main conference.
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Really excited for this workshop in August!
🖼️Reminder!! Finding the Frame will be held on August 5 at @RL_Conference at @UAlberta! See you in Edmonton 📰Submit here: https://t.co/u7tMjx4q45 ⌛️Deadline: May 30 🔗More info: https://t.co/bYbIW3QcLz
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🤔 Interested in models of social interaction and computational psychiatry? 🤗 If so, @shawnrhoadsphd and I are seeking a highly motivated and talented postdoc to work on these topics! Please share widely! https://t.co/ybhPJBfSIw
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🚨 @mark_ho_ & I are recruiting a joint postdoc interested in computational models of social interaction & computational psychiatry 💻 Ideal candidates have experience with multi-player web-based experiments & computational cognitive modeling 🔗 https://t.co/c3krmv6c8o
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🤔 Interested in models of social interaction and computational psychiatry? 🤗 If so, @shawnrhoadsphd and I are seeking a highly motivated and talented postdoc to work on these topics! Please share widely! https://t.co/ybhPJBfSIw
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🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
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