Michael C. Frank
@mcxfrank
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Cognitive scientist at Stanford. Open science advocate. @stanfordsymsys director. Bluegrass picker, slow runner, dad.
Palo Alto, CA
Joined June 2012
Do you want to do a psychology experiment while following best practices in open science? My collaborators and I have created Experimentology, a new open web textbook (to be published by MIT Press but free online forever). https://t.co/mNw33SXfqh Some highlights! 🧵
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Here is our best thinking about how to make world models. I would apologize for it being a massive 40-page behemoth, but it's worth reading.
1/ A good world model should be promptable like an LLM, offering flexible control and zero-shot answers to many questions. Language models have benefited greatly from this fact, but it's been slow to come to vision. We introduce PSI: a path to truly interactive visual world
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Thrilled to share that our new study is now published Open Access in the International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders! @ijlcd @RCSLT Over the past two years, the Faseeh research team @Faseeh_10k and I had the pleasure of working with @mcxfrank to develop a tool
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Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science launches Thematic Collections. #OECS is a free, open access resource for learning about the mind. Looking for great material to teach or just to dig into yourself? Start here. Ping us if you have ideas for more! https://t.co/CNWnRCQuGt
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A key hypothesis in the history of linguistics is that different constructions share underlying structure. We take advantage of recent advances in mechanistic interpretability to test this hypothesis in Language Models. New work with @kmahowald and @ChrisGPotts! 🧵👇
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Please feel free to contact me by email (mcfrank at stanford) with questions or application materials. Applications will be processed on a rolling basis; start date is flexible but the ideal would be June - September 2025.
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We're still accepting apps for our research scientist position with LEVANTE ( https://t.co/8ACPe8bj0c). This position is ideal for folks wanting to interface between a scientific project and an awesome team of software developers. A technical product manager, but for science!
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1. Does research by @CaraOcobock @Anthrofuentes & others, widely reported in SciAm & elsewhere, finally dispel hunter-gatherer myths that have persisted since the 60's? In a preprint led by @vivek_vasi The Meanings&Dividends of Man the Hunter https://t.co/i9COcZoZZN we respond🧵
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AI models are fascinating, impressive, and sometimes problematic. But what can they tell us about the human mind? In a new review paper, @noahdgoodman and I discuss how modern AI can be used for cognitive modeling: https://t.co/DIIDDc3vjG
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