Joachim Vandekerckhove 🏖️
@joachim.cidlab.com
Professor of #CogSci and #Stats @UCIrvine; Pursuer of Lofty Undertakings; Purveyor of Articles Odd and Quaint; and Protector of the Realm. #blm #trahr he/him
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I just created a series of seven deep-dive videos about AI, which I've posted to youtube and now here. 😊
Targeted to laypeople, they explore how LLMs work, what they can do, and what impacts they have on learning, well-being, disinformation, the workplace, the economy, and the environment.
Targeted to laypeople, they explore how LLMs work, what they can do, and what impacts they have on learning, well-being, disinformation, the workplace, the economy, and the environment.
Part 1: How do LLMs work?
YouTube video by Andrew Perfors
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January 22, 2026 at 12:45 AM
I just created a series of seven deep-dive videos about AI, which I've posted to youtube and now here. 😊
Targeted to laypeople, they explore how LLMs work, what they can do, and what impacts they have on learning, well-being, disinformation, the workplace, the economy, and the environment.
Targeted to laypeople, they explore how LLMs work, what they can do, and what impacts they have on learning, well-being, disinformation, the workplace, the economy, and the environment.
The only point I lost in my 11th grade English final was on "A princess is never [to hang]," because my teacher was a pedant about this and I had a 16 year old's sense of humor
The past-tense of the punishment is "hanged" which avoids making people think about dicks, but your point is well-taken.
January 21, 2026 at 10:12 PM
The only point I lost in my 11th grade English final was on "A princess is never [to hang]," because my teacher was a pedant about this and I had a 16 year old's sense of humor
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“Coding for humans: Best practices for writing software people can read”
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“Coding for humans: Best practices for writing software people can read” | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
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January 17, 2026 at 2:33 PM
“Coding for humans: Best practices for writing software people can read”
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Law profs—share this with your 1Ls. This is the kind of thing that gives them hope and a reason to feel line there is still a reason to study law and develop legal writing skills.
At one point today, there were 283 Minnesota attorneys doing a training on how to file emergency habeas petitions to keep our neighbors from being shipped out of state and held indefinitely.
That would be the second largest law firm in the state. And that training was just put together this week.
That would be the second largest law firm in the state. And that training was just put together this week.
January 16, 2026 at 12:09 AM
Law profs—share this with your 1Ls. This is the kind of thing that gives them hope and a reason to feel line there is still a reason to study law and develop legal writing skills.
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super excited to share my preprint with @meganakpeters.bsky.social stimulus familiarity shapes hierarchical structure learning and metacognitive dynamics🚀😊!!
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January 15, 2026 at 3:07 AM
super excited to share my preprint with @meganakpeters.bsky.social stimulus familiarity shapes hierarchical structure learning and metacognitive dynamics🚀😊!!
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See, this... this is what it was all for
"Professor suspended after Japanese university finds fishy results in sushi paper" retractionwatch.com/2026/01/12/p...
Professor suspended after Japanese university finds fishy results in sushi paper
Iwate University A university in Japan has suspended a fishery science professor for a month after its investigation found fabrication in a retracted paper on fish freezing. According to the …
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January 13, 2026 at 8:16 PM
See, this... this is what it was all for
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This is a big deal for speeding up clinical trials, and for pediatric use after adult trials have proved successful. The @USFDA goes Bayesian.
A win for #IBD patients, and especially for kids with #IBD. @crohnsandcolitisau.bsky.social @f2harrell.bsky.social
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A win for #IBD patients, and especially for kids with #IBD. @crohnsandcolitisau.bsky.social @f2harrell.bsky.social
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FDA Issues Guidance on Modernizing Statistical Methods for Clinical Trials
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today published draft guidance designed to facilitate the use of Bayesian methodologies in clinical trials of drugs and biologics, helping drug developers make be...
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January 13, 2026 at 12:26 PM
This is a big deal for speeding up clinical trials, and for pediatric use after adult trials have proved successful. The @USFDA goes Bayesian.
A win for #IBD patients, and especially for kids with #IBD. @crohnsandcolitisau.bsky.social @f2harrell.bsky.social
www.fda.gov/news-events/...
A win for #IBD patients, and especially for kids with #IBD. @crohnsandcolitisau.bsky.social @f2harrell.bsky.social
www.fda.gov/news-events/...
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Our explainer ``Pattern scaling: How local warming is related to global warming: An explainer,’’ with @andrewgarrett.bsky.social & David Stephenson, just published in Significance: academic.oup.com/jrssig/artic...
Pattern scaling: How local warming is related to global warming: An explainer
Abstract. In the fourth of an occasional series of explainers on the statistics and data underpinning our understanding of climate change, Adrian E. Rafter
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January 12, 2026 at 6:24 PM
Our explainer ``Pattern scaling: How local warming is related to global warming: An explainer,’’ with @andrewgarrett.bsky.social & David Stephenson, just published in Significance: academic.oup.com/jrssig/artic...
One thing about the American health care system is that you end up learning which ailments go away on their own and which get worse
January 12, 2026 at 5:50 PM
One thing about the American health care system is that you end up learning which ailments go away on their own and which get worse
In the beginning, there was the word. And the word was "import numpy as np"
January 9, 2026 at 10:29 PM
In the beginning, there was the word. And the word was "import numpy as np"
"Load bearing friction" is a great phrase. Reminds me of an Elsevier editor who complained that the reduction of submission formatting requirements did nothing but increase the desk reject rate
Wrote a summary of a great keynote by @zey.bsky.social at NeurIPS, arguing that we’re having the wrong nightmares about AI: not AGI or superhuman benchmarks, but good-enough genAI at scale threatens "load bearing frictions" society relies on to signal effort, authenticity, sincerity, credibility.
Zeynep Tufecki on having the wrong nightmares about generative AI
I was writing a blog post where I was going to reference Zeynep Tufecki’s 2025 NeurIPS keynote, and realized there isn’t a solid synopsis online.
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January 9, 2026 at 5:46 PM
"Load bearing friction" is a great phrase. Reminds me of an Elsevier editor who complained that the reduction of submission formatting requirements did nothing but increase the desk reject rate
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Martin Peterson's creative response to being banned from teaching Plato (shared with his permission).
January 8, 2026 at 5:38 PM
Martin Peterson's creative response to being banned from teaching Plato (shared with his permission).
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Abstract submission are open for the MathPsych/ICCM 2026 conference in Montreal July 17 to 21, 2026 mathpsych.org/conference/23/ The submission deadline is February 28!
January 8, 2026 at 4:36 PM
Abstract submission are open for the MathPsych/ICCM 2026 conference in Montreal July 17 to 21, 2026 mathpsych.org/conference/23/ The submission deadline is February 28!
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One day I'm going to take apart my dryer and there's going to be a stack of laser pointers behind the drum
January 7, 2026 at 8:12 PM
One day I'm going to take apart my dryer and there's going to be a stack of laser pointers behind the drum
The Republic, if you can keep it
From an email to one of our faculty members....
Not even Plato can escape censorship at Texas A&M!
Not even Plato can escape censorship at Texas A&M!
January 6, 2026 at 9:26 PM
The Republic, if you can keep it
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real-life Necker cubes - can you see them?
January 5, 2026 at 1:23 PM
real-life Necker cubes - can you see them?
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As a counterpropaganda inoculation technique, this has to be a little bit effective? | Birmingham revellers turn out for non-existent fireworks – for second new year in a row
Birmingham revellers turn out for non-existent fireworks – for second new year in a row
Hundreds of people gather in Centenary Square to see in 2026 after false claims online promise ‘dazzling’ display
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January 1, 2026 at 8:55 PM
As a counterpropaganda inoculation technique, this has to be a little bit effective? | Birmingham revellers turn out for non-existent fireworks – for second new year in a row
I don't really know this tradition but can I ask the lemon pig to bless my year with RAM
January 1, 2026 at 7:54 AM
I don't really know this tradition but can I ask the lemon pig to bless my year with RAM
See, when *I* interrupt people, it's to move the conversation along. When people interrupt *me*, they don't go to heaven
People (Americans?) often criticize people who interrupt while someone else is speaking. But interruptions are used within the system of turn-taking, and their use is a social norm that varies across cultures. Hence the criticism may be a subtle form of discrimination.
December 27, 2025 at 9:51 AM
See, when *I* interrupt people, it's to move the conversation along. When people interrupt *me*, they don't go to heaven
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