Photo from the back of a toddler reading a textbook. The chapter is The End Of Therapeutic Schools from Integrative Psychotherapy: A feedback driven dynamic systems approach
This is why professors kids end up weird isn't it
5 thinking
and with that. I am back to the (grade) books.
Inspired by this blog post on overfitting. I'm questioning this "exponential performance" promise I see here and there and densing law. Maybe for some things but not for humor www.rapidcanvas.ai/blogs/the-li...
The surgeon is the boy’s mother.
Most people instinctively picture the surgeon as a man, which makes the story feel like a paradox—when really it’s just exposing our unconscious gender bias about certain jobs.
GPT 5.1-Thinking. We thought we were making progress but then...
The surgeon is the boy’s mother.
(If we take your wording “who is the boy’s father” literally, it also works if the boy has two dads or if the man who died was a stepfather/adoptive father. But the classic answer highlights our bias about surgeons being men.)
GPT 5-Thinking. It took 42 seconds to give the wrong answer and then kind of backtrack?
4o This classic riddle highlights implicit assumptions and unconscious biases. The answer is:
The surgeon is the boy’s mother.
Many people initially struggle with this because of the stereotype that surgeons are men. The riddle is designed to expose and challenge that bias.
...a classic riddle that highlights assumptions about gender roles.The answer is:the surgeon is the boy’s mother.Many people assume the surgeon must be male, but there’s nothing in the riddle that says so!The riddle is meant to make us aware of our unconscious biases about gender and professions.
4.1 So friendly! So wrong!
o3. Chattier but still confidently wrong.
Because the surgeon is the boy’s **mother**.
The riddle plays on the unconscious stereotype that a “surgeon” is automatically male, so many people momentarily overlook the most straightforward explanation.
o4-mini. Real confident. Real wrong.
The surgeon is the boy’s mother.
GRADING INTERLUDE
What does chatGPT think of this? Answers below!
A father and his son are in a car accident. The father dies at the scene, and the son is rushed to the hospital. The surgeon, who is the boy’s father, says: “I can’t operate on this boy; he’s my son!” How is that possible?
Not a bad hall for the first Halloween they could actually request their own candy.
After five years in Baltimore, I am finally watching The Wire
Come work with us! We're really fun, I swear!
In all seriousness, Mason had been a dynamic and wonderful place to work and my CBN colleagues are wonderful 😊
I'm going to say pica or a bet
Many great resources in this list!
Congratulations to all of the 2025 winners, and honored that Data Management in Large-Scale Education Research received one of the 2025 SIPS Commendations!
Spend time on a good outline with plans for your citations and spend time keeping your data organized
Red Bicycle in bike room with floral pannier on rear rack and bag on handle bar
Picture of desk piled with snacks. Floral pannier and bag are mostly empty on the floor
Today marks over 100 miles, 2 lab meetings and two (impressed? Astounded?) trader Joe's employees worth of multimodal bike commuting!
A red circle around the AI regulation ban language reading: IN GENERAL. Except as provided in para graph (2), no eligible entity or political subdivision thereof may enforce, during the 10-year period beginning on the date of enactment of this subsection, any law or regulation of that eligible entity or a political subdivision thereof limiting, restricting, or otherwise regulating artificial intelligence models, artificial intelligence systems, or automated decision systems entered into interstate commerce.
Don’t be confused: The Senate Republican AI language includes the EXACT SAME AI moratorium as the House bill. Almost word-for-word. This is a complete, 10-year ban on state AI regulation. Period.
And then you stick around and keep playing anyway thinking "next time will be better"
You wanna see something really scary? open.substack.com/pub/amandagu...
Thank you for standing up, speaking out, and refusing to look away 🙌❤️
➡️ www.resistancerangers.org/rangers-unce...
So deep in toddler "no" land that I swear they just say no for kicks. "ABCD NoNoNo HIJK..."
Taking March 7 off to fight for my friends, and for the folks I have spent 20 years of my career supporting. Join me in DC or your local event.
📣I am hiring! Looking to hire a research coordinator to start in my lab later this spring/early summer to coordinate a new R01 in which we are aiming to optimize a CBT-based self-guided digital intervention for eating disorders! Apply here: wustl.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern... 1/n
Black History is Black Joy.
Despite efforts to erase, we persist. And so does joy. Today, I stood in front of Black art that reflected our light, resilience, and imagination. From family portraits to bold colors bursting with possibility—we are here.
Joy is our birthright. #joyplan
Going on two years now of shopping baby products and I have been lied to. Many. Times. But the using words "spill proof" has got to be the worst lie Big Baby has told yet.
I am making a brief appearance on social media to declare that I'm so here for Pop-Country Queen Beyonce
