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Dr Ben Wolfe

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Assistant Professor Psychological and Brain Sciences University of Toronto Mississauga Co-Director, APPLY Lab (www.applylab.org) Least important mammal in his house (just ask the cats). "If vision worked like *that*, we'd all be dead."

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a cartoon character is singing the doom song Alt: a cartoon character is singing the doom song
07.03.2026 02:28 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Saw two of these rolling dumpsters on the way to work today. Just no.

07.03.2026 02:05 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Science version: β€œI’m right, he’s wrong, we’re friends”

07.03.2026 01:56 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The tiny sky raisins!

06.03.2026 21:49 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Oh, that sounds fun

06.03.2026 21:48 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Turns out that if you have a better camera, Teams video still kinda looks like you're being filmed on a potato.

06.03.2026 20:02 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

And my eBay account is the same age, it turns out.

I have a couple forum handles that probably date to 2005 or 2006

06.03.2026 04:00 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I’ve never quit, but it’s nigh-on unusable now.

It’s vaguely a way to keep track of undergrad-era friends.

06.03.2026 03:58 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Probably my Facebook account; 22 years old this year.

Telling students that my Facebook account is older than they are is fun.

06.03.2026 03:55 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I sense Serpentor coming for this property.

06.03.2026 00:37 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Well, *that* is a mailing list I'm happy to sign up to be on. Seems like the sort of book I should have in lab for the trainees.

06.03.2026 00:36 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Given your average Major Sports Stadium, they might be partially digested by dilute beer by the end...

06.03.2026 00:35 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Feral experimental psychologist version: I do this work to learn about the fucking human mind, not about what the regurgitron can puke back at me.

The computational analogy is a toy for students, not a roadmap to understanding how we sense, perceive and act in the world, dammit.

05.03.2026 18:37 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Oh my. I’m reminded of the downtown Marriott in Atlanta, which is a ~50 story tower… with slightly low (by modern standards) railings.

Oh, and glass elevators.

Wasn’t my favourite for HFES.

05.03.2026 16:08 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

"I *am* the angriest four-legged cuisinart"

04.03.2026 22:49 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

DEMON SUMMONER CAT

04.03.2026 21:37 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Brothers would have been my guess

04.03.2026 17:31 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Presumably the same family…

04.03.2026 17:12 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

The real task, outside the lab?

Don’t die.

04.03.2026 03:37 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Just because the information can support a task doesn’t mean it is the information that supports the task

04.03.2026 03:37 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Human representational needs are not computational representational needs, dammit.

04.03.2026 02:27 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Very much in line with my idea that what the driver needs is just enough information to not die!

We don’t care what colour the car in the next lane is…

04.03.2026 02:24 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

My PhD says that they are medically necessary.

04.03.2026 01:50 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Very cool

04.03.2026 01:36 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

...I want the 40k blood donation campaign.

04.03.2026 01:20 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

Yup, I know that tendency.

03.03.2026 23:30 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

My anthological completionist tendencies were sated by accumulating a complete set of the Dozois Year's Best.

Including the first one, which my wife surprised me with as a birthday present the year we became a couple

03.03.2026 23:14 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
A white and tabby cat on her back licking a churu to death, heedless of her dignity

A white and tabby cat on her back licking a churu to death, heedless of her dignity

03.03.2026 17:03 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

You taunt Ozymandias with stick!

You record the Embarrassment of the King of Kings, showing his Floof to the Sky like some sort of mere cat?

03.03.2026 16:54 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

This is an abomination.

03.03.2026 15:07 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0