The bouba–kiki effect or takete–maluma phenomenon is a non-arbitrary mental association between certain speech sounds and certain visual shapes. The most typical research finding is that people, when presented with nonsense words, tend to associate certain "soft" sounds with a rounded shape and other "hard" sounds with a spiky shape. Its discovery dates back to the 1920s, when psychologists documented experimental participants as connecting nonsense words to shapes in consistent ways.
The Illusion of Clarity • Ness Labs
The illusion of clarity is the confident feeling that you understand something, when in reality your grasp is full of gaps you’ve never noticed.
A foundation model of vision, audition, and language for in-silico neuroscience | Research - AI at Meta
Cognitive neuroscience is fragmented into specialized models, each tailored to specific experimental paradigms, hence preventing a unified model of...
Special Dyslexia Fonts Are Based on Voodoo Pseudoscience
Link to: https://www.edutopia.org/article/do-dyslexia-fonts-actually-work
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Money Illusion
Abstract. The term “money illusion” refers to a tendency to think in terms of nominal rather than real monetary values. Money illusion has significant impl
Cuelume. Interaction sounds for the web
Cuelume is a tiny, dependency-free library of carefully designed interaction sounds, synthesized live with Web Audio.
Cuelume. Interaction sounds for the web
Cuelume is a tiny, dependency-free library of carefully designed interaction sounds, synthesized live with Web Audio.
The Waluigi Effect (mega-post) — LessWrong
Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual’s conscious life, the blacker and denser it is. — Carl Jung …
Effects in Rust (and Koka)
What is an effect system? According to Wikipedia, it is a formal system that describes the computational effects of computer programs, such as side effects. It is also an extension of a type system, and allows you to statically verify that your program is sound with regard to effects.
Matt Darling (@besttrousers)
“Darling’s thesis is the first compelling explanation I’ve seen for the vibecession…What surprises me, though, is how comparatively little attention this theory has gotten”. I am being silenced.
Hallucination is Inevitable: An Innate Limitation of Large Language Models
Hallucination has been widely recognized to be a significant drawback for large language models (LLMs). There have been many works that attempt to reduce the extent of hallucination. These efforts...
