timothy331

9 anni fadiscuss

http://probmods.org/ is a textbook written by Noah Goodman (author of this post & library and Prof at Stanford) that teaches about cognition using probabilistic programming. It is pretty readable but centered more on cognition than the programming aspect.

timothy331

12 anni fadiscuss

Indeed. In fact, it seems like the Pacific Northwest is a pretty solid choice, as is the Bay Area, although maybe the NY Times isn't properly weighting the relative risk of very bad earthquakes:

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/05/01/weekinreview/0...

timothy331

14 anni fadiscuss

The results from the article -- that you are faster at recognizing across-category changes than within-category changes -- also hold for Russian speakers and the two blues. See:

Winawer, J., Witthoft, N., Frank, M. C., Wu, L., Wade, A., & Boroditsky, L. (2007). The Russian blues: Effects of language on color discrimination. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 108, 7780-7785.

Moreover, if you make people do a verbal task at the same time -- say, repeating a word aloud -- it makes this effect go away; but having people do a spatial task at the same time doesn't.

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