Context Lab
A motley crew of science nerds trying to understand the inner workings and limits of human memory. Plus some Bayesian stuff...and 🧁. Director: @jeremyrmanning.bsky.social
https://www.context-lab.com
- With our v1.0 release, dream-stream now comes in Android 🤖! context-lab.com/dream-stream...
- I made a quirky little web app to help guide your lucid dreams: context-lab.com/dream-stream/ It's kind of like a "netflix" or "spotify" for lucid dreaming-- you select different narratives to form a playlist, and then it uses your device's microphone to start playing when it detects you're in REM.
- Reposted by Context LabI made a quirky little web app to help guide your lucid dreams: context-lab.com/dream-stream/ It's kind of like a "netflix" or "spotify" for lucid dreaming-- you select different narratives to form a playlist, and then it uses your device's microphone to start playing when it detects you're in REM.
- Reposted by Context LabExcited to be teaching a new undergraduate course on Models of Language and Conversation this term! Check it out here: context-lab.com/llm-course/ I've added lots of fun interactive demos of chatbots and NLP techniques that let students dig into the approaches.
- Remember when grinding leetcode was still a thing? If you'd like to hone your coding skills, or even just return to that simpler time for nostalgia's sake, you might enjoy this project from our group: github.com/ContextLab/l... Happy hacking! 👩💻
- 🚨 New preprint alert! We use trained-from-scratch GPT-2 models to characterize & capture the unique writing styles of individual authors. We also develop a new LLM-based relative stylometric measure. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2510.21958 Code/data: github.com/ContextLab/l... 🤗: huggingface.co/contextlab
- 🤠 New release announcement for our datawrangler package! Try it using: pip install --upgrade pydata-wrangler Lots of awesome performance improvements (including native polars support!), simplified API, support for @hf.co text embeddings, etc. More info here: data-wrangler.readthedocs.org
- We're super excited to announce that we've officially convinced @cgonciulea.bsky.social to join our rag-tag (but VERY classy) team of science nerds this fall as a @dartmouthpbs.bsky.social PhD student 🎉🥳🤓🧠🧑🔬🎓!!
- Reposted by Context LabJust finished a draft of my Models of Memory (grad) course that I'm teaching this spring! Please share/borrow/re-use/follow along as desired, and if you have feedback or suggestions I'd really love to hear (especially while I can still change it)! All materials are here: github.com/ContextLab/m...
- Re-sharing from Xitter-- new paper out in @pnas.org (lead: Lucy Owen)! We show how the informativeness and compressibility of brain activity patterns change under different levels of cognitive engagement: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Lots of neat stuff in there!
- Excited to have this out in @natureportfolio.bsky.social! We found that real & fictional people communicate roughly 1.5x more about the past than the future. In turn, this influences the interferences we make about past & future events in *other* people's lives. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- 🚨 Updated preprint (lead: @xxming.bsky.social) on how inferences about unobserved past/future events are informed by conversations! osf.io/yp2qu/ 🚨 This update includes a new pre-registered replication + meta analysis. We think we've found some neat fundamental properties of human conversation! 🧪🧠
- Now live in SoftwareX! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- Excited to announce the latest release of our "Davos" #python package (v0.2.3)! 🎉🥳 Add Davos to a Jupyter notebook by: - inserting a new cell with this code at the top: %pip install davos import davos - replacing all uses of "import" with "smuggle" More info here: github.com/ContextLab/d...
- Jumping on the "make it more" bandwagon to depict an *extremely* typical day in our lab!
- Aiming for even *more* typicality...
- Can we go higher?
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- Reposted by Context LabImagine Google Colab notebooks that support: ✔️ Automatic dependency installs ✔️ Pinned package versions ✔️ Ability to download/run locally without additional setup "pip install davos" today! Share + vote for "default" Colab integration by clicking the 👍 here: github.com/googlecolab/...
