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Various musings from Matt Crump, usually about cognition, teaching, and other stuff. Posts are incomplete notes spreading digital breadcrumbs on scratchpads.

Notes for my students on using ChatGPT

ChatGPT
LLMs

I’m teaching a class on the people of NYC, and these are some notes that I made for students about ChatGPT.
Feb 18, 2023
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Two new courses and getting into the swing with spring

RSS

Writing for personal motivation and organization around teaching this coming Spring semester. Odd notes about process. A narrative form to-do list. For me, sharing for fun.
Jan 12, 2023
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Generative art (note) collection

generative art
art

Collecting fast notes on using #rstats and potentiall other things to generate visuals.
Nov 10, 2022
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RSS feed my quarto blog

RSS

Seeing what happens if I set up RSS feeds over here.
Nov 10, 2022
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Convincing myself to run a Funkwhale pod

funkwhale
activitypub
audio
music

Funkwhale is an audio platform thing that supports activitypub. Collecting notes about it.
Nov 9, 2022
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Debriefing my mastodon migration

social
mastodon

It’s been a wild ride on social media over the past week. I need some thought collection.
Nov 7, 2022
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Spinning up a mastodon instance with masto.host: First try and notes

social
mastodon

I decided to try mastodon from inside my own instance, and this is brief guide to what I did and the questions I still have.
Nov 1, 2022
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Mastodon migration and getting off twitter?

social
twitter
mastodon

Trying out Mastodon this weekend and attempting to migrate between instances using an R package.
Oct 30, 2022
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What if I made an R command center for tweeting and tooting?

social
twitter
mastodon

Messing around with stuff in R on a friday Morning
Oct 28, 2022
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Archiving the journal of knowledge

social
twitter
parody

Attempt to download some previous tweets before deleting an account.
Oct 28, 2022
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A reading list for cognition

cognition
teaching
reading list

Developing a reading list for cognitive psychology to supplement an introductory textbook.
Oct 25, 2022
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Unplanning my next course prep

ungrading
unplanning
teaching

Sunday morning thoughts on not overplanning while prepping a new course.
Oct 16, 2022
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Quarto as a tool for reproducible research projects in psychology

quarto
Rstats
vertical
Reproducible research

Some initial reactions to using quarto as a platform for creating and communicating reproducible research projects in psychology.
Oct 14, 2022
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Blogging with Quarto

quarto
Rstats
blogging

August 25th, 2022 - Quick tips on setting up a quarto blog using R Studio.
Aug 25, 2022
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Getting back into the groove and teaching cognition

teaching
cognition
OER

It’s been summer time and another semester begins in a couple days. I’m blogging to get words flowing as I polish my syllabus and reflect on goals for this academic year.
Aug 23, 2022
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Making fonts

fonts

July 7th, 2022 - Notes on making custom fonts and using them on the web.
Jul 7, 2022
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A reading list on eugenics

eugenics

This is an annotated bibliography for books I am reading on eugenics and its connections to psychology and society.
Jun 28, 2022
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Writing annotated bibliographies with R Markdown

bibliographies
Rstats

Trying out ways to write annotated bibliographies in R Markdown.
Jun 28, 2022
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Brief notes on the cheating behavior literature

teaching
cognition

Notes on cheating behavior literature
May 26, 2022
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Teaching with multiple warp zones: Increasing engagement with assignment choice

teaching
cognition

Some thoughts on how I implemented loads of assignment choice in my intro to cognition course this semester.
May 20, 2022
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Blogging with pkgdown?

Rstats
pkgdown
blogging

An attempt to blog with pkgdown, including notes to self about how I did this. It was succesful enough that I’m using pkgdown for this blog.
May 17, 2022
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Customizing a publication list with R Markdown

Rstats
publication list

Notes on creating a customizable list of publications for an academic website using R markdown, .bib files, and other fun stuff.
May 17, 2022
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Learning to code for Ornament and Crime Hemisphere suite

Some notes on coding for the open-source eurorack module called Ornament and Crime
Jul 28, 2020
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Psychology and Eugenics connections

eugenics
psychology

Making notes and connecting dots about the pervasiveness of eugenics ideology among psychologists
Jul 13, 2020
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The Eugenic Mind Project

eugenics

I’m reading the Eugenic Mind Project by R. A. Wilson, and making notes here.
Jul 7, 2020
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Reading the Journal of Black Psychology

black psychology
ABPsi

Reading the Journal of Black Psychology from the beginning, and writing about it here.
Jul 2, 2020
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