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Various musings, usually about cognition, teaching, and other stuff, incomplete notes, digital breadcrumbs on scratchpads.

Various musings, usually about cognition, teaching, and other stuff, incomplete notes, digital breadcrumbs on scratchpads.

And now for something completely different: Department Chair

psychology
Very brief comments on the next three years.
May 21, 2024
Matt Crump

Quick notes on my jatos setup

jatos
jspsych
Short set of notes on how I use jatos to serve experiments to the web
Feb 28, 2024
Matt Crump

midiblender: Experiments in genRative MIDI mangling

music cognition
rstats
midiblender
generative music
An experimental R package for MIDI manipulation in R.
Feb 9, 2024
Matt Crump

Musing about music cognition

music cognition
homophony
It’s the beginning of a new semester and i’m thinking about doing more music cognition research this round. Mostly a long ramble.
Jan 18, 2024
Matt Crump

Messing around with Hugging Face’s Stable Diffusion

stable diffusion
generative
art
python
Rstudio
Notes and tests on getting stable diffusion working on my laptop and then seeing what it does to some of my own drawings
Sep 21, 2023
Matt Crump

A simple visual art portfolio website using Quarto

Quarto
portfolio
art
Notes on using Quarto to create a basic portfolio website for pictures using listing pages.
Jul 13, 2023
Matt Crump

Pondering my defaults for Quarto websites and reproducible research projects

Quarto
reproducible research
rstats
Quarto websites are a great way to package and distribute assets from a reproducible research project. I’m just about to start another project, and I’m thinking about issues with how I get started.
Jun 27, 2023
Matt Crump

Adding a giscus comment section?

Blogging
giscus
Testing out adding a giscus comment section to a blog post.
Jun 26, 2023
Matt Crump

Observations on using LLMs for checking grammar, etc.

LLMs
OpenAI
Shiny
Rstats
RStudio
Assisted writing
In recent posts I’ve been making add-ins and a shiny app for writing assistance tools in R Studio, where I do most of my writing. I’m finally starting to get some usable results. Discussing some observations about the process in this post.
Jun 23, 2023
Matt Crump

Scratchpad: Grammar checking Quarto documents with the OpenAI API

This is a scratchpad post. I would like better grammar checking for documents that I write in Rstudio, and I know that I could cobble something together using the OpenAI API. I’m using this post to do the cobbling, which may not result in a working solution. Fingers crossed.
Jun 22, 2023
Matt Crump

Prompts for editing text with GPT

LLMs
Rstats
RStudio
Assisted writing
Testing out some strategies for writing assistant functions from GPT
Jun 21, 2023
Matt Crump

Choose-your-own adventure with ChatGPT

LLMs
Rstats
RStudio
Assisted writing
Me fiddling around with GPT inside Rstudio to write a choose-your-own adventure story.
Jun 20, 2023
Matt Crump

Writing an R tutorial with GPT in RStudio

LLMs
OpenAI
Rstats
RStudio
Assisted writing
I’m testing out the process of writing in RStudio using addins that send prompts and receive generative text from OpenAI.
Jun 8, 2023
Matt Crump

Using GPT for writing in R Studio

LLMs
OpenAI
Rstats
RStudio
I’m spending the morning writing addins for RStudio that interface with the OpenAI API. This should make it possible to integrate GPT as a writing aid inside RStudio.
Jun 7, 2023
Matt Crump

Simulating Stroop effects with ChatGPT

LLMs
Stroop
ChatGPT
This is a short post to determine how easy it would be to simulate performance in a classic human attention task using ChatGPT. The short answer is that it can generate data in the style of a Stroop experiment without too much effort on my part.
Jun 6, 2023
Matt Crump

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
Matt Crump

Testing out creating speech in noise stimuli

stimuli
Quick notes on creating stimuli from Frost, Repp, and Katz, 1988.
Jan 24, 2023
Matt Crump

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
Matt Crump

Testing rtoot and managing alt text for images

mastodon
rtoot
alt text
midjourney
generative art
I’m trying the new rtoot package to interact with mastodon using the API. And, I’m practicing adding alt text to images that I will likely re-use.
Nov 14, 2022
Matt Crump

Generative art (note) collection

generative art
art
Collecting fast notes on using #rstats and potentiall other things to generate visuals.
Nov 10, 2022
Matt Crump

RSS feed my quarto blog

RSS
Seeing what happens if I set up RSS feeds over here.
Nov 10, 2022
Matt Crump

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
Matt Crump

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
Matt Crump

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
Matt Crump

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
Matt Crump

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
Matt Crump

Archiving the journal of knowledge

social
twitter
parody
Attempt to download some previous tweets before deleting an account.
Oct 28, 2022
Matt Crump

A reading list for cognition

cognition
teaching
reading list
Developing a reading list for cognitive psychology to supplement an introductory textbook.
Oct 25, 2022
Matt Crump

Unplanning my next course prep

ungrading
unplanning
teaching
Sunday morning thoughts on not overplanning while prepping a new course.
Oct 16, 2022
Matt Crump

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
Matt Crump

Blogging with Quarto

quarto
Rstats
blogging
August 25th, 2022 - Quick tips on setting up a quarto blog using R Studio.
Aug 25, 2022
Matt Crump

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
Matt Crump

Making fonts

fonts
July 7th, 2022 - Notes on making custom fonts and using them on the web.
Jul 7, 2022
Matt Crump

Writing annotated bibliographies with R Markdown

bibliographies
Rstats
Trying out ways to write annotated bibliographies in R Markdown.
Jun 28, 2022
Matt Crump

Brief notes on the cheating behavior literature

teaching
cognition
Notes on cheating behavior literature
May 26, 2022
Matt Crump

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
Matt Crump

Writing an OER for teaching cognitive psychology: Project development notes

May 24th, 2022 - I’ve been writing an open-educational resource for teaching introductory cognition, and I’m makins some notes to self about where to take the project from here.
May 20, 2022
Matt Crump

Function workshop

Draft post to test functions
May 20, 2022
Matt Crump

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
Matt Crump

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
Matt Crump

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
Matt Crump
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