I hope so too @Alex_Danvers ! I saw @EikoFried is organizing a workshop. I, myself, teach a course on it for BSc Artificial Intelligence students, but I have had psychology students take it as elective for 10+ years. I'd prefer to make it much more open and accessible, though.https://twitter.com/Alex_Danvers/status/1086314820402536448 …
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Iris van Rooij Retweeted Eiko Fried
Here that announcement:https://twitter.com/EikoFried/status/1086222979506286592 …
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Iris van Rooij Retweeted UCL Psych & Lang Sci
Your mentioning of "math chops" reminded me of common myth that psych students can't program (cf. blog by
@o_guest: https://twitter.com/UCLPALS/status/1072163298194452480 …) I think similarly there's a myth that psych students wouldn't be math savvy enough for formal modeling. I think it just requires training.Iris van Rooij added,
UCL Psych & Lang Sci @UCLPALSWhy can so few women in psychology code? "Because they simply aren't taught how to code!" says Dr Olivia Guest@o_guest from@UCLPALS. Read her latest blog piece on sexism, stereotyping and lack of coding training in psychology education: https://buff.ly/2AlzU2w#PhDchat#PhDlife pic.twitter.com/kAbOhMcn1C4 replies 2 retweets 5 likesShow this thread -
Replying to @IrisVanRooij @o_guest
I think the word formal scares people. IMO, all it really means is that the theory is specified *pretty exactly* using some kind of language or expression. A good cake recipe is also a formal specification. Can you write a recipe? Then you can prob. create a formal model too.
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I mean I agree with the gist for sure, but a specification isn't a recipe. A spec tells you the end result. Like a customer picking which cake they want from the infinite possibilities. A recipe/algo is what the expert cake-maker has to figure out/know to get to the cake/output.
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There's a many to one mapping between spec and algos, see principle of multiple realisability.
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Many algos/recipes can lead to the same end result. The spec constrains the space, but by no means narrows down the recipes/algos that can be used to a unique one. There is no "one true recipe", for example, for brownies or Victoria sponge, or carrot cake, etc.
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Typo because I'm pre coffee: many to one mapping between *algos* and *spec*. I got my word order wrong. 
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Whoops, I shouldn't have used the word specification there, I was tweeting late at night.
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