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Articulating the ineffable. Programming language theory 🤝 cognitive psychology. PhD @Stanford

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    1. Will Crichton‏ @wcrichton 16 Dec 2020

      Will Crichton Retweeted MIT CSAIL

      Like all neuro studies, you need to understand the method to couch the findings. This study was done on code snippets that had no meaningful structure or variable names -- fine, but don't generalize this to "coding". See the stimuli for yourself: https://github.com/ALFA-group/neural-program-comprehension/blob/master/stimuli/Python/en.py …https://twitter.com/MIT_CSAIL/status/1338957032695717893 …

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      MIT study: reading code activates a much wider range of the FPN brain region used for complex tasks like solving math problems. Coding is "not the same as language, or math & logic. It seems to be its own thing." Paper: http://bit.ly/CodersBrain  More: http://bit.ly/CodersBrain1  pic.twitter.com/nQQXS1a55z
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    2. Shashank Srikant‏ @ShashankSrikant 16 Dec 2020
      Replying to @wcrichton

      That should've read "Understanding code seems to be its own thing", which is what's mentioned in the blog it links to. Incorrectly paraphrased.

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    3. Will Crichton‏ @wcrichton 16 Dec 2020
      Replying to @ShashankSrikant

      My issue is less with the task (comprehension vs authoring) and more with the scope of the domain. People will read this and think "this is true for programming in general". But it's not clear that cognition for these snippets == cognition for standard programming tasks.

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      Will Crichton‏ @wcrichton 16 Dec 2020
      Replying to @wcrichton @ShashankSrikant

      Will Crichton Retweeted Will Crichton

      This isn't a criticism of your paper (the experiment is great!), but about the scientific communication of its results. I see a lot of overstatements in discussions about PL/HCI/cogsci, eghttps://twitter.com/wcrichton/status/1274407812144095233 …

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      Will Crichton @wcrichton
      PLDI needs to start taking HCI evaluation seriously. Example: paper claims its PL has "intuitive semantics" (https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3385412.3386007 …). Press release claims "the first intuitive programming language for quantum computers" (https://ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/eth-news/news/2020/06/the-first-intuitive-programming-language-for-quantum-computers.html …). Let's see the proof.
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        1. Shashank Srikant‏ @ShashankSrikant 16 Dec 2020
          Replying to @wcrichton

          ah, didn't read this before before my recent response. I agree w your larger argument.

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