August 31, 2026
Talk on L2 shiritori at the Japanese Cognitive Science Society
Joe presents joint work on second-language shiritori at the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Japanese Cognitive Science Society, with Jumpei Nishikawa and Junya Morita.
The Computational Mind Lab
How do minds build models of the world — and how can machines help us understand them?
Recent News
August 30, 2026
New paper on cost-aware LLM diagnosis at DAIH (COLM 2026)
A hybrid LLM–Bayesian framework for cost-aware sequential diagnosis, with collaborators at Gaudiy Inc., was accepted at the Deploying AI in Healthcare workshop at COLM 2026.
August 26, 2026
Released: Grade it like an audit
A grading tool whose purpose is feedback, now installable. It proposes grades, but every point deducted names an issue and cites a source — and in fourteen audit rounds no finding has ever changed one.
August 7, 2026
Congratulations to Dr. Michael Payton!
Michael Payton passed his dissertation defense on "A Computational Framework for Perseverative Thought."
July 16, 2026
Upcoming: Make It So Camp, August 24–25 in Tokyo
A two-day working session on directing AI — for practitioners whose expertise isn't software engineering. Co-organized by Joe with Noah Raford and Igor Schwarzmann.