More psychologists need to learn python
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Argues that programming makes psychological processes concrete by implementing a from scratch agent-based model in Python and IPython Notebook that simulates simple cognition as survival through information processing and reproduces dynamics like population collapse and recovery the model even shows a measured about 40% drop in cognitive performance at off‑peak circadian times code is profiled and optimized uses SciPy and an HTML updating frame for live visualization and the notebook is reproducible on GitHub
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Introduction
- 3:52Academic transition
- 6:45Python for psychology
- 11:20Thought experiments
- 17:05Live simulation
- 22:30Q&A
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