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            <h1 class='name text-center mb-0'>Josh Rule</h1>
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            <p class="about">I am a postdoctoral scholar with <a href="http://colala.berkeley.edu/people/piantadosi">Steven Piantadosi</a> and <a href="http://alisongopnik.com">Alison Gopnik</a> at <a href="https://berkeley.edu">UC Berkeley</a>. I completed my PhD with <a href="https://cocosci.mit.edu/josh">Josh Tenenbaum</a> at <a href="https://mit.edu">MIT</a> (<a href="files/rule2020child.pdf">thesis</a> &middot; <a href="files/rule2020child.precis.pdf">precis</a>).
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            <p>My research uses behavioral experiments and computational methods to study how people develop conceptual systems and leverage them to accomplish their goals. My work revolves around an idea called <a href="files/rule2020child2.pdf">the child as hacker</a>&mdash;that symbolic programs provide the most compelling account of sophisticated mental representations and that learning is analogous to a particular style of programming called <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_culture">hacking</a>. I want to understand how human programmers write code–the goals, activities, and tools they use to make code better–and apply these insights to better describe learning in children and adults.
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