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Writing on GPUs, LLMs, MLOps, Kubernetes — and mindset · 5 posts
How the Stanford Prison Experiment Fell Apart — What the Archives Revealed
The 1971 prison experiment run by Philip Zimbardo entered textbooks and feature films as the story of ordinary students who became brutal guards in six days. Yet the original data appeared not in a top-tier journal but i
2026-07-26 · 9 min read #psychology#paper-review#social-psychology#replication#research-ethicsThe Experiment Where One Dollar Beat Twenty — Cognitive Dissonance and Sixty Years of Rebuttal
Participants were made to do a deliberately boring task, then asked to lie about it. One group was paid one dollar, the other twenty dollars. The people who later rated the task as more enjoyable were the ones who had be
2026-07-26 · 13 min read #psychology#paper-review#social-psychology#decision-making#mindsetThe Milgram Obedience Experiment Reexamined — the Other Side of That 65 Percent
The Milgram experiment, begun at Yale in 1961, has been summarized in one sentence for decades: 65 percent of participants went all the way to the maximum voltage. But that figure is the value from one of some 24 variati
2026-07-26 · 11 min read #psychology#paper-review#social-psychology#obedience#research-ethicsThe 38 Were Never There — The Myth of the Bystander Effect and the Real Experiment
The 1964 New York Times article reporting that 38 neighbors merely watched while Kitty Genovese was murdered gave birth to the concept of the bystander effect. Then a 2007 review in American Psychologist established that
2026-07-26 · 12 min read #psychology#paper-review#social-psychology#ethics#communicationCrowd Psychology — How We Change Inside the Multitude
Are we really the same person alone as we are in a crowd? Starting from Le Bon's classic theory and moving through the conformity and obedience experiments, the bystander effect, groupthink, and online crowds, we take a
2026-06-21 · 56 min read #culture#psychology#crowd#conformity#sociology