Andy Wills

Hi, I'm Andy J. Wills, Ph.D. (he/him) and a Professor of Psychology at the School of Psychology , University of Plymouth, United Kingdom. I have researched cognitive processes in biological intelligences (mostly humans), and taught psychology to undergraduates, for 30 years.

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Take back control

Posted on June 25, 2021

Having recently acquired a ‘regular’ Android phone, after several years either without a smart phone or with a de-Googled one (that’s a whole other story…) I got a slice of the default behaviour of these devices. Push notifications - constantly. I had a BlackBerry a decade ago - the device... [Read More]

Tags: software

Parameter Space Partitioning

Global model analysis

Posted on June 23, 2021

Lenard Dome, currently a graduate student in my lab, has just released an R package for parameter space partitioning onto CRAN (psp). I helped a little bit. But, what is parameter space partitoning? [Read More]

Tags: software

Myrakaru - Tammetoru

Drift into the horizon with precision melodies...

Posted on June 19, 2021

Today, I’m listening to Myrakaru’s excellent Tammetoru - again. From 2004, it’s an ambient, downtempo, somewhat glitch-based electronic instrumental album. Beautiful and relaxing, I think I must have listened to this while working more than 100 times over the years. I’ve always assumed, on no particular basis, that Myrakaru was... [Read More]

Tags: music

Paying for free stuff

Business models in a post-scarcity digital world

Posted on June 2, 2021

Just got my Patreon invoice for June, which reminds me to blog briefly about patronage as one business model when what is being produced is digital, and hence has basically zero marginal cost per additional consumer. Patreon is a system for making regular (monthly) payments to creators you want to... [Read More]

Tags: open culture

Invisible women

The gender data gap

Posted on May 30, 2021

I came across this 2019 book in a second hand bookstore in Salisbury in the summer of 2020, and rediscovered it on my home office bookshelf a month or so back. Written by Caroline Criado Perez it’s an accessible and scholarly list of the very many ways in which the... [Read More]

Tags: books