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---
layout: default
title: home
---
<div>
<h1 class='name text-left mb-0'>Josh Rule</h1>
<p class="links m-0">
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</p>
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<p class="m-0">
I love Jesus and am working to become who he wants me to be. You
can learn more about what that looks like by exploring below.
</p>
<div>
<details>
<summary>Family</summary>
<p>
My love for Jesus has probably grown more through loving and
serving my family than through any other single thing I've done.
Other people are pretty good at showing you far you have to go
in learning to love. By loving my wife, son, + daughter, and
helping them love Jesus and love others, I learn more about
Jesus and what he wants for me.
</p>
</details>
<details>
<summary>Church</summary>
<p>
As an adult, I've been deeply involved with two amazing
churches: <a href="https://aletheia.org" title="Truth, Grace,
Change">Aletheia Church</a> in Cambridge, MA (and now three
other locations!) and <a href="https://nccoakland.org"
title="God ♥ Oakland">New City Church</a> in Oakland, CA.
</p>
<p>
My family's recently moved to Chicago's North Shore, so if
you have any good church recommendations, don't hesistate to
share!
</p>
</details>
<details>
<summary>Science</summary>
<p>
From 2010–2024, I studied computational neuroscience
and computational cognitive science, working with <a
href="https://cne.georgetown.edu/maxlab/" alt="Max
Riesenhuber">some</a> <a href="https://cocosci.mit.edu/josh"
alt="Josh Tenenbaum">really</a> <a
href="http://colala.berkeley.edu/people/piantadosi"
alt="Steve Piantadosi">great</a> <a
href="http://alisongopnik.com" alt="Alison
Gopnik">people</a>. My research, including my <a
href="files/rule2020child.pdf">PHD work</a> (<a
href="files/rule2020child.precis.pdf">tl;dr</a>), used
behavioral experiments and computational methods to study
how people develop conceptual systems and leverage them to
accomplish their goals. My main interest was an idea called
<a href="files/rule2020child2.pdf">the child as
hacker</a>—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 wanted 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. You can find the most significant
work below (a more complete list is on <a
href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=Hfe_zNAAAAAJ">Google
Scholar</a>)—data and code are available upon request.
</p>
{% bibliography %}
</details>
<details>
<summary>Real Estate</summary>
<p>
My wife and I recently purchased our first home and are
using it as an opportunity to <a
href="https://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2020/10/23/house-hacking/"
title="intro to house hacking">house hack</a>. We're
planning to build and live in an ADU while renting out our
main house, as a way to lower our expenses and give more
money away. It's ridiculously cheap to do good in the
world—you can save approximately two years of human
life for the cost of a year of Netflix. The possible return
on investment in terms of lives saved and improved is so
much higher than we'd get by spending more on ourselves.
</p>
</details>
<details>
<summary>Hiking</summary>
<p>
I've backpacked the 272mi Long Trail in Vermont, the 215mi
John Muir Trail in California, ~200mi of the Superior Hiking
Trail in Minnesota, the 110mi West Highland Way in Scotland,
and hundreds of miles of other trails throughout the US. I
have thousands more on my list.
</p>
<p>
At home, I also typically walk 70,000–100,000
steps/wk. I use it as an opportunity to explore the area
around my home. While living in the East Bay, I walked 100%
of the street in Piedmont, CA, and about 18% of the streets
in Oakland, CA. I'm starting over now that we've moved to
IL. I tracking my progress with <a
href="https://citystrides.com">City Strides</a>.
</p>
<p>
strength train a few days each week using basic bodyweight movements, like: pushups, pullups, dips, rows, pistol squats, calf raises, and L-sits.
</p>
</details>
<details>
<summary>Making</summary>
<p class="mb-0">
I enjoy making things, physically and digitally. I haven't
posted much of it to the web, but here are some of the
things I've made:
</p>
<ul>
<li>I built a fixed-gear commuter bike from parts</li>
<li>I built a wooden storage bench with my son for his room</li>
<li>I've sewn an ultralight tarp, net-tent, and a variety of pouches and stuff sacks.</li>
<li>I've contributed to rust libraries for <a href="https://github.com/lorepozo/polytype-rs">Hindley-Milner type inference</a>, <a href="https://github.com/joshrule/term-rewriting-rs">term rewriting</a>, and <a href="https://github.com/joshrule/program-induction">program induction</a>.</li>
<li>I've made <a href="https://github.com/joshrule/joshrule.github.com">this website</a> 😲</li>
</ul>
<p>
Right now, my two major maker outlets are:
</p>
<ul>
<li>building my sewing confidence, with the end of goal of sewing my own backpacks and clothing</li>
<li>revamping this website and using it to explore digital gardens / tools-for-thought</li>
</ul>
</details>
<details>
<summary>Writing</summary>
<p>
I like to write about more than science. You can find some of that other writing here:
</p>
<ul>
{% for post in site.posts %}
<li>
<a href="{{ post.url }}">{{ post.title }}</a>
</li>
{% endfor %}
</ul>
</details>
<details>
<summary>Reading</summary>
<p>
I read about 80 books/yr and usually have both a fiction and
a non-fiction book going simultaneously.
</p>
<p>
I've studied the Bible more deeply than any other book and
use <a href="https://beeminder.com">Beeminder</a> to ensure
that I study it for a few hours each week. Right now, I'm
working to finish all of the <a
href="https://bibleproject.com/classroom/home"
title="Seminary-level Bible teaching for free">Bible Project
Classes</a>—I have 2.8 left. I recommend starting with
<em>Art of Biblical Words</em> and <em>Introduction to the
Hebrew Bible</em>, and then the Genesis 1–11 sequence.
</p>
</details>
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