Francisco M. López

PhD Candidate in Developmental AI
Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies

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How to play

Strands is part of the New York Times games suite. To play, you need to find the secret words in a grid of letters. Each grid follows a theme from a paper. I recommend reading the papers for clues.

I create the grids using Strandstudio maker, but the implementation of the game is my own. Feel free to use it in your website.
How to play strands


Grids

Click the titles below to play.


Kauffmann et al. (2024, Nature Machine Intelligence) Explaniable AI reveals Clever Hans effects in unsupervised learning models


López & Triesch (2025, ESANN) Hierarchical Residuals Exploit Brain-Inspired Compositionality


López et al. (2024, IMOL @ NeurIPS) Prioritizing Compression Explains Human Perceptual Preferences


López & Pomi (2024, Cognitive Neurodynamics) Inhibitory dynamics in dual-route evidence accumulation account for response time distributions from conflict tasks


Mattern et al. (2022, ICDL) MIMo: A Multi-Modal Infant Model for Studying Cognitive Development in Humans and AIs