Archive for May, 2003
03-05-30
Tags: Instant PoodleAttribution in the wired world I use that image in a slide […]
Below is the cover of a magazine I bought a few years ago in Changsha, Hunan. It’s a good example of malicious translation (the Chinese title means something like “Weekend Literature Collection” or more colloquially, “Readers Digest”, although that name might be taken).
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03-05-30
Tags: Main: XmlRpcToWiki
Exposes an API via XmlRpc on a wiki to allow programatic inspection, retrieval, and modification of its contents. Possibly supports a WikiInterchangeFormat for a common treatment of ?WikiMarkup between wikis. See: JSPWiki:WikiRPCInterface (where it all started)
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03-05-30
Tags: David Carter-Tod: XML-RPC
This is the home page for the developing versions of XML-RPC for ASP — currently at 1.0b2. Improvements at this stage include, a much simpler server side.
There is both a client and a server. Once it’s cleaned up and tested, I plan to put the code for both into a DLL which will […]
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03-05-30
Tags: PROGRAMMATIC INTERFACESIf I can access MT from OpenWiki, and get contents of a particular MT post, then I can link the two systems. For exmaple, I can include a MT post in my OpenWiki page.
metaWeblog.getPostDescription: Returns information about a specific post.
Parameters: String postid, String username, String password
Return value: on success, struct containing String userid, ISO.8601 […]
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03-05-29
Tags: DVDplusRW.org - DVD Recorder PC Drives Format ComparisonFor data recording Feature Lossless linking / replace sectors DVD+VR support (Edit DVD-Video directly on-disc) Build-in defect management Addressing during recording Minimal writing speed Background formatting Optional Mt. Rainier (EasyWrite) support Optional CAV support Feature Divide title afterwards (manual making of titles) Manually add chapters afterwards Hide chapters […]
Comparison table
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Comparison tables
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03-05-29
Tags: Yahoo! Groups : yagehechang Voices from the East, An international choir specialized in Chinese classic and modern songs
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03-05-29
Tags: Brain & Vision Lab at the University of Rochester > HOME Daphne Bavelier Discussions of neuro-cognitive development have long been dominated (and stifled) by the ‘nature-nurture’ debate. Although […]
Daphne Bavelier recently made news on NY Times for her discovery that first person shooter games improve kids’ visual skills.
VITAL STATS:Phone: 585-275-0695Office: Meliora 404E-mail: daphne@bcs.rochester.edu
See Curriculum vitae for more information
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03-05-29
Tags: HoustonChronicle.comMay 29, 2003, 7:43AM And now, the news that every parent dreads.
‘Shooter’ games could give kids better visual skills, study shows By SANDRA BLAKESLEE New York Times
Researchers are reporting today that first-person-shooter video games — the kind that require players to kill or maim enemies or monsters that pop out of nowhere — sharply improve […]
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03-05-27
Tags: Andrew T. Duchowski Andrew T. DuchowskiAssociate ProfessorComputer ScienceClemson University
Clemson SC, 29634-0974tel: (864) 656-7677fax: (864) 656-0145 andrewd@cs.clemson.edu
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03-05-27
Tags: INTRODUCTION
International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial IntelligenceVol. 15, No. 1 (2001) 5-7 World Scientific Publishing Company
International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial IntelligenceVol. 15, No. 1 (2001) 5-7 World Scientific Publishing Company
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03-05-26
Tags: Yage
Ayahuasca, shamanism, and curanderismo in the Andes
Written by Steve Mizrach
INTRODUCTION
The term ayahuasca comes from the Quechua, meaning literally “the vine of souls,” although it is also called “the visionary vine” or the “vine of death.” The folk term refers to the botanical species of liana known as Banisteriopsis Caapi , which is also known […]
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03-05-25
Tags: Taking the shutterbug out of the picture | CNET News.com
Casual capture is HP’s term for a method of taking snapshots that involves a minimum of effort on the part of the photographer. Ideally, the consumer could don an always-on, wearable camera, visit an event such as a party, and afterwards find that the camera had […]
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03-05-25
Tags: HP sends bots to the boardroom | CNET News.com
Mechanical engineer Stan Thomas said that when he joined the team, he noticed that people spent more time looking at the robot’s shiny metal parts than at the video screen that’s displaying their co-worker. Thomas helped redesign the device to have a more human-looking (and less jarring) […]
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03-05-25
Tags: This article is an excerp from Statistical Learning/Pattern Recognition Glossary A Statistical Learning/Pattern Recognition Glossary
by Thomas Minka
Welcome to my glossary. It is inspired by Brian Ripley’s glossary in "Pattern Recognition for Neural Networks" (and the need to save time explaining things).
A Statistical Learning/Pattern Recognition Glossary
by Thomas Minka
Welcome to […]
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03-05-23
Tags: Prof. Nick Wade: Professor of Visual PsychologyNick gave a lecture in George McConkie’s course once in 2001. A very interesting person and a great historian of vision science. Degrees and Awards:B.Sc. Psychology, Edinburgh, UKPh.D. Psychology, Monash, AustraliaFellow of the Royal Society of EdinburghHonorary Professor, Abertay University Dundee
Editorial Commitments:Editorial Board, PerceptionEditorial Board, Journal of the History of […]
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03-05-22
Tags: WELCOME INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH AND EUROPEANPOLICY CONFERENCE ON DYSLEXIAUppsala, SwedenAugust 14-16, 2002 INVITED SPEAKERS Jan Alm Department of Psychology, Uppsala University; Director, The Swedish Institute for Psychological Assessment. Dr. Loring C. Brinckerhoff Disability Accommodations Specialist at Educational Testing Service, ETS, Princeton, NJ, USA. He was chairperson for ETS Policy Statement for Documentation of a Learning […]
See inside for speakers
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03-05-22
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03-05-22
Tags: E-DARTWhat Can Spelling Errors Tell us About the Causes and the Treatment of Dyslexia? Why and How they Can Accurately Differentiate Greek from English Speaking-USA Dyslexics? PROF. GEORGE Th. PAVLIDIS(1), Dr. Vicky Giannouli(2)(1) University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, GREECE. Tel: +30-310-660717, E-mail: pavlidis@uom.gr (2) 2 Pandoras Street, Koazani, 50100 GREECE Research on dyslexia was mainly conducted in […]
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03-05-22
Tags: Ovid: Bibliographic RecordsPavlidis, George T. Bibliographic survey of eye movements: 1849-1976. [Secondary Publication] Catalog of Selected Documents in Psychology. Vol 6 1, Nov 1976, p01 Points out that the results of […]
Pavlidis, George T. Erratic sequential eye-movements in dyslexics: Comments and reply to Stanley et al. [Journal Article] British Journal of Psychology. Vol 74(2) May 1983, 189-193
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03-05-22
Tags: concept mappingConcept maps visually organize the ideas of a group or organization
One of the most daunting tasks facing any working group is how to come up with a common framework that can guide their work as a group. Whether you’re doing strategic planning, trying to create a new training program, or attempting to improve […]
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