Archive for March, 2004

04-03-11

Tags: Original URL: http://www.tc.umn.edu/~pemeehl/
Original Title: Paul Meehl
 
My favorite quote today:
 
“Inquiry among my colleagues suggests that this befuddled state following the reading of a research literature review is not peculiar to me, or even a minority of faculty in a first-class psychology department, but is so frequent as to be almost the norm. Why is this? This […]

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04-03-11

Tags: Original URL: http://www.tsa.gov/public/interapp/editorial/editorial_1044.xml
Original Title: TSA | Transportation Security Administration | Access Requirements
 
What is “parental business”, anyway?

Proper Identification
If you have a paper ticket for a domestic flight, passengers age 18 and over must present one form of photo identification issued by a local state or federal government agency (e.g.: passport/drivers license/military ID), or two forms […]

">TSA airport ID requirement

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04-03-11

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Took me quite a while. For some reason the ImageMagick installation did not install PerlMagick in the right directory (or I might have installed ActiveState Perl afterwards).
Tried to install PerlMagick using PPM. Need to do something like
PPM> install “c:\imagemagick\perlmagick\Image-Magick.ppm”
But then when I tried to load it, Perl complained that the Object version […]

">MT::ImageMagick Installation
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04-03-10

Tags: Original URL: https://secure.registerapi.com/DDS/search_results.php
Original Title:
 
http://www.eyemovement.com redirects to www.smi.com, the German company that sells Eyelink I and other eye trackers. Other domains available.

you searched for:

.com

.net

.org

.info

.biz

.us

eyemovement.com

">eyemovement domains available

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04-03-10

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">A Primer on Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Design
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04-03-10

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Python examples writen with PyLink generate segmentation fault if one tries to run it again without quitting the same Python interpter (at least for the case of PythonWin. I suspected it had to do with the eyelink DLL lacking reentry support.
 
So I wrote this minimal eyelink test, which disapproved my hypothesis. […]

">Simplest EyeLink Test
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04-03-10

Tags: Original URL: http://kspope.com/fallacies/fallacies.php
Original Title: Logical Fallacies in Psychology

home    fallacies  logical fallacies in psychology
Logical Fallacies in Psychology: 18 Types
Kenneth S. Pope, Ph.D., ABPP
Here are 18 logical fallacies. Weve all probably fallen for them — and perhaps used them — from time to time.
Articles in other sections of this web site examine logical fallacies in more detail […]

">Logical Fallacies in Psychology: 18 Types

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04-03-10

Tags: Original URL: http://trochim.human.cornell.edu/kb/design.htm
Original Title: Design
 
An intro to some basic quasi-experimental designs. I remember visiting this page a year ago while reviewing fro Dept of Ed grants

Research design provides the glue that holds the research project together. A design is used to structure the research, to show how all of the major parts of the research […]

">Research Designs

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04-03-10

Tags: Original URL: http://www.psych-books.com/Experimental_and_QuasiExperimental_Designs_for_Generalized_Causal_Inference_0395615569.html
Original Title: Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Designs for Generalized Causal Inference

Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Designs for Generalized Causal Inference by Authors: Donald T. Campbell , William R. Shadish , Thomas D. Cook Released: 13 July, 2001 ISBN: 0395615569 Paperback Sales Rank: 28,195

">Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Designs for Generalized Causal Inference

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04-03-09

Tags: Original URL: http://www.compgeeks.com/details.asp?invtid=VP-2060
Original Title: Computer Geeks - Vosonic Xs Drive II Xs Drive II VP 2060 6-in-1 USB 2.0 Portable Storage Device $84.90 VP-2060
 
Will need something likes this for backup. But sounds like formatting the 2.5 Inch HDD is a hassle.

Drive II VP2060 

New
$119.00  

Fujitsu 30GB UDMA/100 4200RPM 2.5-In 9.5mm NBB HDD Digital […]

">Flash Reader/HDD: X Drive II VP2060

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04-03-09

Tags: Original URL: http://www.psycinfo.com/psycarticles/index.cfm?fuseaction=toc&jrn=xlm&vol=30&iss=2
Original Title: APA PsycARTICLES Direct - Journal Contents
 
Simple and complex characters may be represented at different levels, but only when doing this task? The hierarchical nature of Chinese characters would suggest that more complex characters are represented at a different level from less complex characters.

The Nature of the Mental Representation of Radicals […]

">The Nature of the Mental Representation of Radicals in Chinese: A Priming Study

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04-03-09

Tags: Original URL: http://www.pygame.org/docs/ref/Surface.html#blit
Original Title: Surface

Double buffering is fast (duh…)
HW surface is fast (duh…)
Blitting from SW surface to HW surface (or anything else) is slow. With 800*600*16, 120Hz refresh rate, 500 fullscreen blit()s take about 5.9 seconds, way more than the 500/120=4.17 seconds. All the extra time means missed retraces.
Blitting from HWSurface to HWSurface takes no […]

">Things I learned so far about pygame

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04-03-09

Tags: Original URL: http://www.pygame.org/docs/ref/pygame.html#Surface
Original Title: pygame
 
On my Radeon7500 card with 64M VRAM, I was able to get upto 70 hardware video surfaces at 800*600*16. Here is the code:

def maxHWS(max=10): s=[] #Initializes the graphics init() display.init() s.append(display.set_mode((800, 600), FULLSCREEN |DOUBLEBUF |RLEACCEL |HWACCEL |HWSURFACE  ,16)) for i in range(0, max):  try:   s.append(Surface((800,600), FULLSCREEN |RLEACCEL |HWACCEL |HWSURFACE  ,16))  except:   break; display.quit() quit() print(s);  # I get up to 70 HW surfaces, the […]

">70 HWSURFACEs!

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04-03-09

Tags: Original URL: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/vccore/html/_core_DUMPBIN_Reference.asp?frame=true
Original Title: DUMPBIN Reference (Visual C Concepts)
 
dumpbin display.pyd /all /out:display.pyd.dump
 
shows the structure of the dll (or in this case pyd) file, including other DLL dependence and its own functions exposed. Use this with ctypes.

Visual C++ Concepts: Building a C/C++ Program
 

DUMPBIN Reference

The Microsoft COFF Binary File Dumper (DUMPBIN.EXE) displays information about 32-bit Common Object File Format (COFF) binary files. You […]

">DumpBin: good with CTypes

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04-03-09

Tags: Original URL: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2001-April/037591.html
Original Title: What is a .pyd file
 
PyGame has many PYD files instead of the .py source files for critical parts of the package, such as display.pyd.
 
I had hoped to create multiple hardware surfaces in SDL, but after checking SDL source code for SVGA, it looks like additional HWSURFACE (other than the main, […]

">PyGame: source file not available?
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04-03-08

Tags: Original URL: http://www.garyfeng.com/blog/doc/002234.html
Original Title: Mind-Blogger.GaryFeng.Com: ChangeDisplaySettings
 
Finishing up some tests I did before going home. The problem was that my shiftScreen code (see below) runs too slow. It takes 26ms, which means it (a) misses 14 samples from EyeLink, and (b) it often misses the saccade deadline. The problem turns out to be the usual suspect […]

">PyGame:: Blit() speed test
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04-03-08

Tags: After playing with resolution/refresh rates, I found out that, after all, SDL uses the system default refresh rate. I had to manually set it to 120Hz in the Display Properties control panel. Then SDL/PyGame/Pylink works at 120Hz.
Also, to my surprise, I cannot change any display settings using my programs after SDL is initialized, otherwise […]

">Much ado for nothing
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04-03-08

Tags: Original URL: http://www.geekhideout.com/iodll.shtml
Original Title: Geek Hideout:: IO.DLL
 
This seems to be the most popular package from Programmers Heaven (http://www.programmersheaven.com/zone15/cat610/). Free, but no source code.

Function DescriptionsPlease refer to the prototype for the particular language you are using.
PortOutOutputs a byte to the specified port.
PortWordOutOutputs a word (16-bits) to the specified port.
PortDWordOutOutputs a double word (32-bits) to the specified […]

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04-03-08

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">Port Access packages
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04-03-08

Tags: Original URL: http://www.entechtaiwan.com
Original Title: TVicHW32 5.0

Programmers toolkitsTVicHW32 5.0 has just been released, allowing execution of privileged CPU instructions at the application level. The new RunRing0Function lets you access all ports directly with IN/OUT assembler instructions or with _inp() _outp() “C” functions, and gives you control over hardware interrupts and access to CPU special registers. Also […]

">TVicHW32 5.0

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