Archive for May, 2004

04-05-20

Tags: Original URL: http://tikiwiki.org/tiki-view_forum_thread.php?forumId=4&comments_parentId=7455
Original Title: TikiWiki : Error uploading MS word docs into file gallery
 
Trying to upload a PDF of 4M to the tiki server but failed. I suspected there could be two problems:
1. the max_allowed_packet parameter in MySQL configuration, typically in my.ini or my.cnf under %WIN% directory. See http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/Program_variables.html. My default MySQL set it to 1M. Checked and it […]

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04-05-20

Tags: Original URL: http://www.industrialnewsroom.com/fullstory/451115
Original Title: Wearable Eye Tracking System is tether-free. - Applied Science Laboratories (ASL)

April 28, 2004 07:43

Wearable Eye Tracking System is tether-free.Equipped with unobtrusive optics and recording device small enough to be worn on belt, Mobile Eye™ permits total freedom of movement. Eye and scene images are interleaved and saved on DVCR […]

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04-05-19

Tags: Original URL: http://www.itl.nist.gov/div898/software/dataplot/homepage.htm
Original Title: Dataplot Homepage

 
Dataplot is a free, public-domain, multi-platform (Unix, VMS, Linux, Windows 95/98/ME/XP/NT/2000, etc.) software system for scientific visualization, statistical analysis, and non-linear modeling. The target Dataplot user is the researcher and analyst engaged in the characterization, modeling, visualization, analysis, monitoring, and optimization of scientific and engineering processes. The original version was […]

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04-05-19

Tags: Original URL: http://allsands.com/Science/aboutsanddolla_xcb_gn.htm
Original Title: All about the sand dollar

The sand dollar is a marine invertebrate animal, closely related to the starfish, sea lily, the sea cucumber and the sea urchin. Sand dollars come from the Echinoids class, which means “spiny skinned creature.” The legend of the sand dollar first began in Maine, where children were […]

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04-05-18

Tags: Original URL: http://secure.sixapart.com/
Original Title: Get Movable Type
 
Yep, the MT pricing is confirmed. One author & 3 blogs… won´t work. Does it say whether the new licencing applies to pre-3.0 versions? The current 2.64 might still have some milage?

Movable Type Free

(Unsupported License)
Not willing to pay for Movable Type yet? This fully-functional version of the application is […]

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04-05-18

Tags: Original URL: http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/985921.985927
Original Title: : CHI ´04, Eye contact sensing glasses …

Eye contact sensing glasses for attention-sensitive wearable video blogging
Pdf (272 KB)

Authors

Connor Dickie
 Queen´s University, Kingston, Canada

Roel Vertegaal
 Queen´s University, Kingston, Canada

Jeffrey S. Shell
 Queen´s University, Kingston, Canada

Changuk Sohn
 Queen´s University, Kingston, Canada

Daniel Cheng
 Queen´s University, Kingston, Canada

Omar Aoudeh […]

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04-05-17

Tags: Original URL: http://diveintomark.org/
Original Title: dive into mark
 
Mark Pilgrim, author of Dive Into Python, was deeply disappointed by MoveableType 3.0 (beta), both with its technology and its greedy pricing scheme. He has now switched to WordPress. Me to follow?

And yesterday I learned, as most of you have probably also learned, that Movable Type 3.0 comes with […]

">MoveableType for $$$; time to switch?

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04-05-17

Tags: Original URL: http://www.dukemagazine.duke.edu/dukemag/issues/050604/depgaz.html
Original Title: Duke Mag-Debating Party Parity in Faculty Population-May/June 2004-Gazette
Robert Brandon´s quote (or misquote according to some) of John Stuart Mill, “stupid people are generally conservative,” which appeared on the latest issue of Duke Magazine, has already generated many hits on Google.

Debating Party Parity in Faculty Population
Duke Magazine Volume 90, No.3, May-June […]

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04-05-13

Tags: Original URL: http://www.fa100.info/spkr.htm
Original Title: FA100

Karl JöreskogAdjunct Professor, Dept of Stategy and ManagementUppsala University, SwedenTopic: “Factor Analysis and Its Extensions“

Factor Analysis and Its ExtensionsKarl JöreskogUppsala University

I give an historical account of the developments of factor analysis in the last 50 years with an emphasis on its extensions from classical exploratory factor analysis to confirmatory factor analysis, […]

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04-05-13

Tags: Original URL: http://www.anecdotage.com/index.php?aid=6880
Original Title: Anecdote - Charles Lamb - Little Lamb?
 
A tale of a precocious reader. But the anecdotage.com site is very cool.

Little Lamb?One day when Charles Lamb was little more than a toddler, his sister Mary took him for a stroll through a cemetery. As they passed the tombstones, the precocious young boy read […]

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04-05-13

Tags: Original URL: http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/000886.html
Original Title: Language Log: A verbless post
 
Two challenges to the psycholinguistic theory of sentence processing — maybe. In response to the verbless novel by a French write, Michel Thaler, two linguists posted a verbless and a nounless text on the Language Log. Are they grammatical? I don´t dare to challenge the authorities. But can […]

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04-05-13

Tags: Original URL: http://www.zope.org/Members/JMaxwell/zNote/
Original Title: Zope.org - zNote Bibliography Management Tool
 
Zope? Nah.

zNote Bibliography Management Tool

Here is zNote, a web-based bibliography-management tool built with Zope and XML.

zNote is intended to ultimately be a replacement for tools like EndNote, ProCite, and to a certain extent, bibTeX. It uses a hierarchical XML data format which is more flexible than […]

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04-05-13

Tags: Original URL: http://mlagen.sourceforge.net/
Original Title: MLA Auto-Generator
 
No, this SourceForge project won´t fly. Nobody wants to manually input all the references.

MLA Auto-GeneratorPatrick DoMLA Auto-Generator is an incredible piece of free software that allows you to quickly and effortlessly format your documents´ works cited lists in complete accordance with the latest MLA or APA style guidelines. MLA Auto-Generator […]

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04-05-13

Tags: Original URL: http://www.hotreference.com//whatis.php
Original Title: HotReference.com - What is it?
 
This is a step closer to what I had in mind — a web-based reference/citation management  plus commendary service, but it seems to be extremely limited, and the server itself is not Open Source.

HotReference.com is the first FREE personal bibliographic manager on the Internet!

HotReference.com is both […]

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04-05-12

Tags: Original URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondegreen
Original Title: Mondegreen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I helped Apple wreck a nice beach (from T-shirt given out by Apple Computer´s Speech Recognition Laboratories. The example illustrates how mondegreens can be a problem for computerized voice recognition. Read fast, the sentence can be heard as “I helped Apple recognize speech.”)

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04-05-12

Tags: Original URL: http://www.physics.ohio-state.edu/~wilkins/writing/Resources/essays/mondegreens.html
Original Title: mondegreen central
 
I had mine, but I don´t want to share here …

Mondegreens: A Short Guide

By Gavin Edwards

My first misheard lyric came at the advanced age of six, when I learned to sing “Row, Row Your Boat.” I was convinced that the line after “merrily merrily merrily” was “life´s a butter dream,” […]

">Lady Mondegreens

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04-05-11

Tags: Original URL: http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/000878.html
Original Title: Language Log: The Internet Pilgrim´s guide to g-dropping
 
G-dropping (or g-droppin´) has an interesting history and varies acorss a broad sociolinguistic contexts. If 80% + lower class speakers in NYC and Norwich, England drop the g, this would suggest that children speaking those dialects might have a different spelling pattern.

What is “g-dropping“? […]

">The Internet Pilgrim´s guide to g-dropping

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04-05-08

Tags: Original URL: http://www2.inf.ethz.ch/personal/gutc/lognormal/brochure.html
Original Title: Life is log-normal !

Limpert et al made several interesting points in their article,
Limpert E, Stahel WA and Abbt M, 2001. Lognormal distributions across the sciences: keys and clues. Bioscience 51 (5), 341-352 [PDF] [Postscript].
On “back-transformed” parameterization:

Two parameters are needed to specify a log-normal distribution .Traditionally, the mean µ and the […]

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04-05-08

Tags: Original URL: http://aje.oupjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/141/5/386?maxtoshow=&HITS=10&hits=10&RESULTFORMAT=&searchid=1083991751475_2327&stored_search=&FIRSTINDEX=0&minscore=5000&journalcode=amjepid
Original Title: Am. J. Epidemiol. — Abstracts: Sartwell 141 (5): 386
 
This classical paper was cited in the Limpert et al (2001) paper.

American Journal of Epidemiology, Vol 141, Issue 5 386-394, Copyright © 1995 by Oxford University Press

ARTICLES
The distribution of incubation periods of infectious disease. 1949 [classical article]
PE Sartwell
1. Characteristics of […]

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04-05-08

Tags: Original URL: http://www.mlahanas.de/CancerStat/GouldMedian.htm
Original Title: The Median Isn´t the Message, by Stephen Jay Gould
 
How an analysis of a long tailed distribution changed Stephen Jay Gould´s life.

Prefatory Note by Steve Dunn
Stephen Jay Gould was an influential evolutionary biologist who taught at Harvard University. He was the author of at least ten popular books on evolution, and science, […]

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