Archive for June, 2004
04-06-30
Tags: Original URL: http://www.dpreview.com/news/0406/04062401toshibafuel.asp “Why do you put water in your cell phone?”
Original Title: Toshiba Announces World´s Smallest Direct Methanol Fuel Cell With Energy Output of 100 Milliwatts
“…the slim prototype DMFC is as long and wide as a woman´s thumb” — why does this sound like an unusual analogy?
BTW, this sounds so phat:
“I am just topping off […]
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04-06-29
Tags: William Safire´s Rules for Writers …
you´ve seen them on the web, you´ve followed them writing your thesis. Where did those rules come from? The origin uncovered here.
(See also a string a posts about William Safire on LanguageLog here, here, and here). Hunt Lyman critiqued the Fumblerrules here.)
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04-06-29
Tags: Original URL: http://www.yourdictionary.com/about/topten2002.html Top Five Most Misspelled Words 5. Misspell Most frequently spoken word on the Planet: 1. OK Still the most popular word in languages around the world. “OK” originated in a joke in the 1830´s, spelled “oll korrekt” in Boston newspapers, the joke being, both […]
Words… words…
What is more embarrassing than to misspell the name of the problem?
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04-06-29
Tags: Original URL: http://simpler-solutions.net/pmachinefree/thinkagain/thinkagain.php?id=P220 I run away from the problem -> The problem is run away from. I take care of the problem -> The problem is taken care […]
The quote has been attributed to Charles Schultz, Linus Pelt, and Charley Brown.
While it´s undoubtedly funny, structures like this one always stress my poor English syntactic processor.
The following feels more acceptable:
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04-06-27
Tags: Original URL: http://www.indiana.edu/~socsrp/lecture1models.pdf “Sausage and statistics are best enjoyed when you don´t see them being made.” – J. Scott Long, 2000
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04-06-26
Tags: Original URL: http://www.npr.org/about/people/bios/ssimon.html
Original Title: Scott Simon, Host, Weekend Edition Saturday
Heard on today´s show on the way to the farmers´ market Simon asked Jim Fallow, editor of The Atlantic Monthly, whether psycholinguists are a bunch of “mad linguists.” Simon first acknowledged that this was the first time he heard of this word.
Looking at his official […]
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04-06-26
Tags: Original URL: http://www.nationmaster.com/graph-T/eco_eco_fre Map & Graph: Economy: Economic freedom (Top 100 Countries) Country 1. 2. 3. 4.
Original Title: Economic Freedom
Following Kevin´s pointer to NationMaster.com, I stumped on something that is clearly wrong…
Description
Amount
Korea, North
5 (2003)
Korea, South
5 (2003)
Hong Kong
3.55 (2003)
Singapore
3.5 (2003)
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04-06-26
Tags: Original URL: http://www.economics.soton.ac.uk/staff/aldrich/New%20Folder/kpreader1.htm
Karl Pearson was a facinating figure in the history of statistics. This month´s Science Magazine published a review of a recent book by Porter on Pearson (see below). There are numerous websites devoted to him, one of which is the Readers´ Guide below, which started with an intriguing and improbable recount of Pearson´s […]
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04-06-25
Tags: Original URL: http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/info/ Eric Weisstein´s World of Science contains budding encyclopedias of astronomy, scientific biography, chemistry, and physics. This resource has been assembled over more than a decade by internet encyclopedist Eric W. Weisstein with assistance from the internet community.
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Eric Weisstein´s World of Science is written and maintained by the author as a public […]
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04-06-25
Tags: For some reason the VirsScan warned me today that my blog entry 838 contains Exploit-MhtRedir.gen , which uses a MS IE security hole in the MHTML handling to redirect a webpage to a special site.
Whats interesting is that the post was made way before the trojan was created and it used the redirect mechanism without me […]
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04-06-24
Tags: Original URL: http://www.rulecore.com/index.html
This is a GPL licensed rule engine written in Python. A bunch of open source Java-based rule engines can be found at http://www.manageability.org/blog/stuff/rule_engines/.
Why Rule Engines? Good question .. it vaguely relates to some of my recent readings — optimality theory (where constraints rather than rules are specified), machine-learned grapheme-phoneme correspondence rules (memory-based learning, […]
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04-06-23
Tags: Original URL: http://sprott.physics.wisc.edu/
IFS (Iterated Function Systems) clumpiness test was mentioned in this econophysics (?!) article that used Levy distribution. However, it demonstrated some intriguing relationships of the exchange rate between $ and RMB Yuan — it´s a Chaos (as if that´s news ).
What interests me, however, is the clumpiness test — I want to use […]
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04-06-23
Tags: Original URL: http://www.overstock.com/cgi-bin/d2.cgi?PAGE=PROFRAME&PROD_ID=712250#
Original Title: i-pen pro
If it´s on OverStock, you know it´s out.
Apparently the good guys at FingerSystemUSA.com didn´t bother to update their website — it still says “coming soon”. I will wait for the BlueTooth or the “Memory” version, which can be used “off-line”. This would be my substitute for a tabletPC. Unfortunately, there […]
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04-06-23
Tags: Original URL: http://www.webreference.com/programming/javascript/dragdropie/
Original Title: Drag and Drop In Internet Explorer
Am thinking of creating a copy/pates & drag/drop mechanism for the StandardBrains editor that will behave sort like the MS OneNote — it minimally check for integrety of the HTML code, and then adds a link to the source URL when possible.
The MS example (see […]
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04-06-23
Tags: What did I learn from the 2 years of archives of my blogs?
The average tempreture in Chapel Hill is inversely correslated with the length of month names… that´s all.
Archives
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04-06-23
Tags: Original URL: http://mathworld.wolfram.com/topics/StatisticalDistributions.html Continuous Distributions Beta Distribution Beta Prime Distribution Binormal Distribution Bivariate Normal Distribu… Bose-Einstein […]
Original Title: Statistical distributions in Mathematica
A comprehensive list of common distributions and their properties.
Gaussian Joint Variable T…
Pearson System
Gaussian Product Distribu…
Pearson Type III Distribu…
Gaussian Ratio Distributi…
Pearson Type IV Distribut…
Gaussian Sum Distribution
Planck´s Radiation Functi…
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04-06-23
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04-06-23
Tags: Original URL: http://mudbomb.com/archives/2004/05/ WYSIWYG Hack For Wordpress Stuff Joe Schmoe @ 4:13 pm This hack replaces the Wordpress 1.2 quicktags with a wysiwyg(what you see is what you get) editor. It allows you to format post text just as you would in any word processor or email program.
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04-06-23
Tags: Original URL: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&q=define%3Aphonemic+awareness Definitions of Phonemic awareness on the Web: Phonemic awareness is the ability to notice, think about, and work with the individual sounds in spoken words. An example of how beginning readers show us they have phonemic awareness is combining or blending the separate sounds of a word to say the word […]
Original Title: define:phonemic awareness
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04-06-23
Tags: Original URL: http://www.google.com/help/features.html Definitions
Original Title: Google: Define:
A very useful feature … but how did they define definitions?
To see a definition for a word or phrase, simply type the word “define,” then a space, and then the word(s) you want defined. If Google has seen a definition for the word or phrase on the Web, it will […]
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