Archive for October, 2004

04-10-31

Tags: Mark Liberman quoted twice (1, 2) the above proverb. I like it, but it looks like he is the only one who says it … or at least according to Google. From http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/000830.html

One of Russell Gray's slides made this point by quoting the well-known scientific
proverb that "A model is a lie that leads […]

">A model is a lie that leads us to the truth

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04-10-31

Tags: Original URL:
Note the name change.

S O L U T I O N . . .
The Lindamood Phonemic Sequencing® (LiPS®) Program (formerly called the ADD Program, Auditory Discrimination in Depth) successfully
stimulates phonemic awareness.    Individuals become
aware of the mouth actions which produce speech […]

">“Auditory Discrimination in Depth” is now LiPS®

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04-10-31

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Original Title:
Video of another Amazonian people counting: the Mundurukú: by Pierre Pica,
Cathy Lemer, Véronique Izard, and Stanislas Dehaene, "Exact and Approximate Arithmetic in an Amazonian Indigene Group":
In the first movie, the man demonstrates the counting sequence, which
is accompanied by pointing on fingers and toes. Note how he hesitates,
even on the word for […]

">Dehaene: Video on Amazonian counting
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04-10-29

Tags: News Flash: October 27, 2004 Google Acquires Keyhole Corp
KeyHole is way cool — it uses satellite images of the Earth (and Mars!) to create 3D fly-bys, on the fly (pun). It covers major US cities, and umany cities around […]

">Google buys Keyhole
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04-10-29

Tags: From LanguageLog:

The base
An
unpleasant chill down the spine as I read the editors' piece
"The Choice" in
The
New Yorker (November 1 edition, p. 37)
this morning.
It mentions that the Bush regime calls its staunch conservative
Christian
support community "the base". And they add in a parenthesis:
"(in English, not Arabic)".
Translating "the base" into Arabic gives us, of course,
al qa'eda. I think I might […]

">Al Qa’ida supports Bush

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04-10-28

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Henry Gee ends his article on the new found Homo floresiensis with the above question.

Column

Published online: 27 October 2004; | doi:10.1038/news041025-2

muse@nature.com: Flores, God and Cryptozoology
Henry Gee

The discovery of Homo floresiensis raises hopes for yeti hunters and, says Henry Gee, poses thorny questions about the uniqueness of Homo sapiens.

If
another species of humans existed so recently, perhaps […]

">Will the real image of God please stand up?

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04-10-21

Tags: Original URL: doi:10.1016/S0168-0102(02)00058-5

Neuroscience Research

Volume 43, Issue 4
,
August 2002,
Pages 289-294

Optimization of goal-directed movements in the cerebellum: a random walk hypothesis

Shigeru Kitazawa

Fig.
2. The random walk hypothesis. The status of any control system is
represented by a point in the […]

">Noise is a super supervisor in Cerebellum

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04-10-20

Tags: Original URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0165-0270(98)00063-6

Harris presented a mathematic model for evolution
and optimization of motor planning. The optimization part is obvious,
and he made a good case in this article. The evolution sense is
unclear-in that there is not a clear analogy for natural selection.
Nonetheless, Harris' basic model should apply beyond motor learning.
It's the same idea behind Bob Siegler's […]

">On the optimal control of behaviour

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04-10-20

Tags: Original URL: http://bnt.insa-rouen.fr/ajouts.html

BayesNet Toolbox
The French Site

BNT
Editor v.1.0 - download v.1.0

a
first GUI attempt for BNT … not fully operational, but it's a
beginning !
wanted
: we need coders in order to continue this work …

BNT
Structure Learning Package - download v.1.3

algorithms
:

PC
with Chi2 statistical test
MWST
: Maximum weighted Spanning Tree
Hill
Climbing
Greedy
Search
Greedy
Equivalence Search
BN-Power
Constructor
[…]

">BNT Structural Learning Package

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04-10-20

Tags: Original URL: http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/001578.html

A great benefit of a true logographic orthography — traffic signs are
close but, alas, not quite there — is that everyone can read
regardless of the language s/he speaks. It pays unexpectedly. Bill
Poser reports from LanguageLog:

October 20, 2004
No Left Turn

CBC news
reports that a justice of the peace threw out Jennifer Myers' ticket
for illegally […]

">It pays to use logographic writing

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04-10-20

Tags: I've been using the FireFox Pre-release for over 2 weeks now, and
overall it is fantastic. The download is small (<5M), installation
is fast. With cross-platform WYSIWYG in-browsers such as TinyCME, It
has (almost*) completely replaced IE. I would recommend it strongly to
anyone who is tired of spyware, pop-unders, and hotfixes …
Issues so far:

In one case FireFox crashed […]

">Mozilla FireFox

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04-10-19

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I first saw CapShare 920 in the CNet's review of a similar product,
DocuPen ($150). One review claims that the HP scanner is better than
the Planon one.
Its older sibling, the CapShare 910, though, was deemed by BusinessWeek to be a hands-down failure. The CapShare 920 was out in 2000.
Neither seem to be […]

">Handheld document scanners

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04-10-19

Tags: I am reading The Korean Language by Ho-Min Sohn (Cambridge, 2001),
where there are many interesting discussions about the origin and
evolution of the language. A long section is devoted to the differences
between North and South Korean languages. On page 85, Sohn noted that
"One word innovated in North Korea is wensswu 'enemy' which was derived from the […]

">Head of the State = Enemy (at least in Korean)
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04-10-19

Tags: Original URL: https://webacct.acpub.duke.edu/cgi-bin/show_filter.cgi

A good illustration of why it's a bad idea to leave web (and interface)
design in the hands of computer geeks. Setting up a spam filter
involves a lot risk-benefit analyses, where one would expect the
webpage to provide accessible information to assist this process.
Neither "Spam-High" nor the explaination (Messages identified as
junkmail level "high.") […]

">Setting up a spam filter at Duke

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04-10-18

Tags: I pay some $200+ membership fee to APA annually, not that I agree with
their philosophy — particularly its copyright philosophy — but
because pretty much everybody else expects me to. Today I wanted to
renew the membership by giving them another pot of gold that is worth 5
DVD players. Guess what I found out from this automatic […]

">Want to renew APA membership? Go OFF line!
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04-10-17

Tags: Original URL: http://www.hfsp.org/home.php

The HFSP started from the G7 summit in 87. The emphasis is on
international, interdisciplinary research on bioscience, including the
Brain Science. Psychology and Linguistics are different disciplinaries;
Japan (which pays half of the bill) and the US sounds like
international… and they do have a Young Investigator Grant… to be
or not to be?

Areas
The aim […]

">Human Frontier Science Program

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04-10-17

Tags: Original URL: http://www.sissa.it/cns/lcd/members.htm

Editor of Cognition since 1972.

Jacques Mehler

position
Director of Research

phone
(+39) 040 3787612

e-mail

webpage
\cns\lcd\jacques.htm

born August 17th 1936 in Barcelona, Spain
PhD in Psychology, Harvard University, Massachussets USA 1964
Scientific Activities
- Director Language, Cognition and Development lab, SISSA, Trieste, Italy
- Director
Recherches au CNRS, France
- Director Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et […]

">Jacques Mehler

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04-10-16

Tags: Original URL: http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/001563.html

I cannot help but to think about the poor "Teversky Project" I ran over
10 years ago. It was precisely on this issue, and it is still not
written up by this date. …

October 16, 2004
Time is space: when fronter is farther behind
When I say "back in August", you know that I mean […]

">Time, Space, and Metaphors: Where is the Teversky study?

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04-10-16

Tags: Original URL: http://www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/projects/featuresoftware/index.php

By way of Phonoloblog. You can select languages and it shows consonant or vowel tables with featural tables.

Introduction to Segmental Phonology

Consonant Table
Vowel Table
Language Index
Sound Index
Help

Welcome! This website is designed to help students of segmental
phonology understand and identify phonological segments and their
distinctive features. It is primarily intended to serve as a […]

">Segmental phonology site

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04-10-15

Tags: Original
URL: http://desktop.google.com/

Why not PDF?

   
Find your email,
files, web history and chats instantly
View web
pages you've seen, even when you're not online
Search as easily as you do on Google
Google Desktop Search
finds:

  Outlook / Outlook Express
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  AOL Instant Messenger
  Excel

  Internet Explorer
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  Text

">Google Desktop search: but no PDFs

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