Archive for March, 2005
05-03-22
Tags: The PowerBook Sudden Motion Sensor Some of Apple’s Powerbook harddrives have a sensor to detect sudden changes in G so as to protect the harddrive from scratching at a drop. Amit Singh has figured out a way to use the data as an orientation sensor, and made several cool toys around it, such as the
The […]
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05-03-22
Tags: MT redirect set up today. Here is what I did: Read,but do not follow, the instructions at here. The basic idea is to create a MT template, which re-generate http redirect commands for each MT blog entry; then place this info in .htaccess under the MT blog folder.
So create a template in MT, set it’s "output […]
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(Computing) | 1
05-03-22
Tags: Editor : Format : Source : — […]
The Oxford Text Archive also has this (1.8 Gig) gem.
Birkbeck spelling error corpus [Electronic resource] / Roger Mitton
Mitton, Roger, 1946-
Plain text
Birkbeck spelling error corpus. — [London] : s.n., [1985]. — Contents:
Part One. Native Speakers,
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(Computing, Research, Psychology, Linguistics) | 1
05-03-22
Tags: The Oxford Text Archive The Lancaster Corpus of Mandarin Chinese [Electronic resource]
has some useful Chinese and Japanese (but no Korean) corpora
The Lancaster Corpus of Mandarin Chinese (LCMC) is designed as a Chinese match for the FLOB and FROWN corpora for modern British and American English. The corpus is suitable for use in both monolingual research […]
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(Computing, Research, Psychology) | 0
05-03-21
Playboy Playmate Curves
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(Teaching, Odds'n'Ends, Paperville, Psychology) | 0
05-03-21
Tags: The Negative Side of Positive Psychology — Held 44 (1): 9 — Journal of Humanistic Psychology I admit I am ignorant of many things … but you’d think at least I should be able to read psychology. Not this one, though. I have no idea what she is talking about.
Journal of Humanistic Psychology, […]
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05-03-21
Tags: J. Philippe Rushton, Ph.D - Recent Publications […]
Among the many controversial pieces of writing J. Phillppe Rushton has produced is this little one that is interesting methodologically. It illustrated the impact of Hans Eyesenck’s impact of the field through publications, citations, and the intellectual family tree.
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(Teaching, Odds'n'Ends, Psychology) | 0
05-03-20
Tags: IQ Since "The Bell Curve" is a commentary/review by Chabris, (now research Associate), dated Aug, 1998, in which he defended The Bell Curve. CHRISTOPHER F. CHABRIS, here making his first appearance in COMMENTARY, is a Ph.D. candidate at Harvard specializing in cognitive neuroscience. He is at work on a book about the chess-playing […]
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(Teaching, Psychology) | 0
05-03-18
Tags: Simulation output from the web-based interface of the Split Brain model.
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05-03-18
Tags: Computational Modelling of Eye Movements: links Richard Shillcock’s group at University of Edinburgh offers very cool resources/links for reading eye movements. That’s in addition to their "split brain" model of eye movement programming in reading.
The Computational Modelling of Eye Movements: Interhemispheric, Syntactic and Semantic Influences
Overview
This project explored eye movement behaviour in terms of three principal […]
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(Research, Psychology) | 1
05-03-18
Tags: Scott McDonald (with Jin Pei) with developed this Neural Language Model Demo based on Bengio’s 2003 paper (small world). Looking at the output, my Perplexity score is pretty high. This is […]
Bengio Y., Ducharme, R., Vincent, P. & Jauvin, C. (2003). A neural probabilistic language model. Journal of Machine Learning Research, 3, 1137-1155. [pdf]
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05-03-18
Tags:
Publications from Scott McDonald on the Split Brain model reading of eye movements.
Huettig, F., Quinlan, P. T., McDonald, S. A. & Altmann, G. T. M. (submitted). Models of high-dimensional semantic space predict language-mediated eye movements in the visual world.
Lavidor, M. & McDonald, S. A. (submitted). Evidence for the use of […]
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05-03-18
Tags: Mr. Chips: An Ideal-Observer Model of Reading Mr. Chips reads texts that consist of words drawn at random from the dictionary. The model makes no use of syntax or semantics (yet).
Mr. Chips’s task is to read through the text in the minimum number of saccades, identifying all the words sequentially […]
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(Computing, Research, Teaching, Psychology) | 0
05-03-18
Tags: Gordon E. Legge, creater of Mr. Chips, has PDF versions of the 20 paper series on the Psychophysics of Reading that spans 15+ years. GORDON E. LEGGE
Gordon E. Legge N218 Elliott Hall 75 East River Rd. […]
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(Profiles, Psychology) | 0
05-03-17
Tags: … at least according to Anatoly Liberman, author of the new book "Word Origins". By the same token, morphology should also fall into the "don’t-try-it-at-home" category. That does not forbit children and adults to have their own theories of how words are formed and why so. Explicitly or implicitly, these are part of the threads […]
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05-03-17
Tags: Two recent posts on LanguageHat (languagehat.com: JAPANESE ETYMOLOGICAL DICTIONARY and languagehat.com: ETYMOLOGY FOR EVERYONE) revived my interests in children’s folk etymology in English and Chinese. The ideas Shiouyuan and I discussed a year ago still await a revisit.
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(Research, Paperville, Psychology, Linguistics) | 0
05-03-17
Tags: BioMed Central | about us | BMC search plugin for Firefox Google Scholar Firefox search plugin - New!
has created several useful search plugins for FireFox that are useful for research.
We’ve also created a Firefox search plugin for Google Scholar. Google Scholar is a new search […]
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05-03-17
Tags: Neal Roese, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Psychology University of Illinois Champaign, […]
Neal Roese is an Associate Professor at UIUC Psych Dept., who has been running the Research News web site, counterfactual.net since 1996. The site includes a comprehensive Bibliography of Counterfactual studies.
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05-03-16
Tags: James Seng’s blog has (at least) 2 useful things. The Bayesian filter for MT and the use of : to combat comment spamming. October 15, 2003 Bayesian filter for MT Update: Please read the problems with MT-Bayesian.
Many people have complained about my "Solution for comments spams" is unfriendly to disabled or those who do not have […]
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05-03-16
Tags: Phil is right — where Firefox fails, IE works. There is probably a hack for this, but where is it? Don’t get hung up on firewalls - it might also be a browser […]
How To Blog: "Sorry, you need to enable sending referrers, for this feature to work." error when trying to activate plugins in WordPress
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