Archive for April, 2005
05-04-29
Who are pygmies?
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05-04-29
Sorry, flowers
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05-04-28
Language Log: 苏州国际博览中心
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05-04-28
Tags: Language in the social and behavorial sciences Mark Liberman blogs about the 9/11 LiveJournal investigation in Michael A. Cohn, Matthias R. Mehl and James W. Pennebaker, Linguistic Markers of Psychological Change Surrounding September 11, 2001, Psychological Science, Volume 15, Issue 10, Page 687-693, October 2004.
The abstract:
The diaries of 1,084 U.S. users of an on-line […]
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05-04-28
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National Writing Project, like the Center for the Study of Reading, has a large collection of technical reports on spelling, writing, and reading in elementary school all the way to college. The Center was based at the Graduate School of Education of the University of California at Berkeley, with a site at […]
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05-04-28
Cold Fusion, Fashion, and Confusion
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05-04-27
NYT: Mix Math and Medicine and Create Confusion
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05-04-27
Fix and Random Effects: don’t blame it on me.
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05-04-27
Tags: Here, too. A fatal design problem. New Scientist Breaking News - Self-hypnosis may help […]
Allergies and sleep deprevation are the two things I am struggling with. Science offers no help.
Well, I do a third problem, and arguably the worst of all — procrastination, for which at least there is a cure.
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05-04-27
As alert as ever on just two hours’ sleep
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05-04-27
Forms of Writing and Rereading From Writing
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05-04-26
Tags: ScienceDirect - Journal of Neurolinguistics, Volume 18, Issue 2, Pages 89-219 (March 2005)
Journal of Neurolinguistics
Volume 18, Issue 2, Pages 89-219 (March 2005)Dyslexia: ERP and fMRI studies Edited by Dr Z Breznitz
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IFC: Editorial Board Page co2
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Introduction to this special issue: Understanding dyslexia Pages 89-92 […]
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05-04-26
Tags: I’ve been tracking random text generator for the past a couple of days. The reason will be revealed in a separate post.
What I have seen so far are two types of algorithms, represented by two classic programs.
The "cut-up" method
The idea is simple — using a Markov Chain to model n-gram frequency of a text, […]
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05-04-26
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Novelwriting is a Python version of the Dada Engine. Last updated 2003.
This is a knock-off of the Dada Engine, written in Python. Seems to require Python 2.2 or greater.
Release 0.4 makes incompatible changes to the grammar. Uses of "(" … ")" to group must be changed to […]
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05-04-26
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While we are on post-modernism, there are some classic instructions (and some real insights) on How To Deconstruct Almost Anything.
… Since we had no idea what any of it meant (or even if it actually meant anything at all), I simply cut-and- pasted from my notes. The next day I stood up in front of […]
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05-04-25
The Postmodernism Generator: a long lost friend
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05-04-25
Tags: 1914 Sensory homunculus
The Natural History Museum, London’s online Picture Library is a great resource for exotic pictures, including the motor and sensory homunculus, featured in http://www.laputanlogic.com.
41491 Motor homunculus
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05-04-24
Phonological Awareness is not a marker
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05-04-24
Tags: My research has taken a curious turn lately. A couple of the recent undertakings, which themselves share few things in common, converge on the issue of Theory of Mind. Fortunately for me (and my tenure prospect) we have so far refreined ourselves from playing with non-human subjects. Nonetheless, the research on Scrub Jay’s food cashing […]
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05-04-21
Tags: Rumor and Gossip Research had it height back in WWII, when Gordon W. Allport and Leo Postman (1947) wrote the seminal book The Psychology of Rumor. A recent APA paper by Rosnow and his student Foster summarized some of the new development in this area. According to the authors, the impetus for […]
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