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On-line MDL Demonstrations
Markov Chain Order Estimation
The feasibility of the MDL model selection criterion is illustrated by the following demonstration. We use the criterion for estimating the appropriate order of a Markov chain. Recall that a Markov chain is a process that generates symbols where the probability distribution of each symbol depends on […]

[Update: I thought I thought of that line myself. But apparently people have been attributing that to George E.P. Box for quite a few years. To be fare, I allow myself to stand along side the great man ] 
Peter Grunwald’s Tutorial to […]

September 11, 2001 gave Duke researchers Jennifer Talarico and David Rubin a unique opportunity to conduct a more thorough investigation of flashbulb memory ("Confidence, not Consistency, Characterizes Flashbulb Memories," Psychological Science, 2003). On September 12 they gave 52 student volunteers a […]

Introduction
This presidential address was delivered at the 1997 annual meeting of Society for the Scientific Study of Reading (SSSR) Chicago. Ehri provides a glimpse of her experiences conducting research on word reading processes in beginning readers for over 20 years. At the […]

This is a placeholder. I will come back to this, probably multiple times. CiteULike is probably the most important find this year. It’s just too interesting to blog in a hurry. I have a feeling that it will redefine research and graduate training, at least in my lab.
The above link goes to […]

Google Ride Finder is one of the newest Google toys that uses GPS info to locate taxi, limo, or shuttles. I tried to track a couple of taxi cabs at Downtown Chicago. It was not as real-time as you’d expected, but it’s still interesting to see the color-coded bubble that marks the cab to move […]

Why it is hard to share the wealth

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Clocky is, quite simply, for people who have trouble waking up.
When the alarm clock goes off and the snooze button is pressed, Clocky will […]