Archive for April, 2005
05-04-13
Tags: Attempting to put matching into a Bayesian regression framework, Andrew Gelman is reading this paper by Guido Imbens and comparing it to his own paper on ANOVA. More in this post:
Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science: Regression and matching for causal inference: questions about Guido Imbens’s article
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(Research, Paperville, Statstics) | 0
05-04-12
Tags: My interests were piqued after reading about Kim Peek at the skepdic.com page on speed reading.
It looks like this page from Wisconsin Medical Society, maintained by Dr. Treffert, has become the authority — the Wikipedia page on Kim Peek was adapted from it. The page has some description of Kim’s development.
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(Teaching, Odds'n'Ends, Psychology) | 0
05-04-12
A folk theory of speed reading and eye movements
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(Research, Teaching, Odds'n'Ends, Psychology, Education) | 0
05-04-12
Tags: New Scientist Back Page - The last word
It’s not clear who posted the question initially, but readers of New Scientist worked diligently on the answers.
There is a point, though, beyond the interesting counter-fact the Q&A provided — Counterfactual questions like this one is clearly marked by the Subjunctive Mood in English. If I were to […]
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05-04-12
Tags: Computer Adaptive Testing Tutorial An On-line, Interactive, Computer Adaptive Testing Tutorial, 11/98 (http://EdRes.org/scripts/cat)
is an old (1998) but interesting tutorial of item response theory (IRT) and its application in CAT.
Lawrence M. Rudner
Welcome to our online computer adaptive testing (CAT) tutorial. Here you will have the opportunity to learn the logic of CAT and see the calculations […]
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(Teaching, Psychology, Education) | 0
05-04-12
Homo Floresiensis: The Chinese connection
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(Odds'n'Ends) | 0
05-04-08
Tags: CALIFORNIA / The more family earns, the faster kids learn / Study finds income tied to rate children pick up English via http://www.chriscorrea.com/archives/2005/april-8-links/ "Asian immigrants come to the United States without a lingua franca … (so) the Asians tend to gravitate toward English faster than the Spanish speakers," said Marcelo Suárez-Orozco, co-director […]
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(Teaching, Education) | 0
05-04-05
Tags: My first suppoter in the Unknown Space: 发信人: sanny (sanny), 信区: ChineseClassics 标 题: 字典来罗Re: 作出 or 做出 发信站: Unknown Space - 未名空间 (Tue Apr 5 20:05:23 2005) WWW-POST 首先说我是支持你导师的，但查了字典后胡涂了，其实“作”古一点，“做”今一点，大 概都可以吧。。 【高级汉语词典】 做 zuò <动> (1) (“做”是“作”后起的分别字,“作”近代写作“做”) (2) 作。从事某种工作或活动 [do] 我且不做买卖,和你一同家去。——《水浒全传》 (3) 又如:做道路(做生意;从事拦路抢劫、偷盗活动);做夫(服劳役;作劳动力);大事做不来, […]
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(Odds'n'Ends, Linguistics) | 0
05-04-05
Tags: KAEPS, for Korean Accented English Pronunciation Simulator was developed by Dr. Hyouk-Keun Kim. I blogged it a while ago. Revisited it again Yvonne asked me about it lately. Still amazing and amusing. Thank you for your trial. The following are the pronunciations of "Pick me up at nine o’clock" […]
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(Computing, Paperville, Psychology, Linguistics) | 0
05-04-05
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Scholarship happens on every turn of the corner — this time when I argued with Li over IM in the middle of the night on whether we should use “作出” or “做出” in the instruction of a study. Funny that Li and I simultanuously checked Google hits — and it was a deadlock: 1.9M Ghit […]
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(Odds'n'Ends, Paperville, Linguistics) | 0
05-04-04
Tags: … or does it?
A paper in press in Cognitive Brain Research, Processing of Japanese morphogram and syllabogram in the left basal temporal area: electrical cortical stimulation studies, by Keiko Usui (Kyoto University) and 11 other coauthors, reports a study in which electrical cortical stimulation was used during functional mapping in six Japanese patients with […]
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(Research, Paperville, Psychology) | 0
05-04-04
Tags: Lingua has a paper in print addressing grammatical gender assignment in different languages — a classical Sapir-Whorf topic — in Optimality Theory. Sounds really interesting. Don’t have access from home, but will download tomorrow. Lingua […]
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(Research, Paperville, Psychology, Linguistics) | 1
05-04-04
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MIT Technology Review Blog discussed — or rather, disputed — reasons why some schools prohibit iPods. The author’s point is well taken — that schools have not figured out ways in which digital portable media technologies can enhance learning and social interactions. But neither did Duke (depending on who you talk to), some (two) years […]
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(Computing, Education) | 0
05-04-04
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pySonic now supports recording, an eamil reply to my early feature request says. Only one recording stream is alowed, but it should be ok for a psych study. With pretty much all the piece located, ready for an OpenSource e-prime killer?
What can/can’t it do?
There isn’t a one-to-one mapping between FMOD functions and pySonic functions. […]
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(Computing) | 0
05-04-03
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2. The United States has the world’s highest divorce rate. Although the incidence of divorce in the United States has declined modestly since its historic peak in the early 1980s, the U.S. refined divorce rate (divorces per 1,000 married women age fifteen or older) was about 19.5 in 1998, compared to 9.2 in 1960. Of […]
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(Teaching, Psychology) | 0
05-04-03
Tags: I was looking for US Marriage and Divorce Data and landed on the US Census Bureau website. Looking at its logo, I couldn’t help but to wonder why some letters have different color than others.
UCNSSBUEU and SEURA? Neither makes sense.
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(Odds'n'Ends) | 1
05-04-03
Tags: 化 境 神 似 today mentioned the following anecdote that is probably untrue. But still, phonetic translations could have survival values. While in Korea, Linebarger masterminded the surrender of thousands of Chinese troops who considered it shameful to give up their arms. He drafted leaflets explaining how the soldiers could surrender by shouting the Chinese words […]
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(Odds'n'Ends, Linguistics) | 0
05-04-02
Tags: WebMon is freeware. It has an interesting feature where you view the HTML source and specify where in the code you’d like to monitor. It also saves a log in HTML or XML format (RSS?). Alas, it’s not Open Source.
WebMon: Know when web pages change
WebMon is a freeware web page update monitoring program - […]
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(Computing) | 2
05-04-02
Tags: send characters to the foreground window as a user can do.
WinTclSend and Windpysend
With this DLL you can simulate keyboard input and Mouse mouvement on your Windows 95/98/NT/2000 machine.
send control key (ctrl-o, ctrl-c, ctrl-v, ….)
set/get the "clipboard".
check the title of the foreground window.
copy information from one window to […]
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(Computing) | 0
05-04-02
Tags: WebSec - A Web Secretary Am looking for a tool that (a) monitors a journal publisher’s website, and (b) extract the latest journal TOCs and (c) notify me of changes via email or RSS.
I was surprised and disappointed by the lack of open source tools for monitoring webpages. There seemed to be some interests back […]
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(Computing) | 0