Archive for September, 2005
05-09-14
Tags: Ilisys Web Hosting - How can I install Gallery with PHP safe mode enabled? Ilisys has put together this guide for webmasters that wish to install Gallery themselves. If you would prefer that Ilisys staff install Gallery for you, please contact Technical Support (support@ilisys.com.au or 1800 995 645).
The installation of some applications […]
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05-09-14
Tags: The SecureImage plug-in, an anti-spam plug-in for WordPress, does not work out of the box on my WAMP servers. There are several issues: You need to use the WordPress Admin controlpanel to set parameters. It’s under Options->SuperImage.
Set full path name for ImageMagick convert.exe. Use "\", not "/". Note that everytime you save the preferences, it will […]
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05-09-13
Tags:Education Paperville reading Research tutoring The Crain-Thoreson et al (1997) study examined 2 thinking aloud protocols for studying comprehension monitoring. In the marked version readers are asked to comment on their own reading processes when they see a marker in the text (every 250 words). In the unmarked version they report whenever […]
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(Research, Education) | 0
05-09-13
Tags: If it’s available online, at least I can link to it, I think.
The following is a pre-print of a lead article by John Locke and Barry Bogin, to appear in Behavior and Brain Sciences. The first paragraph of the abstract.
TITLE: Language and life history: A new perspective on the development and evolution of […]
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(Paperville, Linguistics) | 0
05-09-12
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TinyMCE is a cross-plateform WYSISYG editor that I’ve been using (the 0.95 version) for a couple of years to post/edit this blog. It is getter to 2.0 how. I should add it’s button to my site.
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(Computing, Watch List) | 0
05-09-11
Tags: AncientScripts.com: Linear B is the clearist introduction to Linear B, the oldest Greek writing system, that I have read. E.g., the following illustrates the end consonant in each case get dropped or assimilated. The following chart shows how consonants are written out. The first line illustrates consonant clusters, the second line shows ending […]
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(Linguistics) | 0
05-09-09
Tags: People’s Daily Corpus The PH Corpus is a corpus of Mandarin Chinese, containing about 2.4 million words of newswire text published by Xinhua News Agency in 1990-1991. The corpus was compiled by Guo Jin. The segmented version of the corpus is available at ftp://ftp.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/pub/chinese. The corpus is now part-of-speech tagged (tagset) and can be accessed online […]
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(Linguistics) | 0
05-09-09
Tags: The ABC Dictionary by John de Francis is one of the best Chinese-English dictionaries around. One of the unique features of ABC is that it gives you the frequency of occurance of a character or a word. Where does the number come from?
Jerry Packard put the question to me. And I turned to Google. Here […]
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(Linguistics) | 2
05-09-09
Tags: Beijing Language and Culture University, previously called Beijing Language Institute, is one of the best centers of computational linguistics in Beijing, along with Peking U and TsingHua. Some of the resources they put up on the web include: 关于分词规范的探讨（语言文字应用）
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(Computing, Linguistics) | 0
05-09-08
The Writing Gene
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(Odds'n'Ends, Linguistics) | 0
05-09-06
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From Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science:
August 29, 2005
President’s Invited Address
Rod Little gave the President’s Invited Address at the Joint Statistical Meetings in Minneapolis earlier this month. He was talking about the Bayesian/frequentist "schism" and resolved it in the following way: Bayesian methods are good for inference; frequentist methods are good for model assessment. […]
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(Statstics) | 0
05-09-06
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Hi! I’m Jessie, I come from Illinois, I am seven, and I have freckles. I go to Glenwood elementary, duel language. Now, please listen to my story about how I got my super powers:
Chapter 2
“Jessie!” called mother, “come down! Mommy has good news for you!” I was up stairs playing computer. […]
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(Odds'n'Ends) | 0
05-09-05
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Andrew Gelman had a link to something called Adventures in Statistics - Cartoon Learning Modules. It’s a commercial course module, an on-line version of "statistics for dummies" with cartoon characters. Apparently they assume that having a cartoon "dummy" will assist learning. Whether that’s true or not is not the focus of this post, though. It […]
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(Odds'n'Ends, Statstics) | 0
05-09-04
Tags: Li found this resource, which looks like will be very useful for us. CCL语料库使用说明
现代汉语语料库： 108,471,447 字 古代汉语语料库： 23,448,901 字 共计： 131,920,348 （1亿3千1百92万零348）字
Documentation is minimal. And it’s not clear wher e the corpora came from. Nonetheless, it appears to provide a reasonable interface for searching for useful patterns. […]
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(Computing, Research, Linguistics) | 0
05-09-02
Tags: Is the last sentence grammatical? I had to read it a couple of times before realizing where the problem is. But if native speakers say so (and copy editors are not bothered), it’s English, right?
The Globe and Mail: Cavalry arrives as Bush admits relief lacking
Thousands of National Guardsmen with food, water […]
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(Odds'n'Ends, Linguistics) | 1
05-09-02
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NCSmartLink.org - Real-Time Traffic Cameras has a map of where traffic webcams are located around my area. Move the mouse over the cams and see the up to the minute pictures. (not on this picture; go to the above site.) Pretty cool.
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(Odds'n'Ends) | 0
05-09-01
Tags:Education gifted education IQ OddsnEnds Local politics again. My school district uses the NNAT as a screening test, and kids who scored above the 97th percentile can be nominated for the gifted program, but those who get 99th percentile have pretty much guaranteed placement. In addition, there are other softer criteria to get […]
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(Odds'n'Ends, Education) | 0