Archive for October, 2006
06-10-30
Tags:evolution game theory language Linguistics Profiles Research symbol system syntax
Paul Vogt (no, not the comedian) recently published a series of very interesting papers simulating the emergence of grammar — broadly defined as composionality — from unstructured tokens communication.
He also provides the simulation platform, THSim, online:
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06-10-30
Tags:OddsnEnds Paperville Psy97 psychology self Teaching theory of mind Elephents passed the Mirror Test! […]
The news is all over, and I thought it’s too ____ to not mention here. It’s work from Frans de Waal’s group at Emory. Picture here and 3 video clips on the PNAS supporting info site.
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06-10-19
Tags:Education policy Teaching EdWeek hosted an on-line chat forum on educational policy. Thursday, October 19, 2006 The Changing Role of the U.S. Department of Education Oct. 18, 2006
Guest: Christopher T. Cross, author of Political Education: National Policy Comes of Age and former assistant secretary for educational research and improvement under President George […]
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06-10-18
Tags:English Linguistics OddsnEnds orthography OT Research I filed this one under "Research" category, as there is a serious purpose to this.
Mark Liberman posts today about the ambiguity around apostrophes, triggered by Justice Scalia’s inconsistence in writing possessives forms of nouns that end with an "S". Mark sides with Scalias, confessing a […]
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06-10-13
Tags:CiteULike Computing Research Watch List Firefox Scholar is finally here. But what do I do with CiteULike? Zotero (hmm… tastes like some sort of anti-depression drug ) Beta is released a few days back. It’s touted to be the open source alternative to EndNote and CiteULike. From what I can read about its […]
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06-10-13
Tags:Computing Watch List 2ms response time for an LCD screen, this is getting really close to a CRT. Would it be good enough for gaze-contingent display-change experiments? ViewSonic: Products: Desktop Displays: LCD Displays: X Series: VX922 ClearMotiv 2ms video response time XTREME 2ms video response enables digital HD […]
On sale this week for $230 at outpost.
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06-10-12
Tags:Computing eye tracking Research Watch List It’s 1000Hz. It’s remote. It’s as accurate as Eyelink II. That’s a dream come true. When can I put my hand on it? SR Research EyeLink | EyeLink 1000 Desktop The EyeLink® […]
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06-10-12
Tags:eye movement Paperville psychology Research Teaching I thought this is pretty cool. Caspi, A., Hirschberger, G., Ein-Dor, T., & Zivotofsky, A. Z. (2006). Looking away from death: The influence of subliminal […]
Journal of Vision - Looking away from death: The influence of subliminal priming on eye movement decisions, by Caspi, Hirschberger, Ein-Dor, & Zivotofsky
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06-10-11
Tags:Computing eye movement Research Watch List They will demonstrate a 1350Hz system at the SfN meeting in Atlanta.
———- Forwarded message ———-From: Andrew H. Clarke <andrew.clarke@charite.de>Date: Oct 11, 2006 3:38 AMSubject: [EM_LIST] Eye tracker news for SfNTo: EYE-MOVEMENT@jiscmail.ac.uk
Hi,those of you who will be attending the upcoming SfN meeting in Atlanta arecordially invited to visit […]
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06-10-10
Tags:OddsnEnds
Oddly enough, my daughter, who is now in 4th grade, loves Car Talk. So when it comes to discussing the pros and cons of the fuel cell technology, all I had to do to convince her to watch this NOVA | scienceNOW episold is to mention the following scene:
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06-10-10
Tags:calendar Computing google OddsnEnds rdf Watch List xml I don’t quite understand how this works, but Elias Torres claims that
I’d like to figure out how to use this cute service of parsing text for calendar appointment and translating it into SPARQL queries. Right now, I can pass “Do I have […]
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06-10-09
Tags:Computing Watch List
SIMILE Project
Piggy Bank
An extension to the Firefox Web browser that turns it into a Semantic Web browser […]
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06-10-09
Tags:Computing Watch List SIMILE | Timeline Timeline is a DHTML-based AJAXy widget for visualizing time-based events. It is like Google Maps for time-based information. Below is a live example that you can play with. Pan the timeline by […]
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06-10-09
Tags:Computing Watch List Selenium IDE: Selenium IDE Selenium IDE is an integrated development environment for Selenium tests. It is implemented as a Firefox extension, and allows you to record, edit, and debug tests. Selenium IDE includes the entire Selenium Core, allowing you to easily and quickly record and play back tests in […]
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06-10-09
Tags:Computing Watch List screen-scraper.com - products Compare
screen-scraper is a cross-platform tool for extracting data from Web sites, which comes in two editions: a free Basic Edition, and a commercial Professional Edition. It consists of a proxy server that allows the contents of HTTP and HTTPS requests to be viewed, and an engine that can […]
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06-10-09
Tags:magnocellular vision reading dyslexia Research OSA Vision Meeting: Session Details Vision and Reading
This symposium presents recent advances in understanding the role of visual pathways in reading. For example, over the last few years there has been increasing evidence that reading efficiency depends upon dynamic visual processes, and that plasticity within both early and later […]
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06-10-05
Tags:CiteULike Computing OddsnEnds Watch List Here are my neighbors. Find yours at http://itst.org/culneighbors.php. ly3 (213)
Your CiteULike neighbors
These people share a lot of resources with you and are thus your neighbors in the CiteULike universe. The number in brackets indicate how many resources they share with you.
You have 1000 resources in your library.
cmunson (52)
stefanherzog (22)
balicea […]
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06-10-05
Tags:Computing Education google literacy Teaching Watch List Funny that I was thinking about how Google could help with learning to read last week, and today Google launches literacy project to link resources The project, at google.com/literacy and google.de/literacy, also serves as a fresh way for Google to expand and differentiate its […]
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06-10-04
Tags:OddsnEnds DNA remedy ‘beats hay fever’ Patients receiving the experimental vaccine showed an average 60 per cent reduction in typical allergy symptoms, such as sneezing, runny nose, watering eyes and itching for at least two years, compared with those receiving a placebo. NI_MPU(’middle’); Researchers at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, in Baltimore, Maryland, believe that a […]
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06-10-03
Tags:CiteULike Computing Profiles Research Richard Cameron has a degree in mathematics from Cambridge University. He spent […]
USC’s Annenberg Center for Communications held a workshop on social software in the Academy (SSAW) back in May, 2005. Their Presenter Bios includes one for Richard Cameron, author of CiteULike.org.
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