Archive for August, 2007
07-08-29
Tags:economics modeling rationality reading Research Teaching I generally do not read newspapers, but this one strikes either a chord or a dischord, something I am still trying to figure out. Steven Pearlstein - On Poverty, Maybe We’re All Wrong - washingtonpost.com
… after doing lots of reading and giving it extensive thought, […]
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07-08-28
Tags:psychology Research I will not go to Cognitive Development Society Conference 2007.
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07-08-27
Tags:ai algorithm Computing evolution Paperville Research Eric Baum’s 1997 manuscript has the coolest title I’ve seen for years. Toward a Model of Intelligence as an Economy of Idiots
By the time it was published on Machine Learning in 1999,"idiots" became "agents", and it lost it.
It sounds like a really cool paper, though. […]
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07-08-27
Tags:History Photography Stuck in a hotel room in a foreign land, watching history told in an unfamiliar language, I took my Nikon D80 (18-135mm zoom, Bulb or long exp) in my hands to capture some of the fleeting moments of the past. People and events are often rendered inrecognizable, but how do we know we […]
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07-08-27
Tags:Chinese counterfactual Linguistics Paperville syntax This is the latest book on aspect in Chinese, something that we’ve found to link to how people think and talk about counterfactuals. The TOC and the first chapter can be found at here.
Aspect In Mandarin Chinese: A Corpus-based Study (Studies in Language Companion […]
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07-08-16
Tags: The Discovery of Vast Tail on Dying Star Mira, as reported widely across various news sources, piqued my curiosity. Marc Kaufman at Washington Post wrote
The 13-light-year-long tail is made up of molecules of oxygen, carbon and nitrogen shed by the slowly dying but very fast-moving star as it speeds through the Milky Way […]
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07-08-14
Tags:Education math symbol system Tried to explain 3-(-5)=8 to my daughter today to no avail. Where I went wrong was to try to explain the whole thing on a number line, but I confused myself before confusing Jessie — I guess she was not bothered by the math challenge at all; she just watched […]
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07-08-13
Tags:Computing fun Watch List Google my name "Gary Feng" today, and you will find this as the #16 hit: Complaint letter about Prof. Gary Feng
It is not likely that I shall say anything new here. If I do, it will be of only minor significance. Nevertheless, it has been a long-standing observation of mine that […]
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07-08-13
Tags:alphabet Greek Linguistics OT Paperville Profiles I’ve been reading Roger Woodard’s 1997 book on the origin of Greek Alphabet:
So far I am very impressed. He makes a strong argument that the Greek alphabet was adopted by scribes who were proficient in syllabic writing. The chapters on the rules of syllabic systems […]
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07-08-13
Tags:Computing Watch List Scrybe is open for business. The biggest question is how well it syncs with google calendar and dominant PIM products. The video shows it "syncs with paper" — you can have nice printouts — but that’s almost self-defeating if this is the only noteworthy sync option. Scrybe™ is a groundbreaking online organizer […]
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07-08-02
Tags:distribution Paperville Research statistics word frequency Many natural phenomena exhibit self-similarity, and statistically this often shows in the frequency distribution of events. Word frequency is a classic example. If you rank words from most frequent to the least, and plot its frequency distribution on a log-log scale, you will get a straight […]
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07-08-02
Tags:Linguistics phonological awareness Research Sanskrit Teaching writing system Richard Sproad mentioned in the following chapter the possibility that inventers of the Brahmi script prepared themselves for the segmental challenges through the practice of the Ghana-patha.
Richard Sproat, "A Formal Computational Analysis of Indic Scripts", International Symposium on Indic Scripts: […]
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07-08-02
Tags:Computing Watch List Voyage at Dawn by Tim Mahrt Generated from text: It is morning.The sky is tan. The ground is water. A very large boat is in the […]
Richard Sproat , whom I have never met but have great respect of, worked on a project called WordsEye — it generates images based on text descriptions.
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07-08-02
Tags:health media Paperville reading statistics Teaching
Hardly a day goes by without some sensatinoal claims about what reading does for the mind, or brain. Some turn out to be true, but many skeptical. Here’s a recent news piece from HealthDay that circulated among national newspapers such as the Washington Post.
Lead […]
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