Archive for August, 2008
08-08-29
Tags:Education parenting reading Teaching
Daniel Akst is a successful writer with at least 3 books in print and numerous articles on NYT, WSJ, and LAT. So when he speaks about parenting and the cure of education, it has a distinct tone of a successful person.
I will refrain from making comments here — […]
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(Teaching, Education) | 2
08-08-29
Tags:Computing Microsoft That is the most entertaining word I have heard from Microsoft so far. BlueScreen Introduction
BlueScreen Screen Saver v3.2
By Mark Russinovich
Published: November 1, 2006
One of the most feared colors in the NT world is blue. The infamous Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) will pop up on an NT system whenever something has gone terribly wrong. […]
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08-08-26
Tags:character Chinese Linguistics I left a bait in an earlier post 伊辛巴耶娃 to 伊娃 :
… Doesn’t matter if you don’t read Chinese — each character is always a syllable (except for 1 character, which I will not tell here; let me know if you know the answer).
Kevin at timelysnow.com wants to know the answer. […]
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08-08-26
Tags:Chinese Linguistics Following up the previous post on the disyllable preference of Chinese words, here’s another example:
The title of the following article reads : "22 champs talk about Phlying-fish and Bolt, who is greater; most choose the former"
Who is Phlying Fish?
We all have seen his face way too many times in the past […]
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08-08-25
Tags:Education reading Teaching Reading the PISA 2006 report, I was surprised to find no mentioning of USA reading scores in the Reading section. They did participate, but according to
InternationalEd.org | PISA
The PISA has been given every three years since 2000 to fifteen-year-olds in the thirty member countries of the Organisation for Economic […]
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(Teaching, Education) | 2
08-08-20
Tags:Computing statistics I am using the "segmented" package by Vito M. R. Muggeo (2008, http://cran.r-project.org/doc/Rnews/Rnews_2008-1.pdf) to do some piecewise-linear regressions. Wanted to make a function but this won’t run. Looks like it’s — or I am — confusing objects in different scopes.
## need to load the package firstlibrary("segmented")
## define the segreg3 function################## This function […]
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08-08-18
Tags:Chinese Linguistics Chinese has shifted from a monosyllabic language to a mixture of mono- and bi-syllabic languages. The preferred phonological structure for new words is now bisyllabic. The on-going Beijing Olympics Games presents an unexpected opportunity to testify this.
伊辛巴耶娃 (in pinyin: yi-xin-ba-ye-wa or -va) is the official translation of Yelena Isinbayeva (Елена Гаджиевна Исинбаева), […]
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