Archive for November, 2008
08-11-30
Tags:Linguistics spelling That’s how Ethan, 5.5 years, spelt STUPID. A few things are noteworthy. ST
In English the letter T in ST+V spelling represents something in between sounds /t/ and /d/. Some argue it’s underlyingly /t/, but becomes unaspirated when flanked between /s/ and a vowel. I guess it also contracts some of the voicing, too. An […]
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(Odds'n'Ends, Linguistics) | 0
08-11-26
Tags:Education math NCLB Teaching The Education Trust just published a new report on math teachers who shouldn’t be teaching math, according to NCLB. The numbers do not look good. “As a nation, we must commit ourselves to ensuring that all students – no matter where they live – are taught by strong teachers,” said Kati […]
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08-11-24
Tags:Education NCLB reading first New America Blogs has a belated post on the Reading First final report. It tries to present a balanced view, though in doing so it fails to justify the existing program.
In the meantime, however, these results should not be used as a rationale to defund the program. Ensuring that students can […]
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08-11-19
Tags:Education NCLB reading reading first Teaching And the final verdict is: Study of Reading Program Finds a Lack of Progress, at least not in reading comprehension of grades 1 through 3. There is a slight gain in decoding among 1st graders, and the effect size is small, 0.17. Washington Post quotes:
"It is a […]
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08-11-17
Tags:Computing Watch List This is way better than what I had — when I had to leave my computer in public space, I used to start a screen saver, with a bouncing line of text that said "Motion Sensor Activated; Camera Activated". This one actually reads the motion sensor in Thinkpads.
If I were to steal […]
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08-11-15
Tags:Computing google map Add Your Own Custom Map
Adding a custom map is a very simple process with the latest version of the Google Maps API. The latest revisions of Version 2 implement several JavaScript classes that make the addition of your own custom map layer very simple. This guide is meant to describe how […]
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08-11-15
Tags:Computing googla map Watch List Pretty amazing … David20Rumsey20Historical20Map20Collection. Not only that sheer size of the collection, nor the fact that he scanned all of these, some of which are more than 1m large. I am more impressed with the fact he published all these without any troubles with copyright. Hey, don’t get me […]
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08-11-11
Tags:Computing Watch List
A great source of JSON data for mashing.
LibraryThing JSON Books API - WikiThing. There is a test page here: http://www.librarything.com/api/json.php
And then there’s the RESTful service:
RESTThis format is a simple HTTP GET or POST action and expects method information. Requests follow the following format:http://www.librarything.com/services/rest/[version]/?[method_name]&[arguments as key=value separated by ampersands]&apikey=[your developer key]example: http://www.librarything.com/services/rest/1.0/?method=librarything.ck.getwork&id=1060&apikey=d231aa37c9b4f5d304a60a3d0ad1dad4By default, REST requests […]
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08-11-10
Tags:Computing I don’t know when this function was added, but you can now search the web for faces only. Try this: "gary feng" - Google Image Search
[Disclaimer: as of today, none of the faces you see there is mine. In fact, you can’t find me even if you turn the "face-only" thing off. My invisibility cloak fooled […]
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(Computing, Odds'n'Ends) | 1
08-11-09
Tags:Computing statistics Watch List What the Dickens? is a javascript Bayesian classification tool. It loads a corpus as a js file (which is no more than word counts from Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice and Charles Dickens’ roughly half of Great Expectations). It then uses something akin to Divmod Reverend, a Python library for Bayesian filtering. There are parts missing, but it […]
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08-11-08
Tags:Computing eye tracking Research Watch List Doesn’t say the accuracy of eye-gaze location tracking. Prize winner in Competition "Best C++/MFC article of June 2008"
CodeProject: TrackEye : Real-Time Tracking Of Human Eyes Using a Webcam. Free source code and programming help The purpose of the project is to implement a […]
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(Computing, Research, Odds'n'Ends, Watch List) | 0
08-11-08
Tags:Computing Linguistics Paperville psychology statistics Bob Port lists many interesting papers on this page in support of Rich Phonology, which I know little other than that it seems to emphasize on the richness (high dimensionality) of memory/representation of spken words (or do words exist if we are anti-segmental all the way?).
I am […]
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(Computing, Paperville, Psychology, Linguistics, Statstics) | 1
08-11-05
Tags:Linguistics Paperville statistics A couple of interesting papers to augment probability with "perception" — I think that’s a misnomer, though. The "perception" Zadeh talks about has little psychological reality. It refers to words, an expanded collection of modals. The direction of the pursue makes practical sense (as much as gHit counts makes linguistic sense). […]
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08-11-05
Tags:Computing Watch List Someone beat me to this . NPR provides an interesting API for accessing their stories; this wedget is one that uses the field:date to plot a time line:
Widgets : Tech Center : NPR
NPR SIMILE TIMELINE
The NPR SIMILE Timeline allows you to display a listing of NPR stories on a timeline. This timeline, made entirely of […]
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08-11-04
Tags:Computing Watch List
Looks like a good tool, but can it do more than pies, bars, and areas? What is the HTML Canvas tag? Can I use it for visualizing eye movements?
PlotKit - Javascript Chart Plotting | liquidx
IntroductionPlotKit is a Chart and […]
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