Archive for the 'Computing' Category
09-09-09
Tags:Computing I’ve been using Adobe Lightroom to manage/edit raw photo files from my Nikon D80. With my pictures spreat to a number of computers, I have recently adopted a recommended strategy to consolidate Lightroom catelogs to an external hard drive so that I can open the pictures on any computer.
After exporting a whole catelog from […]
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09-07-06
Tags:Computing google Research
Google Gears and Notebook disabled by Firefox 3.5, along with many useful extensions such as Book Burro and the LibX. Here’s a quick and dirty way to revive some of them, via the Nightly Tester Tools extension
After installing the NTT, go to add-ons, and click the "override all compatibility" button at […]
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09-05-26
Tags:Computing Research You do your normal lit search, and AuthorMapper shows where the authors are on google map. That’s one of the things on my procrastination to-do list. They did a very good job, including multi-resolution icon representations that, for example, shows an icon for the whole North East US region when you are at […]
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09-05-07
Tags:Computing Why did they think they needed a keyboard?
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09-04-22
Tags:Computing Education Teaching Google Trends shows an interesting contrast between the search volume of "reading" and "math". It’s scaled on so that the frequency of "reading" over the years averages to 1.
A few interesting observations:
1. nobody cares about reading or math when the holidays are near. (it’s also possible that the overall search volume […]
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09-03-09
Tags:Computing Amongst the hypes of Alpha, I looked back at MIT START, a natural language search engine, and found evidence of … well, what do you call it in an age of knowledge computation?
Here, start with START, and click on one of the pre-defined queries, Why is the sky blue? . And you get the following […]
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09-03-05
Tags:Computing Research Watch List This is probably old news, but looks like we will be able to buy out-of-print books from Google sometime in the future. Three types of books In-copyright and in-print books
This agreement helps define how our users may access different categories of books on Google Book Search.
In-print books are books […]
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09-02-18
Tags:Computing Linguistics One of those things pop up in your mind after 1:30am:
So far as I know, no computer programming language has a counterfactual conditional statement:
IF_CF (A) Then_Would_Have_Been B
Logically something like this is pretty straightforward to add: it’s not like we don’t know how to deal with modal logic (well, a lot less but […]
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09-01-14
Tags:Computing One thing I noticed lately as I watch the comments/spams on my blog site is that the spams are getting very personalized. Just today someone left what appears to be a relevant and somewhat intelligent comment on one of my old blog entries, except for the links and email.
Name: Payday Loans | E-mail: paydayloanslady@gmail.com | URI: http://www.checkcity.com | IP: 69.169.144.5 I agree. I don’t see […]
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08-12-05
Tags:Computing Watch List No, Apple still blocks access to its default calendar program on iPhone/iPodTouch, and going through iTunes or MobileMe involves Outlook (on the Windows side), which I strongly detest and have uninstalled even though we have a site license for it. I was searching for an over-the-air solution, and someone has come up […]
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08-12-03
Tags:Computing My students were abhored to find me using Google Chrome one day in class. Yep, I am one of the 1% who still do, because it’s much faster to start than Firefox and uses less memory over time. But I miss all the extensions I have on FF. One must have is Adblocker.
There is no […]
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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
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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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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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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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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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