Archive for the 'Odds'n'Ends' Category
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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08-07-26
Tags: I didn’t get to go to his speech. Shiou-yuan Chen and friends got there before 4 and ended up not too far from Obama. So here’s a couple of pictures. This was as near as they could get, and there was no way they could move an inch away from whatever that […]
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08-07-23
Tags: Greetings from Berlin. Let me be absolutely clear — Obama was not the target of the attack– he is probably not even in Berlin. The site of his speech tomorrow was vandalized by red paint.
I am here for the International Congress of Psychology this week. Coincidentally, Obama will also give a speech — the […]
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08-06-13
Tags:Computing Education Watch List Abby Brown at the Rorrey Pines High School MathematiClub created a bunch of Mathematica notebooks for middle/high school math. And for fun. Let’s see if I can get Jessie interested in this.
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08-06-13
Tags:Computing Research Statstics Some ideas just never die. At some point you got to decide to do something about them. In this case, I will post it here and forget about it once and for all.
This one goes back some 15, 20 odd years, when I was still in Beijing. I was attracted to […]
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08-05-27
Tags:blog Computing distribution modeling power law Statstics 6 blogs linked to this one you are reading in the past 6 months, according to my Technorati profile. I am indifferent to, but not disinterested in, the number. I probably have more trackbacks than that, but I don’t expect it to be ranked […]
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08-05-26
Tags:Education psy145 spelling spelling bees Teaching
Get ready for the most intense sport for kids under 15 — Scripps National Spelling Bee.
Broadcast Times
The Quarterfinals air live on ESPN360.com from 2:00 to 5:30 p.m. EDT on Thursday, May 29.
The […]
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08-05-06
Tags:Computing Research Moving to a new computer. The new C drive is a little crammed, so I moved all my PDF files, 4G of them, to D drive. I thought I copied all program perferences to the new user profile, including Adobe Acrobat’s Organizer preferences.
If you are like me, reading tons of PDF files for […]
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08-04-24
Tags:Psy97 Ok, I will file this story under "Teaching", since I do talk about the determination of sex in my Child Development course. But the idea that food intake determines the child’s sex has always been part of the culture belief of Chinese. It’s interesting to read the 200 comments after the article. Boy or Girl? The […]
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08-04-24
Tags: This is my new desktop picture. Pick yours from the 59 Greatest Galaxy Hits from NASA. Arp 240 is an astonishing galaxy pair, composed of spiral galaxies of similar mass and size, NGC 5257 and NGC 5258. The galaxies are visibly interacting with each other via a bridge of dim […]
NGC 5257, NGC 5258
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08-03-31
Tags:Education journalism psy145 reading Teaching Here again is a news story about reading that ends with an advertisement in disguise. Compare this scien-fo-mercial to the poli-fo-mercial. See for yourself how the same tactics were used.
Researcher believes early exposure to the written word can help toddlers read
A U.S. infant researcher says your baby or […]
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08-03-31
Tags:Linguistics paraorthography statistics Mark Liberman offers additional readings for a freshman who has a big ambition My lecture notes on morphology from Linguistics 001.
Language Log: Ask Language Log: Comparing the vocabularies of different languages
If you’re interested in taking this further, here are a few inadequate suggestions:
The Natural Language Toolkit, and the associated book. You might start with Chapter 3, Words.
My lecture […]
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08-03-30
Tags:Linguistics psychology
Back in Sept 2007 Scientific American has an article on the potential evolution advantages of schizophrenia. The claim was that schizophrenia is a language disorder — hmm…
It’s No Delusion: Evolution May Favor Schizophrenia Genes: Scientific AmericanCo-author Crespi says that a number of theories have been floating around regarding the persistence of schizophrenia’s genetic […]
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08-03-20
Tags:camstudio Computing gawk Research Watch List I did a screencast for running GAWK — saved it as Flash SWF (sorry, lab members only). It reportedly crashes Firefox in the middle of playing. Here’s why:
By the way, CamStudio is now 2.5
A number of people have mentioned having trouble viewing SWF videos generated by CamStudio. […]
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08-02-01
Tags:Computing Linguistics Research Sutton True Type Fonts How To Install and Type Documents
If you are looking for a completely novel and arbitrary (unless you speak ASL) font for English, here’s a great one … Evertype’s Sutton SignWriting fonts
And while there, check out The Alphabets of Europe
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08-01-30
Tags:CiteULike Computing Research Watch List
I am becoming more and more disappointed with CiteULike. Here’s my latest complaint:
They recently added a hidden field with MD5-coded junk in the copy/post page. The code is at the bottom of the HTML code. I fyou ommit the field of the two junk MD5 strings are changed, […]
dirty MD5 trick?
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08-01-28
Tags: You can get DNA samples and you can measure telomeres, but you still can’t measure causality.
I haven’t read the original article, that that’s beside the point. Talking about semiotics, DNA represents the ultimate causality in popular thinking and media reporting. In this case, do stressed folks get less physical activities, or does activities reduce […]
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08-01-23
Tags:psychology Peirce’s Arisbe - Quotes of the Day
The psychologists undertake to locate various mental powers in the brain; and above all consider it as quite certain that the faculty of language resides in a certain lobe; but I believe it comes decidedly nearer the truth (though not really true) that language resides in the tongue. […]
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08-01-22
Tags:Chinese English Linguistics Language Log: A new way of 寫ing Mandarin reports a trendy expression in IM/internet Chinese.
A paper by Jia Lou, "From English morpheme to symbol of Chinese netizenship: Exploring -ing in Chinese blogs", NWAV 34, 2005.
I am too removed from the speaker community to have any intuition. But I was struck […]
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08-01-10
Tags:Linguistics paraorthography Email is often misinterpreted. Duh. And now there is even psychological proof of just that.
The Secret Cause of Flame Wars
"Don’t work too hard," wrote a colleague in an e-mail today. Was she sincere or sarcastic? I think I know (sarcastic), but I’m probably wrong.
According to recent research published in the Journal […]
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