Archive for the 'Odds'n'Ends' Category
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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07-12-15
Tags:Computing Linguistics Where does this rule of thumb come from? Spaces between words
Wikipedia:Manual of Style (Korea-related articles) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For Hangul, the basic rule of thumb is that there are spaces between words that are each 2 or more syllables in length, while there is no space between 2 one-character words or between a […]
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07-12-10
Tags:Research Roaming around in the neighborhood, with rocks in hands, aiming at streetlamps or the kid who beat you yesterday. That was a partial description of my childhood, the more exciting part of it. Turns out there is a branch of science that studies it. ScienceDirect - Journal of Human Evolution : Age-related differences in the performance, […]
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07-12-08
Tags:character Chinese Linguistics If you can read this, you’re Number One! "You Are No. 1" Superstar Andy Lau, recently named China’s most desirable man by professor Jiang Jiehai, signed with East Asia Music yesterday in a deal rumored to be worth HK$200 million.
The photo at left is of Andy’s frequent co-star Sammi Cheng, also […]
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07-12-04
Tags:character Chinese English genes The Loom : Farewell, Seymour Benzer As the geneticist Guido Pontecorvo wrote in 1958, "The analogy of the genetic material with a written message is a useful commonplace. The important change is that we now think of the message as being in handwritten English rather than in Chinese." In […]
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07-11-28
Tags:Linguistics Machinist: Tech Blog, Tech News, Technology Articles - Salon
Its $400 price tag, its zany user interface, and some of its sillier restrictions make the Kindle a non-starter for all but the travelingest, readingest early adopters.
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07-11-28
Tags:Computing Psych 290: Introduction to Unix grep, sed, and awk are extraordinarily useful text processing tools. In general, I find it useful to think about Unix programming as a little bit like demonology. There is an element of ritual, a focus on knowing the names of strange beasts that […]
grep, sed, and awk
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07-11-14
Tags:Education English reading Teaching UK beat the US in admitting failure of reading reform … that would have been a catchy news article title. The truth is, neither government will admit anything. Billions of pounds or dollars were spent and little is gained. That’s all.
Ten years of bold education boasts now look […]
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07-11-09
Tags:Research This is interesting.
NIMH Center for the Study of Emotion and Attention
Affective Norms for English Text (ANET)
The Affective Norms for English Text (ANET) provides normative ratings of emotion (pleasure, arousal, dominance) for a large set of brief texts in the English language for use in experimental investigations of emotion and attention. The […]
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07-11-08
Tags:eye movement statistics Honestly, I am getting tired of the spinning naked woman on my blog. So I figured I’d just keep posting, and eventually it would be pushed out of the front page. This is a clip […]
Here goes…
… my first visual illusion. Is that the bell-cueved Gaussian distribution or is it tilted?
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07-10-29
Tags:psychology Teaching Two particularly striking ones. 1st prize - © 2007 Kingdom, Yoonessi & Gheorghiu
One from http://illusioncontest.neuralcorrelate.com, winner of this year’s Best Visual Illusion Contest.
And the next from; by way of Kevin’s blog; the original source […]
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07-10-16
Tags:OddsnEnds Neat.
The Bouncing Jet: A liquid stream bouncing off a moving liquid bath
Figure 1. A falling liquid stream rebounds off a deep bath of the same silicone oil.
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07-10-15
Tags:Research Watch List I am on ASL’s email list and got this today. Don’t think I will be watching, but maybe you will.
Dear Gary:Sharing eye tracking research, even if it’s not in your specific discipline, can always be interesting.
That’s why we’d like you to be aware that ASL’s Mobile Eye takes to the football field […]
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07-10-11
Tags:OddsnEnds Watch List
AppleInsider cites holiday wishlists based on a survey by Solutions Research Group. Chek your list and see how far out of touch you are with Mainstream America.
But if you look carefully, you might notice that the survey unearths a hidden gender: Neither men nor women have the "Blu-ray/HDDVD" on their top-10 list, […]
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07-10-08
Tags:English Linguistics OddsnEnds Ok, I need some help with English.
I desperately wish to affectionately express my appreciations to GNU AWK, a wonderfully simple yet life-savingly useful little program for text file processing. Now you see the pattern of my personal a-dver-buse, and hence my question above.
No, I don’t mean to say "the […]
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07-10-08
Tags:Research Teaching Matthew Nisbit & Dietram A. Scheufele have a cover story for The Scientist on Framing science communication. It starts with a quote from Larry Page, Google Co-founder, that "science has a serious marketing problem." Here’s the take home message: Tailoring communication efforts to fit with publics […]
The Scientist : The Future of Public Engagement
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07-10-07
Tags:OddsnEnds I think this is the article with a higher impact-factor / time-to-write of the history of science (toke 30 mins of research, discounting of course the 10 hours of intensive videoplay) A note by Julio Bonis Sanz, MD., who self-nominated to the Improbable Research’s Ig Nobel prize. Oh, how I wish I could write a […]
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