Archive for the 'Research' Category
09-10-30
Tags:Paperville psychology Research Teaching Behavioral and Brian Sciences upcoming article:
Target Article: "The Weirdest People in the World?"Authors: Joseph Henrich, Steven J. Heine and Ara Norenzayan
Deadline for proposals: November 19, 2009
Abstract (short): Broad claims about human psychology and behavior based on narrow samples from Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich and Democratic (WEIRD) societies are regularly published […]
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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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09-06-03
Tags:Research
Relaying the Duke Library Hacks blog post on Publish or Perish
Joining this group is Publish or Perish, with a slightly different take on this process. Publish or Perish uses data from Google Scholar, but it automatically does analysis on the citation patterns for specific authors. After searching for an author (works best with first initial […]
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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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09-03-05
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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09-02-22
Tags:Research Alas, I won’t be able to attend this.
Symposium: "Emotions, Natural Selection and Rationality" Symposium
http://business.richmond.edu/news_events/current_events/3-21-09_Econ_Symposium.html
Date: 20-22 March, 2009
Place: University of Richmond, Richmond, Virginia
The symposium focuses on how the emotions are related to morality, on one hand, and to rationality, on the other. The recent discovery of the mirror neuron system, conceivably the basis of sympathetic emotions, highlights the biological basis of […]
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09-01-09
Tags:Research Tobii Eyetracking Conference for Infant & Child Researchers - Summary - powered by RegOnline
I won’t be able to go but sounds like an interesting gathering.
Tobii Eyetracking Conference for Infant & Child Researchers
Wednesday, February 25, 2009 9:00 am - 5:00 pm (Eastern Time)
Doubletree Guest Suites Times Square 1568 Broadway New York, New […]
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08-12-21
Tags:Research Just got an email from a top journal in my field, asking me to review a very interesting manuscript, to which I replied:
Hmm… this is really tempting, but I don’t think it’s appropriate to review my own submission
Happy Holidays!
— gary
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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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08-10-28
Tags:Computing Research Watch List Am I reading it correctly? So Google is in Amazon’s business of selling books, or even better, fulltext of books. You get 20% preview, and unlimited access after you buy it?
Will Google come up with something better than Kindle? I hope not. I hope everything will be in PDF, but […]
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08-10-18
Tags:Chinese English eye movement Linguistics orthography Paperville phonology psychology Research Looking at the title and abstract, I wonder why this one is published on JEP:HPP
Are phonological representations of printed and spoken language isomorphic? Evidence from the restrictions on unattested onsets. Pages 1288-1304 Berent, Iris Are […]
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08-10-02
Tags:Education Paperville Research Teaching I am quoting the closing paragraph, which I wish I could use to conclude a paper I am writing.
Although storybook reading remains the single most extensively researched aspect of the field of emergent literacy, still much is to be discovered about how exactly children acquire knowledge during this activity. […]
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08-09-18
Tags:Computing Research Watch List I have a long interest in setting up something like CiteSeer for Psychology. In fact I contacted Steve Lawrence way back when, and still have their alpha version server scripts they graciously shared with me (but I was never able to make it work). […]
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08-09-17
Tags:Linguistics Research I will be meeting with an independent study student tomorrow morning to go over some paper related to our spelling project. One of the papers is
The sbelling of sdops: Preliterate children’s spelling of stops after /s/ Authors: Hannam, Rachel; Fraser, Helen; Byrne, Brian1
Source: Reading and Writing, Volume 20, Number 4, June 2007 , pp. 399-412(14)
Abstract: […]
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08-09-05
Tags:Computing exhibit mit Research Watch List A way to put citations online in a multi-facet interface. Now sure what problem this solves, but nonetheless cool. Welcome to Citeline, a service to facilitate the web publishing of bibliographies and citation collections as interactiveexhibits and facilitate the sharing of this type of data.Here are some of our […]
Citeline
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08-07-30
Tags:Cuneiform History Linguistics Paperville Research symbol system writing system
I’ve been reading The Invention of Cuneiform by Jean-Jacques Glassner, originally published Paris: Seuil, 2000, in series L’univers historique (ISBN 0-801807389-4), translated by Zainab Bahrani and Marc Van De Mieroop.
I will reserve comments for later. Here’s some quotables from the […]
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08-06-19
Tags:Computing Research statistics Watch List mathStatica is perhaps the most comprehensive solution for mathematical statistics on Mathematica. At least that’s how they bill it. It does include additional distributions, improved distributional plots, and simplified ways to deal with moments, cumulants, etc.
Just look at this example … I am impressed.
Parameter-Mix Distributions
The notation:
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08-06-19
Tags:Computing Research statistics
Mathematica claims to have Multicore Support since 5.2. I am running 6.x on a Core 2 Dual notebook, but the Math Kernel only uses 50% CPU max. Mathematica says:
Multicore chips have more than one CPU core; multiple-processor computers have more than one CPU chip. Both are being introduced by […]
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08-06-13
Tags:Computing Research statistics Watch List Algorithmics Group : Software : PyMix PyMix: The Python mixture package Finite mixture models of […]
The Python Mixture Package (PyMix) is a freely available Python library implementing algorithms and data structures for a wide variety of data mining applications with basic and extended mixture models.
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08-06-13
Tags:Computing Research statistics 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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