Archive for the 'Research' Category
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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08-04-26
Tags:Paperville Research Statstics Teaching I knew F-test is generally robust against violations of normality. I also knew there are a lot of subtleties in this. But I never looked up the sources, until now. This is a good place to start: JSTOR: Journal of Educational Statistics, Vol. 17, No. 4, (1992 ), pp. 315-339
Summarizing […]
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08-04-16
Tags:Computing programming python Research Watch List A couple of years later I am still looking for a way to record audio in Python for my eye-tracking experiments. Eyelink comes with support for PyGame, which is itself a wrapper for SDL. However, SDL does not support audio recording to date. There is an […]
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08-04-06
Tags:Computing eye movement Research xml Well, at least not your typical procedual language, in the sense that it doesn’t have an equivalent of the variable, one that you can use to keep a running sum of element values.
Say you have:
<Products>
<Product> <Name>Gadget</Name> <Price>$10.00</Price> […]
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08-03-26
Tags:Computing Research Watch List Wordpress
Time to try this: CommentPress
CommentPress is an open source theme for the WordPress blogging engine that allows readers to comment paragraph by paragraph in the margins of a text. Annotate, gloss, workshop, debate: with CommentPress you can do all of these things on a finer-grained level, turning a […]
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08-03-24
Tags:Education eye movement Japanese Linguistics Research Nobuyuki and I are workign on a couple papers looking at word/phrase spaces in Japanese reading. Japanese typically do not put in spaces between words, although it’s standard practice before 2nd grade. How do they decide where to put in spaces in elementary texts?
nobuyuki’s research blog: […]
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08-03-24
Tags:evolution language Linguistics Paperville Research Babel’s Dawn is filing a number of interesing reports from the Evolang conference. No time to comment on all, but here’s a partial list. Babel’s Dawn: Words Are More Human than Syntax
Neanderthals Had Language
Recursion Can Be a "Side Effect"
"Words Are More Human than Syntax"
"Fossil Evidence of […]
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08-03-21
Tags:Computing eye tracking Research Following my last post on DLP, Kevin Miller suggested that 120Hz LCD panels may be the solution. Nobuyuki Jincho and his colleagues at RIKEN BSI tested LCD panels that claim to have 8ms response time. They used a photosensor hooked to a EEG machine, time synced with stimulus display that […]
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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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08-03-06
Tags:brain evolution number Paperville psychology Research It’s always exciting to speculate what the authors will say when you see a fascinating title like this. I haven’t read it, and the following is NOT a response to the paper, but reactions to the abstract.
TITLE: From Numerical Concepts to Concepts of Number
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08-02-25
Tags:Linguistics Paperville Research Babel’s Dawn: Chomsky’s Theory of Language Origins The founder of modern linguistics, Noam Chomsky, was famous for decades for his dismissal of interest in the evolution of language. In recent years he has moderated his position and in a lecture recently made available on line (here, registration required) he outlines his scenario […]
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08-02-03
Tags:Linguistics Paperville Research To what extent is the HTTP protocol shaped by individual computers at each node? BBS upcoming article, abstract below.
Let’s set aside the evolution vs design debate here; it is self evident that the communications protocol is logically constrained by what individual nodes can and cannot do. But the actual solution — […]
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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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08-01-24
Tags:Paperville Research psychology + semiology of mathematics
So I went first to linguistics and then, to what proved to be a lot more promising , to semiotics. Since then, I’ve written about mathematics from a semiotic/semiological point of view, first from the French structuralist one stemming […]
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07-12-15
Tags:Linguistics Research All about Oscar
Koreans began putting spaces between words in 1896. As in English, judgment varies on what constitutes a word rather than a phrase. Earlier, Koreans wrote syllables as distinct blocks but failed to separate words. That was the Chinese tradition, which is still alive in Japan, where the mixture of kanji […]
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07-12-15
Tags:Linguistics Research Korean Language - MSN Encarta
For centuries, Koreans combined the syllables into sentences without spaces to separate words, and they wrote sentences vertically, starting from the top right-hand corner of the page. Spaces between words began to appear in 1896. In the mid-20th century, Western-style writing in horizontal lines, starting from the top […]
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07-12-14
Tags:Computing exhibit mit Research statistics Watch List SIMILE | Timeplot Timeplot is a DHTML-based AJAXy widget for plotting time series and overlay time-based events over them (with the same data formats that Timeline supports).
Well, too back I can’t show it here because it’s actually not […]
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07-12-14
Tags:Computing Research Watch List zotero Internet Archive to store researchers’ notes, "raw" data
Unless all contributors are careful about what they upload, this effort may produce a storehouse of bad ideas.
The idea, is to upload (scanned) raw materials to Internet Archive, which will then return OCR-ed version back to them.
According to […]
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07-12-12
Tags:psychology Research Teaching fMRI in the public eye Nat Rev Neurosci. 2005 February; 6(2): 159–164.
Nat Rev Neurosci. Author manuscript; available in PMC 2006 July 31.
Published in final edited form as:
doi: 10.1038/nrn1609.
Copyright notice and Disclaimer
fMRI in the public eye
Eric Racine
The Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics, 701 Welch Road, Building A, Suite 1105, Palo […]
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