Archive for the 'Research' Category
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 Statstics 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 Statstics
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 Statstics 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.
Features
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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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08-05-30
Tags:CiteULike Computing Paperville psy145 Psy97 Research Teaching
I just noticed a link to post to CiteULike while looking up this paper DIVERSITY: Culture, Gender, and Math — Guiso et al. 320 (5880): 1164 — Science
The paper itself isn’t exactly groundbreaking, but is nonetheless a useful update for teaching.
I also […]
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08-05-22
Tags:Computing Research One of my first Web2.0 projects was to modify ZenPhoto into an online transcription for our spelling project. It uses editable DIV extensively, which means a lot of onclick events inside of onclick events. It was written back in 2005, and has been working well with Firefox 1.x, 2.x, and IE all versions. […]
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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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08-04-26
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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