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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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08-06-13
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 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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08-04-23
Tags:Computing Teaching Watch List It’s the end of the semester, and final papers are due. As always, some will be late. I have a student emailing me the paper in Word, with a note that he forgot to bring the hard copy to class. In this case a Microsoft Word Metadata Viewer comes in […]
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08-04-22
Tags:Computing Watch List Sprout intuitively learns and adapts to your preferences by statistically evaluating your positive and negative feedback
Sprout learns your news reading habit and supplies only stuff you like. At least that’s what the beta version says. Looks like some sort of Bayesian learning:
The more you use Sprout, the more it learns about your […]
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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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08-04-10
Tags:Computing Watch List rPath has a Guided Tour for their Joomla appliance. Interesting and tempting.
Update: Bad idea. You have to regi$ter to get root access, and by default you can’t install modules, components, or other extensions. No PhpMyAdmin. So unle$$.
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08-03-31
Tags:Computing Watch List Just a reminder to myself: Need to upgrade to WordPress 2.5
March 29, 2008WordPress 2.5By Matt. Filed under Releases.WordPress 2.5, the culmination of six months of work by the WordPress community, people just like you. The improvements in 2.5 are numerous, and almost entirely a result of your feedback: multi-file uploading, one-click plugin upgrades, built-in galleries, […]
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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:Computing Watch List Vertov seems like an interesting tool:
Vertov is a project of the Concordia Digital History Lab, Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling, Concordia University, Montreal
Vertov is a free media annotating plugin for Zotero, an innovative, easy-to-use, and infinitely extendable research tool. Both are Firefox extensions. Vertov allows you to cut video and audio files into […]
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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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08-03-07
Tags:Education Linguistics Teaching Watch List
UCTV–University of California Television has lots of back programs online, via YouTube or podcasts. Here are a couple of interesting ones:
http://uctv.tv/search-details.asp?showID=11187
Grey Matters: Understanding Language (#11187; 58 minutes; 7/19/2006) Why are humans the only species to have language? Is there […]
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08-02-25
Tags:Computing firefox Watch List Mozilla Labs » Blog Archive » Prism is workable. Honestly all it does is to install another — modified — Firefox on your computer and to launch whatever URL in a separate window. But it’s great if you have to keep track of multiple gmail accounts. No need to log […]
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08-02-05
Tags:Computing google Watch List Listen, Google, buy The Milk! This is somehting that is LOOONG missing in gmail. The thoroughness of this plug-in is beyond my expectation. I have installed it and will restart FireFox after posting this. Will report how it goes. Connect […]
Remember The Milk - Services / Remember The Milk for Gmail
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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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08-01-07
Tags:Computing Watch List I have been struggling with TightVNC and Windows Vista. See this earlier post for problems with the combination.
UltraVNC now has a Beta version that supports Vista. The 1.04RC6 allows you to log in at the login screen, and works well with the annoying User Account Control. It is reportedly compatible with other […]
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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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07-10-17
Tags:Computing Education Watch List StarLogo TNG released Beta 1 today. It’s multi-agent, 3D logo with graphic syntax. Hard to describe, but it’s supposed to be intuitive to children.
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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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