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“I study the computational basis of human learning and inference. Through a combination of mathematical modeling, computer simulation, and behavioral experiments, I try to uncover the logic behind our everyday inductive leaps: constructing perceptual repr
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“We present statistical analyses of the large-scale structure of 3 types of semantic networks: word
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“Since seeing Mike Kay’s presentation at XTech 2005 I’ve been meaning to write up some Amara equivalents to the examples in the paper, “Comparing XSLT and XQuery”. Here they are.”
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“All UCTV Podcasts http://podcast.uctv.tv/uctv.rss
UCTV Vodcasts http://podcast.uctv.tv/uctv_vodcasts.rss
Art and Music http://podcast.uctv.tv/uctv_art.rss
Business http://podcast.uctv.tv/uctv_business.rss
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“But they would receive much lower benefits when they retire as a result. In the extreme case that I presented ( a worker earning $20,000 with a family policy), the Social Security benefit would fall by 60 percent.”
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“Spocalc is the full strength version and includes hub and rim databases. I am constantly adding new rims and hubs, so download a fresh copy frequently.”
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XMLmind XML Editor allows to edit large, complex, modular, XML documents. It makes it easy mastering XML vocabularies such as DocBook or DITA. (More info.)
As you can see it in the screen shot below, XMLmind XML Editor is not a tool for programmers. It
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I wrote this thing a couple of weeks ago. Instead of letting it rot on my harddisk, unseen, I thought I’d make a token effort to throw it out.
Have fun with it.
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Archive for January, 2007
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January 31, 2007links for 2007-01-30
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“WOWIO is a new kind of online bookstore that enables readers to download ebooks for free, using full-page advertisements dynamically inserted into the ebooks to compensate authors and publishers. Readers get free ebooks. Advertisers get a powerful new c”
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“# The one-to-many relationship
# The one-to-one relationship
# The many-to-many relationship
# Recursive relationships
# Data schemas
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# XPath
# XLink
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I got this to work easily and have found it useful in helping me understand how XSLT work.
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“The Push method is an approach where templates are used extensively. Using the “Push” method, we are essentially defining templates for each of our xml elements and ” Pushing ” our xml data towards it.”
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“The pull method is an approach where the use of templates is minimized and data is accessed ny “pulling” it from our xml document”
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“Paul Baran (born 1926) was one of the developers of packet-switched networks along with Donald Davies and Leonard Kleinrock. He was born in Poland, but his family moved to Boston in 1928. -
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“Donald Watts Davies CBE FRS (June 7, 1924 – May 28, 2000) was a British computer scientist who was a co-inventor of packet switching (and originator of the term), along with Paul Baran a -
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“Joseph Carl Robnett Licklider (March 11, 1915 – June 26, 1990), known simply as J.C.R. or “Lick” was an American computer scientist, considered one of the most important figures in compu -
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Lynn Hershman Leeson’s Strange Culture was simultaneously premiering live at Sundance and … on Second Life
The film follows the painful, frightening case of Steve Kurtz, a scientist targeted by Homeland Security for using biological elements in his per -
“Nora Aboutsteit of BurdaStyle, a sewing social network to be launched by German offline patterns publisher burda in January. The site will allow needle nuts to share creations, photos and videos to learn, buy and sell from each other.”
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“But when it comes to digital content, DRM rears its ugly head. Library patrons have to install a Windows program called the OverDrive Media Console that allows them to play borrowed/downloaded content in a DRM-ed Windows Media format. You can play the
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“This is such a ghastly working out of the standard racist fantasy that it forces me to conclude that there is a God, and he agrees with Richard Dawkins.”
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“Siderean, a faceted classification company, has announced a patent for what it calls “relational navigation.”
Faceted classification lets a user browse a field in typical hierarchical fashion—like navigating through the nested folders on your deskto
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“MetaGlossary is a definition aggregator that scrapes online glossaries and other sources. It’s got about 2,000,000 English words and phrases, and is particular useful when the words are new or you’re looking for a phrase. (Try “truthiness,” “alternative
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From chapter 4 of the Origin of the Species
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“but as many of you know, Cooktop is no longer being developed. Cooktop is free for a reason (it has only had a single developer), and if you need something better let us suggest the excellent yet clunky (it’s a Java app, after all) oXygen that is reason
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“Dr. Roquet deliberately sets up a bad trip to bring the patient’s worst fears and problems to the surface although this may mean, and usually does, a visit to his own private underworld where madness lurks. For this reason Dr. Roquet refers to his techni
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“Many of us are becoming publishers nowadays, and we’d like to imagine that all our stuff could enjoy that level of consistency and durability. Few of us are prepared to make the necessary investment, but it’s interesting to hear from someone who has.
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January 27, 2007-
“have a namespace, a predicate and a value. The namespace defines a class or a facet that a tag belongs to (‘geo’, ‘flickr’, etc.) The predicate is name of the property for a namespace (‘latitude’, ‘user’, etc.) The value is, well, the value.
Like tags
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“Multi-touch, multitouch, input, interaction, touch screen, touch tablet, multi-finger input, multi-hand input, bi-manual input, two-handed input, multi-person input, interactive surfaces, soft machine, hand gesture, gesture recognition .”
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“# Download Tagline Generator from the link above.
# Organize your data as [header, body] and populate the demo.xml file
# Edit the generate.php file and customize it however you want
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“Wait, aren’t machine tags just RDF?”
* flickr
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* rdf
* taggingMeanwhile, in the town called Patience :
No, machine tags are not RDF; they could play RDF on television, though.
Ladies and gentlemen, mac
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“explains the problems XForms are intended to solve, including internationalization, accessibility, and device independence. If those problems are your problems too, then XForms is worth further investigation. If those aren’t your problems, then you may b
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“(Technically, XForms has Model-view-controller (MVC) pattern, where the model can be an instance document, and the view is an XForms description of how to edit it. The controller is an XForms application, so you don’t have to write that.)”
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And, on a much smaller scale, here’s someone watching an AT&T repair guy through his window. [Tags: at&t stephen_colbert telecommunications ]
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“Harvard Business Review’s annual list of big ideas—as well as the rest of the issue—is online for free until Feb. 26. I bat cleanup — does that mean “go last”? — with a critique of “accountabalism,” right after Clay Shirky’s defense of “Ready, Fi
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“But democracy is about how a brawling nation of passionate, outspoken citizens can nevertheless live together. There are lots of ways a citizenry in disagreement can come to governance, including monarchies and tyrannies. What makes democracy different i
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“I’m watching the John Edwards webcast in which he’s taking questions about the State of the Union address, and I’m liking it a lot. [The following is a choppy account. Sorry.]
He begins by saying that the State of the Union and the media coverage of i
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“I accept the fact of evolution as I accept the fact of gravity. I am a sociobiologist in principle, but I think Richard Lewontin is the profoundest living thinker about these matters, and he thinks it’s pernicious rubbish.”
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“This blog charts major happenings in the world of early modern textual studies: publications, conferences, funding opportunities, and major research initiatives. The goal is to stimulate dialogue amongst scholars working in the traditionally distinct fie
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“Tkoutline is a single pane, cross-platform outline editor written in Tcl/Tk . With this editor, information can be structured hierarchically in an outline and outlines can be hyperlinked together to create a web of outlines.”
links for 2007-01-26
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“focus primarily in structured text processing related to the Web-based Extensible Markup Language (W3C XML) family of Recommendations and the international Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML – ISO 8879:1986) family of Standards. We specialize in
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“SGML is the International Standard (ISO 8879) language for structured data and document representation, the basis of HTML and XML and many others. I invented SGML in 1974 and led a 12-year technical effort by several hundred people to develop its present
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“The MiniGML user manual illustrates what was “state of the art” in the middle of the 80ies, in the middle between the invention of SGML and Tim Berners-Lee’s early WWW proposal, and it made me think about the history of SGML and HTML.”
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“TagWrite is experienced in production and management of large projects where quality control is critical. Complex engineering and parts, manuals, procedures, insurance forms, banking, and military work is TagWrite’s specialty.”
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Lot of these don’t go anywhere, but some of them do. Warning: This is a very large page.
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“Welcome to IBM’s Library Server–your electronic library of documents on the World Wide Web. Using Library Server, you can easily manage and display electronic documents grouped into catalog collections, shelves and bookcases. Library Server’s high-perfo
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QEDWiki is a lightweight mash-up maker written in PHP 5 and hosted on a LAMP, WAMP, or MAMP stack. A mash-up assembler will use QEDWiki to create a personalized, ad hoc Web application or mash-up by assembling a collection of widgets on a page, wiring the
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QEDWiki Screencast by Dion Hinchcliffe for ZDNet’s Enterprise Web 2.0
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YouTube – IBM QEDWiki ACORD Demo
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links for 2007-01-25
January 25, 2007-
“All told: I signed up for one free service, installed and tailored one PHP script, added one line to my weblog template, created one simple XML file and added a total of four lines to my .htaccess files.”
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“We’ve lost track of the human aspect of this to the point where even an organization whose very purpose is the advancement of XML considers it unsuitable for human consumption and requires its specifications to be issued in forms tied to the printed page
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“Centolanzi, Patrick, Brooklyn Polytechnic University, April, 2001.
Patrick Centolanzi, a graduate student at BPU, provides a good overview on CBTC, who makes it and who is using it. Emphasis is on the MTA New York City Transit.” -
“Robert Trivers, Nathan Myrhvold, George Smoot, Marvin Minsky, John McCarthy, Nancy Etcoff, Stuart Kauffman, Oliver Morton, Bart Kosko, David Buss, Brian Greene, Francesco De Pretis, Corey Powell, Roger Bingham, Alison Gopnik, Robert Sapolsky, Paul Steinh
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Fifteen years ago I was asked to join the board of editors of Encyclopedia Britannica. In short order, I learned that these editors saw themselves as guardians of knowledge. They knew what was true and what was important and only knowledge that fit those
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The Vorbis audio format, uses something called the Modified Discrete Cosine Transform (MDCT). I was interested in how this worked, but did not know where to start. Is this the name of a particular algorithm, or does it just mean something like a cosine tr
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“What Christensen said though, he said, ?There?s a law of conservation of attractive profits. When an industry becomes commoditized, value simply migrates to adjacent levels.? And I think we can see this dynamic at work in our industry.”
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“Hardware – easy to hack, re-usable and disposable – is helping developers to blur the line between the virtual and the physical. An example of this is the popularity of virtual worlds, such as Second Life. Ultimately, O’Reilly stresses the importance of
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MySQL’s unique Pluggable Storage Engine Architecture gives users the flexibility to choose from a potfolio of purpose-built storage engines that are optimized for specific application domains – OLTP, Read-Intensive Web Scale-out, High-Availability Cluster
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“PBXT is transactional, but only writes data once namely, to the log. This has a number of consequences:”
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“I’m optimistic about death. For the first time in the history of life on Earth, it is possible—not easy, but possible—for conscious animals like us to have a good death. A good death is a great triumph, and something to be sought, accepted, and che
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“I was talking to a good friend last night who is a Treo fan, and he was raving about the iPhone, and I brought up Fred’s reservations, and he said: “Oh, it’s already clear what I’m going to do. I’m going to have a Treo *and* and iPhone.””
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“My guess is that part of this efficiency comes because you don’t “mark” something as spam; you “report” it. So, given that any significant spam run will hit hundreds of thousands of gmail users more or less simultaneously, a simple algorithm th
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“From it, I cribbed the wrapper-free Holy Grail. It’s a minimalistic CSS-based three-column layout that seems to work well in every browser I’ve tried: IE6, IE7, Firefox, Safari.”
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“1. have a fluid center with fixed width sidebars, 2. allow the center column to appear first in the source, 3. allow any column to be the tallest, 4. require only a single extra div of markup, and 5. require very simple CSS, with minimal hacks patches.”
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“If I want to link to Accenture or Bob Dylan or Chartres Cathedral, I can think of three plausible ways: via the “official” sites, the Wikipedia entries, and Google searches for the names. [More generally, I should say: direct links, online reference-
2007 Edge Question Index for Palm Blazer Browser
January 23, 2007This page doesn’t work very well in my Palm T|X’s Blazer browser. It’s way too big. I’ve created this page which should work better.
[160 Contributors; 110,000 words] Robert Trivers, Nathan Myrhvold, George Smoot, Marvin Minsky, John McCarthy, Nancy Etcoff, Stuart Kauffman, Oliver Morton, Bart Kosko, David Buss, Brian Greene, Francesco De Pretis, Corey Powell, Roger Bingham, Alison Gopnik, Robert Sapolsky, Paul Steinhard, Beatrice Golomb, Vittorio Bo, Marcel Kinsbourne, Martin Rees, Ian Wilmut, Barry Smith, Larry Sanger, Steven Strogatz, Mark Pagel, Joichi Ito, Jill Neimark, Leon Lederman, David Deutsch, Frank Wilczek, Cory Doctorow, David Bodanis, Alex (Sandy) Pentland, Marcelo Gleiser, Brian Eno, Philip Zimbardo, Colin Blakemore, W. Daniel Hillis, Garniss Curtis, Mahzarin Banaji, Joel Garreau, Leonard Susskind, Esther Dyson, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Stewart Brand, Andy Clark, Steve Grand, Jason Calacanis, Jaron Lanier, Richard Dawkins, Nicholas Humphrey, Chris Anderson, Karl Sabbagh, David Berreby, Stephen Schneider, Timothy Taylor, Gergory Benford, Roger Highfield, Rudy Rucker, David Dalrymple, Paul Davies, Scott Sampson, Sherry Turkle, Gary Marcus, Xeni Jardin, Thomas Metzinger, Helen Fisher, Dan Sperber, Paul Saffo, Gregory Cochran, Michael Wolff, Gloria Origgi, Jamshed Bharucha, Diane Halpern, Anton Zeilinger, Clay Shirky, Neil Gershenfeld, Rodney Brooks, Maria Spiropulu, J. Craig Venter, Marco Iacoboni, Eduardo Punset, Jordan Pollack, Adam Bly, Marti Hearst, Tor Nørretranders, Robert Shapiro, David Pescovitz, Judith Rich Harris, Lee Smolin, Simon Baron-Cohen, Max Tegmark, Elizabeth Loftus, Seth Lloyd, Ernst Poppel, Gino Segre, Philip Campbell, Terrence Sejnowski, Chris DiBona, George Church, Kai Krause, Jonathan Haidt, William Calvin, James Geary, Charles Seife, David Gelernter, Andrian Kreye, Randolph M. Nesse, Freeman Dyson, Lisa Randall, Douglas Rushkoff, Matt Ridley, Ray Kurzweil, Sam Harris, Leo Chalupa, Sue Blackmore, John Horgan, Jared Diamond, Nassim Taleb, Rebecca Goldstein, Geoffrey Miller, Brian Goodwin, Jerry Adler, Linda Stone, George Dyson, Peter Schwartz, Roger Schank, Irene Pepperberg, Alexander Vilenkin, Stephen Kosslyn, Robert Provine, Samuel Barondes, Daniel Everett, John Gottman, Juan Enriquez, Carlo Rovelli, Haim Harari, Kevin Kelly, Jean Pigozzi, Martin Seligman, James O’Donnell, Keith Devlin, Piet Hut, Andrew Brown, Donald Hoffman, Gerald Holton, Howard Rheingold, Pamela McCorduck, Michael Shermer, David G. Myers, Steven Pinker, Marc D. Hauser, Howard Gardner, Alun Anderson, Lawrence Krauss, Chris Anderson, Geoffrey Carr, Daniel Goleman, Walter Isaacson, Daniel C. Dennett
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A talking head introduction to Xforms, especially the Formsplayer flavor for Internet Explorer.
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I’m curious as to how much this overlaps with the trains.com newssletter which is accesible only with a paid subscription.
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“The “snapshot” image represents the Muni Metro Subway. It is electronically captured from the screen of one of the Train Control computers that is used to control the trains in the subway. It is done in this very indirect way because the Train Control
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Only La Plata MO and Olympia Lacey seem to be current as of today (1/22/07)
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“Consider San Francisco’s Muni Metro.
With CBTC technology it has been able
to double the number of trains/hr in its
Market Street Subway. But Muni’s
Alcatel Seltrac CBTC, like LZB its
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“interesting presentation describes in detail US&S’s (Ansaldo Signal’s) latest Positive Train Control Project it is installing for the Alaska Railroad.”
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“an enquiry into religious belief would be distinct from an enquiry into religious opinions: Religious “belief” would involve all of the largely unconscious mechanisms which lead people to behave superstitiously, or reverently, or with a disdain for heret
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A good presentation on why Wikipedia works (as well as it does)
Do *you* use wikipedia?
“He believes that while the user-written model has problems, it can succeed with the right mix of community and peer review. He states that it is not necessary for s
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