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July 25, 2007
I usually avoid linking to the continental philosophy blogs that I read because I'm well aware of the attitudes towards "pomo" stuff among many of the readers of this blog, but this post at Larval Subjects (a blog by a...
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July 18, 2007
Category: Philosophy
I've been out of town since Saturday, with no internet access. Thank goodness for tiny islands on the gulf coast of Florida. Unfortunately, I'm still sick, and I'm exhausted, so I'm going to have to hold off on posts that...
Posted by Chris at 11:06 PM • 30 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 15, 2007
Category: Miscellaneous
"Connectionist Sticker Propaganda" by atomicity, some rights reserved. I may actually keep this picture up....
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July 14, 2007
Category: Blogs and Blogging
Through Saturday, a bunch of posts containing pictures and little more will be showing up here while I'm traveling on airplanes. They're meant to make a point, but what that point is will be clear only to a few of...
Posted by Chris at 7:51 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 13, 2007
Category: Miscellaneous
Here is an interesting article by Taylor, Micolich, and Jonas (via Integrated Science) on Jackson Pollock and the physics behind his work's appeal: This question triggers reservations from both scientists and artists. However, for the abstract paintings produced by Jackson...
Posted by Chris at 8:52 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 12, 2007
Category: Statistics
So the last post was pretty dense, and I haven't used an example since the first post, so I thought I'd throw one out there that you can play with. In what follows, I pretend to use the equations, but...
Posted by Chris at 4:29 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Statistics
So far we've been talking about different distributions and their parameters. If we're looking at a population with known parameters, then we're going to be dealing with either a normal distribution or a standardized normal distribution (Post I and II)....
Posted by Chris at 9:30 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 8, 2007
Category: Statistics
Before we start in on new stuff, let's recap what we've covered so far. We started with the Central Limit Theorem, which tells us that if a bunch of random variables go into determining the values of yet another variable,...
Posted by Chris at 10:38 AM • 13 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 5, 2007
Category: Miscellaneous
I'm sorry, I simply couldn't resist....
Posted by Chris at 11:09 AM • 19 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 4, 2007
Category: Miscellaneous
For the 4th of July I give you America circa 1995, in 4 minutes and 50 seconds, as seen through a Super 8, and with a soundtrack:...
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Category: Cognitive Psychology
Long, long ago, during my first summer as a grad student (technically, I wasn't even a student yet), in one of my first meetings with my graduate adviser, he suggested that I think about the problem of representing negation. The...
Posted by Chris at 10:05 AM • 13 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 2, 2007
Category: Blogs and Blogging
In case you haven't noticed, ScienceBlogs has a new neuro-blogger, and he's one you probably already know: MC, or Mo, the Neurophilospher. And he's hosting the 26th edition of Encaphalon at his new digs....
Posted by Chris at 11:28 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Cognitive Neuroscience
Apparently so. Recent research has shown that pleasant smells can increase pain tolerance, and a recent paper by Prescott and Wilkie(1) suggests that it is specifically sweet smells that do so. I'll just skip to the experiment, and spare you...
Posted by Chris at 9:05 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 1, 2007
Category: Statistics
So in the last post, we talked about the normal distribution, and at the very end, discussed that if you knew the mean and standard deviation of a population for a particular variable, than you can compute the probabilities associated...
Posted by Chris at 10:02 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
