Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

Professor of Psychology Elizabeth Spelke did experiments... contrary to what many scholars believed, children learn ... independently about objects before they learn language. ... Rose Lincoln/Harvard News Office)

Theoretically, the number of numbering systems is unlimi... complete (used by the divinities and the angels) has an ... symbols, one for each individual number; the simplest ne... is written as 0, one 1, two 10, three 11, four 100, five... seven 111,

What is Literature?
A Definition Based on Prototypes
Jim Meyer
(10 pages, 49 Kb)
... ad aesthetically, and containing many weak implicatures.

Cross-validation is the statistical practice of partitio... data into subsets such that the analysis is initially pe... single subset, while the other subset(s) are retained fo...
The initial subset of data is called the training set; t ...
The theory

If we define
to be a new estimator of , then the bias of is
which is less than the bias of since it eliminates the ...
where i = 1, ... n. This is the first order jackknife e ...
.

Writing as a Visual Art offers a revolutionary approach ... exploring a visual and multidimensional experience that ... to people's experience. Clearly written and liberally il... show writing text as being akin to creating a drawing or... designing a

Technoetic Arts
A journal of speculative research
Edited by Roy Ascott, The Planetary Collegium.
This peer-reviewed journal presents the cutting edge of ...

The Virtual Laser Keyboard (VKB) uses both infrared and ... generate an invisible field and project a full-size virt... keyboard on any surface.

Brain Ball
Ready, Set, Relax! Brainball is a totally new concept of ...
Brain Ball

XFN™ (XHTML Friends Network) is a simple way to repres... relationships using hyperlinks. In recent years, blogs a... become the fastest growing area of the Web. XFN enables ... indicate their relationship(s) to the people in their bl... adding a 'r

blockquote { margin: 20px 0; padding: 0 20px 0 50px; bac... url('images/quote.png') 5% 0% no-repeat; border: none; }

The Yahoo! User Interface (YUI) Library is a set of util... written in JavaScript, for building richly interactive w... using techniques such as DOM scripting, DHTML and AJAX. ... also includes several core CSS resources. All components... Library hav

FileChucker is an AJAX-based web application that lets y... uploads on your own website. It's simple to install (ju... packed with features, fully configurable, nice looking, ...
FileChucker can also function as a full-fledged online f ...
To top it a

In this article I describe Animator, a class for creatin... à la moofx or scriptaculous

Do you REALLY need to spend hundreds of dollars on drawi...
Or do you just want to DRAW?
OK then, point your browser here, draw, and save Save yo ...
Samples of JPEGs created using Cumulate Draw:
sample - flowchart sample - UI design

I had lunch at Illusions Fayrouz Dining and Entertainmen... and when I used the men's room after the meal, I discove...
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Eyespyadvertising2
The web site listed on the display unit, www.eyespyadver ...

An interesting follow on discussion with Divya Ramachand...
A nice distinction comes from the late Professor Rolf Fa ...
INVENTION: is the creation of new ideas
INNOVATION: is the acceptance of new ideas
... ing in someone's head, or as a pretty

Represents the active selection, which is a highlighted ... and/or other elements in the document on which a user or... carry out some action.

The class of the object returned by window.getSelection(... methods.

Event:oncontextmenu
Click a right mouse button on each layer( s11 - s14 ).

This menu system is a combination of two older DHTML men... developed:
* The MouseMenu, which was based upon Microsoft's me ...
* The XWebMenu (old version), a traditional menu system.
Along with combining functionalities, new features have ...

One Day in History
Make history with us on 17 October by taking part in the ...
'One Day in History' is a one off opportunity for you to ...

Cognitive Systems: Information Processing Meets Brain Sc...
Authors: Richard G M Morris, Lionel Tarassenko and Micha ...
Publisher: Academic Press Inc (London) Ltd
ISBN: 0120885662

Research Reviews
Making connections
Life scientists and physical scientists face many of the ...
This was an important clue in deciding the shape of the ...
The project commissioned a series of Research Reviews so ...

MOPET (MObile PErsonal Trainer)
The video shows the main functionalities provided by the ...

Information Theoretic Models of HCI: A Comparison of the... Fitts' Law
Steven C. Seow‌
Brown University
The Hick-Hyman Law and Fitts' Law are two surviving huma ...

I was recently talking with Jeff Barr, creator of syndic... chief web services evangelist. He let drop an interestin... has both SOAP and REST interfaces to their web services,... usage is of the REST interface. Despite all of the corpo... SOAP stack,