Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

Bounded Rationality: A Response to Rational Analysis
Simon criticizes Anderson's proposed rational analysis a ...
Humans are not optimal and only in some cases locall ...
Assumptions made by cognitive modelers about how an ...
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It's a line of research that Google doesn't want you to ...
Now Guillaume Hervet and his team have attempted to addr ...
The results may be of some consolation to Google and the ...
Another aspect to the results is how the participants' b ...
... ritten

In Western cultures, girls consistently prefer pink, boy... Which academic camp lays claim to this difference? Past ... a case, in terms of the evolutionary advantage of findin... females might be biologically predisposed to prefer pink... colours. Bu

Paul Churchland, in his recent “Chimerical Colors: Som... from Cognitive Neuroscience” (2005), describes very od... experiences that are predicted by a neural model of chro... processing. In brief, the differential fatiguing and rec... processing

Illustration of neuron and dendrites. Dendrites receive ... stimulation (via synapses, not shown here) from neurons ... and propagate that stimulation to the neuron cell body (... sends electrochemical stimulation via an axon to communi...
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Attempts to simulate the brain usually involve programmi... behave like groups of neurons. A new "neuromorphic" desi... recreate the brain's hardware, using analogue components...
The Spikey chip contains 400 "neurons", or printed circu ...
Spikey also

Brainstorming is a widely used technique for groups to d... fresh perspectives on an issue, problem or project, and ... taught and used by team leaders and consultants working ... study by researchers at Texas A&M University, and publis...
The researc

The microformats community has revisited it’s standard... “microformats version 2”. At first, I thought why! I...
The authoring patterns have been simplified even mor ...
microformats 2 addresses one of the biggest problems ...
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How did Amazon get away without using a delay?
It’s easy to move the cursor from Amazon’s main drop ...
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If the cursor moves into the blue triangle the currently ...
... switch the submenu, giving it a really responsive feel.

Because my work was cited as an inspiration for the Khan...
Programming is a way of thinking, not a rote skill. ...
People understand what they can see. If a programmer ...
Thus, the goals of a programming system should be:
... turn it into som

Which areas voted Leave? Did London vote for Remain? The...
I wondered,
Is it possible to make a map that better reflects the mo ...
How much information can we include on one map?
Can we see how separated the Home Nations are on Brexit?

It's inequality, stupid. It's inequality that is behind ... and the growth of the welfare bill. It's inequality prop... escalating demand for credit. It's inequality that has c... banking system and its still feral proclivities. It's in... provoked th

Leading companies interviewed for a new Guardian series ... staff at a senior level to be computer literate, combini... with the ability to lead a team. But they face delays in... staff, or have to give new employees extensive training ...
Ian Wright,

British Airways launched a new campaign called "Look Up,... want to take that advice to get the full experience.
A video ad in London's Piccadilly Circus features a youn ...

British Isles in 2100 by JaySimons
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British Isles in 2100by JaySimons
Digital Art / Drawings & Paintings / Other©2012-2014 Ja ...
... Belfast have become new capitals of Britain and Ireland.

Greed Sort: An Optimal External Sorting Algorithm for Mu...
Mark H. Nodine and Jeffrey Scott Vitter
March 1991
Abstract:
We present an optimal deterministic algorithm for extern ...

Create extensions that go beyond the built-in capabiliti... The Mozilla project's XUL engine is a user-interface lan... use to extend Mozilla browsers, or to build stand-alone ... is a surprisingly easy way to build cross-platform brows... this pair o

Bubble Ball Text - Unicode Character Map
This table shows the conversions (mapping) used to gener ...

Spring 2005-present. A collaborative project with Nwanua...
Each kit contains a patch of fabric, a fabric switch, LE ...
We have held several workshops in Colorado and in Europe ...
Click here for instructions on how to make your own elec ...
Also, Nwanu

YMSG (without the j) is the protocol used by Yahoo's in... chat software. jYMSG is a Java API that allows you to in... programmatically with Yahoo's messaging and chat service... with jYMSG you can have an instant message sent to your ... administrat

It all started while we were researching an article on f... interfaces. Touch interfaces are hardly futuristic at th... multi-touch hardware like the Microsoft Surface or the i...
There is, it turns out, a whole community of very smart ...
And so we d

Want to create your own semantic search engine, but just... PhDs? Semantic search engine Hakia is opening up APIs to... their own semantic search application on top of its tech... looks at the meaning of Web pages and matches search que... quality ind

This tutorial will take you through the steps required t... basic extension - one which adds a status bar panel to t... containing the text "Hello, World!"

This tutorial will take you through the steps required t... basic extension - one which adds a status bar panel to t... containing the text "Hello, World!"

The success of mobile computing demands data synchroniza... handle many diverse data types and communication protoco... describes the requirements for an industry-wide data syn... protocol, and introduces the SyncML initiative to create...

Research into collaborative document use often concentra... share document content. However, studies of real-world d... reveal that the structures by which document corpora are... also, themselves, be important sites of collaborative ac... Unfortunate

Bunny’s Technorati Tags provides you with template fun... display Technorati tags for your posts. The tags are sto... Field, so this plugin does not require any modifications... structure. The plugin adds a text input for that custom ... appropriate