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Misc Research Stuff: July 2007
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An online notebook for my jottings on NLP and machine learning. Blogs on ACL Wiki. JHU NLP Reading Group. These days on ACL Wiki. Google allows data binging for researchers. Readings from SIGIR 2007. Readings from AAAI 2007. Reading List from KDD 2007. Effect of Spouses on PhD. Papers from COLT: Occams Hammer. ICML 2007 reading list. Thursday, July 26, 2007. Google allows data binging for researchers. Google now opened access to university researchers to its search and MT systems in today's announcement.
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BlogicBlog: View from the trenches: Example based code quiz from O'Reilly Labs
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BlogicBlog: View from the trenches. The blog about Java and XML with focus on troubleshooting issues and tools. Wednesday, November 01, 2006. Example based code quiz from O'Reilly Labs. O'Reilly labs have created a quick, but addictive code quiz. That tests programmer's knowledge based on him being able to look at code example and figure out which book it might have come from. And/or they could allow the results to be embeddable in the page for the brag value. BlogicBlogger Over and Out.
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Reincarnation for cremated atheists | Quarks, Quirks and Quips
https://eccentricscientist.wordpress.com/2007/05/13/reincarnation-for-cremated-atheists
Quarks, Quirks and Quips. Want to know more? Why shouldn’t you marry your sister? Beer in space →. May 13, 2007 · 11:10 pm. Reincarnation for cremated atheists. Consider the average adult who weighs about 70 kg. They are about 18% carbon which means that they contain about 12.6 kg of carbon. The molecular weight of carbon is 12.01 grams per mole. Thus an average person contains approximately 1049.13 moles or 6.32 x 10. Atoms of carbon. That’s 632 with 23 zeros after it. Atoms of carbon per person. Of cou...
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I gotta pee | Quarks, Quirks and Quips
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Quarks, Quirks and Quips. Want to know more? Do brown eyes see better than blue? Why shouldn’t you marry your sister? April 9, 2007 · 4:51 pm. As a child, most of us were told at some point to “hold it in”, “cross our legs”, “tie a knot in it” or “just wait”. From my own experience this was usually said through gritted parental teeth as I was dragged through some store or shopping area without adequate toilet facilities. But can repeated delays lead to long term urinary problems? It seems that there need...
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A Ticklish Problem | Quarks, Quirks and Quips
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Quarks, Quirks and Quips. Want to know more? Does the Aussie “pie and sauce” protect against sunburn? February 19, 2007 · 1:20 am. You can easily make your niece giggle and squirm by tickling her. But no matter how ticklish you are, you can’t tickle yourself. Why not? What is a tickle? So why can’t you tickle yourself? Blakemore SJ, Wolpert D, Frith C (2000) Why can’t you tickle yourself? Blakemore SJ, Wolpert DM, Frith CD (1998) Central cancellation of self-produced tickle sensation. J Am Acad Dermatol.
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Does the Aussie “pie and sauce” protect against sunburn? | Quarks, Quirks and Quips
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Quarks, Quirks and Quips. Want to know more? Do brown eyes see better than blue? February 28, 2007 · 5:03 am. Does the Aussie “pie and sauce” protect against sunburn? The classic Australian meat pie advertisement shows tough men in shorts eating a pie with tomato sauce (similar to ketchup) in the blazing sun. But could this quintessential Down Under delicacy help to protect Aussie skins from the harmful effects of UV radiation? Tomatoes contain caretenoids such as lycopene. A diet rich in tomatoes has be...
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2006 July « Always Learning!
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The world through the prism of my mind. Quarks, Quirks and Quips. TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home. This blog has MOVED. This blog has moved long time ago. All the new cool stuff is at the Outer Thoughts blog. Raquel on Interlanguage and fossilizatio…. SAFL on Interlanguage and fossilizatio…. Damion Bompiani on Spanish/English bilingual e-bo…. Tara on Interlanguage and fossilizatio…. Lynette on Interlanguage and fossilizatio…. Archive for July, 2006. Laquo; Previous Entries. On July 25, 2006. Information...
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Nutmeg – hallucinogenic viagra? | Quarks, Quirks and Quips
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Quarks, Quirks and Quips. Want to know more? Music – how depressing is it really? Carcinogens – a BBQ sauce? October 7, 2006 · 6:09 pm. Nutmeg – hallucinogenic viagra? Historically used to treat nausea and diarrhea, nutmeg ( Semen Myristicae. Was also reputed to be useful in treating male sexual dysfunction. A recent study by Tajuddin. Tested a weak nutmeg compound in rats. Male sexual performance was significantly improved. Chemicals that are broken down to compounds similar to amphetamines. It tastes n...
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Why shouldn’t you marry your sister? | Quarks, Quirks and Quips
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Quarks, Quirks and Quips. Want to know more? Reincarnation for cremated atheists →. April 12, 2007 · 2:59 am. Why shouldn’t you marry your sister? There is an intrinsic “eugh” factor in contemplating an incestuous relationship. But how much of this is brought about by social pressures, and how much by biological issues? Indeed the notion of negative effects of “inbreeding” don’t seem to have been present even in English communities until around 1888 (though marriage to a sibling is bann...Take for exampl...
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I never want to sleep again | Quarks, Quirks and Quips
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Quarks, Quirks and Quips. Want to know more? Chocolate sweetens pregnancy →. December 27, 2006 · 5:49 am. I never want to sleep again. You spend nearly 1/3 of your life asleep. Or you should (somehow I never get there). As an insomniac (or at least social insomniac – too busy to sleep) I am regularly grumpy, headachey and very vague with lack of sleep. So could humans reduce or remove the need for sleep? Another possibility is transcranial magnetic stimulation. A drug created by Cephalon and used by the ...
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