11.28.05
Posted in Uncategorized at 5:35 pm by Jon Silpayamanant
Mathematical Reality: An Inquiry into the Existence of Theoretical Distributions
and its Implication to Psychological Researchers Dr. Chong Ho (Alex) Yu and
Dr. Barbara Olhund
abstract:
Modern science are said to be anti-platonic but yet Fisherian theoretical distributions are pervasively used in statistical inferences. The purpose of this article is to determine the existence of theoretical distributions subsumed within mathematical reality, and highlight several meaningful implications for psychological researchers to consider in the application of statistical procedures. Therefore, we begin with a brief overview of the misinterpretation of statistical testing, followed by a discussion of mathematical reality. In addition, ideas for and against theories of mathematical reality by noted scholars are presented, and inconsistencies within these theories are elucidated. Finally, the conclusion highlights practical implications for researchers when implementing statistical procedures.
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11.20.05
Posted in Uncategorized at 5:37 pm by Jon Silpayamanant
20th WCP: A Neo-Formalist Approach to Mathematical Truth Alan Weir
abstract:
I outline a variant on the formalist approach to mathematics which rejects textbook formalism’s highly counterintuitive denial that mathematical theorems express truths while still avoiding ontological commitment to a realm of abstract objects. The key idea is to distinguish the sense of a sentence from its explanatory truth conditions. I then look at various problems with the neo-formalist approach, in particular at the status of the notion of proof in a formal calculus and at problems which Gödelian results seem to pose for the tight link assumed between truth and proof.
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11.16.05
Posted in Uncategorized at 5:08 pm by Jon Silpayamanant
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So il Troubadore finally made it into a Barfly strip. View more of Wayne Bertsch’s Barfly strips at NUVO.
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11.14.05
Posted in Uncategorized at 11:25 pm by Jon Silpayamanant
Biolinguistics
Exploring the Biology of Language
Lyle Jenkins
This book investigates the nature of human language and its importance for the study of the mind. In particular, it examines current work on the biology of language. Lyle Jenkins reviews the evidence that language is best characterized by a generative grammar of the kind introduced by Noam Chomsky in the 1950s and developed in various directions since that time. He then discusses research into the development of language which tries to capture both the underlying universality of human language, as well as the diversity found in individual languages (Universal Grammar). Finally, he discusses a variety of approaches to language design and the evolution of language. An important theme is the integration of biolinguistics into the natural sciences - the ‘unification problem’. Jenkins also answers criticisms of the biolinguistic approach from a number of other perspectives, including evolutionary psychology, cognitive science, connectionism and ape language research, among others.
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11.06.05
Posted in Uncategorized at 6:54 pm by Jon Silpayamanant
LINGUIST List
The LINGUIST List is dedicated to providing information on language and language analysis, and to providing the discipline of linguistics with the infrastructure necessary to function in the digital world. LINGUIST maintains a web-site with over 2000 pages and runs a mailing list with over 21,000 subscribers worldwide. LINGUIST also hosts searchable archives of over 100 other linguistic mailing lists and runs research projects which develop tools for the field, e.g., a peer-reviewed database of language and language-family information, and recommendations of best practice for digitizing endangered languages data.
LINGUIST is a free resource, run by linguistics professors and graduate students, and supported entirely by your donations.
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11.01.05
Posted in Uncategorized at 9:34 pm by Jon Silpayamanant
Memetic network of musical agents
Mazzola (1998) argues that musicology should be more precise in order tobecome a big science. He notes that mathematics is divided into several thousandsubdomains, yet the unified discipline remains a coherent whole due to its precision.Currently, such precision does not exist across different branches of musicology. Inparticular, neuromusicology and the social psychology of music are seen as two separatedisciplines with different research domains and vocabularies. Furthermore, most of thecurrent literature on biomusicology (Wallin, 1991) are limited to neurophysiological andneuropsychological experiments on isolated human subjects, and as such cannot explainsocial phenomena such as culture. As a first step towards bridging this gap, we propose aa preliminary, multilevel memetic test bed for musicological modelling.
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Posted in Uncategorized at 4:02 pm by Jon Silpayamanant
The fun thing about Halloween and photoshop art are masterpieces like this:
Monet captures Swamp Thing by bingobaby (2005)
Click this link for more. This one was for you Mike (who’s already commented about it).
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