Lab Meeting, Summer 2016, Week 8

Awe- and Aw-inspiring readings (or just stuff you think deserves a mention)

Christiansen & Chater's BBS paper & peer commentaries. The paper's been available for a while but I just saw the commentaries today. -WRB

Coconut: Python extension language that adds pipelines, pattern matching, tail recursion, algebraic types, improved lambdas, and other nice functional features. Coconut:Python :: CoffeeScript:Javascript --alw

What we did over last week

Florian

Kodi

1. Feedback on Dave's thesis chapter on VOT/vowel variation across talkers and social groups

2. Continued working on giant analysis report for replication/extension of Clarke & Garrett (2004)

3. Started reading Kruschke's Bayesian Data Analysis book. Figured it's high time to improve my knowledge of Bayesian statistics.
4. Met with Linda about career trajectories
5. Watched some of the live-streaming sessions from the UseR 2016 conference. Learned a lot about powerful developments in the R community!
6. Worked on moving preparations.

Andrew

1. Poked around at making a Samba4 ActiveDirectory master on www to test, because I've long been unhappy with Apple's OpenDirectory, and I think the NAS would do both Windows and NFS (with Kerberos) sharing more correctly with AD. If it looks good, I'd want to get another Brix as a login server and use current slate as just a Mac desktop.

2. Set up a development server for CrowdExp so I can have people test changes as I make them. It's limited to UR and TWC Rochester (only local ISP I could find IP range for) to keep the outside world out.

3. Added two sample Shiny apps to our server: Dashboard Example and Flexdashboard example to demonstrate using Shiny Dashboards and R Markdown Flexdashboards

Olga

Esteban

Dave

1. Finalized analyses and wrote up results for VOT/vowel variation across talkers at different levels of grouping.
2. (mostly) drafted intro and discussion for that paper/chapter, too.

3. Learned a bunch about non-standard evaluation with lazyeval, which is super handy for programming with dplyr and friends.

4. Inspired by lazyeval, made a bunch of small improvements/tweaks to my personal R package (daver) and to analysis package for the NSP vowels data. Stopped myself from making many more which were not immediately needed.

Dan

Amanda

1. Read some papers on the acquisition of adjectives. Wondered about whether or not children actually know that there are two categories of gradable adjectives (relative and absolute).
2. Thought about my grant. Started writing.
3. Met with Sarah to try recording for new naming study. Prosody is hard, guys.

Zach

Linda

Wednesday