On Thu, Oct 11, 2018 at 4:10 AM Thomas Jollans wrote:
>
> On 2018-10-11 10:48, jfine2...@gmail.com wrote:
> > It is fun to find fault in the work of a new Nobel laureate. In this case,
> > a typo.
>
> Not a Nobel laureate. It's not a Nobel prize.
More precisely it's the Nobel Memorial Prize in E
On 10/10/18 17:24, jfine2...@gmail.com wrote:
Rhodri James wrote:
Robin Becker wrote:
I'm a great fan of erroneous spelling and this blog needs a spelling
check as this quote shows
[Paul Romer's blog]
"Mathematica exemplifies the horde of new Vandals whose pursuit of
private gain threatens
On 2018-10-11 10:48, jfine2...@gmail.com wrote:
> It is fun to find fault in the work of a new Nobel laureate. In this case, a
> typo.
Not a Nobel laureate. It's not a Nobel prize.
>
> However, I'm disappointed that no-one has picked up the other error. Someone
> posted to this thread "the #me
It is fun to find fault in the work of a new Nobel laureate. In this case, a
typo.
However, I'm disappointed that no-one has picked up the other error. Someone
posted to this thread "the #me-too movement". It should be "#MeToo".
Yes, I know it's CamelCase. I think that's actually Pythonic. It's
Thomas Jollans wrote:
Sure it is. He's contrasting *private* gain with *public* loss. If there
is any ambiguity here it is whether there is a threat *of* a public
loss, or *to* a public loss ^_^
I don't think you've spotted the error yet. I'm trying to
provide a clue as to which word you need
Chris Angelico wrote:
You mean at the level of words, or sentences?
I mean at the word level, so that a dumb algorithm can find
spelling errors. Auto-correcting errors at the semantic level
would require considerably better AI than we have at the moment.
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Greg
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On 11/10/2018 01:26, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Thu, Oct 11, 2018 at 10:09 AM Thomas Jollans wrote:
On 10/10/2018 23:32, Gregory Ewing wrote:
Rhodri James wrote:
I'm a great fan of erroneous spelling and this blog needs a spelling
check as this quote shows
"Mathematica exemplifies the horde o
On Thu, Oct 11, 2018 at 10:09 AM Thomas Jollans wrote:
>
> On 10/10/2018 23:32, Gregory Ewing wrote:
> > Rhodri James wrote:
> >>> I'm a great fan of erroneous spelling and this blog needs a spelling
> >>> check as this quote shows
> >>>
> >>> "Mathematica exemplifies the horde of new Vandals whos
On 10/10/2018 23:32, Gregory Ewing wrote:
Rhodri James wrote:
I'm a great fan of erroneous spelling and this blog needs a spelling
check as this quote shows
"Mathematica exemplifies the horde of new Vandals whose pursuit of
private gain threatens a far greater pubic loss–the collapse of
soci
On Thu, Oct 11, 2018 at 8:36 AM Gregory Ewing
wrote:
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> BTW, an automatic spelling checker wouldn't have helped here.
> We really need to redesign English spelling so that it has
> error correction built in.
You mean at the level of words, or sentences? A sentence already has
enough redundancy t
Rhodri James wrote:
I'm a great fan of erroneous spelling and this blog needs a spelling
check as this quote shows
"Mathematica exemplifies the horde of new Vandals whose pursuit of
private gain threatens a far greater pubic loss–the collapse of social
systems that took centuries to build."
On Wednesday, October 10, 2018 at 12:09:41 PM UTC-4, Rhodri James wrote:
> On 10/10/18 08:32, Robin Becker wrote:
> >
> > I'm a great fan of erroneous spelling and this blog needs a spelling
> > check as this quote shows
> >
> > "Mathematica exemplifies the horde of new Vandals whose pursuit of
Rhodri James wrote:
> Robin Becker wrote:
> > I'm a great fan of erroneous spelling and this blog needs a spelling
> > check as this quote shows
[Paul Romer's blog]
> > "Mathematica exemplifies the horde of new Vandals whose pursuit of
> > private gain threatens a far greater pubic loss–the colla
On 10/10/18 08:32, Robin Becker wrote:
On 10/10/2018 02:17, Terry Reedy wrote:
https://paulromer.net/jupyter-mathematica-and-the-future-of-the-research-paper/
Jupyter, Mathematica, and the Future of the Research Paper
Paul Romer, new Nobel prize winner in economics, for research on how
ideas
On 10/10/2018 02:17, Terry Reedy wrote:
https://paulromer.net/jupyter-mathematica-and-the-future-of-the-research-paper/
Jupyter, Mathematica, and the Future of the Research Paper
Paul Romer, new Nobel prize winner in economics, for research on how ideas interact with economic growth, explained la
https://paulromer.net/jupyter-mathematica-and-the-future-of-the-research-paper/
Jupyter, Mathematica, and the Future of the Research Paper
Paul Romer, new Nobel prize winner in economics, for research on how
ideas interact with economic growth, explained last April why he has
switched from Mathe
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