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 Posted: Feb 22, 2012 - 02:31 AM |
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Here is an interesting research tool. It will lookup the frequency occurrences of certain words in books.
Just for the hell of it, I did the following. |
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Posted: Feb 22, 2012 - 06:50 AM |
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If you're *really* bored, I can give you the stats for *every* word in the fiction sections of Analog Science Fiction and Fact for all of 1994 and 1995, including how unlike English the word in question is!
But a graph with 60k+ different words on it might be hard to read... |
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Posted: Feb 22, 2012 - 07:06 AM |
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| Curious: What is the deal with "transistor" circa 1900-1910? |
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Posted: Feb 22, 2012 - 07:20 AM |
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Curious: What is the deal with "transistor" circa 1900-1910?
I suspect there is a glitch in their algorithm. Most words/relationships that you look for, gives some low level spurious output during that period. |
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Posted: Feb 22, 2012 - 07:52 AM |
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Curious: What is the deal with "transistor" circa 1900-1910?
I suspect there is a glitch in their algorithm. Most words/relationships that you look for, gives some low level spurious output during that period.
I can see two obvious problems. Firstly, "translator" is frequently wrongly recognised by the OCR as "transistor". Secondly, there are a bunch of journals that are incorrectly dated in the 1900-1909 range (possibly bad OCR again).
you can see some of the (false) hits here:
https://www.google.com/search?q=%22tran ... d_max:1909
While on the subject of fun statistics:
http://www.google.com/trends/?q=avr,+8051,+gillard
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Posted: Feb 22, 2012 - 08:16 AM |
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Good point!
As far as the fun statistics, a lot will be saying what sort of MCU is a Gillard! |
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Posted: Feb 22, 2012 - 03:42 PM |
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JohanEkdahl wrote:
Curious: What is the deal with "transistor" circa 1900-1910?
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