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Yeah, it wasn't too distracting in this article, and it was so well written that it's actually hard to notice.

• bpchaps 11y ago
  I wrote this up last night but decided not to post it, but why not, since it's topical now. He might've learned from the criticism last time. sed 's/[^a-zA-Z]/ /' rama.txt | tr ' ' '\n' | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]' | egrep "^(mine|his|me|i|him|he)$"| sort | uniq -c | sort -n 11 me 15 him 82 i 107 his 148 he sed 's/[^a-zA-Z]/ /' minsk.txt | tr ' ' '\n' | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]' | egrep "^(mine|his|me|i|him|he)$"| sort | uniq -c | sort -n 4 him 11 me 22 his 45 he 51 i
  • leblancfg 11y ago
    Well, Wolfram also spent time with Minsky, so he'd have stories to recount, but not with Ramanujan. That alone would explain the numbers. I find the Ramanujan story actually reads more like a Mathematica advert, whereas the other more like a very self-involved eulogy.
    • bpchaps 11y ago
      Nah, I agree. I was mostly being facetious :)