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I'm gonna spam out my new favorite quote from a week ago "When you get the data into a nice, clean, dense form, stuff just falls out of it" - Saul Pwanson (ht
by jasonjayr 6y ago
I'm gonna spam out my new favorite quote from a week ago
"When you get the data into a nice, clean, dense form, stuff just falls out of it" - Saul Pwanson
(https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/a-plagiarism-scandal-is-unfolding-in-the-crossword-world/ https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/a-plagiarism-scandal-is...)
- randycupertino 6y ago> A Plagiarism Scandal Is Unfolding In The Crossword World Huh! I recently "discovered" this myself because sometimes when I was stuck on crosswords I would google the clue and the answers would show all the different places and puzzles the clue has appeared. I just assumed that all crosswords everywhere sourced the same question databank and everyone stole clues and reprinted them everywhere else based on how many times they've appeared in various places. Didn't realize crosswords were even supposed to be originally written! Fwiw, have been more into NYTimes Tiles games lately :) Interesting link- thnx!
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- coolgeek 6y agoThat article was from four years ago. More importantly, prior to clicking on the article, I would have bet a lot of money that Saul Pwanson was Paul Swanson's Twitter handle.
- jasonjayr 6y agoYes; I found it via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23506663 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23506663 from last week here ...