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Whenever I come across a typo in something I've published or in a paper I'm reading I'll do a google scholar search with quotes and see how many other people ha
by SKCarr 5y ago
Whenever I come across a typo in something I've published or in a paper I'm reading I'll do a google scholar search with quotes and see how many other people have made it. E.g. "expensively studied", https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=%22expensively+studied%22 https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=%22expensively+studied%...
- seanmcdirmid 5y ago“We expensively studied the behavior of one hundred dollar bills when burnt at varying high temperatures” would be accurate and not a typo.
- hluska 5y agoIn Canada, the next sentence would be: “NSERC had temporarily suspended our funding so if you have any questions, I’ll be pulling double shifts at Tim Horton’s.”
- Cerium 5y agoThat reminds me - when I was younger I had trouble remembering how to spell definitely vs defiantly and would often get it wrong on my papers. So, I spent some time trying to think of a situation where it would not matter. I came up with the following: "My dad said I can't go to the party to night, but I'm [definitely/defiantly] going anyway.".
- optimalsolver 5y agoSounds like a very scientific rap video.