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It seems really weird that every single one of these spells "spears" correctly. Is this supposed to be a representative list of misspellings? Or given that it'
by noahl 15y ago
It seems really weird that every single one of these spells "spears" correctly.
Is this supposed to be a representative list of misspellings? Or given that it's posted under /jobs, is it data for an interview exercise of something like that? (The page doesn't say.)
- aamar 15y agoAs I mentioned below, it's used to illustrate that Google works on cool stuff on a page called "Why Work at Google?". But it's an interesting question: what kind of puzzle could use this as source data? How about something along the following lines: Construct a simple probabilistic program (or FSM, with probabilistically weighted transitions) which outputs variants in proportion to the misspellings in the file.
- AshleysBrain 15y agoThe fact they have mistakes as bad as "brtittny" but nothing wrong with "spears" suggests to me the data was generated by a query along the lines of "<something like britney> spears" (i.e. the query specified it had to end in "spears").