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The title should be " ... of every inmate executed in Texas since 1982." From reddit [1], here is a word cloud: http://imgur.com/t61UIgH http://imgur.com/t61U

• nsxwolf 12y ago
  Interesting comment on that word cloud: "Wonder what their victims word cloud would look like? "Mercy" "Please" "I'm begging" "I want my Mommy!" "Help""
  • imdsm 12y ago
    You have an additional speech mark at the end of that sentence. > "Help""
    • TallGuyShort 12y ago
      He nested quotes. The entire line was wrapper in quotation marks, as well as the individual quotes inside the line. </ocd>
      • arjunnarayan 12y ago
        My brain is throwing all sorts of parse errors at that quote full of quotes. This is why we have escape characters! (Or, more realistically, two forms of quotation marks for nesting).
        • TallGuyShort 12y ago
          Or separate symbols for the beginning and end of a quote, so nesting is unambiguous. You know, something like: (quote Wonder what their victims word cloud would look like? (quote Mercy) (quote Please) (quote I'm begging) (quote I want my Mommy!) (quote Help)) Everyone just needs to learn s-expressions.
          • arjunnarayan 12y ago
            A professor collaborator of mine has the habit of saying "that does not parse", or "that does not type-check" to nonsensical sentences uttered by clueless research students (full disclosure, that set includes me). At first I found it somewhat weird, but now I've grown to respect it. It totally makes sense. I remember in high school (when I was already a proficient programmer, but still within-grade in the other sciecnes), struggling with some hard physics problems, and running to my dad for help: he would always say: "dimensional analysis". If only I had connected the dots: doing "dimensional analysis" in your work is _exactly_ the same as type-checking your manually executed paper algorithm. This lightbulb went off in my head approximately a decade too late...
            • ArkyBeagle 12y ago
              We repeated dimensional analysis in my first physics class until everybody got it ( all six of us... ).
  • bencollier49 12y ago
    I plugged it into Wordle at http://www.wordle.net http://www.wordle.net It's quite poignant. I deleted it afterwards as it didn't seem right to leave it up in public without more thought.
  • jaredmcateer 12y ago
    Here's from the first hundred or so: http://i.imgur.com/QBo5WWY.png http://i.imgur.com/QBo5WWY.png
• finnh 12y ago
  # of executions in Texas since 1982 is probably a fair percentage of the total number of executions since that time. Don't have time to look it up, sorry!
  • jengamaster 12y ago
    I'd wager that it's not even close, unless you're referring to American executions only. China alone has executed in excess of 2000 people each year int the last few years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use_of_capital_punishment_by_country#cite_note-amnesty.org.au-2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use_of_capital_punishment_by_c...
    • josephjrobison 12y ago
      Specifically page 31 on the doc - http://www.amnesty.org.au/images/uploads/adp/Death%20Sentences%20and%20Executions%202010.pdf http://www.amnesty.org.au/images/uploads/adp/Death%20Sentenc...