eginhard

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1. 31.▲
   by eginhard 11y ago

   Anki's shared decks can be browsed here: https://ankiweb.net/shared/decks/
2. 32.▲
   by eginhard 12y ago

   On the contrary, using noise-cancelling headphones is extremely common.
3. 33.▲
   by eginhard 12y ago

   And it was apparently "blocked by mistake and will be fixed very soon": http://venturebeat.com/2015/02/10/google-play-no-longer-supp...
4. 34.▲
   by eginhard 12y ago

   No corpus is ever "clean". Depending on the type of corpus there might be many misspellings, so obviously they will occur in the graph alongside other low-frequency words.
5. 35.▲
   by eginhard 12y ago

   Zipf's law [1,2] generally holds for a corpus in any natural language and can be applied to a lot of other things outside linguistics as well. [1] Zipf’s word frequency law in natural language: http://colala.bcs.rochester.ed
6. 36.▲
   Tonal languages require humidity(phys.org)

   2 points by eginhard 12y ago|0 comments
7. 37.▲
   by eginhard 12y ago

   Considering that it makes use of internal machine learning tools and probably refers to a lot of other internal technologies it wouldn't be of much value to anyone outside Google I guess.
8. 38.▲
   by eginhard 12y ago

   It's the normal plural, but 3 and 4 take the nominative, while other numbers take the genitive plural.