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Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility!” –Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest My apologies to readers who may be wondering when the promised series would materialize. The weekend was spent taking snaps of Laura La Rue and drinking double-digit vino in the kitchen with Professor Plum and Miss Scarlet. If this science-thing doesn’t work out, I’m off to join the jet-set. (More on that later…) In any case : in today’s posting, I take up a rather curious property of human languages that you may have never properly been introduced to. George Kingsley Zipf – if you haven’t read the man, personally – was a Harvard linguist and philologist who studied the various statistical properties of human languages.
But – you say – hold the phone! This state of affairs may appear somewhat strange at first glance; clearly, our conversations aren’t simply running streams of “the an on over of.” 365 Days. 365 New Outfits. 365 Dollars. Charlieissocoollike. Nerimon's Channel. Jason Almeida's Blog - It's what keeps you up at night. Cake Wrecks. Blog. Mac at 30 By Stephen Fry January 24th, 2014 It was thirty years ago today that Sergeant Jobs taught the band to play.
Sergeant Jobs together with Privates Smith, Atkinson, Kawasaki, Crow, Espinosa and the rest of the Apple Macintosh team, not to mention all those back at Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) and the crew at Stanford who had built the first computer mouse, and back before them, of course, all the geniuses in a line back from Steve Wozniak and Gordon Moore to the original pioneers like Von Neumann and the great Alan Turing.
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