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Comment on Finding X in Espresso: Adventures in Computational Lexicology by Mark Holmes

Mark Holmes — Tue, 05 Dec 2017 19:30:01 +0000

Stunning presentation! Thank you!

Comment on Finding X in Espresso: Adventures in Computational Lexicology by Vitaliy Kaurov

Vitaliy Kaurov — Tue, 05 Dec 2017 16:05:45 +0000

Thank you Ben! When you perform data analysis you can usually write filters that clean up your data or exclude specific parts from analysis. A simple widely known example is so called stopwords (which, by the way, is implemented as DeleteStopwords function in Wolfram Language)

Comment on Finding X in Espresso: Adventures in Computational Lexicology by Vitaliy Kaurov

Vitaliy Kaurov — Tue, 05 Dec 2017 15:52:55 +0000

George thank you for your comment. Alternative spellings is interesting and often controversial subject. But in case of “civilization” and “civilisation” (a classic case of British versus American spelling) many leading dictionaries, for instance Oxford and Merriam-Webster include both terms. In Wolfram Language data it is easy to check as:

In[1]:= SameQ @@ WordDefinition /@ {“civilization”, “civilisation”}
Out[1]= True

Also the spellcheck in Mathematica recognizes both words too.

Comment on Finding X in Espresso: Adventures in Computational Lexicology by Ben

Ben — Tue, 05 Dec 2017 04:47:58 +0000

Very interesting Vitaliy.
The majority of times I have come across eXpresso is in exactly the same manner in which you lead the article – disparaging its use. Is it possible to exclude uses of the word from sources that also contain eSpresso?

Comment on Finding X in Espresso: Adventures in Computational Lexicology by George Davidson

George Davidson — Mon, 04 Dec 2017 17:46:35 +0000

The title of my first degree was “Classical Civilization” which I got from a British University. I had to change this on my CV to “Classical Civilisation” as so many interviewers asked me why I used an American spelling. I insisted it is the traditional British ad the name given to the course by a respected institution. Even now, as I type these words, Civilization has a red line under it and an alternative, correct spelling is being offered!

Comment on A New Level of Step-by-Step Solutions in Wolfram|Alpha by Joselyn

Joselyn — Tue, 28 Nov 2017 01:50:56 +0000

I think this is wonderful and fun to use at home

Comment on Behind the Scenes at the National Museum of Mathematics Meta-Logo by kosar

kosar — Sat, 25 Nov 2017 18:04:36 +0000

such a great article !

Comment on How to Win at Risk: Exact Probabilities by Jon McLoone

Jon McLoone — Tue, 21 Nov 2017 19:14:00 +0000

Since several people have asked, here are the key probabilities of the individual battle rounds with sufficient armies to use maximum dice: {pWin2[4, 2], pLose2[4, 2], pWin1Lose1[4, 2]} = {1445/3888, 2275/7776, 2611/7776} which is approximately {0.371656, 0.292567, 0.335777}

Comment on Building Hydraulics Applications with Wolfram SystemModeler by Hydram

Hydram — Wed, 15 Nov 2017 06:56:31 +0000

It was great to see someone write on this topic. Thanks for sharing your thoughts.

Comment on Is There Any Point to the 12 Times Table? by Baz

Baz — Tue, 14 Nov 2017 11:56:25 +0000

My parents insisted that I learned my times tables, but only up the 10-times-table.

I wish now that they had encouraged me to learn up to the 12-times table because I think it’s so useful just to be able to do these calculations in your head without having to reach for the calculator on your phone.

I particularly found times tables useful at University when performing differentiation but I’ve also found it useful in everyday life, such as in a shop when trying to estimate how much I’ve spent.

So I’ll definitely be encouraging my daughter to learn her times tables but I think you can take it too far, and I think learning up to the 12-times table is enough, but incredibly useful.