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The Rantings of yet another Madman

An occasional online journal that holds the oft illogical rants, raves and brain-dumps of a highly disturbed individual from the dark corners of Melbourne about anything that pops into his head.

Thursday, September 22, 2011

TED Talk : What we learned from 5 million books

An extremely entertaining talk by Erez Lieberman Aiden and Jean-Baptiste Michel who show us how playing with Google Labs' NGram Viewer is an addictive tool that lets you search for words and ideas in a database of 5 million books from across centuries and a few of the surprising things we can learn from 500 billion words.

[Reposted from xntrek]

posted by That Mad Ranting xntrek guy | 08:51

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