We live in amazing times – in a couple of years, we will have digitized all books every published (that survived), and we will be able to apply machine learning to the past. It will spur a whole new era of historiography.
What was the most common phrase in English 500 years ago? [Linguistics]
#linguistics With millions of books scanned and digitized by Google, a new type of linguistic analysis has become possible – as people are able to delve into hundreds of years and millions of books’ worth of data.
via: io9.com
… that the research has been done by a fellow Slovenian is not a coincidence – lots of talent over here 😉
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And what would happen if we are suddenly left with no power? 🙂 What’s the backup plan?
Hoj, typo – “lot’s” should probably be “lots” :-).
thanks!