Paul Payak of the Global Language Monitor is claiming the 1 millionth English word is coming soon. He says a new English word is coined every 98 minutes, so the 1 million marker will arrive about 15 days hence. The CBS article that tipped me off to this is pretty amusing in the quotes it [...]
Archive for May, 2009
The One Millionth English Word is ‘Rubbish’
Posted: 26 May 2009 in UncategorizedTags: bullshit, english, hype, language, linguistics, words
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First Impressions of Wolfram|Alpha
Posted: 16 May 2009 in UncategorizedTags: computational linguistics, google, google squared, knowledge engines, natural language processing, search engines, stephen wolfram, wikipedia, wolfram alpha
Perhaps you’ve heard of the latest brainchild of the Wunderkind Stephen Wolfram: Wolfram|Alpha. Matthew Hurst nicknamed it Alphram today and I agree that’s a much better name. Wolfram|Alpha (W|A henceforth) is not a search engine, it’s a knowledge engine. It will compete with Google on a slice of traffic that Google really isn’t all that [...]
Image via CrunchBase Warning: this is a rant as old as the iPhone. I just have to vent into the interetherwebs or else explode. Complaining to a friend, I’ve managed to work myself up into quite a state. He just got an iPhone and so we’ve been discussing how frickin sweet they are. But then [...]
