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Oooh, play with it here!
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/

i'm guessing that you can't query the core concepts of books (?)- so often the really important stuff.
as in, how do you get to the ideas, not just the words that convey them?

The non-sexy-accent-guy's voice needs to hit puberty. Gra

http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=Videosift&year_start=2000&year_end=2008&corpus=0&smoothing=0

THE INTERNET!

http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=science%2Cfaith&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=0&smoothing=3

Go science!

really enjoyed this one, thanks

I'd like to see the data adjusted for:
1. the number of people who read the books (probably impossible)
2. Television
3. Radio
4. Internet (2, 3, 4 adjusted for # of viewers/listeners/page views)

Unless you look at all the data, you're not getting as accurate a picture as you could. AND, you're going to convince yourself of the accuracy of your data "because it's fun" rather than because it's rigorous. I hate when people give talks and ignore these types of things. But, I guess that's what happens when you smash 4 years of research into a 15 minute talk where the speakers are trying to be funny.

Oh Procrustes, you and your bed...crazy times.

TED is like the weekly layman's science magazine. There are some cool ideas to think about, but you'd better be prepared to learn more about it and/or think for yourself, because it seems like the majority of the authors of the talks are just enjoying the attention for their research.

>> ^criticalthud:

i'm guessing that you can't query the core concepts of books (?)- so often the really important stuff.
as in, how do you get to the ideas, not just the words that convey them?


You choose the words very carefully and do multiple searches!

>> ^HenningKO:

>> ^criticalthud:
i'm guessing that you can't query the core concepts of books (?)- so often the really important stuff.
as in, how do you get to the ideas, not just the words that convey them?

You choose the words very carefully and do multiple searches!


This is both exactly correct and totally useless. You would have to choose the words so carefully and do so many searches that at that point you might as well be reading all five million books.

yes, you could get really creative with the searches. or you could be wasting hella time.
I really dig what google is doing, altho i'm of the same mind when it comes to the IBM Jeopardy computer that did a better job at recovering trivia than the other candidates.
higher intelligence is something else. but i'm stoked nonetheless

And 10 years ago someone would have told you that it would be a useless endeavor to seek a way of detecting geographical censorship without direct, in depth knowledge of the authors & geo-political/cultural climates.

Don't hate this for what it can't do today. Embrace it for what it can do now that we couldn't imagine possible yesterday.>> ^gorillaman:

>> ^HenningKO:
>> ^criticalthud:
i'm guessing that you can't query the core concepts of books (?)- so often the really important stuff.
as in, how do you get to the ideas, not just the words that convey them?

You choose the words very carefully and do multiple searches!

This is both exactly correct and totally useless. You would have to choose the words so carefully and do so many searches that at that point you might as well be reading all five million books.

Not sure if the video didn't play nicely with my plugins (Firefox w/ AdBlock, NoScript, and cookie blocker, although I thought I allowed what would need to be) or if it is blocked in my area (Thailand), but in any case it wouldn't play.

So I tried YouTube and got a (I don't think I can do this but I'll try anyway, don't hate me Mr. Siftbot) backup=notgonnahappen at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5l4cA8zSreQ. Anyone with similar issues can try there, the video was well worth tracking down!

***edit D'oh, didn't realize that would double spam the embed in my post and siftbot's rebuke. Sorry for cluttering the thread!!!

Invocations (backup=[]) cannot be called by MilkmanDan because MilkmanDan is not privileged - sorry.

nitpick: that's not xkcd, that's the excellent Dresden Codak.

- a big fan of both