Incredible dedication to indexing in Kleinberg & Tardos.
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@cavyherd I think it was this recent episode of No Such Thing As A Fish in which they briefly discussed Emily Brewster discovering a new meaning of "a(n)": https://podcasts.apple.com/nl/podcast/no-such-thing-as-gutter-ice/id840986946?i=1000747203795
Couldn't quickly find an original source for that claim, tho.
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English is so weird....
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@cavyherd especially sad that very, very few people will ever look up "a(n)" in a dictionary, and even fewer read the entire definition of it, yet it takes months to write those entries...
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@cavyherd especially sad that very, very few people will ever look up "a(n)" in a dictionary, and even fewer read the entire definition of it, yet it takes months to write those entries...
There is •so much work• like that that take ages to create, years of knowledge & experience to inform, that most people just never even see....
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@rk but: they only put a single number in the index!
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@rk but: they only put a single number in the index!
…well now I gotta know which number. There are quite a lot of them.
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…well now I gotta know which number. There are quite a lot of them.
@rk it's in the picture that I shared
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@rk it's in the picture that I shared
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@anna OK, but have they made the K&R joke?
@edavies no
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Incredible dedication to indexing in Kleinberg & Tardos.
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@anna Old fashioned machine stupidity instead of LLM stupidity, the old ways are being preserved.
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@anna Old fashioned machine stupidity instead of LLM stupidity, the old ways are being preserved.
@mistersql presence of the Easter egg on that page suggests that some human thought went into compiling that index, tho.
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