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New Google search features: real-time updates, cellphone photos as search query

Google introduced a number of new features today, most notably real-time updates and searching by an uploaded photo. Real-time updates means that Twitter and Facebook statuses will immediately feed to Google search.

What bugs me about writeprinting...

...is the idea that one's writing style can be reduced to vectors, and that by having knowledge of how writeprinting works, we can better imitate the style of other authors. Not that I have a particularly notable writing style (aside from my excessive use of adverbs, a habit I am trying to break), but I find the notion that someone could understand my style vectors and imitate my writing to be dangerous. So yeah, criminal justice system aside, writeprinting kinda creeps me out.

Craig's Response

Sorry... it was a good question, but this is Craig's response:

"Dan, thanks! Can't disclose, though, any measures to detect bad stuff.

Craig" 

Speaking of Maths and Logic in Relation to Madness

I highly recommend the book Logicomix (http://www.logicomix.com/en/). Yes, it's a comic book. If it helps fortify your courage to be seen reading this in public, it's gotten good notices in the New York Times Book Review.

It won't teach you how to manipulate formal logic equations, but it gives a great background to some of the big questions of the age, and might be great for some of the more technical people who will live and die by computers. Who knew that von Neumann and Turing were heavily influenced by all this?

Plagiarism-dot-org

Here's an online resource that uses NLP/writeprint to detect plagiarism.

www.plagiarism.org

They also claim to "scour" the web looking for papers to compare against...

One million words!

CNN article: English getting its millionth word [...]

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One million words! Wow. Since English is not my native language, having to catch up with roughly 995.000 more words is not really good news for me. But then, how do you count the words that comprise a language? How do you define "a word"? What is "a word"?

According to the article, linguists state that

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