OT: It's 2:35am....

[capnq]

Arkcon said: I wondered where that was from (I know, I could have just asked), so I just entered the whole thing into a Google search.

Here's something that came up -- {FTW?}

That is a statistical analysis of how many times each word appears in a large body of English language texts.

I worked with a similar database at my last job, working for a professor researching computer recognition of speech.

[Arkcon]

capnq said:
That is a statistical analysis of how many times each word appears in a large body of English language texts.

I worked with a similar database at my last job, working for a professor researching computer recognition of speech.

Yeah but ... why post it on the web, and why is Google indexing it? Yeah, I know, ... Why not? and Because are options. Still weird 'tho.

Check out this Fark link (remember, Fark webpage has naughty adverts): {The world generated 161 exabytes of digital information last year. That's 161 billion gigabytes}

Scroll down for an interesting breakdown of examples of really big numbers, we once had a thread on this subject here on Shrapnel.

[AgentZero]

Arkcon said:

Check out this Fark link (remember, Fark webpage has naughty adverts): {The world generated 161 exabytes of digital information last year. That's 161 billion gigabytes}

First of all, I was quite disapointed to find a distinct lack of naughty adverts. Second of all, that a lot of bytes! Though I found it kinda funny when one of the sciency guys said that if we kept all our data, we wouldn't have room for it all. Just struck me as one of those, 'well, duh!' moments.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

capnq said:

That is a statistical analysis of how many times each word appears in a large body of English language texts.

I worked with a similar database at my last job, working for a professor researching computer recognition of speech.

That's hilarious.