This kind of linguistic sloppiness pisses me off, but for it to come from a Nobel Laureate really gets under my skin.  Granted, Fogel’s actually an awesome guy who’s brilliant, and I actually use several of the things he figured out (he’s one of the pioneers of modern population economics) when I’m annealing neural networks, and granted I would have never figured out what I do today without his work, but christ on a crutch, he needs to be more careful about phrasing.  Sure, he’s way smarter than I am.  Still, someone needs to hit him in the face with a dictionary.  Makes me highly stabby, it does, yeeeeees.

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Jaja seems to be a new word curmudgeon in training. Hearty heart heart. The best part? Unlike most of the internet, he’s correct.

I went looking for letter, digram and trigram frequency counts to gauge scoring a word game I’m writing. What I found was disagreement, chaos, and unacceptably small sample sizes.

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