What we learned from 5 million books
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Uploaded by TEDtalksDirector on Sep 20, 2011
http://www.ted.com Have you played with Google Labs' NGram Viewer? It's an addicting tool that lets you search for words and ideas in a database of 5 million books from across centuries. Erez Lieberman Aiden and Jean-Baptiste Michel show us how it works, and a few of the surprising things we can learn from 500 billion words.
TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes, Pattie Maes on the "Sixth Sense" wearable tech, and "Lost" producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at http://www.ted.com/translate.
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He needs to stop breathing so hard
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@TheBigBoss851 average minded human, GTFO
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I could feel the left wing jab coming, I really could.
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@ATOZBTOURMOMMA western or westernized.. whateva :)
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Culturomics is the application of massive scale data collection and analysis to the study of **sedentairy** and/or mainly **western** culture
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@LowestofheDead Funny thing is they got the quote pretty much right, but they used the completely wrong image.
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@dashiellv @starburstayla You're right, they were referencing two webcomics, thanks peeps!
"I'm going to try science": thinkgeek [dot] com/tshirts-apparel/xkcd/dacb/
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@LowestofheDead You are wrong, just search for it. It's on a t-shirt even.
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The guy on the right is channeling Sheldon from the Big Bang Theory.
steve0281 5 months ago 72
That's not xkcd, that's Dresden Codak!
And it's 'I will do science to it!"
LowestofheDead 5 months ago 19