What we learned from 5 million books

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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[mophosophical]

0:15. Really TED, do we have to keep doing this?

[Hari Kishan]

How much is A Video worth in comparison with Words.

Because I'm too lazy to read textbooks, I love watching Video Lectures.

[liquidminds]

it's personal conversation > video > textbook

nothing beats audio + video + feedback so far ;-)

[Crystal Blackmore]

^_^ these too are so on

[GoldCoinEnterprises]

I looked it up, and from what I can tell, you are using imp as an abbreviation for important. Hence Einstein's actual quote is: Imagination is more important than knowledge.

[Chuck Norris]

.... (-:

[gridsleep]

Of course, it helps that Google has the political power to be able to do to millions of copyrighted books what gets ordinary people sued and jailed, and get away with it. But, I guess that's for another TED talk, eh?

[nerites]

If I love guys who read, I adore hot guys who talk about books.

[Dane Beach]

SO FREAKING INTERESTING!!!! :D

[darucha17]

Imp has few meanings. One of the meaning of 'imp' is 'creature' that looks like 'little devil'. Another meaning is 'to give feather'. I think sagar mean it in 'poetical' word and I 'think' he means something like this: Imagination gives you more 'things' than knowledge.

[christian4ever4]

What do you mean? I don't get it!

[darucha17]

It's kind of creature...but I guess it has different meaning as in: "gives you more"