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Yeah, it wasn't too distracting in this article, and it was so well written that it's actually hard to notice.


I wrote this up last night but decided not to post it, but why not, since it's topical now. He might've learned from the criticism last time.

  sed 's/[^a-zA-Z]/ /' rama.txt | tr ' ' '\n' | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]' | egrep "^(mine|his|me|i|him|he)$"| sort | uniq -c | sort -n 
     11 me
     15 him
     82 i
    107 his
    148 he

  sed 's/[^a-zA-Z]/ /' minsk.txt | tr ' ' '\n' | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]' | egrep "^(mine|his|me|i|him|he)$"| sort | uniq -c | sort -n 
      4 him
     11 me
     22 his
     45 he
     51 i


Well, Wolfram also spent time with Minsky, so he'd have stories to recount, but not with Ramanujan. That alone would explain the numbers.

I find the Ramanujan story actually reads more like a Mathematica advert, whereas the other more like a very self-involved eulogy.


Nah, I agree. I was mostly being facetious :)




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