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scott wrote:
>> PS. I'd still really like to know how large a typical person's
>> vocabulary is. Is it 1,000 words? Or 1,000,000 words?
>
> http://www.worldwidewords.org/articles/howmany.htm
Already seen it. (Why do you think I picked that example?) I'm still
wondering just how large a typical vocabulary is. I'm guessing tens of
thousands of words, roughly.
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> Already seen it. (Why do you think I picked that example?) I'm still
> wondering just how large a typical vocabulary is. I'm guessing tens of
> thousands of words, roughly.
Try writing out every word you know :-)
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scott wrote:
> Try writing out every word you know :-)
I did this once. In fact, just nouns. You know what? I know a crapload
of words!! o_O
If you sit down and actually try to record every single iota of
information in your brain, it's really quite surprising how much is in
there. I don't think people realise this...
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Invisible wrote:
> If you sit down and actually try to record every single iota of
> information in your brain, it's really quite surprising how much is in
> there. I don't think people realise this...
The compression is lossy, and highly efficient. :)
--
~Mike
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>> If you sit down and actually try to record every single iota of
>> information in your brain, it's really quite surprising how much is in
>> there. I don't think people realise this...
>
> The compression is lossy, and highly efficient. :)
"I wanted to see what would happen if I downloaded the entire star chart
into your brain."
"And what happened?"
"It leaked."
So, who knows which movie I'm quoting? (THEN we shall see how lossy the
compression is!)
As an aside... some humans are able to memorise quite absurd amounts of
data. So I don't think the compression is that lossy. :-P
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Invisible wrote:
> Already seen it. (Why do you think I picked that example?) I'm still
> wondering just how large a typical vocabulary is. I'm guessing tens of
> thousands of words, roughly.
Probably.
An easier measure is "how many different words show up in a large newspaper
over the course of a year". The answer there, I've heard, is around
8000-10000 words.
Counting words in a dictionary seems the wrong way to go.
--
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
Why is there a chainsaw in DOOM?
There aren't any trees on Mars.
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Darren New wrote:
> Invisible wrote:
>> Already seen it. (Why do you think I picked that example?) I'm still
>> wondering just how large a typical vocabulary is. I'm guessing tens of
>> thousands of words, roughly.
>
> Probably.
>
> An easier measure is "how many different words show up in a large
> newspaper over the course of a year". The answer there, I've heard, is
> around 8000-10000 words.
>
> Counting words in a dictionary seems the wrong way to go.
I did do an experiment where I picked a random page from the dictionary
and read the first word off it. It took a *loooong* time before I came
across a word I didn't already clearly recognise.
--
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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Invisible wrote:
> "I wanted to see what would happen if I downloaded the entire star chart
> into your brain."
>
> "And what happened?"
>
> "It leaked."
>
> So, who knows which movie I'm quoting? (THEN we shall see how lossy the
> compression is!)
"I don't leak, Navigator. *You* leak, remember?"
> As an aside... some humans are able to memorise quite absurd amounts of
> data. So I don't think the compression is that lossy. :-P
My mental movie quote database is definitely not lossy!
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> Invisible wrote:
>> So, who knows which movie I'm quoting? (THEN we shall see how lossy
>> the compression is!)
Bill Pragnell wrote:
> "I don't leak, Navigator. *You* leak, remember?"
>
> My mental movie quote database is definitely not lossy!
QED.
--
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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On 19-Jan-09 16:37, Invisible wrote:
> scott wrote:
>
>> Try writing out every word you know :-)
>
> I did this once. In fact, just nouns. You know what? I know a crapload
> of words!! o_O
>
> If you sit down and actually try to record every single iota of
> information in your brain, it's really quite surprising how much is in
> there. I don't think people realise this...
Sometimes I hear a piece of music that I haven't heard in a long time
but had it e.g. on a cassette tape once. I still know every tick and
speck of noise and what it faded into. When hearing a new arrangement of
a familiar song I usually get it after a few lines and then remember
often what line comes next. So for hundreds if not thousands of songs I
both remember the instrumentation and errors, implying that I have at
least a 'fourier transform' recorded and I have also stored the meaning,
which is IIRC in a totally different place in the brain. Oh and I also
do remember the video clip when hearing just the song.
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