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Nonce truncation5 comments

arnoldzwicky wrote 1 day ago: From Dana Goodyear’s piece “Dept. of Hoopla: Celebromatic” (New Yorker of November … more →

Tags: peeving

Assorted truncations2 comments

arnoldzwicky wrote 2 months ago: This is a follow-up to/on my last posting, which discussed an example showing both eggcorning and pr … more →

grow a custom (to)

arnoldzwicky wrote 2 months ago: In a recent posting from an acquaintance: … had never experienced the full blown resort/spa ex … more →

Tags: Syntax, eggcorns

May I truncate?1 comment

arnoldzwicky wrote 3 months ago: One of the mysteries of studying advice on grammar, style, and usage is the apparent hit-or-miss cha … more →

Tags: Usage advice

Circumcision, Text Messaging, the Guillotine and Photography13 comments

karlo mikhail wrote 3 months ago: In one of my classes, our professor pointed out a structural parallelism between the traditional pra … more →

Tags: Theoria, penis, Photography, Structuralism, camera, Circumcision, text messaging, Cropping, Beheading

I thought he looked a little stumpy4 comments

Pax Arcana wrote 6 months ago: Pax Arcana You know how sometimes your hot dog is too long for the bun, and it’s a pain in the … more →

Tags: Journalism, News, Funeral homes

Forming the parts of a word.

subtropic wrote 9 months ago: Often, smaller elements are put together in order to form larger words.  These words that are formed … more →

Tags: Werd Up, Free, Conversion, Word, English, language, wordhood, WorDs, Morphology

Lesson Learned: Don't truncate data!

Matt wrote 10 months ago: On a recent project, we built an OLAP piece to satisfy some of the reporting requirements. The app w … more →

Tags: rails, SQL Server, OLAP, Fixtures

October Evaluation

kstahoe wrote 1 year ago: I can’t exactly critique a specific class from October, but there is an issue I saw with the c … more →

Tags: boolean, Database

10/27 Stebbins and using databases1 comment

kstahoe wrote 1 year ago: This article by Stebbins is about different ways of searching databases.  It covers things such as B … more →

Tags: boolean, Database

Outwitting the catalog

Brooks Reference wrote 1 year ago: ___________________________________________________________________ Tip: The catalog will try to con … more →

Tags: Tips, Catalog (BML), author search, Browse search, Asterisk, Subject search, keywords

abbrvtn

cuckoologic wrote 1 year ago: To abbr. or not to abbr. that is the ques. I do enj. wri. in the trad. eng. lang. but somet. it is m … more →

Tags: Rhetoric, time, saving procrastination, Time Saving, digital superiority, machine over human

The strong law of large numbers53 comments

Terence Tao wrote 1 year ago: Let X be a real-valued random variable, and let be an infinite sequence of independent and identical … more →

Tags: Expository, math.PR, dyadic pigeonholing, law of large numbers, moment method

Truncation Feud

lauren pressley wrote 3 years ago: Today I finished learning what I needed about text, and put together a skeleton of the Truncation Fe … more →

Tags: Meta

working with text

lauren pressley wrote 3 years ago: I didn’t invest as much time in the practicum on Saturday as I had planned.  Part of this was … more →

Tags: Games, Flash

lauren pressley wrote 3 years ago: I didn’t invest as much time in the practicum on Saturday as I had planned.  Part of this was … more →

Tags: Games, Flash

truncation feud

lauren pressley wrote 3 years ago: So, I have rough drafts of the first two games ready, but not much feedback.  I figured it’d b … more →

Tags: Games, Flash

Truncation Feud

lauren pressley wrote 3 years ago: truncation Originally uploaded by lmpressl. Tonight I spent three and a half hours with the other tw … more →

Tags: Games, narrowing, Software


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