An old journal article that some Tipsters might find interesting is the following that tries to improve on Claude Shannon's estimation of the degree of entropy (i.e., randomness) of the English language -- historically this is important because it presupposed that one could use a statistical basis for describing the structure of English, a perspective that Noam Chomsky called "associative chain theory" and which Chomsky also said described the behaviorist description of how a child learned the structure of English; see:
Brown, Peter F., Vincent J. Della Pietra, Robert L. Mercer, Stephen A. Della Pietra, and Jennifer C. Lai. "An estimate of an upper bound for the entropy of English." Computational Linguistics 18, no. 1 (1992): 31-40. A copy of the article can be obtained at: www.aclweb.org/anthology/J/J92/J92-1002.pdf Of more contemporary relevance is the third author of the paper (I suggest both a Google general search as well as a Google Scholar search) whose current activities have even more widespread influence; for example, see: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/how-a-reclusive-computer-programmer-became-a-gop-money-powerhouse/2015/10/05/1af0c1bc-50b7-11e5-8c19-0b6825aa4a3a_story.html What is of personal interest is that James Simons is part of the hedge fund they both run: Simons was a computer scientist at my PhD alma mater Stony Brook who went from lowly college faculty to billionaire when he decided to apply his algorithms to stock analysis. The other partner, went from IBM to billionaire but curiously lives in East Setauket, the town just to the west of Stony Brook. Perhaps of greater interest to Tipsters is that it is also the home town of pro-wrestler Mick Foley (or is that just Setauket?). All that is left for me to say is to quote the 53rd Calypso by the holy man Bokonon: ""nice, nice, very nice, so many different people in the same device". For more, see: http://www.cs.uni.edu/~wallingf/personal/bokonon.html Busy, busy, busy. -Mike Palij New York University [email protected] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=49228 or send a blank email to leave-49228-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
