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Kid Pix seems like not an astute name.

Takes a book in English, finds the words that are "rare" (by the measure IDF >= 15 or -ln(frequency) > 14) and lists the definition in a dictionary and the places it occurs in the …

And it's an even bigger problem with MEng/MS students. These are usually unfunded cash cow programs even at top universities. They accept fairly mediocre students from China and In…

I was a TA for a graduate level class at one of the top universities in the US and I've had some interesting encounters with plagiarism. I. The time I got caught for "plagiarizing"…

Interesting article! The metric you use does eliminate triviality, but it sometimes uses very obscure (and arguably uninteresting words), such as calumnies, ivoriness, coprophagist…

Great read. I think the title "On Reddit, the earlier you comment, the louder your voice." or something to that tune would've made for a more impactful headline!

Not really :P I wish I'd seen it before. I only learnt about it when minimaxir commented on this thread.

fixed.

My bad, fixed.

That's a super interesting thought. You should consider that the sum total of popularity of topics on HN up till today can't be used in hindsight as a predictor. It would be intere…

Math is hard.