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Natural Language and the Fencepost error

December 6, 2006

 
Quickly: if you are to build a fence 100 feet long, how many posts do you need?
If you said 10, welcome to the club (…no, is not 10, is 11).  This kind of mistake is so common that it has a name: the fencepost error, and as it turns out, natural language gives you enough ambiguity [...]

December 1, 2006

Hello world! … and beyond (you never know)
This is my personal blog, where I’ll write about Things that Matters (to me of course)
See you around!