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Pattern Matching as a Literary Pursuit

Pattern matching is one thing computers do really well. Take a bushel of data, throw it at a computer, and be amazed by the results. That's more or less what Sebastian Bernhardsson, Luis Enrique Correa da Rocha, and Petter Minnhagen, all members of Sweden's Umea University Department of Physics, did anyway. What is particularly interesting about their data was that it was a collection of books by Thomas Hardy, D.H. Lawrence, and Herman Melville -- authors I haven't thought much about since university.

December 15, 2009
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