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Anon84 · 2026-03-03T19:14:22 1772565262

It goes back a bit further than that. His 1948 “Mathematical theory of communication” [1] already has (what we would now call) a Markov chain language model, page 7 onwards. AFAIK, this was based on his classified WWII work so it was probably a few years older than that

[1] https://people.math.harvard.edu/~ctm/home/text/others/shanno...

aix1 · 2026-03-03T19:50:44 1772567444

I was just reading Norbert Wiener's "The Human Use of Human Beings" (1950) and this quote gave me a good chuckle:

"One may get a remarkable semblance of a language like English by taking a sequence of words, or pairs of words, or triads of words, according to the statistical frequency with which they occur in the language, and the gibberish thus obtained will have a remarkably persuasive similarity to good English."

Anon84 · 2026-03-03T11:37:29 1772537849

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Anon84 · 2026-02-19T02:02:59 1771466579

A lot of which are Sino-Portuguese from Macau that moved (or their families moved) after Macau was returned to China...

Anon84 · 2026-02-19T01:55:25 1771466125

Technically, also the last global empire. Macau wasn't returned to China until 1999. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handover_of_Macau

markdown · 2026-02-19T02:17:59 1771467479

France and USA still have colonies around the world. So no, not the last.

hugodan · 2026-02-19T11:03:41 1771499021

Also Netherlands, also France, also Denmark, also Spain (melila and ceuta)... actually Portugal kinda is still the first global empire that managed to shift away from it

Anon84 · 2026-02-19T02:29:31 1771468171

Are those considered colonies or territories?

markdown · 2026-02-20T11:30:27 1771587027

In the context of this discussion there really isn't a difference.

Pay08 · 2026-02-19T07:48:00 1771487280

So does the UK.

Anon84 · 2026-02-05T16:10:12 1770307812

https://archive.md/6xiWl

Anon84 · 2026-02-03T10:08:34 1770113314

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Anon84 · 2026-01-28T21:20:47 1769635247

https://archive.is/V8Jvh

Anon84 · 2026-01-28T03:09:19 1769569759

https://archive.md/G2RaF

Anon84 · 2026-01-15T19:48:01 1768506481

https://archive.is/lS1Uw

Anon84 · 2026-01-14T21:45:16 1768427116

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