Warning: I use Google Translate, and haven’t done any proofreading, expect some mistakes

我 – Wǒ – I
你 – Nǐ – You
的 – De – Of
是 – Shì – Be
了 – Le – indicating past events
他 – Tā – He
么 – Me – It
们 – Men – Are
在 – Zài – In
有 – Yǒu – Have
这 – Zhè – This
那 – Nà – That
不 – Bù – Not
什 – Shén – Even
个 – Gè – [quantifier]
来 – Lái – Come
要 – Yào – To
就 – Jiù – On
一 – Yī – A
人 – Rén – People
里 – Lǐ – In
会 – Huì – Will
没 – Méi – Not
她 – Tā – She
吗 – Ma – You
去 – Qù – Go
也 – Yě – Also
说 – Shuō – Say
为 – Wèi – For
好 – Hǎo – Good
吧 – Ba – [commonly used as a way to invite]
知道 – Zhīdào – Know
我的 – Wǒ de – My
和 – Hé – And
你的 – Nǐ de – Your
想 – Xiǎng – Would like
只 – Zhǐ – Only
很 – Hěn – Very
都 – Dōu – All
对 – Duì – To
把 – Bǎ – To
啊 – A – Ah
怎 – Zěn – How
得 – De – Get
还 – Hái – Also
过 – Guò – Had
不是 – Bùshì – Not
到 – Dào – To
样 – Yàng – Sample
能 – Néng – Can
事 – Shì – Thing
看 – Kàn – See
我們 – Wǒmen – We
上 – Shàng – On
给 – Gěi – To
可以 – Kěyǐ – Can
现 – Xiàn – Present
斯 – Sī – Sri Lanka
做 – Zuò – Do
儿 – Er – Child
时 – Shí – Time
点 – Diǎn – Point
开 – Kāi – Open
让 – Ràng – Let
就是 – Jiùshì – Is
但 – Dàn – But
呢 – Ne – It
着 – Zhe – With
它 – Tā – It
這 – Zhè – This
如果 – Rúguǒ – If
跟 – Gēn – With
邪 – Xié – Evil
听 – Tīng – Listen
克 – Kè – Gram
再 – Zài – Again
快 – Kuài – Fast
嗎 – Ma – You
被 – Bèi – Be
是的 – Shì de – Yes
大 – Dà – Large
先生 – Xiānshēng – Mr.
别 – Bié – Do not
告 – Gào – Tell
真的 – Zhēn de – Really
谢 – Xiè – Thank
哦 – Ó – Oh
话 – Huà – Words
械 – Xiè – Mechanical
见 – Jiàn – See
当 – Dāng – When the
芯 – Xīn – Core
该 – Gāi – That
西 – Xi – Western
子 – Zi – Child
已 – Yǐ – Already
會 – Huì – Will
小 – Xiǎo – Small
爱 – Ài – Love
特 – Tè – Special
不要 – Bùyào – Do not
些 – Xiē – Some
不知道 – Bù zhīdào – Do not know
不能 – Bùnéng – Can not
因 – Yīn – Because
觉 – Jué – Sleep
发 – Fā – Hair
像 – Xiàng – Image
太 – Tài – Too
但是 – Dànshì – But
多 – Duō – Multi-
打 – Dǎ – Fight
机 – Jī – Machine
來 – Lái – Come
好了 – Hǎole – Done
用 – Yòng – Use
他的 – Tā de – His
诉 – Su – Complaint
德 – Dé – Virtue
叫 – Jiào – Call/Name
什麼 – Shénme – What
真 – Zhēn – True
干 – Gàn – Dry
心 – Xīn – Heart
走 – Zǒu – Go
比 – Bǐ – Ratio
死 – Sǐ – Dead
嘿 – Hēi – Hey
出 – Chū – Out
车 – Chē – Car
一下 – Yīxià – About
中 – Zhōng – In
好吧 – Hǎo ba – Well
需要 – Xūyào – Need
经 – Jīng – After

George Zipf finds that given some source of text of language utterances, the frequency of any word is inversely proportional to its rank in the frequency table. Thus the most frequent word will occur approximately twice as often as the second most frequent word, three times as often as the third most frequent word, etc. For example, in the Brown Corpus the word “the” is the most frequently occurring word, and by itself accounts for nearly 7% of all word occurrences (69,971 out of slightly over 1 million). True to Zipf’s Law, the second-place word “of” accounts for slightly over 3.5% of words (36,411 occurrences), followed by “and” (28,852). Only 135 vocabulary items are needed to account for half the Brown Corpus.

It’s not exactly that way for other languages, but they’re pretty much exhibit the similar pattern. We’ll take a look at the frequency of words in Mandarin Language.

I found interesting data sets from opensubtitles.org that contain all words in the database of subtitles they have. For Mandarin language, they have 788 files that contain 97,909 unique words, 1,362,738 total word and 7,033,863 word count. I tried to crunch the data sets for the whole words, but it keeps crashing my old laptop , but even the list of 50.000 words already reveal the patterns. Well actually even the list of 5,000 words already reveal the same pattern anyway. It isn’t intended as a perfect sample of daily usage of the Mandarin Language, but movies pretty much reflect daily life don’t they?

5000 words is the minimum number of words to memorize for someone to reach the highest level of Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi, (simplified Chinese: 汉语水平考试; traditional Chinese: 漢語水平考試), Chinese equivalent of TOEFL or IELTS. And guess again, we don’t even need to memorize that many words to reach, say, 50% or 80% highest appearance frequency of words. To reach 50% we just need to memorize 135 Mandarin vocabs (surprisingly similar to Zipf’s finding) but to reach 80% we’ll need to memorize 1321 words, to reach 90% we’ll need to crunch 3673 words. How much needed to reach 100%? I don’t even sure there is anyone who manage to do that, most of the words won’t be used anyway, why bother

If you finish your Advanced HSK test and score perfect 6, you’re likely to master around 92% of the words in daily use.

And by the way, lots of languages follow a similar pattern, when I’m done with the data, I’ll post the result.

You can see the live demo here.

Basic Usage

Tinycon.setBubble(6);

Tinycon can take a range of options to customise the look

• width: the width of the notification bubble
• height: the height of the notification bubble
• font: a css string to use for the fontface
• colour: the foreground font colour
• background: the alert bubble background colour
• fallback: should we fallback to a number in brackets for browsers that don’t support canvas/dynamic favicons

Tinycon.setOptions({
width: 7,
height: 9,
font: '10px arial',
colour: '#ffffff',
background: '#549A2F',
fallback: true
});

Jika internet disebut sebagai salah satu batu pijak terpenting peradaban manusia, Google mungkin bisa disebut batu pijak terpenting bagi Internet itu sendiri. Sampai-sampai kata ‘googling’ sendiri sering dipakai sebagai pengganti ‘mencari di Internet’. Namun hal terbaik yang bisa dilakukan Google ‘hanya’-lah memberikan jawaban, dengan kata lain kitalah yang memegang peran lebih penting untuk memberikan pertanyaan yang menghasilkan jawaban bermakna.

Sekitar 85 persen dari pengguna Internet menggunakan mesin pencari untuk menemukan informasi yang dibutuhkan. Dari jumlah itu, sekitar 85 persen juga yang merasa frustrasi karena tidak bisa menemukan informasi yang sesuai dengan keinginan mereka. Tutorial ini akan membawa rekans lebih dekat ke informasi yang sesuai dengan keinginan.

Google sendiri memiliki banyak fitur selain web search-nya yang akan sangat membantu kita dalam menjelajahi rimba maya. Secara sekilas akan diperkenalkan dengan sangat singkat layanan-layanan yang disediakan oleh Google.

The answer is out there, all we need is a good question.

Tips Pencarian Google

Setelah mengintip sejenak fitur-fitur yang ditawarkan Google, sekarang saatnya kita mempelajari tips dan trik dasar web searching. Google Web Search memakai algoritma PageRank untuk menentukan urut-urutan dari query hasil pencarian. Secara garis besar PageRank mengurutkan berdasar relevansi dan jumlah link yang merujuk ke halaman. Query nomor satu di Google tidak selalu berarti jawaban tepat yang rekans cari, namun banyak orang di luar sana yang menganggapnya relevan dan signifikan. Siapa tahu, mungkin itu membawa kita lebih dekat ke tujuan.

Setelah menguasai jurus-jurus dasar Googling, sekarang saatnya kita mempelajari jurus-jurus lanjutan. Mulai opsi-opsi tingkat lanjutan, modifikasi URL, dan fitur-fitur lain akan dibahas di sini.

Sintaks pencarian yang bergaris bawah menandakan perintah-perintah yang bisa kita modifikasi untuk mendapatkan hasil pencarian sesuai keinginan kita tanpa memasukkan kata kunci di kotak pencarian google. Meskipun cukup ribet, tips ini akan sangat berguna untuk melakukan otomatisasi dan kustomisasi pencarian lebih sesuai dengan keinginan kita. Apalagi jika dikombinasi dengan bahasa pemrograman seperti Perl dengan bantuan Regex. Perintah custom bisa kita masukkan setelah tanda ‘&’ yang menandakan akhir dari perintah sebelumnya, untuk mengakhiri perintah custom kita sendiri, gunakan ‘&’ lagi.

Contoh-contoh perintah pada URL di atas

Fungsi-fungsinya bisa kita dapati pada table di bawah

“In lists of numbers from many (but not all) real-life sources of data, the leading digit is distributed in a specific, non-uniform way. According to this law, the first digit is 1 about 30% of the time, and larger digits occur as the leading digit with lower and lower frequency, to the point where 9 as a first digit occurs less than 5% of the time.”

Lots of interesting stuff could be built on this idea. Stay tune

From the release:

“We’ve resisted advertising so far because most of it we had seen wasn’t terribly tasteful, and it seemed like Google’s AdSense was the state-of-the-art, which was sad. You pour a lot of time and effort into your blog and you deserve better than AdSense.”

Well, yeah I hope it will be much better than AdSense or any other ad platforms. I’ve realized that in the past couple of years, ad platforms like that have change the online publishing landscape, for good or worst. Top Notch content creators get their incentive to create more and better contents. But the others are just incenticized to copy, scrap, spam, profit, profit, and profit.

It’s not clear yet how WordPress would make the platform different or (hopefully) better. But if you want to find out, you should meet their criteria (I hope it’s worth the hassle ).

During the interview, Jobs was at his charismatic best—witty, outspoken, visionary. In the end, only a part of the interview was used in the series and the rest was thought lost. But recently a VHS copy was found in the series director’s garage. Now, the entire interview has been cleaned up with modern technology, and put into context by Cringely. Here’s some of the quotes from the interview.

“No one thinks about why they do things very deeply.”

“Learning to program teaches you how to think. Computer science is a liberal art.”

“Money is wonderful because it allows you to invest in things without having to worry about short term gain.”

“Many companies forget what it means to make great products. After initial success, sales and marketing people take over and the product people eventually make their way out.”

“When companies get bigger they try to replicate their success. But they assume their magic came from process. They try to use processes to substitute content.”

“The best people are the ones that understand content. They are a pain in the butt to manage but you put up with it because they are so good at content.”

“It’s that through the team, through that group of incredibly talented people bumping up against each other, having arguments, having fights sometimes, making some noise, and working together they polish each other and they polish the ideas, and what comes out is really beautiful.”

“The way to ratchet up our species is to the get better things to more people to. Products with spirit and creativity.”

“Humans are tool builders. We create things to amplify ourselves. The computer will rank at the top. It’s awesome tool ever.”

“What causes people to be poets instead of bankers? When you put that into products people can sense that. And they love it.”