Marketing

Definition: Noun: Exchange | the exchange of goods for an agreed sum of money Promotion | the commercial processes involved in promoting and selling and distributing a product or service Shopping | shopping at a market Typical word frequency: Written | 1/19000 (rank: 2007th) 100% noun Spoken | 1/43000 (rank: 2193rd) 100% noun (Based on the 100-million-word British National Corpus) Synonyms: Exchange | merchandising | selling Narrower terms: Bait...

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Weather

Definitions: Adjective: Weather | towards the side exposed to wind Noun: Weather | the atmospheric conditions that comprise the state of the atmosphere in terms of temperature and wind and clouds and precipitation Verb: Angle | cause to slope Crumble | change under the action or influence of the weather Hold up | face and withstand with courage Sail | sail to the windward of Word origins: Old English | Proto Germanic (First recorded use: 1655...

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Facebook vs. Myspace

Input interpretation: facebook.com (domain) | myspace.com (domain) Registered hosts information: | facebook.com | myspace.com Organization: | Facebook | Myspace.com Location | San Jose, California, United States | Los Angeles, California, United States Web statistics: | facebook.com | myspace.com Daily page views | ~~ 2.9 billion | ~~ 1.3 billion Daily visitors | ~~ 270 million | ~~ 68 million Site rank | 4th | 11th Domain online | March 29,...

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Bernoulli numbers

Mohamed Altoumaimi, a 16-year-old from Sweden, has found a solution to a 300-year-old mathematics formula. He explains and simplifies the so-called Bernoulli numbers, a sequence of calculations named after the 17th century Swiss mathematician Jacob Bernoulli. Jacob is best known for the work Ars Conjectandi (1713). He describes the known results in probability theory and in enumeration, often providing alternative proofs of known results. This...

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Knowledge as a unit

Input interpretation: Estimated information content of all human knowledge Value: ~~ 0.01 ZiB (zebibytes) ~~ 10 EiB (exbibytes) ~~ 10 EB (exabytes) ~~ 1×10^19 bytes ~~ 1×10^20 bits Comparisons: ~~ 100 x estimated data content of the deep web (~~ 91 000 TB) ~~ 6000 x identifiable storage capacity of the human brain (~~ 2 PB) ~~ 6000 x approximate data content of the Internet Archive Wayback Machine as of 2006 (~~ 2 PB) I am usually just...

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Knowledge as a word

Definition: Knowledge | the psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning Typical word frequency: Written | 1/6300 (rank: 600th) 100% noun Spoken | 1/27000 (rank: 1536th) 100% noun (Based on the 100-million-word British National Corpus) Synonyms: Knowledge | cognition | noesis Narrower terms: ability  |  attitude  |  brain  |  cognitive content  |  cognitive factor  |  cognitive operation  |  cognitive process  | ...

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