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IMPYTHONIST is a personal blog at impythonist.wordpress.com about programming and math. Since 2014, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times, most often “Peter Norvig's 21 line spelling corrector using probability theory”. The last post was in 2017, but the archive is still widely read.
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Most-linked posts?
- Peter Norvig's 21 line spelling corrector using probability theory2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-02-06
What Hacker News says?
I really dislike this policy when applied to programming languages. Things from pop culture are going to be referred to pervasively in the media and blogosphere, but programming languages don't get there without massive marketing pushes, press releases, etc. That doesn't mean a language is not itself notable. Anyway, there's plenty about Nim that is not primary: http://goran.krampe.se/2014/10/13/here-comes-nim/ http…
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HN discussionHere is a retranscription of the article without the qwirks: https://impythonist.wordpress.com/2014/01/28/building-your-o...
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on “Building Your Own C Interpreter (1989)”Submitted Ultimate Guide for Scraping JavaScript Rendered Web Pages as a story · 3 points
HN discussionPeter Norvig shows that an edit distance = 2 will cover 98.9% spelling errors. https://impythonist.wordpress.com/2014/03/18/peter-norvigs-2... That's the reason why the default maximum edit distance of SymSpell is 2. Now, all your 6 out of 6 examples are chosen from that 1.1% margin that is not covered by edit distance 2, presenting a rather unlikely high amount of errors within a single word. The third-party SymSpe…
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on “Show HN: A spell-checker 380x faster than Hunspell, 5x faster than SymSpell”Submitted Peter Norvig's 21 line spelling corrector using probability theory as a story · 2 points
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