Inspired by Alexander Yong’s recent critique of the Hirsch Citation index, we give an empirical (yet very convincing!) reproof of the asymptotic normality of the Hirsch citation index (alias size of Durfee square) with respect to the uniform distribution on the “sample space” of integer partitions of n. This result was first proved rigorously (but with much greater effort!) by the humans Rodney...

The good ship ‘ICAME’ is sailing on. Not only are the proceedings of the annual conferences usually published; but there have recently also been a number of festschrifts and other collections devoted to corpus linguistics in general and work by ICAME regulars in particular. So the body of literature which the present volume − essentially the proceedings of the twelfth ICAME conference staged at...

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also argued that politicians should do more to counter the danger posed by climate change “ravaging” the biosphere. He called for massive investment in technological solutions such as biofuels. “They deserve a priority and commitment from government akin to that accorded to the Manhattan project to build the first atom bomb or the Apollo moon landing project in the 60s.” Also at the festival, f...

Eli Hirsch argues that certain ontological disputes involve a conflict between “equivalent” languages, and the principle of charity compels each disputant to interpret other as speaking truly in their own language. For Hirsch, language's semantics maps sentences (in context) onto sets possible worlds but assigns no role reference. I argue this method leads an overly uncharitable portrayal at is...