Package: dict-moby-thesaurus
Version: 1.0-6
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Hi John. Look at this:
>From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thesaurus]:
107 Moby Thesaurus words for "entropy":
EDP, abeyance, aloofness, amorphia, amorphism, amorphousness,
anarchy, apathy, bit, blurriness, catalepsy, catatonia, channel,
chaos, communication explosion, communication theory, confusion,
data retrieval, data storage, deadliness, deathliness, decoding,
derangement, diffusion, disarrangement, disarray,
disarticulation, discomfiture, discomposure, disconcertedness,
discontinuity, discreteness, disharmony, dishevelment,
disintegration, disjunction, dislocation, disorder,
disorderliness, disorganization, dispersal, dispersion,
disproportion, disruption, dissolution, disturbance, dormancy,
electronic data processing, encoding, formlessness, fuzziness,
haphazardness, haziness, incoherence, inconsistency,
indecisiveness, indefiniteness, indeterminateness, indifference,
indiscriminateness, indolence, inertia, inertness, information
explosion, information theory, inharmonious harmony,
irregularity, languor, latency, lotus-eating, messiness,
mistiness, most admired disorder, noise, nonadhesion,
noncohesion, nonsymmetry, nonuniformity, obscurity,
orderlessness, passiveness, passivity, perturbation, promiscuity,
promiscuousness, randomness, redundancy, scattering,
separateness, shapelessness, signal, stagnancy, stagnation,
stasis, suspense, torpor, turbulence, unadherence,
unadhesiveness, unclearness, unsymmetry, untenacity,
ununiformity, upset, vagueness, vegetation, vis inertiae
"communication explosion", "... theory", "confusion", ...
Isn't there a lot of noise to signal here? Shouldn't the focus be
narrowed somewhat?
I'm thinking generally about results I've seen from dict over time,
and perhaps entropy isn't the best example. moby- does seem to have a
lot of _barely_ related cruft, from results I've seen. 'Seems far too
chatty for my taste, fwiw. :-)
Just a data point.
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