Because irregular forms tend to be common, just a few hundred can take up much of the real estate of a language. There is thus a high payoff to memorizing them as self-contained units. Of course, if such a word becomes rare--who speaks any more of "oaken" buckets?--there will be a powerful tendency to regularize them.
What sort of programmer is best for this job?
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At the very end of the article Hsu says: "At Microsoft Research Asia we are seeding university efforts in China with the goal of solving some of the basic problems."
What sort of grad student would make the best project manager? Would it matter if he were a rather weak player, as Hsu was in chess, back in his own grad-student days at Carnegie Mellon? Or should he be someone like Vasik Rajlich, author of the chess program Rybka, who is an International Master at chess? (Rajlich has said that he decided on that project becaues "I figured there were about 2000 people in the world stronger than me in chess but not one chess player that was stronger than me in programming.")
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Because irregular forms tend to be common, just a few hundred can take up much of the real estate of a language. There is thus a high payoff to memorizing them as self-contained units. Of course, if such a word becomes rare--who speaks any more of "oaken" buckets?--there will be a powerful tendency to regularize them.
At the very end of the article Hsu says: "At Microsoft Research Asia we are seeding university efforts in China with the goal of solving some of the basic problems." What sort of grad student would make the best project manager? Would it matter if he were a rather weak player, as Hsu was in chess, back in his own grad-student days at Carnegie Mellon? Or should he be someone like Vasik Rajlich, author of the chess program Rybka, who is an International Master at chess? (Rajlich has said that he decided on that project becaues "I figured there were about 2000 people in the world stronger than me in chess but not one chess player that was stronger than me in programming.")