In most of our modern-day communications, we have a built-in copy-editor: the spell checker. This handy little system lets us write with a bit more abandon, knowing our typos will be caught. And that ...

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Perhaps the most obvious way to build a spell checker is by simply looking up each word in a dictionary. With modern hardware this wouldn’t be too hard, but disks in the ’70s were extremely slow and ...

Here's an alarming statistic that seems to fly under the news radar. Medical errors are the third-leading cause of death in the US, with a reported 250,000 annual deaths due to medical mistakes. This ...