Typos aside, response rats are actually a thing! The phrase occurs 15 times in the study “Place Versus Response Learning in Rats” by Mark R. Cole, Amy Clipperton, and Caryn Walt, published in Learning & Behavior, 2007, 35(4), 204-224. A quote: “As is shown by the solid arrows in Figure 2B, 3 response rats always had to turn right, thus going in different directions (north or south) to arrive at different towers (B or C) from the two different starting points to find food. The other 2 response rats could follow the path traced by the dotted arrows in Figure 2B, turning to the left but going in different directions to find food located on different towers on the two types of trials.”
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Google even went so far as to make the top results about response rates.
Breck and I once built a TV guide spell checker, and I can assure you that you’ll never spellcheck “Batman” and “Spider-Man” properly without multi-word context plus world knowledge of names. Plus, there’s a problem of false positives. Andrew—are you OK with this use of “false positive”? If not, what would you call an erroneous suggestion? Google corrects [Spiderman] to “Spider Man” (it gets the space, but not the hyphen), but it leaves “Bat-man” as is without a suggestion. Google learns what people do, not what is correct according to Marvel or DC Comics ; Google’s descriptive, not prescriptive, as the linguists would say.
Peter Norvig wrote up a very neat intro to the “inversion” problem posed by spell checking.
My personal worst typo was in a presentation where I meant to talk about “shifts in perception” but unfortunately noticed while presenting that it said “shits in perception”
When I was at high school (many many years ago) our English teacher was adjudicating the final of a debating competition which was open to the public (i.e. lots of parents). In his opening remarks he told the audience that all interjections should be wort and shitty.
Personally, I’m happy to see any reduction in Response Rats. Those tails creep me out.
Typos aside, response rats are actually a thing! The phrase occurs 15 times in the study “Place Versus Response Learning in Rats” by Mark R. Cole, Amy Clipperton, and Caryn Walt, published in Learning & Behavior, 2007, 35(4), 204-224. A quote: “As is shown by the solid arrows in Figure 2B, 3 response rats always had to turn right, thus going in different directions (north or south) to arrive at different towers (B or C) from the two different starting points to find food. The other 2 response rats could follow the path traced by the dotted arrows in Figure 2B, turning to the left but going in different directions to find food located on different towers on the two types of trials.”
Great response! ;~)
All this and nothing about which rats were the brave first responders?
Um, yeah…I think you mean rePROduction in response rats…
For query [response rats], Google says:
Google even went so far as to make the top results about response rates.
Breck and I once built a TV guide spell checker, and I can assure you that you’ll never spellcheck “Batman” and “Spider-Man” properly without multi-word context plus world knowledge of names. Plus, there’s a problem of false positives. Andrew—are you OK with this use of “false positive”? If not, what would you call an erroneous suggestion? Google corrects [Spiderman] to “Spider Man” (it gets the space, but not the hyphen), but it leaves “Bat-man” as is without a suggestion. Google learns what people do, not what is correct according to Marvel or DC Comics ; Google’s descriptive, not prescriptive, as the linguists would say.
Peter Norvig wrote up a very neat intro to the “inversion” problem posed by spell checking.
In thyme, eventually someone will invent a meaning chequer and we will no langer worry about this just like with spalling.
By then, all communication will take place through emojis and memes. Thank goodness!
My personal worst typo was in a presentation where I meant to talk about “shifts in perception” but unfortunately noticed while presenting that it said “shits in perception”
My uncle for a term paper in law school years ago wrote an entire article on “The Role of Pubic Law In Society” or something approximately equivalent.
This one got a belly-laugh!
When the Windex bottle eventually cracked after many years, I transferred the contents to a different spray bottle and labeled it “Widow Cleaner.”
Was it a black bottle with a red hourglass shape?
Very good response! (I really needed a good laugh, so thanks.)
When I was at high school (many many years ago) our English teacher was adjudicating the final of a debating competition which was open to the public (i.e. lots of parents). In his opening remarks he told the audience that all interjections should be wort and shitty.
That is called a spoonerism, named after an Oxford don who was famous for them.
Response rats sound like the metaphorical rats leaving a sinking ship.
Obviously a moustake!
And then there is this:
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/feeling-stupid