A visit to Fantastic Voyage : Live Long Enough to Live Forever by Ray Kurzweil and Terry Grossman (which I am currently contemplating buying, but wish they had an audio book) reveals another technology experiment from Amazon. Once they can scan the full text of the book, they can deduce some meaningful (or not) facts about the title. Such as this:
Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs):
silent inflammation, alkalinized water, vulnerable plaque formation, average daily nutrient intake level, predictive genomics, genomics testing, maintenance calorie level, your optimal weight, eicosapentaneoic acid, high glycemic load, defective methylation, genomics tests, calcium score, low glycemic load, elevated risk factors, starch blockers, soft plaque, calcified plaque, heavy metal toxins, abnormal methylation, hard plaque, virtual colonoscopy, heart scan, hard calcified, glycemic carbohydrates
A click on Learn more reveals, surprise, an explanation on what it is.
Amazon.com’s Statistically Improbable Phrases, or “SIPs”, show you the interesting, distinctive, or unlikely phrases that occur in the text of books in Search Inside the Book. Our computers scan the text of all books in the Search Inside program. If they find a phrase that occurs a large number of times in a particular book relative to how many times it occurs across all Search Inside books, that phrase is a SIP in that book.
Nifty toy, not sure I have found the use for it yet.
