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Comment author: james_edwards 07 August 2013 01:56:00AM 0 points [-]

Cool indeed!

Both uses of "regime" on page 3 look weird:

improving accuracy by a percentage point in the ninety-percent regime arguably makes translation software a lot more useful than improving accuracy by a point in the thirty-percent regime

"Region" seems better to me.

Comment author: Qiaochu_Yuan 07 August 2013 07:28:29AM *  2 points [-]

This is common terminology in... I'm not sure exactly, but some parts of mathematics, computer science, and physics. Generally one speaks of the behavior of a problem in the regime where some parameters are large or small. Wikipedia has a related usage in the sciences.

Comment author: james_edwards 07 August 2013 02:34:30AM 1 point [-]

Also, should “A Science-Based Case for Large-Scale Simulation” be cited on page 4?

Comment author: alexvermeer 08 August 2013 05:12:26PM 0 points [-]

It is cited later on page 33, though citation added to the page 4 reference as well. Thanks!

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