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Chris -- 2025-05-10
“data minding” for “data mining”
This is apparently a new, computer-age variation on the “mind” for “mine” confusion. This particular variation does not seem to have been mentioned on this site until now (correct me if I’m wrong). I found it on a blog dating from 19 February, 2007:”...any one-hop proxy service leaves you wide open to data minding and traffic analysis attacks.”
Dixon
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When what’s being mined is information, this one seems particularly appropriate.
It is, as you note, a sub-case of a more general mind/mine confusion.
Some people (e.g. a sister-in-law of mine) are gold minds for this sort of data.
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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DavidTuggy wrote:
When what’s being mined is information, this one seems particularly appropriate.
It is, as you note, a sub-case of a more general mind/mine confusion.
Some people (e.g. a sister-in-law of mine) are gold minds for this sort of data.
Aaaaaahahahahahaha! Stop, you’re killin’ me!
Dixon
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