Learning Languages with the Help of Algorithms
Suppose you’re learning a new language and want to boost your vocabulary in a very time-efficient way. People have many ways to learn a language, different for each person. Suppose you wanted to improve your vocabulary by reading books in that language. To get the most impact, you’d like to pick books that cover as many common words in the language as possible. Here is a formalization. Suppose for a large set of m books of average length n words, you want to pick the one book that has the high