meaning "Jack-of-all-trades," first shows up in writing in 1592 to describe none other than Shakespeare himself. The word gofer is similar to factotum but a bit less dignified. In other words, a factotum is an assistant, but one who may have taken over...
Adding dimensions: With this intuitive feel for similarity expressed as a small angle (or large cosine), we can now imagine things in 3 dimensions, say by bringing the word "Amsterdam" into the mix, and visualize quite well how a document with two references to each would have a vector go...
meaning "Jack-of-all-trades," first shows up in writing in 1592 to describe none other than Shakespeare himself. The word gofer is similar to factotum but a bit less dignified. In other words, a factotum is an assistant, but one who may have taken over...