"For large sets, this will be our guide, even unto death."
I have been crying tears of laughter in front of my computer this evening, as I read excerpts from "King James Programming, "generated by a Markov chain trained on the King James Bible and 'Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs'." It's a mash-up of the King James Bible and a classic comp sci textbook by a comp sci prof in the UK. A few of my favorites:
"In APL all data are represented as arrays, and there shall they see the Son of man, in whose sight I brought them out"
"And Satan stood up against them in that day, and leap for joy: for, behold, your reward is great in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the role of procedures in program design."
"But after that faith is come, we are no longer automatically serialized by the account."
"And these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job were in it, and all the abominations that be done in (log n) steps."
"Thou shalt therefore sacrifice the passover within any of thy cattle, and in the MIT Computation Center."
I only recognized the name "Markov Chain" because it was bandied about in a few Numb3rs episodes. I didn't understand it then, and looking at the wikipedia article about it, I couldn't tell you how it works, though it seems like a more efficient way of getting to the same results as cutting up a bunch of sentences from both works, mixing them up in a bucket, and pulling out two or three at random.
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"In APL all data are represented as arrays, and there shall they see the Son of man, in whose sight I brought them out"
"And Satan stood up against them in that day, and leap for joy: for, behold, your reward is great in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the role of procedures in program design."
"But after that faith is come, we are no longer automatically serialized by the account."
"And these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job were in it, and all the abominations that be done in (log n) steps."
"Thou shalt therefore sacrifice the passover within any of thy cattle, and in the MIT Computation Center."
I only recognized the name "Markov Chain" because it was bandied about in a few Numb3rs episodes. I didn't understand it then, and looking at the wikipedia article about it, I couldn't tell you how it works, though it seems like a more efficient way of getting to the same results as cutting up a bunch of sentences from both works, mixing them up in a bucket, and pulling out two or three at random.
Now on Boing Boing and Slashdot as well.