"The danger already exists that the mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and to confine man in the bonds of Hell"

-- St. Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, circa 400 BCE

quoted in "Mathematics for the Nonmathematician," Morris Kline, 1985

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 ( Read more... )