Awesome, wumpus! I’m working on a dissertation (distantly) involving MCs and this is just the perspective I need to lighten up a bit about the whole thing.
I haven’t gotten many good ones lately, but here’s a couple from a spam I got 2 months ago. The first one I reformatted to look more like a Haiku. The second came that way.
It is deserted,
writing, the maid had said at first,
but the inspector tempest.
and
the imperfect glimpse which the eye catches asserted his authority for once had done him good. Not brainstrust me!
said mrs jane. And an estate?.
- “…I’ve been getting a lot of spam with what looks like randomly selected sections of various random works of literature.”
The dark side of Project Gutenberg (et al) – piles of freely-available, ready-for-random-excerpting literature that is clean as a whistle as far as the filters are concerned. I was struck by it when I first noticed that happening to. I remember laughing out loud at the first one. It’s a mixology thing, too: is 90% Dickens and 10% spam diluted enough to pass a filter? Etc.
This may be a little off the Markov path, but on the subject of altered comic strips I highly enjoy the altered Blondie comics “Removing His Speech Bubbles Turns Dagwood Into a Faulknerian Man-Child.” Unfortunately this is only a facebook group at the moment: www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2355753361ref=nf
I ran in to a bug which caused it to continually reply, so I hit the 70 req/hour limit. Hopefully it should work again when the next hour rolls over! Kooky’s in #kooky on irc.gamesurge.net until then…
So let’s try it meant for automatically generating Paul Graham essays to include amusing bodily functions. Permanent Monday. Literary commentary on a sample text by exactly this online Markov chains. I the states that it can feel the problem of letters. The [PageRank] can feel the list of startups; we produce the Internet had become, because the heingoind of-pleat, blur it meant for your mild amusement, two word groupings – what I found on of clicks. This happens to me about what I present below, for instance, is an sit.
@phatmonkey those quotes are without a doubt the funniest thing I have seen allllllll year.
You rock!
I have never felt dumber; I have no idea what this entry is trying to explain to me
Shall I be the one to say it?
OK - look everyone - the emperor has no clothes on!
I see no value at all in any of this. I might have when I was 12, but probably not.
I love the kookybot and having it on Twitter is convenient.
@Bob Carpenter: “Don’t trust the Wikipedia, which confuses Bayes rule with Bayesian inference and misses the importance of uncertainty.”
Well you sound like you know what you are talking about Bob, so go fix it then!
Programming is all about knowing when to boil the orange sponge donkey across the phillipines with an orangutang gorilla crossed with a ham sandwich to the fourth power of twelve across the nile with an awful headache from the previous night when all of alfred’s naughty jalapeno peppers frog-marched the nordic elves across the loom-lined geronimo induced swamp donkey over and above the fortran fortified kilomanjaro fence past the meticulously crafted anti disgusting sponge cake scenario where all the hats doth quoteth the milk which is not unlike my kingdom I was finally there, to sit on my throne as the Prince of Bel Air.
Nor again is pain, but because it is pain, but because
to find fault with a man who
has no annoying consequences, or one who
can procure him some great pleasure. To take a man who
occasionally circumstances occur in which of us ever undertakes laborious physical
avoids a trivial
avoids a man who loves or one who
to obtain some great pleasure. To take a pain
to enjoy
occasionally circumstances occur in which toil and pain
has no annoying consequences, or desires
exercise, except to obtain pai
Im sitting at work with tears rolling down my cheecks at kooky’s guotes… this is not helping the fact my co-workers think im a sociopath!
Also thanks, Josh, for making an appearance and offering such useful insights on your Markov experience.
My pleasure, Jeff. I’ve tripped across your site more than once, and I’m regretting not having been a regular reader before. Thanks again for the discussion; I enjoy a good chance to geek out.
Just to point it out, it looks like the Garfield Randomizer appears to be defunct no longer.
Aye, it lives (linked along with the rest of the Garfieldiana of which I’m aware at the bottom of the Garkov page). And another fella wrote to me yesterday to point out his somewhat spruced up revision:
http://arc.malicelabs.com/garfield/
where all the hats doth quoteth the milk which is not unlike my kingdom I was finally there, to sit on my throne as the Prince of Bel Air.
Trevor, I am hugging you so hard right now.
And this is utterly silly, but something has been bugging me about that comment from “hello” since I first read it yesterday, and this morning it finally struck me:
It reads like bad high school poetry. Precocious proto-surrealism from someone who hasn’t managed to work all the kinks out of their fundamentals.
I’ve throw a proper with-linebreaks treatment onto my blog:
The “value” of this is that it probably explains (functionally) how at least one layer of human memory for words works.
To minimize load on the higher decision making functions, we almost certainly have a “markov” strategy in our brains that reduces the number of possibilities following each word to a manageable number in the majority of cases. Only when the next word is a low probability do we have to think about it. There’s probably a measurable pause too while we come up with the word. The rest, we probably pick from the short markov array.
Any useful language software which exhibits semantic comprehension will also probably use this strategy.
In Finally, a random gibberish, and so profoundly weird. So the states that vide was generated through Markov text in Garkov hall of Markov chains. I found on selected strips. * Garfield strips. If you haven’t read is an adequate input corpus. Given an outsider, who deliberately stirred up fights in this way, but using two representative strips I wit hengamind tarer-plarody thishand. So what Bentley refers to work with. Now let’s proceed to the A List is often followed in this excellent presentation (pdf). How to pornographic sites, too! Markovian techniques than the input that the CRM114 Discriminator,
i was thinking… what would happen if you fed it song lyrics…
so i did… this is the firs Ramones album “Markovized”
Hey ho, let’s dance.
Hey ho, let’s dance; let’s dance; let’s go
Shoot’em in love
’Cause I was a punk
Judy is a punk
Judy is a baseball bat
Oh yeah, uh-oh.
What do the banana.
Now the basement
There’s somethin’ down to turn a trick
53rd and ready to the brat
Beat on the world Hey baby yeah you up
I’m ever thinking of
Now I’m tired of there
She’ll never get out of there
She’ll never get out my baby yeah you let me walk around with me?
I was a chance?
Say that you love me