Re: VMs: strange post on soc.culture.french

[Jacques Guy <jguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

4/8/03 10:15:04 PM, Vladimir Sazonov <vladimir@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

>The algorithm is so, that , starting with some word, other occurence of 
>this word is searched, and the next word is selected as the next word 
>after the found occurence.
>Then, another occurence of the next word is searched. and so on.
>So, we get a very noce word noodle.

That would be Shannon's algorithm for generating a second-order
approximation (a second-order word monkey, as we called it here
many years ago already).

But look at the beginning:

Iraqi may borrow a the Prime Blair

The sequence "a the" can never occur in English, so it cannot
be the output of a second-order monkey. I just did a frequency
count, using NoteTab (nice editor, you can pick up a free
copy at http://www.notetab.com). I still do not know what
to make of the results. I think "first-order" when I see:

a: 27, admired:	1, and: 9, appear: 1, around: 1

But further down the list:

Blair	: 6, bollocks:7, bolly: 4, borrow:1, 
bounce: 5, bum:	9

That no longer makes sense.











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