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

["DANA SCOTT" <dscott520@xxxxxxx>]

Hmm. I see that for the letter a the number of entries listed is 27.

Regards,
Dana Scott


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From: "Jacques Guy" <jguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2003 3:39 PM
Subject: Re: VMs: strange post on soc.culture.french


> 4/8/03 10:15:04 PM, Vladimir Sazonov <vladimir@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> >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).
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> But look at the beginning:
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> Iraqi may borrow a the Prime Blair
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> 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:
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> a: 27, admired: 1, and: 9, appear: 1, around: 1
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> But further down the list:
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> Blair : 6, bollocks:7, bolly: 4, borrow:1, 
> bounce: 5, bum: 9
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> That no longer makes sense.
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