Re: VMs: Gordon Rugg in Scientific American

[Nick Pelling <incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Rene,

At 06:48 23/06/2004 -0700, Rene Zandbergen wrote:
> Yes, I'm still mystified about the connection to
> the study of Alzheimer's disease, in the last
> paragraph of the article.

Ah, that's the beauty of the modified Cardan grille - you can tweak it to 
produce just about any special case word you require, even rarities such as 
Al-z-he-im-er-s. :-)

Just move your grille randomly enough to convince other computer scientists 
that there's meaning in the output (if there's negentropy, there has to be 
meaning, right? [*]), and you can hoax whatever you like with it. :-)

Cheers, .....Nickel Pling..... :-)

[*] Wrong, actually. 


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