Re: VMs: Gordon Rugg in Scientific American

["Jeff" <jeff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Alzheimer's is what you get after six months staring at a Cardan Grille. You
then most undoubtedly start communucating with angels. Is there a doctor in
the house? Ah Dr. Dee, just in time for dictation.

Jeff


----- Original Message -----
From: "Nick Pelling" <incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <vms-list@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: 23 June 2004 15:19
Subject: Re: VMs: Gordon Rugg in Scientific American


> 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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