Apropos the old "Probability for kids" thread:
https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg24527.html
Michael Walker has been running a 4-token Markov chain between the
KJV and SICP, yielding many amusing statements as well as the
occasional truths:
http://kingjamesprogramming.tumblr.com/
The integral procedure at the end of the garbage-collection phase
the useful data will have been moved and scanned, at which point we
start over from the root of the trees: every tree therefore which
bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down
In this way he is doing his part to advance the work of Swift's
anonymous professor at the academy of Lagado (XVIII), whose elevator
pitch went as follows:
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/829/829-h/829-h.htm
Every one knew how laborious the usual method is of attaining to
arts and sciences; whereas, by his contrivance, the most ignorant
person, at a reasonable charge, and with a little bodily labour,
might write books in philosophy, poetry, politics, laws,
mathematics, and theology, without the least assistance from genius
or study.
and who, in turn, seems to have been a parody of Llull, (a pre-ARPA
(XIII) net.kook?).
http://cs.ttu.ee/kursused/itv0010/maxmon/1274ad.htm
who was apparently inspired by an arabic i-ching-like device:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zairja
-Dave
(to be fair: the modern discipline of "Compressive Sensing"
demonstrates that one can derive useful information in a sub-Nyquist
regime by illuminating a target with noise; in fact, the noisier the
illumination the better!)
http://postbiota.org/pipermail/tt/2012-February/010672.html
