Re: Is Graham-John's inane spam robogenerated?

[ichudov@algebra.com (Igor Chudov @ home)]

Dale Thorn wrote:
> 
> Igor Chudov @ home wrote:
> > Along the lines of poetry festivals and spambots, I may suggest this.
> > When I was 16, I wrote a prose writing program in Pascal. It read a long
> > text and created a table: as the key, it had pairs of words, and as the
> > data, it had list of all words that follow the pair in the index. The
> > table was generated by a single pass through the source text, where
> > there was a moving 3-word window and first two words were used as the
> > key to the third word. The window moves one word at a time.
> > The loop repeats indefinitely. The text that results looks like it was
> > written by a schizophrenic -- it is more or less correct grammatically,
> > uses more or less compatible words and seems to make sense, but the
> > meaning seems to evade the reader. It is an extremely strange and
> > annoying feeling.
> 
> If an actor really "gets into" their part, could you easily tell
> if the schizophrenia is good acting, or is latent in the actor?
> (BTW, does not apply to O.J. Simpson or Ronald Reagan).

I am not sure if I am a really good expert on mental health. Also,
many people do not quite understand what schizophrenia really is
and how it works. It could well be that no one understands it.

> I hope you're not writing Pascal any more.

Not any more...

	- Igor.