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From: williams@kirk.DEC (John Williams 223-3402)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Connections in probability
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Date: Thu, 8-Nov-84 15:21:42 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov  8 15:21:42 1984
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	Ah Ha. I think I know what mvs has been doing. There is an 
algorithm for rehashing text. It can be found in scientific 
american, under computer recreations. Although I do not know what 
issue specifically, it is fairly recent, due to the fact that it 
was included in one of the issue that has computer recreations, 
which replaced mathematical games and metamagical themas a short 
while ago.

	What it does is extract a table of words with a 
probability of each word following another as the other dimension 
in the array. Given that certain words have a higher probability 
of following other certain words, it reconstructs text that is 
similar in style to the original. The meaning of course gets a 
little bit scrambled. The words are chosen at random, but are 
weighted according to probability.

	What Mark has been doing is to feed the net.singles 
garbage in and getting his article garbage out. ( See GIGO )
If it is particularly offensive to anyone, beware, some of it is 
your own handwriting. It kind of gives you the flavor of 
net.singles, encapsulated. It kind of has that indescribeable 
texture to it.

	Admit it, -_-_-_-Mark, you were waiting to see how long 
it would take us to catch on.

					----{ john williams }----

	< One monkey behind a typewriter >

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