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King James Programming
Jah-Wren Ryel writes "What do you get when you train a Markov chain on the King James Bible and a copy of Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs? King James Programming — a tumblr of auto-generated pseudo-scripture (or pseudo-compsci lessons). Some examples: -- 'The LORD is the beginning (or prefix) of the code for the body of the procedure.' -- 'More precisely, if P and Q are polynomials, let O1 be the order of blessed.' -- ''In APL all data are represented as arrays, and there shall they see the Son of man, in whose sight I brought them out.'"
It actually makes more sense!
Once I was a four stone apology. Now I am two separate gorillas.
They should use this to develop Jesix, or whatever it was called. You know, that Linux distro where they changed potentially offensive commands like "mount".
Some of the marketing crap my company produces is worse than the quotes generated in TFA. ...I wonder if I could make a business out of outsourcing our marketing team with this algorithm...I'll suggest to my boss and see what he says.
Scientology has a competitor! somehow, someone somewhere will take this way too seriously.
The word of the Lord is not to be altered or trivialized like this
May He have mercy on your pathetic souls
Used biblical references for branching tags. The code (assembly) would then have 'goto john', 'goto paul', etc spread about. It was pointed out to her that this made maintenance more difficult, and she needed to use more meaningful, informative tags. She did not, however, use 'hell' as one.
You are being MICROattacked, from various angles, in a SOFT manner.
Also in the day of the LORD’s house, all the words of Alan Perlis, “Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.”
Oh man this a special kind of awesome right here!
This has always been one of my favorite algorithms. Saw it the first time many years ago on The Practice of Programming, by Kernighan and Pike. Always makes me laugh. You can use it to generate phrases or even psuedo-words that "sound like" any given real language. I use it to generate passwords that are easy to remember but cannot be found in any dictionary, of "fantasy names" for games. Have fun and plose some stilture on your cince! http://www.ploodood.net/
Someone should work out the licensing with the publishers of "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs" and create a full manuscript. I would buy it and put it right between to my copy of Principia Discorida and The Book Of The Subgenius.
Wow a series of synaptic interactions lead to you to an expected conclusion that isn't even novel. You must be fun at parties.
(Preferring Markov chains to produce music is like preferring light to produce clouds rather than projected films. There's not really a right or wrong, but your preference is for the choice that is least likely to provoke or offend.)
As a scientist I always test the null hypothesis to quantify usefulness of my research. They did a bunch of work, but is it any better than a simple randomized selection of text?
As a quick test of the null hypothesis, below I have selected a random bible verse and inserted into the middle a random statement from SICP after the nearest to center semicolon, comma, period, and or or:
God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, this takes two arguments, a symbol and a list, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.
And we have seen and, evaluating this combination involves three subproblems, testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world.
Jesus answered him, “If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, However, if we allow mutators on list structure, sharing becomes significant, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.”
Then Jesus told his disciples, “If anyone would come after me the machine repeatedly executes a controller loop, changing the contents of the registers, until some termination condition is satisfied, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.”
Verses from: Random Bible Verse. I scrolled around the TOC with my eyes closed, clicked a link, then repeated the process waggling my mouse erratically to select sentences from SICP. YMMV.
It's not supposed to be novel, it's supposed to be funny.
In that, it succeeds quite well.
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Not novel indeed, I saw this more than twenty years ago on The Practice of Computer programming by Kernighan and Pike. Still funny, though.
I heard Jesus went to Mount Olive, but Popeye got pissed
The Neural Network that creates prose!
The pig go.
Go is to the fountain.
The pig put foot. Grunt.
Foot in what? ketchup.
The dove fly.
Fly is in sky.
The dove drop something.
The something on the pig.
The pig disgusting. The pig rattle.
Rattle with dove.
The dove angry.
The pig leave.
The dove produce.
Produce is chicken wing.
With wing bark.
No Quack.
Man is the animal that laughs.
And occasionally whores for Karma.
From the dedication of SICP:
"[...] I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun. Above all, I hope we don't become missionaries. Don't feel as if you're Bible salesmen. The world has too many of those already. [...]"
For crying out loud don't they teach kids any history these days?
See http://glenda.cat-v.org/friends/mark-v-shaney/classics
My personal favourite:
I would like to be present everywhere
Grace is the âoeupdateâ program, which simply issues a sync system call.
Iâ(TM)ve received two pieces of email that imply that somebody recently posted the entire world with a flood, to remove all rational obstacles to believing something revealed by God.
I have to pass a tuple containing the existing Unix technology. To do an outbound call you should be able to say that I believe that God wants him to set up an alternative mailbox for these files.
If this is exactly the thrust of Larry McVoyâ(TM)s paper on âoeExtent Like Performance on a sysV f. s.â, he cannot have salvation, except in the production of the forgiveness of sins.
I would like to be present everywhere.
This is supported by Jesusâ(TM)s use of low cost eight bit micros and small amounts of RAM. When you find salvation.
For the sinner deserves not life but death, according to the disk devices. For example, start with Plan 9, which is free of sin, the case is different from His perspective.
The Roman Church has always been a part of a file system semantics.
Grab the cat torture shit. Lets be real familiar with these braindead but safe solutions. We have to look further into this possible interpretation.
Another trick to see how our inability to discern justice as an actual inconsistency in FORTRAN 77 by defining DO loops to work in the hope of generating few more responses.
Female clergy are widely but not quite.
I have modified the âoestandardâ Berkley ftpd to allow for various types of failures in Scripture.
Thatâ(TM)s not very important, because the deception of one being good entails being loving, merciful, just, and many other names; one per symbolic link.
Those who believe that something could be saved except the atoning sacrifice of Isaac, on the testimony of countless scientists who also most oppose the teachings of the statements that I call UNIX.
ScienceFiction more or less predicts future pornography and homosexuality in the sovereignty of God.
Wouldnâ(TM)t that mean that the Father too may live anew dev log to ftp after login?
Probably first choice of block size on all of their salvation.
If God truly loves humankind then why does He create sinners? If human is His creation, then who is the ultimate in all shells?
I know at one point Jesus said âoeno one may come to grips with the cpio header blown awayâ.
It speaks of the original ftpd.
I am the resident Unix and open systems bigot so much like the resurrection of Jesus only.
Geoff modified relaynews to write an essay on prayer.
dvips for DVI files should run on the testimony of countless scientists who also most oppose the teachings of the Catholic Church through no fault of his posting, in which the idea that it passes the diagnostics.
And I get real turned on by a good English translation of the Bible; because there is sufficient response I would want to change the nature of the points of Catholic theology would immediately have to be God and satan who is a free variable :â")
Christian theology is not seek optimization, which the means pertain, as was said above
Good. I am trying to keep binary compatibility with the possible exception of Sun Microsystems. Yet, because Sun is apparently seen as the closest Protestant Church to Catholicism.
That observation doesnâ(TM)t get one anywhere. One might as well as the law as can be meritorious of life everlasting, but so as to heal the man page; if not, you can always use parens and braces.
On a SVR4, I am interested in building a list of names and addresses to be in the name of Martin Luther, who led the religious reformatio
Andy Warhol got it right / Everybody gets the limelight
Andy Warhol got it wrong / Fifteen minutes is too long.
It's okay, the light creates the clouds too.
Seriously?
Managing a few variables in some order is complex? If this is actually news, I'm cringing on how low expectations of programmers have sunk.
How many hurdles will the writer of this drek jump when managing a maiden name changing to a married name?
In my databases there's just one.
Take the time to design the back end. That way you don't need to worry about the tripe posted in the article.
_ _ _ Go for the eyes Boo! GO FOR THE EYES!
Of the 40 or so example spews that I looked at, they mostly appeared to consist of a beginning that started in one work, and the ending which finished in the other... like two random sentences spliced together in a way that, at least around the words that they appear to have been joined on, made some degree of gramatical sense, even if the concept itself were absurd.
File under 'M' for 'Manic ranting'
... there was 0, and God said, "Let there be 1".
Having just read through the New Testament and the first half-ish of the Old (to Ruth), I'm now left wondering what color the sky is on the biblical-literalist world.
Hail Eris, full of mischief...
E pluribus sanguinem
In the name of the father, the son, and the holy segfault...