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6 Sep 2024 11:19:47 EDT (-0400)
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From: Darren New
Date: 11 Feb 2009 15:31:16
Message: <49933594$1@news.povray.org>
Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> This is slightly different to constructing sentences which are very 
> wordy but don't "say" anything. 

There was a conference on linguistics or some such where the authors took 
markov chains from a few earlier papers and constructed a completely random 
paper to submit, got it accepted, and presented it. They were apparently up 
to the fifth or sixth slide before people started to catch on that it was 
literally random nonsense.

-- 
   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   "Ouch ouch ouch!"
   "What's wrong? Noodles too hot?"
   "No, I have Chopstick Tunnel Syndrome."


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