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- Subject: Re: Computer writes a book?
- Date: 25 Jan 1993 14:11 CST
- Organization: Texas A&M University, Academic Computing Services
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- Ted Pedersen writes...
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- >I think this is a stunt. I don't really believe a computer program
- >wrote this book. However, if anyone has any information about this
- >book or the author that would give this some credibility I would like
- >to hear about it. Comment on the general idea would be interesting as
- >well. I don't think the idea itself is impossible, it just seems like
- >this case is a little far fetched.
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- There's at least one book authored by a computer I can think of--a thinnish
- volume that came out six or eight years back called _The Policeman's Beard
- is Half Constructed_ and, while most of it was on the ragged edge of
- comprehensibility I'd rate it far above any of J.S.'s efforts. Because
- although it contained a good deal of repetition due to a conspicuously
- small vocabulary, it did deliver occasional jems like, `A black pig is
- like a tormented bat,' explained in tortuous logic, and the wild
- `inconsistancy is the hobgoblin of little minds,' which leads one to
- wonder what trash the programmers had been feeding their machine.
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