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"So shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth; it shall not return to me void, but it shall accomplish what I please, and it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it." -- Isaiah 55:11 (NKJV)
"In view of this, it is ironic that introductory programming is most often taught in a highly imperative style. This may be a memorial unto the children of whoredoms."
http://kingjamesprogramming.tumblr.com/post/75266347899/in-v...
This stuff matters.
The software languages we use affect our thinking as much as the spoken languages we use, and to juxtapose the two simply emphasises how closely linked are our notions of spirituality and language used to describe it. calling out the spiritual and throwing the secular world of programming into the same sentence just makes me reconsider which is the driver and which the driven.
Wouldn't that be "... and the first constant"? ;-)
[1] http://thinkrelevance.com/blog/2014/02/25/luke-vanderhart-an...
[1] - http://code.org/promote
[it, is] -> {sunny, 0.75}
[it, is] -> {raining, 0.25}
Tells you that given the phrase "it is", what comes next was "sunny" 3/4 of the time, and "raining" the rest.Once you've got that, you can use it to generate random text that has similar characteristics to the training corpus. You just seed it with a couple starting words, and then start randomly choosing what word comes next according to the probabilities you've recorded.
jwz's got one that you can play with yourself at http://www.jwz.org/dadadodo/
--john 3:16