Tuesday, April 17, 2007

The Beautiful People Part 4


Continuing my crusade against the beautiful people...enjoy.

Monday, April 16, 2007

The Jewel Song

(No, I'm not high, skip to the end if for a full explanation)

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Exploit Jewel,
I captor time

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Legislature Jewel can't concertina of commercial bronx bloodline

They songbook.
Thought Blanca,

Sands why ape Jewel judiciary of,
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A sample of some of the spam I recieve, formatted by me but otherwise untouched. Though Gmail kindly dumps all of this into a spam folder for me, once in a while prompted by sheer boredom, I go through some of my spam.
Looking at the sheer volumes of spam that's going around, it's pretty obvious that most of it is being generated automatically rather than being manually typed out as was the case with 'traditional' spam. What fascinates me is how they manage to generate the stuff. They are obvoiusly using some algorithm to generate the text so as to make it look like it is meaningful.
One such possible way of doing that, which I came across was using second order hidden markov models (and they were talking about it in the context of protein structure prediction). If this is the kind of shit being used, it makes me wonder why spammers don't get real jobs!
Anywho, my semester exams have started (I had my first one today). Statistics is over and done with (hence the hidden markov models) and now only about a dozen left before they let me go home. Til' then.
Ps. Confusion, do a google image search for "Falcon tubes" you'll see what the alleged 'condom' actually was, I'm feeling too lazy to put a picture up right now.

Monday, April 02, 2007

I'd LIke to Thank

...My parents, the academy and my legions of fans without whom, none of this would have ever been possible. Of course I'd like to thank god, my great seaven headed, fish scaled, cloven hooved god who has always attempted to sabotage my every endevour. Oh yes, I'd like to thank Aunty, the ever Helpful Dictator for actually tagging me with the "Thinking Blogger Award".
The award has a few simple rules:

Thinking meme

If you choose to carry this meme forward, remember to tag only those bloggers who stimulate your cortex....or something like that. Please make sure you pass the rules to the blogs you are tagging.

The participation rules are simple:

1. If, and only if, you get tagged, write a post with links to 5 blogs that make you think
2.Link to this post so that people can easily find the exact origin of the meme
The Thinking Blogger Award

Optional: Proudly display the 'Thinking Blogger Award' (if you should ever want to find it, I'm putting up on my blog in the sidebar to the left of you)
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The five blogs that I've linked to are:
1.
Confusion's Poetry Blog
2. Indian Lucifer's Blog
3. Nothingman's Stories
4. The Ainz Years
5. Thus I Spake