Words That Speak a Thousand Pictures 102
venolius writes: "The New York Times (free registration required) has an article
on TextArc (created by W.Bradford
Paley), a site that "aids in the
discovery of patterns and and concepts in arbitrary text" (from the detailed
overview at TextArc). The site serves an applet that performs the task
(texts on which analysis is available include Alice
in Wonderland, Hamlet, and thousands
of others -made available by Project
Gutenberg-). The NYTimes article reports that Paley found that
"Dracula", which relies on a strong storyline had a few keywords
clustered hotly at the center, and that the metaphoric "Frankenstein"
generated a circle of 50 words of modest intensity that faded towards the edges.
"Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" with evenly distributed key
words produces tight and round lines and "Alice in Wonderland"
produces loopier lines. Check it out! (the applet was tested on better
hardware, but I did well enough with 98/IE6/550MHz/64MB)"
Let's try it on certain newsgroups postings (Score:3, Funny)
Analise this (Score:2, Funny)
"Somebody set up us the bomb"
Is there any pattern there?
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Heh
Just ran Slashdot through it (Score:2, Funny)
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Point: Somehow if it uses *your* CPU it's different, but when Google's machines do all the work it's somehow OK. Next you'll be complaining about websites doing a DoS by forcing your browser to use CPU by rendering HTML and your TCP stack having to store a sliding window whenever you view a webpage. This selfish attitude is why all filesharing software must be redesigned to NOT allow anyone to kick uploaders. If you want to kick uploaders then shut down the filesharing App, but then you lose download karma.
My personal opinion: Due to heavy-client structure of the majority of machines, this applet uses the correct CPU (yours). Reduced ad revenues means that Internet companies can no longer afford massive server farms unless they require Cydoor installed on all client machines, alternatively they can decrease their equipment costs by delegating processing to client's (suerfers' browser's) CPUs. *nix systems, especially if apps are in a Java sandbox are heavily protected against most attacks, including process DoS attacks via kill -4, kill -9 and a scheduler+VM designed to stand up under heavy loads. Poor Microshaft Win9x people have to do Ctrl-Alt-Del which halts all processes while they look at the sceduler's contents, and it takes 30 seconds of a sucesful DoS for the offending process to be recognised as "unresponsive and kill -9'able" otherwise it is merely "kill -4'able". If you don't want them to use your CPU, then don't visit their website, disable JVM, disable HTML parsing in the browser (this takes CPU), read the raw HTML yourself, disable TCP stack, write packets by hand to minimise CPU usage or even bypass the CPU completely by setting the modem's line inputs yourself with a logic probe, then probe for response using oscilloscope and logic probe. Do PPP-IP-TCP by hand. That won't use your CPU.
Pop quiz hotshot, this is an Informative flamebait, what mod do you do, what mod do you do?
Amazing... (Score:3, Funny)
I like it!
Unpossible! (Score:2, Funny)