Fnord Prefect
Scott Alexander shows an acute appreciation for Nydwracu’s Fnord hunting (my own was far too cursory). It’s rare to see the innovation of a method (with a purpose), and it’s something more noteworthy than any but the most exceptional idea.
Someone with the requisite technical skills should implement this method in convenient software. As a quick-and-dirty way to excavate real messages, it’s hard to beat.
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Posted on May 27th, 2014 at 9:45 am | QuoteSee, I would read that as “fnard” rather than “fnord”. You need something more round. And sinister.
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Lesser Bull Reply:
May 27th, 2014 at 1:38 pm
He just needs to tilt the triangle a little
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Rasputin Reply:
May 27th, 2014 at 8:04 pm
A Black Sun, maybe.
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If I’m not mistaken, the software already exists: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travesty_generator
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Posted on May 27th, 2014 at 2:19 pm | QuoteSo is it basically just taking out all the commonly used words?
That’d be pretty easy to implement.
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May 28th, 2014 at 8:44 pm
where he removed all of the filler words and transitions between ideas a
Perhaps I’m too dense, but requiring a program to distinguish between ideas and filler words in text is rather difficult.
In essence, it requires understanding the text.
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A recent comment on Scott’s post shows a beginning attempt at a software implementation:
http://nurble.luminoso.com/
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