Re: Further advances in brainless writing

["H Morrow Long" <morrow.long () yale edu>]

I believe it was NPR which ran an article this past week on how some smaller
newspapers are now using software to automatically compose sports stories
from raw stats on games (players names tagged to touchdowns, field goals,
extra points/attempts, etc.) where they can't afford to pay sportswriters.

The software also apparently knows some 1,000 special colorful sports "stock
phrases" and randomly cycles between them to describe such common game
events as "bases loaded", a "hat trick" and an "eagle" in an attempt to make
readers think that there is actually a witty and creative sportswriter
behind the stories.

- Morrow

-----Original Message-----
Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2011 11:06:29 -0800
From: "Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah" <rMslade () shaw ca>
Subject: [funsec] Further advances in brainless writing
To: funsec () linuxbox org
Message-ID: <4D47E935.21567.106F158C@localhost>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII

http://improbable.com/2011/02/01/further-advances-in-brainless-writing/

As a reviewer of books, and a researcher into social networking, I must say
that I 
find this new development at once redundant, and terribly frightening.

======================  (quote inserted randomly by Pegasus Mailer)
rslade () vcn bc ca     slade () victoria tc ca     rslade () computercrime org
My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I am right.
                                                - Ashleigh Brilliant
victoria.tc.ca/techrev/rms.htm http://www.infosecbc.org/links
http://blogs.securiteam.com/index.php/archives/author/p1/
http://twitter.com/rslade


------------------------------



_______________________________________________
Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts.
https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec
Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.