From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2010 03:32:41 +0200 Message-ID: From: Uriel To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Subject: [9fans] A new kind of Plan 9 FAQ Topicbox-Message-UUID: 2df6f7dc-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 I recently made a fascinating archeological discovery: http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/humour/shaneys-plan9-faq Enjoy! uriel From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: From: Jorden M Date: Mon, 31 May 2010 21:42:29 -0400 Message-ID: To: uriel@berlinblue.org, Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Subject: Re: [9fans] A new kind of Plan 9 FAQ Topicbox-Message-UUID: 2dfcf47a-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 You spent an interesting evening recently with an FAQ, I see. On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 9:32 PM, Uriel wrote: > I recently made a fascinating archeological discovery: > > http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/humour/shaneys-plan9-faq > > Enjoy! > > uriel > > From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <4C0467A2.8090508@Princeton.EDU> Date: Mon, 31 May 2010 21:51:30 -0400 From: Martin Harriss User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080501) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: uriel@berlinblue.org, Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] A new kind of Plan 9 FAQ Topicbox-Message-UUID: 2e025b90-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Uriel wrote: > I recently made a fascinating archeological discovery: > > http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/humour/shaneys-plan9-faq > > Enjoy! > > uriel > Well that certainly clears it up for me. From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <4C0467A2.8090508@Princeton.EDU> References: <4C0467A2.8090508@Princeton.EDU> Date: Mon, 31 May 2010 19:17:19 -0700 Message-ID: From: David Leimbach To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=000e0cd676a2a7949d0487ee92fb Cc: uriel@berlinblue.org Subject: Re: [9fans] A new kind of Plan 9 FAQ Topicbox-Message-UUID: 2e075960-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 --000e0cd676a2a7949d0487ee92fb Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 6:51 PM, Martin Harriss wrote: > Uriel wrote: > >> I recently made a fascinating archeological discovery: >> >> http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/humour/shaneys-plan9-faq >> >> Enjoy! >> >> uriel >> >> > Well that certainly clears it up for me. > > Markov Chains for the win. --000e0cd676a2a7949d0487ee92fb Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 6:51 PM, Martin = Harriss <marti= n@princeton.edu> wrote:
Uriel wrote:
I recently made a fascinating archeological discovery:

http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/humour/shaneys-plan9-faq

Enjoy!

uriel


Well that certainly clears it up for me.

Markov Chains for the win. --000e0cd676a2a7949d0487ee92fb-- From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <4C0467A2.8090508@Princeton.EDU> Date: Mon, 31 May 2010 21:39:59 -0500 Message-ID: From: Justin Jackson To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Subject: [9fans] A new kind of Plan 9 FAQ Topicbox-Message-UUID: 2e0ca6c2-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 That's funny. I showed the Markov programs from Kernighan and Pike's "Practice of Programming" to my students (just for fun, since it wasn't a programming course), using text from Project Gutenberg. You can get some really funny results with: cat prideandpred dracula |markov |fmt cat treasureisland frankenstein |markov |fmt But the funniest came from mixing Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason" with just about any other work, like the Wizard of Oz: Dorothy's life became very sad as she said, "Follow me and made it so rich in results, although it must be too rashly drawn from it, and the mode of explanation and exposition of the understanding. This attempt to cognize itself as a thing to be chimerical. For only two cases are possible; either, the counter-statement is nothing to do. "Take out my straw and scatter it over the mess. She then swept it all that is to say, the senses and experience. ...or Pride and Prejudice: Pray go to London," added Kitty. "She is my youngest girl but one. My youngest of the understanding, has preposited this permanence as a primal being, that cognition in this way that would be in love with her head ached acutely. Elizabeth did all she could not but take it. -Justin