Indiana just stunned me...

[f3lix]

The State House AND Senate both passed Medical Marijuana bills.

[Saint DH]

This is un-fucking-believable.

[ninjaface]

Wasn't it just a bill to create a study?

[Saint DH]

Yeah, I think it was. Fucking f3lix getting my god damned hopes up.

[Ugly Bastard]

Indiana is a weird state politically. Bush wins by 20% in '04. Obama wins in '08. Anti-abortion bills passed recently. Medical marijuana maybe coming though.

[Cocktooth]

My anxiety is getting worse and worse!

[thekremlin]

How the fuck did you spell "anxiety" right? Your kid helping you out?

[Beebs]

Already operational in Michigan.

[Cocktooth]

Originally Posted by thekremlin

How the fuck did you spell "anxiety" right? Your kid helping you out?

It took me 3 times, but that one looked the best out of the 3. Once I get my Medical Cheeb, I'll be a logical mastermind.

[thekremlin]

Originally Posted by Shaw

It took me 3 times, but that one looked the best out of the 3. Once I get my Medical Cheeb, I'll be a lodgical mastermind.

FTFY

[Cocktooth]

.

[THEINCREDIBLEdork]

WTF does WTF mean?

[DJ FC]

Originally Posted by Shaw

WTF does FTFY mean? Noone over the age of 16 should use letters instead of words. Fucking pop culture bull shit.

Quoted for posterity.

[vaga1220 *]

Originally Posted by Shaw

Fucking pop culture bull shit.

FPCBS.

[The Summarizer]

I am officially moving to INDIANA. HAF.

[DJ FC]

For those of you not down w/ Nubblies London© slang, HAF means "High As Fuck."

[Orgazmo]

Originally Posted by Shaw

WdFm?

FTFY.

I think it's time we start incorporating acronyms into our acronyms. Acronyms that have been shortened can be capitalized while single words can be lower-cased.

You know, just taking it to another fucking level.

[thekremlin]

I'm going to keep quoting "The Information" until someone cares. Apparently the english language is 75% redundant.

This is actually really cool. If you define information as an operation that eliminates uncertainty, an english sentance contains much less information than a string of letters. For instance if I write "nubblie", the following "s" doesn't really add any information. But in a string of letters where the letters all signify something, like a DNA code, every single letter adds the same amount of information. The author suggests that a random string of letters paradoxically contains more information than an english sentance, I'm still having mild trouble understanding how you can make that claim about random letters WITHOUT a prearranged code like DNA.

Apparently this is one of the ways they first started developing the AI that lets computers seem like they're having conversations. If the first letter of a word is "r", the probability that the next letter is an "x" is really low, whereas it's very probable that it's an "a", "e", or "o". "T" is followed by "h" more than any other letter. And so on. So you can write a program that makes strings of letters, and if you have the right weightings, you can make strings that kind of look like words. Now you go a step further, and do the same thing for 2-letter blocks, ie "ch" will never be directly followed by "su". This might seem obvious but you're "teaching" the program how to write words without telling it anything about the rules of english, just probabilities. And then you do it for words. Things like "if the word 'horse' is in a sentance, the word 'horse' is very likely to appear in that sentance again." And then you repeat that for 2-word codes, etc. Pretty soon (and by pretty soon I mean after years of collecting statistics and programming) you've got a computer program which can almost pass the Turing test, and you haven't actually told it any syntax or spelling rules.

That's fucking cool!!!!!!!

But yeah, Claude Shannon estimated that the english language was 75% redundant.

[Beebs]

That is fucking cool.

[vaga1220 *]

And I estimate that Claude Shannon is 75% faggot and I don't like him.

[THEINCREDIBLEdork]

Originally Posted by thekremlin

I'm going to keep quoting "The Information" until someone cares. Apparently the english language is 75% redundant.

This is actually really cool. If you define information as an operation that eliminates uncertainty, an english sentance contains much less information than a string of letters. For instance if I write "nubblie", the following "s" doesn't really add any information. But in a string of letters where the letters all signify something, like a DNA code, every single letter adds the same amount of information. The author suggests that a random string of letters paradoxically contains more information than an english sentance, I'm still having mild trouble understanding how you can make that claim about random letters WITHOUT a prearranged code like DNA.

Apparently this is one of the ways they first started developing the AI that lets computers seem like they're having conversations. If the first letter of a word is "r", the probability that the next letter is an "x" is really low, whereas it's very probable that it's an "a", "e", or "o". "T" is followed by "h" more than any other letter. And so on. So you can write a program that makes strings of letters, and if you have the right weightings, you can make strings that kind of look like words. Now you go a step further, and do the same thing for 2-letter blocks, ie "ch" will never be directly followed by "su". This might seem obvious but you're "teaching" the program how to write words without telling it anything about the rules of english, just probabilities. And then you do it for words. Things like "if the word 'horse' is in a sentance, the word 'horse' is very likely to appear in that sentance again." And then you repeat that for 2-word codes, etc. Pretty soon (and by pretty soon I mean after years of collecting statistics and programming) you've got a computer program which can almost pass the Turing test, and you haven't actually told it any syntax or spelling rules.

That's fucking cool!!!!!!!

But yeah, Claude Shannon estimated that the english language was 75% redundant.

You spelled sentence incorrectly at least 4 times in that post. I do not think you know how to spell sentence.

[DJ FC]

I get a mega boner for things of this nature.

[thekremlin]

I honestly thought sentence was spelled with an "a".

[THEINCREDIBLEdork]

netz for honesty.

It's incredible that you've gone this far in your life without realizing it. What do you feel like at this moment? Shame? Enlightenment?

[thekremlin]

Dude, I've got to be honest. Total apathy. In fact, by this point I forget if "I always thought it was spelled with an 'a' but it's spelled with an 'e'" or "I always thought it was spelled with an 'e' but it's spelled with an 'a'".