Healthy Connections

This week I will be appearing again on Good Day Alabama.  They gave me my schedule last month so it looks like I will once again be a regular on Good Day.  I was on the week before last, too.  Apparently someone cancelled and they needed someone to fill in--waalaa...ME.  I Sauted Shrimp with Greens and it was wunderBAR!  Next time I will probably add some chopped pecans (but not too many--this isn't a pecan salad after all) and maybe even a little UNhealthy bacon...hmmhmm good!

I cancelled myself last week as we are down one cook and we were just too busy at Healthy Connections to do an outside appearence...oh well.  Hopefully this week will get us back on track. 

We are still looking for a new cook--so if you know anyone keep us in mind!

The gibberish (nonsense text) presented here is generated by a very simple computer program. Given some sample text, say Shakespeare, as input, the computer generates output which is random, but which has the same statistical distribution of characters or combinations of characters. (A character may be a letter, a digit, a space, a punctuation mark, etc.)

In level 1 gibberish, the output has the same distribution of single characters as the input. For example, the probability of seeing a character like "e" or "z" or "." will be approximately the same in the output as in the input. In level 2 gibberish, the output has the same distribution of character pairs as the input. For example, the probability of seeing a pair like "th" or "te" or "t." will be approximately the same in the output as in the input. In general, in level n gibberish, the output has the same distribution of groups of n characters (n-tuples) as the input.

It is amazing how well this simple algorithm works, even for very low level numbers. For example, at level 2, you can easily recognize different languages. At level 3 you can recognize the styles of different authors.