Healthy Connections: May 2006

Tuesday, May 16, 2006 

Good Day Alabama! Appearance Tomorrow Morning


I will be on Good Day Alabama! tomorrow morning. This is WBRC-FOX/6 for those not from (or very familiar with) Birmingham.

In the past I have done fish, chicken, turkey, and various salads. The recipes for my past dishes can be found at the Good Day Alabama Recipe Archive web site --just search for 'Cruse', as in Chef Wendy Cruse ;)

Tomorrow I will be preparing Tacos al Carbón. I wouldn't call it a spicey dish, however it is very flavorful.

Tuesday, May 09, 2006 

Wednesday morning am pickups

It's after 6:00 and I am getting bags ready for pickup today.

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.

For even more fun, the gibberish generator can easily blend two different languages or two different authors. If the input is simply the text from author A followed by the text from author B, the output will be a smooth blend of the tw

 

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