"The Samba Team and seven kernel hackers have come together with Software Freedom Conservancy to help efforts to ensure compliance with the GPL by those who implement Linux and other GPL software. Richard Hillesley talked to Bradley Kuhn of Software Freedom Conservancy, Jeremy Allison of Samba, and Matthew Garrett, who works in his spare time with the GPL Compliance Project for Linux Developers."
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zima,
"??... (my personal, internal EN interpreter seemingly failed to parse it, and for some reason I'm curious about the meaning of that quote ;p )"
Try sticking this through your parser! :-)
http://ornacle.com/article/20120604
It is generated completely automatically from statistical analysis of word combinations in the news from any given day. As piss poor as the grammar is, it's not half bad for a perl script using 20K of english training data in the form of news. You might be wondering "why the hell?" Well it was to help probe search engine algorithms.
Today is the first time I've seen an infinite cycle. Not that I monitor it any more, but it's nice to see it's still working!
"In fact, quite low by comparison, down and down and down and down and down and down and down and down. Wreckage could be seen in union jack ties and those who did not transmitted live by the kabul bank scandal prompted the international monetary fund to temporarily suspend hundreds of thousands of people enjoying the celebrations."
Edited 2012-06-05 01:48 UTC
Member since:2005-07-06
Curious, I think it's more coherent to me... ;p
Makes me wonder how such "news" would work out in my first language (PL; probably not too well - complex declension, conjugation, grammar in general)
Also, reminded me about http://www.kyon.pl/img/14315,4chan,text,mindf--k,grammar,lol,.html (sometimes I wonder how many bots are there already, in forums or comments) and http://megahal.alioth.debian.org/ (some of the quotes are brilliant-scary)
Edited 2012-06-05 06:23 UTC
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??... (my personal, internal EN interpreter seemingly failed to parse it, and for some reason I'm curious about the meaning of that quote ;p )