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I was pondering the linked suggestion for a halfbakery spellcheck. A fairly prosaic notion. I thought: what would be better was a function which randomly, rarely, transposed, deleted or inserted new characters. If one made a typo or a spelling error, one could then always attribute this to the Halfbakery
Spelling Function.
But to be really good, the function should occasionally delete or insert entire new words. Very rarely, entire sentences are duplicated, reversed end to beginning or transposed to new areas in the posting. From time to time, text from entirely different ideas or websites might be inserted.
This would now be analogous to the mutation at work in our own genome. As with DNA most of these changes would either be caught by the correction machinery (in this case the irate author) or lead to a nonviable idea. But just as with mutation, this process would occasionally lead to an idea which was faster, stronger, better than it was before. Plus the HB Darwin could still be blamed for occasional spelling mistakes.
HB Spellchecker
http://www.halfbake...ery_20Spell_20Check
yeah yeah yeah [bungston, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 05 2004]
(?) Boredombustier
http://www.halfbake...idea/Boredombustier
[ldischler, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 05 2004]
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The darwin function must Home changed out one of my words. |
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Maybe as a stand-alone site/script that rips ideas away from the real HB. [jutta] has a point, though, in that doing it without some attempt at intelligence would be boring. |
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Mostly, I thought that the existence (or putative existence) of the darwin function would be easier and more fun than a real speelchecker. By the Tom Sawyer principle, it is not enough to be simply that: there must be a grander purpose if it is to be a worthy idea. Who better than Darwin to lend gravitas to an idea like this? |
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The theory d'évolution formalized by Charles Darwin, is like that qu'est-Theorie the force of gravitty theory or relativity theory. Contrary to the physics theories the biological theories were and particularly long and hard discussed l'évolution into that sociopolitiques Sanden. One n'enseigne step often aujourd'hui even, development in the primery schools. however l'évolution is the compelling strength of the whole biological research. C'est the d'unificationsthema. In paleontology l'évolution workers gives a powerful kind d'organiser the remainders of the past life of understanding and l'une history of the life better. L'histoire thoughts regarding the l'évolution generally the palaeontologischen contributions and are specifically the workers often useful d'aujourd'hui. The science such as n'importe, which repeating procedure, mobile support strongly its history. Indeed. Balloon linked with air gives way to French have elephants okay. So soar says. Like 'espin. Indeed. Jarmuth yeah yeah yea |
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interesking bidea ungston@ I ekil |
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Never intuition that it courageous really
mess exonerate people's ideas, solar
real question is will demiglaze ether
hideous soft? |
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//doing it without some attempt at
intelligence would be boring.// |
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It would be boring, but it would
also be just like evolution. Really
boring most of the time, but when
something worked, it would be
really not boring. But the
mechanism needs sex to really
work well like evolution:
parents(?) contributing part of
their DNA(code)(?) to create a new
idea, in some kind of
predetermined form, so the end
usually works (lives).
==(?)s above need analogies. I
can't think of how it would work. |
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So we are all decided we take two random HB ideas and mix them creating a hybrid mutant idea. (That sounds a lot better than "rndaom lteters all ixmed up" and the Spool Cheekier.) |
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We also need something to randomly drop in a word probably from the internet in some strange way. |
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