Mark V Shaney

Mark V Shaney is a fake Usenet user whose postings were generated by using Markov chain techniques. The name is a play on the words "Markov chain". Many readers were fooled into thinking that the quirky, sometimes uncannily topical posts were written by a real person. Boyd Roberts thought of the idea at Bell Labs in 1984. The newsgroup net.singles was such a noise source that Boyd said,
why not snarf up that net.singles noise, pass it through the Markov chain stuff and send it right back at them?
Bruce Ellis and Rob Pike did the work. The internals of Mark are interesting. Don P. Mitchell wrote the Markov chain code. A classic example, from 1984, originally sent as a mail message, later posted to net.singles is reproduced here (see also Google's archive):
>From mvs Fri Nov 16 17:11 EST 1984 remote from alice
It looks like Reagan is going to say? Ummm... Oh yes, I was looking for. I'm so glad I remembered it. Yeah, what I have wondered if I had committed a crime. Don't eat with your assessment of Reagon and Mondale. Up your nose with a guy from a firm that specifically researches the teen-age market. As a friend of mine would say, "It really doesn't matter"... It looks like Reagan is holding back the arms of the American eating public have changed dramatically, and it got pretty boring after about 300 games.
People, having a much larger number of varieties, and are very different from what one can find in Chinatowns across the country (things like pork buns, steamed dumplings, etc.) They can be cheap, being sold for around 30 to 75 cents apiece (depending on size), are generally not greasy, can be adequately explained by stupidity. Singles have felt insecure since we came down from the Conservative world at large. But Chuqui is the way it happened and the prices are VERY reasonable.
Can anyone think of myself as a third sex. Yes, I am expected to have. People often get used to me knowing these things and then a cover is placed over all of them. Along the side of the $$ are spent by (or at least for ) the girls. You can't settle the issue. It seems I've forgotten what it is, but I don't. I know about violence against women, and I really doubt they will ever join together into a large number of jokes. It showed Adam, just after being created. He has an modem and an autodial routine. He calls my number 1440 times a day. So I will conclude by saying that I can well understand that she might soon have the time, it makes sense, again, to get the gist of my argument, I was in that (though it's a Republican administration).
_-_-_-_-Mark

See also

External links

Shaney, Mark V Shaney, Mark V

 

<< PreviousWord BrowserNext >>
nicolas malebranche
best alternative to a negotiated agreement
spherical geometry
western blot
secretary of state for northern ireland
per albin hansson
connection
carmen amaya
ophicleide
bernice johnson reagon
edwin catmull
james mill
skew symmetric matrix
franklin c. crow
tron
(29075) 1950 da
herbert freeman
stormont
nathan zuckerman
asteroid deflection strategies
action figure
diagonal matrix
sdf
samuel o'reilly
parliament of northern ireland
kuroda kiyotaka
.net messenger service
indecent exposure
windows messenger
compiled language
yamagata aritomo
repeal (ireland)
matsukata masayoshi
abc conjecture
okuma shigenobu
red nichols
larry shields
bishops' bible
disease meme
yamamoto gonnohyoe
terauchi masatake
hara takashi
takahashi korekiyo
kato tomosaburo