[Haskell-cafe] Re: How would you hack it?

Andrew Coppin wrote:

Achim Schneider wrote:

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Andrew Coppin wrote:

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I have a file that contains several thousand words, seperated by white space. [I gather that on Unix there's a standard location for this file?] Looking at /usr/share/dict/words, I'm assured that the proper seperator is \n.

Thanks. I did look around trying to find this, but ultimately failed. (Is it a standard component, or is it installed as part of some specific application?)

ksf@solaris ~ % equery b /usr/share/dict/words [ Searching for file(s) /usr/share/dict/words in *... ] sys-apps/miscfiles-1.4.2 (/usr/share/dict/words) ksf@solaris ~ % eix miscfiles [I] sys-apps/miscfiles Available versions: 1.4.2 {minimal} Installed versions: 1.4.2(18:27:27 02/14/07)(-minimal) Homepage: http://www.gnu.org/directory/miscfiles.html Description: Miscellaneous files

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Generate a Map Int [String] map, with the latter list being an infinite list of words with that particular size.

Now assume that you want to have a 100 character sentence. You start by looking if you got any 100 character word, if yes it's your sentence, if not you divide it in half (maybe offset by a weighted random factor [1]) and start over again.

You can then specify your whole document along the lines of

(capitalise $ words 100) ++ ". " ++ (capitalise $ words 10) ++ "?" ++ (capitalise $ words 20) ++ "oneone1!"

[1] Random midpoint displacement is a very interesting topic by itself.

I'm not following your logic, sorry...

That's probably because I just described the points and not the rest of the morphisms... imagine some plumbing and tape between my sentences. Midpoint displacement is a great way to achieve randomness while still keeping a uniform appearance. In the defining paper, that I don't have ready right now, an example was shown where a realistic outline of Australia was generated from ten or so data points: If you display it next to the actual outline, only a geographer could tell which one's the fake. -- (c) this sig last receiving data processing entity. Inspect headers for past copyright information. All rights reserved. Unauthorised copying, hiring, renting, public performance and/or broadcasting of this signature prohibited.