More silly sentences

[spudtater]

I have now got a genetic algorithm working on my grammer-learner. It's got through about ten generations of rules so far. Training it is dull work for one person; I hope to learn how to do web interfaces and get a whole bunch of people working on it eventually...

But anyway, look at some of the silliness it's come up with by now:

• donkey wanker
• me have monkey
• monkey pirate I look brown
• got some chicken
• use elvis
• hello elvis
• do me

I'm going to start using 'donkey wanker' as an insult.    8^)

Comments

[figg.livejournal.com]

Round 2. Give it a livejournal

[spudtater.livejournal.com]

It's already got a better grasp of English grammar than most livejournal users.

I suppose I could train it over livejournal by using the voting feature... but do you have to be a paid member to do that?

[martling.livejournal.com]

It's so worth five bucks at this exchange rate.

PS. Donkey wanker!

[velarfricative.livejournal.com]

You do realise that mentioning the exchange rate might be enough to cause vulnerable exam-stressed Americans all over livejournal to finally have that nervous breakdown, right, monkey pirate?

Alex: the GA thing is pretty cool. What are you using for your fitness critera? Oh, and before I forget my sacred pedant mission--grammar doesn't have any e's in it.

[spudtater.livejournal.com]

I don't have a fitness critirion per se; I just generate pairs of sentences and let people choose the one that seems more grammatical. Hence needing a web interface and a group of users.

However, I do have a few shortcuts; zero-word sentences get downvoted, as do infinitely recursing ones. I've also just added one-word sentence downvoting, and am planning to put in something to punish sentences that keep popping up with no variation.

Thanks for the spellcheck. I don't know what I was thinking. Grammer? Ouch. Grammar. Grammar grammar grammar grammar grammar.

[batswing.livejournal.com]

painful.