dissociated press

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dissociated press - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  Dissociated Press
  
     [Play on "Associated Press"; perhaps inspired by a reference
     in the 1949 Bugs Bunny cartoon "What's Up, Doc?"]  An
     algorithm for transforming any text into potentially humorous
     garbage even more efficiently than by passing it through a
     marketroid.  The algorithm starts by printing any N
     consecutive words (or letters) in the text.  Then at every
     step it searches for any random occurrence in the original
     text of the last N words (or letters) already printed and then
     prints the next word or letter.  Emacs has a handy command
     for this.  Here is a short example of word-based Dissociated
     Press applied to an earlier version of the Jargon File:
  
     wart:  A small, crocky feature that sticks out of
     an array (C has no checks for this).  This is relatively
     benign and easy to spot if the phrase is bent so as to be
     not worth paying attention to the medium in question.
  
     Here is a short example of letter-based Dissociated Press
     applied to the same source:
  
     window sysIWYG:  A bit was named aften /bee't*/ prefer
     to use the other guy's re, especially in every cast a
     chuckle on neithout getting into useful informash speech
     makes removing a featuring a move or usage actual
     abstractionsidered interj. Indeed spectace logic or problem!
  
     A hackish idle pastime is to apply letter-based Dissociated
     Press to a random body of text and vgrep the output in hopes
     of finding an interesting new word.  (In the preceding
     example, "window sysIWYG" and "informash" show some promise.)
     Iterated applications of Dissociated Press usually yield
     better results.  Similar techniques called "travesty
     generators" have been employed with considerable satirical
     effect to the utterances of Usenet flamers; see pseudo.
  
     [Jargon File]
  

dissociated press - Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003) :

  Dissociated Press
   n.
  
     [play on `Associated Press'; perhaps inspired by a reference in the
     1950 Bugs Bunny cartoon What's Up, Doc?] An algorithm for
  transforming
     any text into potentially humorous garbage even more efficiently than
     by passing it through a marketroid. The algorithm starts by
  printing
     any N consecutive words (or letters) in the text. Then at every step
     it searches for any random occurrence in the original text of the
  last
     N words (or letters) already printed and then prints the next word or
     letter. EMACS has a handy command for this. Here is a short example
     of word-based Dissociated Press applied to an earlier version of this
     Jargon File:
  
    wart: n. A small, crocky feature that sticks out of an array (C
    has no checks for this). This is relatively benign and easy to spot
    if the phrase is bent so as to be not worth paying attention to the
    medium in question.
  
     Here is a short example of letter-based Dissociated Press applied to
     the same source:
  
    window sysIWYG: n. A bit was named aften /bee't@/ prefer to use the
    other guy's re, especially in every cast a chuckle on neithout
    getting into useful informash speech makes removing a featuring a
    move or usage actual abstractionsidered interj. Indeed spectace
    logic or problem!
  
     A hackish idle pastime is to apply letter-based Dissociated Press to
  a
     random body of text and vgrep the output in hopes of finding an
     interesting new word. (In the preceding example, `window sysIWYG' and
     `informash' show some promise.) Iterated applications of Dissociated
     Press usually yield better results. Similar techniques called
  travesty
     generators have been employed with considerable satirical effect to
     the utterances of Usenet flamers; see pseudo.