GRGR 1,5 darts / POLE / node of tranquility

[Glenn Scheper]

> Slothrop backwards is Porhtols

A Portal, at the seance. Very good catch!

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> Glenn,
> I've been looking without success for an Amazon link you
> posted for a psychologist a few digests ago,
> and I think you said you visited him?

Naw, my local shrink has no more web presence.

One of these? Perhaps the long one got word-wrapped,
even with an optional hypen inserted. Notepad is my
tool, to paste, rejoin lines, then re-copy to browse.
(I looked at tinyurl.com, found it too diversionary.)

http://www.nlpanchorpoint.com/ARTbolstad1.htm

http://www.press.jhu.edu/books/hopkins_guide_to_literary_theory/psychoanalytic_theory_and_criticism-_2.html

But better than following up just ONE idea, if you want
a HOST of ideas, try my freeware executable SURF4ME.EXE,
drop your tokens into it, and get a folder of web pages.
http://home.earthlink.net/~glenn_scheper/surf4me.exe
Just save it to your desttop, execute it to do a search,
(It may be busy a long time.) It leaves a result folder
of HTML pages in cur. dir., which is, e.g., the desktop.

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Following up the Zipf-Mandelbrot URL, I thought those
word-rank ideas in GR were only some gibberish, but...

http://www.ling.ed.ac.uk/~paulv/publications/alife9.pdf
Minimum cost and the emergence of the Zipf-Mandelbrot law

One of the most sound universal tendencies observed in human
languages is that when words are ranked according to
their occurrence frequency in a descending order, the frequency
f is inversely proportional to its rank k according to
f = C k ** -B, where B ~ 1 and C is a constant, see Figure 1.
This finding was discovered by G. K. Zipf (Zipf, 1949), and
has since been called Zipf’s law.

Zipf explained his finding in terms of least effort (Zipf,
1949). He assumed that speakers want to minimise articulatory
effort, thus minimising the length of an utterance, which
tends to promote ambiguity in language. On the other hand,
hearers want to have optimal clarity to interpret the meaning
of an utterance unambiguously with the least effort. Fulfilling
the needs of both agents leads to a trade-off, which Zipf
called the principle of least effort (Zipf, 1949).

This paper investigates the emergence of a Zipfian distribution
in language as the result of a minimum cost principle
(Mandelbrot, 1953), based on Steels’ language game model
(Steels et al., 2002). However, in contrast to Mandelbrot’s
derivation, the cost will not be minimised by optimising the
word length, but rather by trying to minimise computational
costs at the cognitive level of categorisation.

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Crossing my post, Michael pointed out:
> Pointsman gets fellated, I remember that much!
That act could make him the evil sorcerer, having
cast Jessica from Odette to Odile, in same person.

Yours truly,
Glenn Scheper
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