Found Examples of Word Salad



  • Post any examples of word soup salad that you find. They can come from any source: online articles, books, research papers, etc. They can be on any topic. Please include a representative quote with your submission.

    • Bonus points if an expert in the field would actually be able to understand what is said, instead of it just being nonsense (if you can tell).
    • Bonus points if the author attempts to address non-experts.
    • Bonus points if a "translation" is referenced or included.
    • Bonus points for hidden snark.
    • Extra bonus points for unintentional word soup salad.

    I've included just a sample from this article, but click through to see all of the great jargon that splatters all over the page.

    We knew we wanted the AI to be able to select champs, make strategic decisions during games, and have a unique learning pool for every champion. ...
    ...
    But how exactly is it all done? I’m no expert, but the basic concept is rooted in a supervised learning process which accepts input sequences consisting of real (but Fourier reverse-transformed) block-chains generated through synthetic non-guttering. The demodularization of outlying Craighton values from left-side variance stabilization yielded significant gains in both qualified and non-qualified planar transepts.




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    @djls45 said in Found Examples of Word Soup:

    word soup

    Never heard that notion, the closest I can find is word salad...

    The text from LOL you are quoting is nonsense, clearly designed to use all the jargon for comedic purpose. So I am afraid you get 0 bonus points :(


    Submission: You have probably seen this, but I always laugh when reading it again - from the venerable archives of TDWTF:

    The pig go. Go is to the fountain. The pig put foot. Grunt. Foot in what? ketchup. The dove fly. Fly is in sky. The dove drop something. The something on the pig. The pig disgusting. The pig rattle. Rattle with dove. The dove angry. The pig leave. The dove produce. Produce is chicken wing. With wing bark. No Quack.



  • @Adynathos said in Found Examples of Word Soup:

    @djls45 said in Found Examples of Word Soup:

    word soup

    Never heard that notions, the closest I can find is word salad...

    Ah. Thank you. I think I mixed up the terms "word salad" and "alphabet soup".





  • Timecube? Temple os site?



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    @djls45 is this your website mate?



  • Here's a pretty good one:

    In this semimanifesto, I approach how understandings of quantum physics and cyborgian bodies can (or always already do) ally with feminist anti-oppression practices long in use. The idea of the body (whether biological, social, or of work) is not stagnant, and new materialist feminisms help to recognize how multiple phenomena work together to behave in what can become legible at any given moment as a body. By utilizing the materiality of conceptions about connectivity often thought to be merely theoretical, by taking a critical look at the noncentralized and multiple movements of quantum physics, and by dehierarchizing the necessity of linear bodies through time, it becomes possible to reconfigure structures of value, longevity, and subjectivity in ways explicitly aligned with anti-oppression practices and identity politics. Combining intersectionality and quantum physics can provide for differing perspectives on organizing practices long used by marginalized people, for enabling apparatuses that allow for new possibilities of safer spaces, and for practices of accountability.

    And from the main body of the article:

    Participation in teleological mattering space, the use of material-semiotic, metaphysical structures and tools, the social weight of our understandings, creates us as cyborgs as we think. We are either always already cyborgs because “we” are always already in relation, inco(o/r)poration with multiple other “things,” dependent with each other: utilizing technologies of thought, medical technologies, or cell phones; electrons exchange, particles generate/die, “we” ingest and incorporate “each other”; from the smallest to largest we are constantly temporary planes of palimpsests living upon and falling through each other. Or nothing of us is cyborgs because we are always already never separate—legibilized separateness being part of the phenomenological apparatus measuring such.


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    @djls45 said in Found Examples of Word Salad:

    And from the main body of the article:
    Participation in teleological mattering space, the use of material-semiotic, metaphysical structures and tools, the social weight of our understandings, creates us as cyborgs as we think. We are either always already cyborgs because “we” are always already in relation, inco(o/r)poration with multiple other “things,” dependent with each other: utilizing technologies of thought, medical technologies, or cell phones; electrons exchange, particles generate/die, “we” ingest and incorporate “each other”; from the smallest to largest we are constantly temporary planes of palimpsests living upon and falling through each other. Or nothing of us is cyborgs because we are always already never separate—legibilized separateness being part of the phenomenological apparatus measuring such.



  • @Yamikuronue isn't reading with a funny voice. She's reading exactly what's written on the page.


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  • Copied from here:

    https://twitter.com/RealPeerReview/status/929822590369136640?ref_src=twsrc^tfw

    For posterity (if Twitter goes down or the post is deleted or otherwise becomes unavailable (or you just don't want to click-through :P ))

    You're going to do what now? http://minnesotareview.dukejournals.org/content/2017/88/69.short
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    Edit: Derp! :mlp_wut: I just necro-:hanzo:'d myself.



  • Just saw this one locally: :P

    @ScholRLEA said in Random thought of the day:

    This more of a thought of last Monday, really, as that was when I posted it to a thread I created on the OSdev.org fora, but it occurs to me that I could drag it over here too:

    It occurs to me that some of the confusion around Lisp compilers and interpreters vis a vis other types of compilers could be cleared up a bit by explaining that a tagged datum is, in effect, equivalent to a lexical token.

    Now, since all of the syntactic elements of a homoiconic language are either tagged data literals, symbols internally represented as tagged data, or delimiters defining a literal for a tagged data form (such as the parentheses around a list in Lisp, or the double quotes around a string literal, or the various ways of representing individual characters), this means that the (read) primitive most Lisps provide is, in fact, a full lexical analyzer for the language.

    Furthermore, since the program code is in the form of a list literal, the result of tokenizing the REPL or compiler input is an abstract syntax tree of the code. So, lexical analysis of a Lisp program is also parsing of the code.

    While most simple implementations use an ad-hoc approach to lexical analysis, since the language is so simple, some more advanced implementations do apply conventional DFSA techniques - but the resulting lederhosen and parser is then exposed as a standard library function.

    This is the main reason why discussions of Lisp translators, especially meta-circular ones, generally don't discuss lexical analysis or parsing.

    So why am I bringing this up here? Because I intend to (eventually) test the idea of using adaptive state automata in the lexical analyzers for my languages, which would generate new token types for each new symbol or syntactic structure defined by the programs, and use that for handling things like read macros. If it works - and there is no guarantee that it will - it should perform token recognition even faster than a conventional lexer despite the extra overhead. And as with other Lisps and Lisp-like languages, it would expose this ability to the client-programmer - but my intent is to go even further than existing ones.

    It is an ambitious, and probably risky, goal. I have no idea if it will work, nor if doing so would have any real benefit. That is why it is experimental.


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    @djls45 quoted @Schol_R_LEA in Found Examples of Word Salad:

    the resulting lederhosen and parser

    I never knew that Yacc was associated with Bavarian traditional dress!


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    Gribnit


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    @djls45 Bonus points for bonus points.


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    @Gribnit Bonus ducks!


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    @djls45 No bonus points awarded. Edit. Except this gets all the extra bonus points. Edit. Wow, what the actual fuck. I think there's trying to be a point in here, kind of wish the author hadn't beaten it to a bloody, unrecognizable pulp. Edit. On reflection, there's no way there could have been a point in there.





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    @HardwareGeek said in Windows Subsystem for Linux:

    @boomzilla said in Windows Subsystem for Linux:

    + ᾮ

    Interesting combination of diacritics. The psili (smooth breathing mark — looks like an apostrophe) occurs at the beginning of words, and the ypogegrammeni (iota subscript) is nearly always seen at the end of a word; when not at the end of a word, it is often written as a prosgegrammeni (adscript, a small or full-size iota following the main vowel) especially when capitalized. (In fact, Unicode uses term prosgegrammeni when it is precomposed with a capital letter, although the glyph may display either the subscript or adscript, depending on the font. It's also a place Unicode screwed up upper/lower case transformation. A lowercase vowel with subscript is transformed to a capital vowel+capital iota, which is not then transformed back into the subscripted lowercase vowel, but into the lowercase vowel+lowercase iota.) I think it's also a bit uncommon to see if a perispomeni (tilde accent, originally indicated a rising and falling pitch accent on a syllable containing a long vowel or diphthong) at the beginning of a word.

    Holy fuck!


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    @Tsaukpaetra said in Found Examples of Word Salad:

    @HardwareGeek said in Windows Subsystem for Linux:

    @boomzilla said in Windows Subsystem for Linux:

    + ᾮ

    Interesting combination of diacritics. The psili (smooth breathing mark — looks like an apostrophe) occurs at the beginning of words, and the ypogegrammeni (iota subscript) is nearly always seen at the end of a word; when not at the end of a word, it is often written as a prosgegrammeni (adscript, a small or full-size iota following the main vowel) especially when capitalized. (In fact, Unicode uses term prosgegrammeni when it is precomposed with a capital letter, although the glyph may display either the subscript or adscript, depending on the font. It's also a place Unicode screwed up upper/lower case transformation. A lowercase vowel with subscript is transformed to a capital vowel+capital iota, which is not then transformed back into the subscripted lowercase vowel, but into the lowercase vowel+lowercase iota.) I think it's also a bit uncommon to see if a perispomeni (tilde accent, originally indicated a rising and falling pitch accent on a syllable containing a long vowel or diphthong) at the beginning of a word.

    Holy fuck!

    It's ål Γρικ 2με, innit?


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    @LaoC said in Found Examples of Word Salad:

    innit

    I don't speak British.


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  • I'm not sure if this was what you had in mind, but:

    The ideas which govern this description are as follows. First, each type
    t represents a convex cell in moduli space, and the boundary of t (in
    the moduli space) should be the set of types whose cells are codimension
    0 parts of the boundary of the cell for t. If p represents a configuration
    moving through the closure of the t-cell, with the points of p ordered
    lexicographically, then p undergoes a type transition when the relation
    between two points p(i) and p(i+1) changes at the j-th coordinate, from
    p(i)_j < p(i+1)_j to p(i)_j = p(i+1)_j. (We are assuming p(i) and p(i+1)
    agree in coordinates with indices greater than j.) After the transition,
    the largest index where p(i) and p(i+1) disagree is at most j-1. And in
    order for p after the transition to be interior to the codimension 0
    stratum of the boundary, that largest index must be equal to j-1. Now we
    take into account the possible ways in which the (j-1)-th coordinates
    differ, while still maintaining the order of points in p, and we are led
    to the first part of the description of the boundary operator.


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    Not quite word salad but made up word of the day is all garagey.

    Eventuate.

    Risks are events that will adversely affect the project if they eventuate


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    @Jaloopa said in Found Examples of Word Salad:

    Eventuate.

    :thats_a_bingo:


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    @levicki said:

    If don't knowing things could be better or knowing but not caring enough to ask for a change is what you aspire to in life then I have nothing further to add except that I don't belong to that group and that such mentality is what lead to current USA political situation.

    Someone was tired when writing this...


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    @Tsaukpaetra said in Found Examples of Word Salad:

    @levicki said:

    If don't knowing things could be better or knowing but not caring enough to ask for a change is what you aspire to in life then I have nothing further to add except that I don't belong to that group and that such mentality is what lead to current USA political situation.

    Someone was tired when writing this...

    Or stupid.



  • @Tsaukpaetra said in Found Examples of Word Salad:

    @levicki said:

    If don't knowing things could be better or knowing but not caring enough to ask for a change is what you aspire to in life then I have nothing further to add except that I don't belong to that group and that such mentality is what lead to current USA political situation.

    Someone was tired when writing this...

    That's not too bad, actually:

    If {don'tnot knowing things could be better} or {knowing but not caring enough to ask for a change} is what you aspire to in life then I have nothing further to add except that I don't belong to that group and that such mentality is what lead to the current USA political situation.



  • "The Heisenberg limit can be regarded as a refined variant of the Heisenberg uncertainty relation adapted for the purposes of quantum estimation theory and quantum metrology," explains Wojciech Górecki, the lead author of the Physics Review Letters paper recounting this research, alongside Rafał Demkowicz-Dobrzański, Howard Wiseman and Dominic Berry. Quantum metrology exploits quantum effects such as entanglement for high-resolution, high-sensitivity measurements, and as Górecki points out, the Heisenberg limit commonly crops up in this field when dealing with states comprising multiple potentially entangled probes. "Here, the Heisenberg limit indicates a qualitative sensitivity improvement over measurement schemes that do not make use of entanglement."



  • Not very numerous edges can deftly arrange the tricky ocean demeanor of summer and the devastation wreaking snowfall of winter.



  • @hungrier Is this describing some sort of terraforming strategy?



  • @djls45 You might think so, but it's actually from a windshield wiper review


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    @hungrier said in Found Examples of Word Salad:

    @djls45 You might think so, but it's actually from a windshield wiper review

    This is even better! Technically comprehensible under the context of machine translation!

    Wonder what the source material is...



  • As frequently happens, the field of mathematics provides excellent examples:

    @Benjamin-Hall said in The unofficial offical bad pun of the day thread:

    Given a linear operator A defined on a vector space (for you non-physics/math types, that might be a square matrix of integers), the eigenstates (or eigenvectors) and eigenvalues of that operator are defined by the equation

    Ax = bx

    where x is a vector (an eigenvector) in the vector space that is transformed into itself scaled by a scalar quantity b (the eigenvalue).

    For instance, consider quantum mechanics. The Schrodinger equation states that H|ψ> = E|ψ> for stationary states--that is, a stationary state is one that is not changed (other than by scaling) by the time-evolution operator H (called the Hamiltonian of the system,), thus the stationary states are eigenstates of the Hamiltonian. E is an eigenvalue corresponding to that particular eigenstate. As a concrete example, the "orbitals" of the hydrogen atom are the eigenstates of the hydrogen atom Hamiltonian, with the energy levels being the eigenvalues. All other wave functions in that field will change and decay into some linear combination of eigenstates. That's the value of it--if we can find the eigenstates of an operator, we can construct an (infinite) set of orthogonal basis functions and express any other state as some linear combination of those basis states. It's the bread and butter of quantum mechanics.

    If you have two distinct eigenstates with identical eigenvalues, we call those states "degenerate". And you can construct linear combinations of the degenerate states that have unique eigenvalues (and "break" the degeneracy). For example, the spin angular momentum states (ie px, py, pz etc suborbitals) are degenerate eigenstates of the single-electron Hamiltonian--they have the same energy but are unique states. So really an electron in the 2px state is identical (unless you introduce a magnetic field) to one in the 2pz or 2py--those "states" aren't really there and it's all really some linear combination of the three possibilities until measured.



  • @djls45 I object--that's perfectly cromulent text!



  • @Benjamin-Hall I refer you to the list of bonus points in the first post:

    Bonus points if an expert in the field would actually be able to understand what is said, instead of it just being nonsense (if you can tell).
    Bonus points if the author attempts to address non-experts.
    Bonus points if a "translation" is referenced or included.
    Bonus points for hidden snark.
    Extra bonus points for unintentional word salad.



  • @Benjamin-Hall said in Found Examples of Word Salad:

    @djls45 I object--that's perfectly cromulent text!

    I recognize the words as being (probably) not gibberish, but I no longer understand any of what it means. (It certainly doesn't help that I didn't really understand it when I "learned" it 30+ years ago.)



  • @djls45 Those are the bonuses, but what is the baseline?



  • @Watson said in Found Examples of Word Salad:

    @djls45 Those are the bonuses, but what is the baseline?

    Just having an example for this thread:

    @djls45 said in Found Examples of Word Salad:

    Post any examples of word salad that you find.



  • @djls45 said in Found Examples of Word Salad:

    Just having an example for this thread:

    Pretty small training set, that. So let's go with the next post.

    @Adynathos said in Found Examples of Word Salad:

    Never heard that notion, the closest I can find is word salad...

    The mathematics text you posted was a straightforward definition of the eigen* terms no different from what you'd find in any textbook that introduces them. To call that part word salad is just an instance of "math is hard".

    The two paragraphs of physics after that only give me the itches for the usual reasons that quantum mechanics does (which I think might have something to do with their habit of naming physical things after the maths they happen to use to describe them) but it's still coherent. I'm not an expert in quantum mechanics and I found it easy enough to understand. Turns out that it's because I was already familiar with the maths part and it helped clarify the physics part (even though the author wrote those with the reverse intention).



  • @Watson Right, but to anyone not versed in the jargon, it's pretty indecipherable.

    Similarly, for non-computer people, IT jargon might as well be a foreign language.



  • @Watson I'm glad that you found my off the cuff definitions to be basically equivalent to the standard math ones. I wrote those from memory, and it's been a very long time since I'd looked at the formal definitions.



  • @djls45 said in Found Examples of Word Salad:

    @Watson Right, but to anyone not versed in the jargon, it's pretty indecipherable.

    So all it needs to be to be word salad is to be about an unfamiliar subject.

    https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/9780470061602.eqf05011

    Average strike options or Asian options with floating strike are exotic, path‐dependent options with a payoff based on the difference between the terminal asset price and the average of an underlying asset price over a specified time period. This article gives an overview of the no‐arbitrage pricing methods for such options. Typically, contracts involve the arithmetic average of prices, and since the joint law of the average and the terminal stock price is needed, there is no closed‐form solution for the option price.

    Similarly, for non-computer people, IT jargon might as well be a foreign language.

    For me, a foreign language might as well be a foreign language.

    La communauté éducative l’attendait, c’est chose faite : Jean-Michel Blanquer a affirmé, jeudi 20 août, que le port du masque serait « systématique à partir du collège », « et pas seulement quand il n’y a pas de distance physique ». Un tour de vis par rapport à la dernière version du protocole sanitaire de l’éducation nationale, diffusé le 20 juillet dans les académies, qui déclarait le masque obligatoire uniquement « lorsqu’une distanciation de 1 mètre ne peut être garantie ».



  • @Watson said in Found Examples of Word Salad:

    So all it needs to be to be word salad is to be about an unfamiliar subject.

    Pretty much, yeah, but it's far more amusing if it also fits at least some of the bonus points criteria, and this is the Funny Stuff category. If it's just jargon that one doesn't understand, it's just someone being confused, which may be funny if they happened to have put themselves into that situation, but not necessarily if it's only that they just don't understand it.

    @Watson said in Found Examples of Word Salad:

    For me, a foreign language might as well be a foreign language.

    Sure, but the intention is that the words are actually in one's native language, which makes for the amusing juxtaposition of a shared language but not a shared understanding. Tangentially relevant to this bit would be that clip from Hot Fuzz(?) about needing three translators to go from English to English to English.



  • @djls45 said in Found Examples of Word Salad:

    Pretty much, yeah

    Hm. Okay. Sounds a bit broad though; me, I would make incoherence a necessary criterion.

    it's far more amusing if it also fits at least some of the bonus points criteria, and this is the Funny Stuff category.

    I claim one bonus point for the quantitative finance quote then.

    • Bonus points if an expert in the field would actually be able to understand what is said, instead of it just being nonsense (if you can tell).


  • Came here expecting to see today's Dilbert 😆
    https://dilbert.com/strip/2020-08-27

    Also, this clip which I believe caters for the "Experts would understand what is said" point.
    Rockwell Retro Encabulator – 02:01
    — rlcarnes



  • @AgentDenton said in Found Examples of Word Salad:

    Also, this clip which I believe caters for the "Experts would understand what is said" point.
    Rockwell Retro Encabulator – 02:01
    — rlcarnes

    He used some terms that don't seem to make any sense, like "logarithmic case," so I think this word salad is a joke product description.



  • @djls45 Now you made me dive into research mode here 😆

    Turns out this is fiction:

    The turboencabulator (in later incarnations the retroencabulator or Micro Encabulator) is a fictional machine whose technobabble description is an in-joke among engineers.

    They had me fooled 😛


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