Oh we know when sweeties are sleeping,
We know when sweeties are awake,
We know when sweeties have been good or bad
So be good for gitmo's sake~
[dance]
Thank you, Prophet.
Background: Cliff High, a linguist and computer programmer, developed 'Web Bot Reports'.
His premise is simple: We carry around a limited vocabulary of daily/weekly/monthly words we use. Anything outside those sets, is considered an anomaly.
His premise is that this anomaly is an impression of a change that may occur.
A foreshadow; An intuition of future events.
Pay close attention in your own day to day life, and you'll see the same thing. We know things, intuitively, before they occur. A Zen approach to this idea, is that if we map out our thoughts we can predict our emotions; Map out our emotions and we can predict our beliefs; Map out our beliefs and we can predict our actions.
An eventual outcome will cascade through subtler levels first.
One of these subtle levels, is our speech.
He had enough understanding of linguistics to give a good shot at categorizing what's within a standard daily/weekly/monthly lexicon, and what's an anomaly.
He used web bots to 'scrape' conversations on forums of all kinds, looking for anomalous words.
He used these anomalous words to guess at what major events may happen. Given that if we know our own lives enough to intuitively guess our futures, collectively we intuitively guess what'll happen to us on a larger scale.
(With better certainty than chance alone)
He's right.
He got good at fine tuning his system.
You mad lad~
-AFLB