# Lirpa 1.0

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/lirpa-1-0/93411>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [April 2, 2006, 5:44am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/lirpa-1-0/93411 "2006-04-02T05:44:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![Trans](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/dfb087/32.png) [@Trans](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Trans)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2006, 5:44am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/lirpa-1-0/93411/1 "2006-04-02T05:44:33Z")

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Introducing Lirpa 1.0!

Lirpa 1.0 is an advanced lie detection system based on a heuristic  
reverse engineering engine. It can take any set of data points and find  
the underlying functional bell-curve system(s) within, or contrarily,  
detemine if the suppiled figures constitute a misprespentation of the  
facts --hence a lie.

Curiously, Lirpa may provide a direct test of Godel’s Theorem of  
Unprovability. When Lirpa 1.0 was fed itself as a parameter:

Lirpa.eval(Lirpa)

We expected it either return Lirpa, i.e. identity, or never to return a  
result, running up against the Halting Problem. Any result would  
disprove Godel’s theorm, so we certainly expected the later. Oddly  
enough, there is no way to determine how long this computation would  
take. Nontheless, being the forever optimistists, we hunked down with a  
fresh brew of coffee and waited as our druby cluster churned. To our  
surprise Lirpa 1.0 returned a result almost immediately. After further  
testing we varified the results. But they did not come out as we had  
expected. On subsequent runs the results actually VARIED. We had  
somehow managed to create the first true computational random  
generator. That’s a pretty good feat, but what’s really amazing is that  
we could not have done it with out Ruby’s dynamic eigenclasses!

For fun, we tied the system into a little web application that  
partitions the complex results into a simple 0-7 scale and assigns each  
value a user friendly “magic 8 ball” natural language representation.  
You can try it out here:

> **[Magic 8 Ball](https://www.degraeve.com/magiceightball/)**
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> Magic 8 Ball

On the whole Lirpa 1.0 seems, well, pessimistic. I guess it’s just  
clarified an unfortunate fact about the world: most of it’s full of  
sh\*t.

T.

P.S. If you feel brave, try feeding Lirpa 1.0 this email message and  
see what it says.

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**Author:** ![Trans](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/dfb087/32.png) [@Trans](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Trans)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2006, 9:04am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/lirpa-1-0/93411/2 "2006-04-02T09:04:24Z")

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Trans wrote:

> Introducing Lirpa 1.0!
> 
> Lirpa 1.0 is an advanced lie detection system based on a heuristic  
> reverse engineering engine. It can take any set of data points and find  
> the underlying functional bell-curve system(s) within, or contrarily,  
> detemine if the suppiled figures constitute a misprespentation of the  
> facts --hence a lie.  
> …

> > “Lirpa 1.0”.sub(/(._)( \d+)._/){$1.reverse.capitalize+$2}  
> > =\> “April 1”