Soapy Sam
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Joined: Jan. 2012
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| Quote (OgreMkV @ Mar. 19 2013,03:38) | | Quote (Richardthughes @ Mar. 18 2013,21:28) | Windbag KF goes off:
| Quote | | 2 > The similar inductive status of the island of function effect can also easily be shown from this text. There are a great many ways in which the 899 ASCII characters used in the above clip can be arranged: 128^899 ~ 2.41 *10^1894. (The number of Planck-time states of the 10^80 or so atoms of our observed cosmos since its credible beginning is less than 10^150, a very large number, but one that is utterly dwarfed by the set of possibilities for 899 ASCII characters.) Very few of them would convey the above message in recognisable English and while some noise such as typos etc can be tolerated, all too soon injection of random noise a random walk on the island of function would destroy function. |
1 - > The actual count on UD is 905 characters. It would seem there have been some changes that haven't degraded function (spaces) during the transcription to UD
2- > It is not 128^899 possibilities. Many of the characters are the same. If you knew anything about design detection, you'd take a leaf from cryptanalysis and look at the distribution and dispersal of letters. Whoops!
3- > Zachriel's Phrasenator (link sadly broken at this time).
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You know what I wonder?
Let's say that there are 899 (or 905) ASCII characters in a message.
The question really isn't, what are the odds of the message I want it to say?
The question really is, how many possible combinations spell out an actual message in any language?
That'll mess them the hell up. |
The question really is: how many combinations of bases have formed functional sequences of DNA in some organism or another? Some spaces are not well-connected. Therefore no spaces are well-connected? That's ... why, it's a logical fallacy! Depends on the rule for 'well-formed strings', and the structure of that space.
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SoapySam is a pathetic asswiper. Joe G
BTW, when you make little jabs like “I thought basic logic was one thing UDers could handle,” you come off looking especially silly when you turn out to be wrong. - Barry Arrington
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