An Artificial Construction

[oshfdk]

For comparisons, a metric for the bumpiness of the structural decomposition could be standard deviation of the distribution of all cells in the table, without the empty cells of course.

There could be a 2nd metric for how asymmetric the distribution is: something like the (sum for all (i,j) of abs(cell(i,j) - cell(j,i))) / (sum for all (i,j) of abs(cell(i,j)) + abs(cell(j,i))).

I think this should be weighted by the expected count. There is nothing surprising for a combination that is expected to occur 3 times to actually occur 0 or 6 times, given there are dozens of cells, these would happen very often. However, a combination that is expected to occur 800 times, but only occurs 400 times is a very strong signal.

When I ran similar experiments a few years ago I used other metrics instead of actual/expected ratio, I tried to estimate the probability of each result to happen by chance given the total number of results. This was in pre-LLM time and I remember that the math was complicated, but I think now this can be easily reproduced with an AI assistant.

I'm not very keen on spending much time on this now, my conclusion is basically the same as what @dashstofsk says, that this doesn't look like a natural language. Interestingly, I see this as a strong indication that this is a cipher, while if I understand it correctly, @dashstofsk sees this as an indication of meaningless/hoax text.