(15-05-2026, 09:22 PM)JoJo_Jost wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Ultimately, you can always build a generator that closely approximates VMS by training it on VMS data. The question is whether the number of parameters can be reduced to a simple system that would have been feasible in the 15th century....
EXCELLENT QUESTION! I was waiting for this one. THAT sir, is a constraint I placed on myself at the start of all this. 15th century human doable. No slide rules, no taro cards, no dice, no grilles, no complicated lookup tables, no memorizing an encyclopedia. And here's what I think I have. A human doable method that requires a single page to start with as a seed (f1r is what I've been working with) and a single sheet of paper to act as a ledger. The difficulty in all this, and Torsten Timm's latest paper talks about it, is trying to model human behavior in python.
To test this out, I loaded up 150 words from Dracula as the seed. I created some real interesting pseudo English.
Code:
<f1r>
<f1r.P1.1;K> s.sound.really.there.them.yawing.own.it.and.again.than.did.of
<f1r.P1.2;K> jaw.her.he.we.snow.steps.her.at.that.than.room.s.wonder
<f1r.P1.3;K> right.sent.i.brain.the.good.quietly.the.for.other.be.lunatic.join
<f1r.P1.4;K> with.her.sister.no.see.helsing.he.more.stand.would.s.some.won
<f1r.P1.5;K> i.to.sternness.of.me.a.supremely.the.awake.view.talking.sake.been
<f1r.P1.6;K> beginning.the.office.you.on.sleep.me.i.and.discussion.was.august.by
<f1r.P1.7;K> which.if.copy.matters.s.that.he.the.as.reason.came.for.then
<f1r.P1.8;K> come.the.no.when.to.ready.the.as.looked.came.and.from.ever
<f1r.P1.9;K> of.came.eyes.direction.no.all.steersman.her.paper.handsome.fascinating.whose.seemed
<f1r.P1.10;K> solicitors.my.answer.went.sat.went.to.god.i.know.apparent.tradition.good
<f1r.P1.11;K> wills.shall.we.t.the.the.there.glad.window.waiting.old.we.of
<f1r.P1.12;K> were.may.white.dear.which.who.to
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<f24v>
<f24v.P1.1;K> off.wpere.fascinating.lunatic.lunafic
<f24v.P1.2;K> rto.when.eyes.rtto.npo.gaod.lunapic
<f24v.P1.3;K> lunatic.were.lunatic.lunafic.lugnaxic.sent.lunapic.lunagic
<f24v.P1.4;K> meatters.staend.were.aokf.paper.lbnatic.gyoodr
<f24v.P1.5;K> rto.other.ober.joiin.lunapic.lfunatic.then
<f24v.P1.6;K> lunaxic.lunamic.iff.nama.them.kunatic
<f24v.P1.7;K> wpere.lunafic.meatters.wpere.i.good
<f24v.P1.8;K> kview.gooad.lunaftc.were.lunatic.meatterz
<f24v.P1.9;K> unakiic.thym.fofr.as.ahen.lunapic.lunafic.i
<f24v.P1.10;K> lunapic.i.punafic.wes.lunavic.ioff.aby.ipf.lpnapic
<f24v.P1.11;K> rof.lunamicq.luapic.rtto.i
<f24v.P1.12;K> lunawic.lunafic.fofw.lunafit.punakic.fofw
<f24v.P1.13;K> odd.rdally.pof.then
<f25r>
<f25r.P1.1;K> of.wea.s.nto.luzakic.than.yll
<f25r.P1.2;K> oof.lunafit.of.fascinaping.luzakic
<f25r.P1.3;K> lunafic.hof.lunafic.thax.solicitors.youd.vea.spernness
<f25r.P1.4;K> s.of.lunafic.solicitofs.oud.than
<f25r.P1.5;K> kview.oif.meatterz.hof.ofu.lunakic.sternness.lunafit.of
<f25r.P1.6;K> good.lunafiq.htf.vas.i.vas.yeof
<f25r.P1.7;K> punakyc.of.quietly.ref.iift.lunaftc.lunaguic.lunafic.osf
<f25r.P1.8;K> opf.gmorey.of.nro.lunafit
<f25r.P1.9;K> pyoud.opf.oof.gooad.lunafic.off.seoemed.ohu
<f25r.P1.10;K> wea.of.quiewly.seoemed.oof.lunatic
<f25r.P1.11;K> onf.oif.of.ahez.oof.oyf.good.unaotic
<f25r.P1.12;K> talkng.quiewly.lunatit
<f25v>
<f25v.P1.1;K> lunafiq.with.lunapic.whice.syt.okf.to.pof
<f25v.P1.2;K> pto.bthe.lunafic.ofu.pto.pof
<f25v.P1.3;K> puo.lfunatic.puy.pto.rto.lunatic.steersmin
<f25v.P1.4;K> lunatic.steersman.rpo.tto.rpom.oaf.gthym
<f25v.P1.5;K> nto.the.lunatic.okf.lfunatic.of
<f25v.P1.6;K> steersmin.kunatic.tos.rto.cof.thym.vof.nto.uto
<f25v.P1.7;K> to.dea.of.wfas.eyeu.of.toz.gof.fit
<f25v.P1.8;K> wish.wye.uto.lunatic.vunafiq.aof.goon.lunatic
<f25v.P1.9;K> of.luntic.oiff.oaf.ltnapic.atters.nuy
<f25v.P1.10;K> rof.mof.puy.of.xhan.orf.oyf
<f25v.P1.11;K> lunazic.i.kunatic.lunagic.oif.lith.eever.oof.lunatic
<f25v.P1.12;K> oaf.rof.of.no.toAND... I may be sticking my neck out on this statement... but, my tests have pretty well convinced me that You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. was NOT the first page of the book.