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• RE: Human generated nonsense text

  ololololo > 6 hours ago

  The author could simplify his task.
  Remember the Codex Seraphinianus. Luigi Serafini didn't just write some scribbles; he created a base-21 number system for them. In fact, it's much easier than writing random scribbles ((which should still look beautiful!).
  And why random? It can be quite systematic, just meaningless.

• RE: Human generated nonsense text

  Jorge_Stolfi > 4 hours ago

  (6 hours ago)ololololo Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Remember the Codex Seraphinianus. Luigi Serafini didn't just write some scribbles; he created a base-21 number system for them.

  
  IIRC, Serafini himself admitted that the page numbers are the only meaningful contents of the book. Can anyone confirm?  
  
  The number system, by the way, was promptly cracked, back in the mailing list days, by one of the cryptographers on duty.  Can't remember who...
  
  All the best, --stolfi

• RE: Human generated nonsense text

  ololololo > 2 hours ago

  (4 hours ago)Jorge_Stolfi Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.The number system, by the way, was promptly cracked, back in the mailing list days, by one of the cryptographers on duty. Can't remember who...

  Someone named Derzhansky (I forgot his name) and Allan Wechsler.
  I mentioned this in the sense that this way you can make your work easier. You can create some kind of system that will allow you to create meaningless text, and then the process of creating this text will be much faster.
  For example, the author of VMS could simplyYou are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. (of course, in the thread, I deciphered the cipher as anagrams, but he could have just written numbers. The result would be the same).
  It would also be interesting to conduct a statistical study of the text of the Codex Seraphinianus. It would be interesting to compare this with the text of the VMS...
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