Emma May Smith > 01-03-2016, 11:12 PM
(01-03-2016, 10:39 PM)Torsten Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Then there is no explanation at all, is there? If we are happy that the writer just switched as and when he wanted, we can be equally happy saying that he just wrote out the whole manuscript according to his whims. There's not even any need to say he copied and altered words from recent lines, is there? You can't explain why words are structured how they are, or why certain character combinations appear and change throughout the text, or really anything.Quote:Well, there are still plenty of instances of <o> in the Bio section, just not <od>, so this explanation does not really make sense to me.
We can't know for sure what his motivation was. Maybe there was no motivation and its just an switch.
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Torsten > 01-03-2016, 11:50 PM
Quote:Then there is no explanation at all, is there?
Quote:You can't explain why words are structured how they are, or why certain character combinations appear and change throughout the text, or really anything.
Sam G > 02-03-2016, 05:50 AM
(01-03-2016, 10:39 PM)Torsten Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.We can't know for sure what his motivation was. Maybe there was no motivation and its just a switch.
Torsten > 02-03-2016, 08:05 AM
Quote:The question is whether or not your text copying method can account for the properties of the text without requiring the scribe to have been individually thinking about each property.
Quote:I think if you made a list of every property that the scribe would have had to have been specifically thinking about, it would be a very long list of very peculiar rules.
-Job- > 02-03-2016, 08:53 AM
Torsten > 04-03-2016, 02:05 AM
Quote:The key question is, what verifiable features does it predict that we don't yet know about?
-Job- > 04-03-2016, 07:17 PM
(04-03-2016, 02:05 AM)Torsten Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Quote:The key question is, what verifiable features does it predict that we don't yet know about?
For me this key feature was that rare words do co-occur with similar ones. You can check this yourself. Choose a rule for selecting some low frequent types and check if this words do co-occur with similar ones.
For instance glyphs beside 'i' and 'e' occur rarely duplicated. The bigram 'll' occurs 28 times and the bigram 'dd' occurs 23 times (see You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.). If you check this words you will probably find patterns like the three 'dd' words on page You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. (see You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.).
Torsten > 05-03-2016, 09:28 AM
Quote:The occurrence of 'dd' and 'll are suspicious in You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. and You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. respectively, but in other cases it's subject to interpretation.
Quote:In the text produced by your generator, what's the ratio between vocabulary size and text size?
ReneZ > 05-03-2016, 10:17 AM
juergenw > 05-03-2016, 05:21 PM