Re: Bible code maths, was Re: OT - Enough to Gag a Maggot

[Mark Perakh <perakh@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

No, I was not among et al in the paper by Brendan McKay (wtth whom though I cooperated on
the Letere Serial Correlation and with whom I discussed his paper on codes in the course
of its writing).. The four authors of the paper in Stat.Sci are B.McKay, D. Bar-Natan, M.
Bar-Hillel, and G. Kalai. While Maya Bar-Hillel is a professor of psychology (with
specialization in detecting frauds, usually subconcsious, in science) the other three are
all professors of math.  The paper by McKay et al can be seen, beside the journal itself,
on Brendan's site at www.cs.anu.edu.au/~bdm/dilugim.  There is also  plenty about the
code in my site at www.bigfoot.com/~perakh/   . I published a paper on codes (without et
al) in Russian in Kontinent No 103, 2000.  Brendan et al attacked the paper by Rips from
many viewpoints, including purely stastistical, but not only. In my paper there are some
stastistical and some extra-statistical arguments, some differing from those by McKay et
al. Cheers, Mark

Rene Zandbergen wrote:

> Dennis wrote:
> >
> > Mark Perakh wrote:
> > >
>
> > > Indeed, in May issue of 99 a paper by McKay et al was published in
> > > the same journal, completely demolishing the statistical procedure of Rips et al,
> > > and the same Kass supplied a comment saying that the puzzle has been successfully
> > > solved.
> >
> >         But then this says that it *was* shown to be
> > fallacious by mathematics.  Could you give us some more
> > details?
>
> I think that one, if not all, of the (first) 'et al' was Mark himself.
> There should be pointers to the work at Mark's web site which also hosts
> his (their) work about the VMs.
>
> Correct me if I'm wrong.
>
> Cheers, Rene