Re: D! I

["Dark MaP" <darkmap@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

>  There was once a real demonstration of this sort of thing at Monkeys 
> Typing Shakespeare
> <http://bronte.cs.utas.edu.au/monkey/>

Sorry, d link is broken. :-(

>  A computer that wasn't being used too much -- the equivalent of several 
> stadiums of monkeys pounding at typewriters for 24 hours a day, I suspect 
> -- tried to match "to be or not to be, that is the question".  When I 
> looked, the "monkeys" had only 30% percent right after 8 months.

Same results you'll get with hundred of illiterate persons... don't you 
think so? I bet a person like this will spent much more time that the poor 
monkeys.. haha.


>  But -- what if the monkeys get to keep a letter if they get it right, and 
> the number of unknown letters keeps decreasing?  Better yet, what if the 
> monkeys looked for, instead of letters, words of the necessary length, and 
> got to keep those as before?  The problem gets a lot easier.  Someone else 
> can do the math.

And how (do you think) the monkeys will know WHAT WORDS must be kept?!!? 
Where must they base their theorie?



>  This is the sort of thing that people who say "life on earth is as likely 
> as an explosion in a junkyard creating a Boeing 747" are ignoring.   I 
> never thought my native USA state, Kansas, could be so stupid, but they 
> passed a law requiring creationism to be taught along with evolution in the 
> schools.  (What is creationism, anyway?  "God created the world"?  It 
> really doesn't say much.)  I believe that Kansas is taking the law off the 
> books.

We need some 'Creationism' in the VMS case... :-)


> Dennis



> Adams Douglas wrote:
>
> Now, write a massively parallel Net client application similar to 
Seti@Home or the Internet Prime Search (see 
<http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/> and
> <http://www.mersenne.org/prime.htm>). Each client has a subset of 
dictionaries and is issued different substitution-cipher copies of Voynich 
text by the central controlling server. The search runs 24/7 automatically 
on millions of machines.

Just like Napster.... but trying to decipher the undeciphrable...
Wait a minute... The "Men in Black" obtained best results that the SETI 
Project... :-)

Best results would be obtained if each client has a library with one 
specific lang. So, each client (or lil teams of clients) will be dedicated 
to 1 specific/supposed language to be analysed. Do you want to know what do 
I think about? It-NEVER-will-spit-out-any-cool-result. I'm awaiting 
comments...


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