VMs: Looking into the Fincher window

[Elmar Vogt <elvogt@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

I finally had a chance to look into the number crunching the computer did 
over the last few days.

In a nutshell, I've begun to get somewhat sceptical about the Fincher windows.

I started from the assumption that, if Marke's idea was right, there should 
be a comparatively limited number of building blocks, making up the master 
sequences. Substrings of those blocks would be copied in batches and should 
be distinct by the fact that most of the time every substring would be 
followed by one particular letter, namely the one following it in the master 
table. (It would only be followed by a different letter, if a batch border 
happened to fall on this position.)

I checked the VM transcripts comparing all subsequences of 8, 11 and 12 
letters length.

Surprisingly, I found that there were no "very common" substrings. For 8 
letters, the most common sequence "edy.qoke" occured less than 500 times, 
for 12 letters, the most frequent block scored only 164 occurences.

Also, the probability of the follow-up letter wasn't as pronounced as I had 
hoped. Even for the most frequent sequences (presumably those at the heart 
of the master table), the most probable follow-up letter only scored 
probabilities of 30% or 40% in many cases; little more than guessing 
probability.

So, I'm losing faith in Marke's theory a little. OTOH, I also don't fully 
trust my programs (it's a lot of number crunching). I hope I can devote some 
time in the future to have a more thorough look at my code. If somebody's 
interested in code or results in detail, I'll happily mail the stuff to 
them. (It's several MB of result files though.)

Cheers,

	Elmar

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