Re: VMs: don't worry, be happy

[Koontz John E <John.Koontz@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 4 Oct 2004, Marke Fincher wrote:
> I finally caved in and ran the superblock sequence of programs
> on a section of the KJV bible.
>
> The 500 most frequent repeated strings can be fitted into
> a block just 1442 bytes big.
>
> Using this block and a 6+ char window you can replicate 40%
> of the original sample.   Sounds familiar doesn't it?

You might want to ponder why.  I'm sure there's something to be learned
there.  I'd be interested it know what it is.  I suspect you need to look
at both the statistics and the mechanics of the algorithm.

One thing that puzzles - I thought you had trouble generating longer
sequneces for English text?

> My apologies to anyone who feels I have led them up the garden
> path.  But it was fun wasn't it?  :-)

I don't think any apologies are needed.  It's not like anyone else has
gotten particularly far.  Those who believe they have solved the problem
are either not offering coherent full elabgorated solutions at all, or
are offering solutions others reject as essentially irreproduceable.
Hang up your coat, stick around and think of more ideas.

> I'll get my coat....

If they kicked people off this list for offering ideas that didn't pan out
there wouldn't be anybody on the list except the people who didn't have
any ideas at all.

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