Re: VMs: Link between Phaistos Disk & VMs...!?

[Dennis <tsalagi@xxxxxxxx>]

J HALEY wrote:

> If Gordon Rugg's method is so random then why does this happen:
> http://www.georgeboolefanclub.com/wordboundarypatterns.txt
>
> if you look at this list, unfortunately unsorted, certain patterns can be
> seen to be quite consistent across word boundaries. The easiest to
> see are the 'ol. .dy.' groups where a VMS word ending ol can often
> be followed by the standalone pair dy. If as Rugg claims each word
> is constructed from prefix midfix and suffix using a Cardan Grille then
> there has to be some systemmatic ruleset involved. In which case the
> patterns would give themselves away. It just cannot be random.

	Rugg isn't saying that the patterns are random.  He could 
reproduce the 'ol. .dy.' cross-line patterns by putting 
several instances of these at the ends and following 
beginnings of lines in the Rugg tables.

	The real test of Rugg, I think, would be to see how many 
Rugg tables and grills it would take to reproduce the VMs 
itself.  If it took nearly as many Rugg tables as there are 
pages in the VMs, then he is clearly overfitting the data. 
It isn't clear to me how to do this, though.

Dennis

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