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RE: Speculative fraud hypothesis - Jorge_Stolfi - 25-08-2025
If the "copy" and "modify" parts of the algorithm are turned off, leaving only a "generate from scratch" step, it reduces to a Markov chain of order zero -- that just outputs words from a fixed probability distribution, without regard for previous outputs.
With the right "generate" algorithm, such a generator can reproduce some statistical properties of the VMS text, such as Zipf law, per-word word entropy, word structure, and glyph and glyph pair distributions, But it cannot produce any word-pair distribution other than (random first word) x (random second word). That is, the next-word entropy would be the same as the plain word entropy.
As I wrote earlier, even with a significant copy probability, the word-pair distribution should gradually tend to this state; since each time the source pointer is reset another random word pair would be added to the repertoire of pairs available for subsequent copying.
RE: Speculative fraud hypothesis - dashstofsk - 25-08-2025
RE: Speculative fraud hypothesis - asteckley - 25-08-2025
RE: Speculative fraud hypothesis - ReneZ - 26-08-2025
RE: Speculative fraud hypothesis - Torsten - 27-08-2025
RE: Speculative fraud hypothesis - Torsten - 27-08-2025
RE: Speculative fraud hypothesis - RenegadeHealer - 06-09-2025
RE: Speculative fraud hypothesis - R. Sale - 07-09-2025
RE: Speculative fraud hypothesis - GrooveDuke - 07-09-2025
RE: Speculative fraud hypothesis - Torsten - 13-09-2025