Re: identifying texts with zlib

2002-02-27 Thread Kragen Sitaker
Dave Long writes: Cool. It shouldn't require that much redundancy* to guess that information; It looks like an order-4 markov chain (by letters) produces English-looking output, and an order-2 one (by words) is best for parody, as word-order-3 results in long source text runs. [0] So you

Re: identifying texts with zlib

2002-02-27 Thread Kragen Sitaker
Dave Long writes: Cool. It shouldn't require that much redundancy* to guess that information; It looks like an order-4 markov chain (by letters) produces English-looking output, and an order-2 one (by words) is best for parody, as word-order-3 results in long source text runs. [0] So you