comex on Sat, 24 Aug 2013 10:58:31 -0700 (MST)


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Re: [s-d] [s-b] nday 2: The State of Play


On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 1:32 PM, Alex Smith <ais523@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> turing.py, please send a message consisting of 625 copies of the letter
> "x". (If it's using Mersenne Twister, which seems likely, there's
> probably no random state that generates that. Each extra "x" would
> reduce the chance by 1 in whatever number of distinct characters it
> could produce.)

It may not be capable of passing *your* Turing Test, but many Turing
Tests probably can be passed using only strings that could possibly
generated by the Markov chain, and thus may be passed by turing.py if
it gets very lucky.
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