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Comment by fla

6 years ago

Try swapping a few characters in the compressed string before decompressing and get a totally unrelated, but somewhat plausible, sentence.

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VMG  6 years ago 

   Try swapping a few characters in the compressed string before decompressing and get a totally unrelated, but somewhat plausible, sentence. -->

   䔹䧹焫놉勏㦿顱㦽膑裚躈葊

Swapping last two:

   䔹䧹焫놉勏㦿顱㦽膑裚葊躈 -->

   Try swapping a few characters in the compressed string before decompressing and get a totally unrelated, but somewhat applied tlh

Swapping first two:

   䧹䔹焫놉勏㦿顱㦽膑裚躈葊 -->

   Sexy Shania Twain acting as a sprite for sexy Hogan's Alley demo dude

   my site

   my favorite animal's name is camelid 2 my favorite artist is david maile my favorite movie's are

Pretty wild!

  • jkhdigital  6 years ago

    It's just adaptive arithmetic coding, with the distribution provided by GPT-2 instead of some other statistical analysis of the source. He uses CJK simply to make the output printable, but it's really just random bits. I mean, it's a neat idea, but certainly not novel.

  • VMG  6 years ago

    After some more tweaking it looks like the most-significant bits come first

Erwin  6 years ago

I run this code in Python:

for i in range(20): print ''.join(unichr(random.randrange(20000, 25000)) for x in range(4))

to generate some random text; one string like 劓惂儶宓 turns up this bizarre output:

> Honeybees ( Apis mellifera ) are splendidly beautiful little creatures. They have shapely abdomens, amphistales and pedipalps, round chests, and square backs … all of them beautifully highly marketable. Exactly what has caused the popularity of bees I do not quite know; just what they do is a mystery to me. I beg to differ. The

jmiller099  6 years ago

Tried similar.

Typed in 你好吗 and decompressed it. The decompression was an entertaining read.

adonovan  6 years ago

oh this is so much fun! It's like tuning an old radio and suddenly hearing speech amid the static. A tiny nudge on the dial and it's a different accent/topic/language altogether.