Oh Hey There

dailymeh:

Examples of simulated English:

Zeroth-order approximation: the symbols are independent and equiprobable. XFOML RXKHRJFFJUJ ZLPWCFWKCYJ FFJEYVKCQSGXYD QPAAMKBZAACIBZLHJQD

First-order approximation: the symbols are independent, but frequency of letters matches English text. OCRO HLI RGWR NMIELWIS EU LL NBNESBEYA TH EEI ALHENHTTPA OOBTTVA NAH BRL

Second-order approximation: the frequency of pairs of letters matches English text. ON IE ANTSOUTINYS ARE T INCTORE ST BE S DEAMY ACHIN D ILONASIVE TUCOOWE AT TEASONARE FUSO TIZIN ANDY TOBE SEACE CTISBE

Third-order approximation: the frequency of triplets of letters matches English text. IN NO IST LAT WHEY CRATICT FROURE BERS GROCID PONDENOME OF DEMONSTURES OF THE REPTAGIN IS REGOACTIONA OF CRE

Fourth-order approximation: the frequency of quadruplets of letters matches English text. THE GENERATED JOB PROVIDUAL BETTER TRAND THE DISPLAYED CODE ABOVERY UPONDULTS WELL THE CODERST IN THESTICAL IT DO HOCK BOTHE MERG INSTATES CONS ERATION NEVER ANY OF PUBLE AND TO THEORY EVENTIAL CALLEGAND TO ELAST BENERATED IN WITH PIES AS IS WITH THE

It’s fascinating to see how this grows increasingly realistic. I wonder how high-order you need to go before the result would be exclusively actual English words.

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Dr Tamami Nakano, of Tokyo University, said: “We seem to be unconsciously searching for a good timing for a blink to minimize the chance of losing critical information during the blink.”

Dr Nakano, whose findings are published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, said: “Spontaneous eyeblinks were synchronized both within and across subjects when they viewed the same video stories.

“This blink synchronization was not observed when they viewed background videos that did not contain any story or when they listened to a narrated story.

“Thus, the synchronization required a story, but the need to follow a storyline per se was not the cause of synchronization.

“The blink synchrony occurred only when subjects had to follow a storyline by extracting information from a stream of visual events.”