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Thanks for the link. Gist was that with enough data, lots of patterns are inevitable.

He gave example from some text taken out of bible with spaces removed. That's lots of letters on one screen, and from those letters he was able find his name, date and topic of the talk, when joining letters at equal distance.

Finding unbelievable patterns is not as amazing as we think.




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