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Very vaguely, it makes it like a one-time pad where it can be anything you want it to be. Not quite, but so little text leaves a lot of options open.
by dehrmann 4mo ago
Very vaguely, it makes it like a one-time pad where it can be anything you want it to be. Not quite, but so little text leaves a lot of options open.
- AaronAPU 4mo agoI wonder, is there a form of analysis which lets you quantify how ambiguous a set of symbols is? Maybe related to entropy? Obviously one symbol can mean literally anything, but you could also have very long strings of symbols with many different meanings.
- red_admiral 4mo agoYes. Somewhere in Claude Shannon's work, called the "unicity distance".