Re: ANN Daily Crytoquote--my misspelling

2005-06-28 Thread Jim Hurley
Message: 7 Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 19:49:35 -0700 From: Mark Wieder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: ANN Daily Crytoquote--my misspelling To: How to use Revolution Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Marielle- Thursday, June 23, 2005, 3:0

Re: ANN Daily Crytoquote--my misspelling

2005-06-27 Thread Mark Wieder
Marielle- Thursday, June 23, 2005, 3:08:45 AM, you wrote: ML> If you use the url below, you will directly get to see the list of words which ML> have a frequency of 10 or more. ML> http://lexicall.org/repository/results.php?mtd_file=data%2F2_words%2Fenglish%2Fdb_mrc.mtd&flds%5B1%5D=WORD&minval

Re: ANN Daily Crytoquote--my misspelling

2005-06-23 Thread Marielle Lange
Jim, A suggestion: In your application, put the crypted version in uppercase and the uncrypted version in lower case. Studies shows that it is easier to recognize words when they are in the usual (lowercase) format. (Besner, D., Davelaar, E., Alcott, D., & Parry, P. (1984). Wholistic reading of a

Re: ANN Daily Crytoquote--my misspelling

2005-06-23 Thread Marielle Lange
>What an enterprising person (not me) would do is take the text of >several books and create a fequency-of-occurence list using Scott's >algorithm, and then delete all words in the dictionary which don't >have the necessary frequency. Jim, Excellent suggestion. In fact, it is exactly what the guy

Re: ANN Daily Crytoquote--my misspelling

2005-06-23 Thread Marielle Lange
>I am curious... So I had a look ;-) >In fact, if you strip repeated words in your list, it is 5065 words >long. It wouldn't be a big deal to write a revolution script to delete any repeated line, would it? Je parie que c'est ce que tu as fait [I bet it is what you have done]. All that lexicall.o

Re: ANN Daily Crytoquote--my misspelling

2005-06-23 Thread Jim Hurley
Message: 9 Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 11:08:45 +0100 From: Marielle Lange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: ANN Daily Crytoquote--my misspelling To: use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 My dictionary of 61,000 wo

Re: ANN Daily Crytoquote--my misspelling

2005-06-23 Thread Jim Hurley
Message: 18 Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 21:53:01 -0700 From: Mark Wieder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: use-revolution Digest, Vol 21, Issue 133 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Jim- Wednesday, June 22, 2005, 5:57:53 PM, you wrote: JH> It should be red b

Re: ANN Daily Crytoquote--my misspelling

2005-06-23 Thread Jim Hurley
Message: 8 Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 21:41:08 -0500 From: "J. Landman Gay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: ANN Daily Crytoquote--my misspelling To: How to use Revolution Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed On 6/22/05 8:3

Re: ANN Daily Crytoquote--my misspelling

2005-06-23 Thread Eric Chatonet
Hi Marielle, I am curious... So I had a look ;-) In fact, if you strip repeated words in your list, it is 5065 words long. Le 23 juin 05 à 12:08, Marielle Lange a écrit : If you use the url below, you will directly get to see the list of words which have a frequency of 10 or more. http:/

Re: ANN Daily Crytoquote--my misspelling

2005-06-23 Thread Marielle Lange
>> My dictionary of 61,000 words comes in at 592 K--similar >> to yours in size. The problem is that it includes a lot of words I've >> never heard of. For example the dictionary begins with the following: > >> aardvark, aardwolf, aba, abaca, abacist, aback, abacus, abaft, abalone, >> abamp, abampe

Re: ANN Daily Crytoquote--my misspelling

2005-06-22 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 6/22/05 8:39 PM, Jim Hurley wrote: My dictionary of 61,000 words comes in at 592 K--similar to yours in size. The problem is that it includes a lot of words I've never heard of. For example the dictionary begins with the following: aardvark, aardwolf, aba, abaca, abacist, aback, abacus, ab

Re: ANN Daily Crytoquote--my misspelling

2005-06-22 Thread Jim Hurley
Message: 3 Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 12:25:37 -0500 From: "J. Landman Gay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: ANN Daily Crytoquote To: How to use Revolution Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed On 6/22/05 11:07 AM, Jim Hu

Re: ANN Daily Crytoquote (J. Landman Gay)

2005-06-22 Thread Marielle Lange
> The big problem with the decoder is the size of the dictionary (61,000 > entries)--much too big. Many of the words you will not recognize. > Anyone know of a more reasonable dictionary? Plenty at: http://lexicall.org/repository/listing.php?material=data (eh eh, a website with easy access to vari

Re: ANN Daily Crytoquote

2005-06-22 Thread Mark Wieder
Jim- Wednesday, June 22, 2005, 9:07:16 AM, you wrote: JH> The stack downloads daily quotes (usually 4 in number) from JH> http://www.quotationspage.com/. The stack will encrypt these quotes JH> and display them for your crypto-pleasure. When you double-click on a letter to place it back in the r

Re: ANN Daily Crytoquote

2005-06-22 Thread John Ridge
on 22/6/05 5:07 pm, Jim Hurley wrote : This is for those of you programmers with time on your hands. :-) I am still trying to catch up after our magnificent Run Rev conference. * Jim, it's brilliant. I've never seen the idea, but it is great fun - I can understand the addiction.

Re: ANN Daily Crytoquote

2005-06-22 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 6/22/05 11:07 AM, Jim Hurley wrote: The big problem with the decoder is the size of the dictionary (61,000 entries)--much too big. Many of the words you will not recognize. Anyone know of a more reasonable dictionary? I don't know which dictionary you are using, but my Boggle game uses th

ANN Daily Crytoquote

2005-06-22 Thread Jim Hurley
This is for those of you programmers with time on your hands. :-) I am still trying to catch up after our magnificent Run Rev conference. Some time ago I change my newspaper subscription from the San Francisco Chronicle to the NYT. The Times is a a great paper but it wouldn't stoop to somethin