Bible Code
[via boing boing] I remember when I first read Michael Drosnin’s Bible Code, I was shocked. It was amazing at first glance, and no doubt the story is interesting. Only months later I realized the algorithm could work as long as you gave enough input. You would gain similar result if you apply the program on big text book such as Gone with the wind (well, I wonder what would we get if apply it on all series of Harry Potter?).
Natural language only contains limited of symbols, that create the chance to relate them meaningfully in a info-rich context. That’s still amazing because the original authors didn’t intend to hide any information in his/her text, but the patterns were there, all the time.
Here’s an analysis from Scientific American. And Dave Thomas’s finding on applying Bible Code technique to Bible Code II excerpt.
June 6, 2003 11:55 AM | General
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