UNKNOWN ARTEFACT: Text translation pattern scanner

glynie

glynie
Sections 7 and 8 from digitalscream's translation:

0100100
1001101
1011001
011001
001001
1001101
010010
1011001
1001101
0110101
0110110

1100101
0100110
0100110
1100101
1001001
001101
1001101
0011011
0110110
0100110
1001100

23-bit match is the longest so far. Does it mean anything? I don't know. Either way, I've made a little program to search for patterns like this, so if anyone submits any more sequences, I can scan them in seconds if you want.
 
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glynie

glynie
Updated so it fills the two blocks (just to show how much can be found).

Edit: I said something similar in another thread, but I think it's extremely important - in fact, the most important - that we find repeating patterns in this data before even trying to decode it. The thing is, if it is a message and not just random, then either it's infinitely long (which is a ridiculous idea), or it has a start and an end, in which case it will repeat. So before even starting to figure out what the message is, we need to make sure we have all of it. I've seen a lot of efforts to decode the binary or morse or whatever in threads, but almost no mention that it might not even be a complete message. You know if you take a section out of morse or binary at random, that it can radically change the data? Seems to me that without figuring out where the message starts and finishes, all efforts to decode it are potentially futile.
 
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glynie

glynie
Another update: Following khaitom's suggestion, I compared the data to that produced by a random number generator and you just don't get matches like you do here - not even with much larger data sets - and no-where near as long. The conclusion is that the patterns emerging here are by design - they're not random.

Would really like to have more and/or longer sequences to scan if anyone's made any more recordings or transcriptions. Perhaps the ones I'm using also have errors in too.
 

Petersen

P
glynie said:
Another update: Following khaitom's suggestion, I compared the data to that produced by a random number generator and you just don't get matches like you do here - not even with much larger data sets - and no-where near as long. The conclusion is that the patterns emerging here are by design - they're not random.

Would really like to have more and/or longer sequences to scan if anyone's made any more recordings or transcriptions. Perhaps the ones I'm using also have errors in too.
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When you say an RNG, do you mean totally random, or random using the rules of no 3 consecutive bits in a set of 6-8 bits have the same value?

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=142794&page=24&p=2206486&viewfull=1#post2206486

This user transcribed most of the samples we have. HAVE AT IT! =D
 

glynie

glynie
Petersen said:
When you say an RNG, do you mean totally random, or random using the rules of no 3 consecutive bits in a set of 6-8 bits have the same value?
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Totally random - but you know, even if it doesn't stick to the no 3's rule - the fact that it plays back like that says to me that FD designed it that way - so they must be up to something.

Thanks for the link - I'll run it all through the program now and see what comes up. :)
 

glynie

glynie
Okay, so here we go:

INPUT:
010110100101110011010110011010110101110010000100101001011010010101100111101010001101010010101101010011011000100100100011010101001001001011110011010100101010110001100101100110110110010011010101110110010100110010010110010101001001010101100100111001001010110010110111001000110111100100101100100111001100110101010110001100101100110011001010010101100001101110110010010010001010001001100110011001011101011000110001100110011000011011010110010011011011010011011001101001011101001101101011010010101010101110010010110010101011010101001100110101001110100111001110110001010101001111010010010100010100110110011010110110100110001100100100101101010010010011100101001001010101011010110110001100101101101101100100110101101001000010110110010100101101001101001100010100100100100010011001001010110100111001100110011101001100101010011001001010100110110010011001101001101101010110101010110001010001001101100111001011010101111011000101101001000110101011010011001101010100110010010111011001000100101011010010110011100101001101011010011001110011001011011101001010010111001111010000101010010000110100011011011000110100010010001000101100110010110000110110011000011000110101100110101100111001001110010001001010010000100110110100110111001001001010001011010101100011001011001100101100100110110110100101001101010110110011010110000100111001010010001010011100011010101010010111001110110010010110110010010010011001101011000110110100101011001000100110010100101010010101010110111101100100110100101001010010110110101010010110010110110110010110011110011110010100100111011000110100110011001010100010100110110110011001100100110001011010100101001001001010001100101100101001011011010011001001010010010010110101010111100110100110010110101001001011010110011101101010010100101100110011011010101101101101010011001010010010011011011001011001001001100110101001010110011001101011010101101101100101010011001001101100101100100100110110011010011011011011001001101001100101011001011011001001001001010010101011011011010101101101101110110101010101100110101001101001010001100001011110010011010111101001100110010100100110110101100100100110011001011010110101101001001001101010110100100101001010011011011001110101010101101010110011010010011010101000110010011010001001001001101100100110011000100100011010011010010110110010011101100100101100101101001101110101101001101001100101101010011001011010010100110100110011011011001010011011001010100100010110110100100101101011001010011010101001011001010011010011010100110101111011000110011110011010011010101101010101110100110110011100110010010111010011010010010110110110011110010010010010100101
OUTPUT (only showing the long ones, 20-bits or more because there's loads of matches):
"01010101100011001011": 2 matches found.
"10101011000110010110": 3 matches found.
"01010110001100101100": 3 matches found.
"10101100011001011001": 3 matches found.
"01011000110010110011": 3 matches found.
"10110001100101100110": 3 matches found.
"01101101100100110101": 2 matches found.
"01100011001011001100": 2 matches found.
"11000110010110011001": 2 matches found.
"01011001001101101101": 2 matches found.
"10110010011011011010": 2 matches found.
"01100100110110110100": 2 matches found.
"11001001101101101001": 2 matches found.
"01101101101100100110": 2 matches found.
"11011011011001001101": 2 matches found.
"10110110110010011010": 2 matches found.
"01100101010011001001": 2 matches found.
"01001101100100110011": 2 matches found.
"10011011001001100110": 2 matches found.
"10010110110010010010": 2 matches found.
"00101101100100100100": 2 matches found.
"01011011001001001001": 2 matches found.
"01101010100101100101": 2 matches found.
"10011010011001011010": 2 matches found.
"00110100110010110101": 2 matches found.
"01101001100101101010": 2 matches found.
"11010011001011010100": 2 matches found.
"10100110010110101001": 2 matches found.
"10100100101101011001": 2 matches found.
"01101101010110110110": 2 matches found.
"11011010101101101101": 2 matches found.
"01101100101100100100": 2 matches found.
"11011001011001001001": 2 matches found.
"10110010110010010011": 2 matches found.
"01100101100100100110": 2 matches found.
"01011001001001100110": 2 matches found.
"11001001001001010010": 2 matches found.
"10010010010010100101": 2 matches found.
"010101011000110010110": 2 matches found.
"101010110001100101100": 3 matches found.
"010101100011001011001": 3 matches found.
"101011000110010110011": 3 matches found.
"010110001100101100110": 3 matches found.
"101100011001011001100": 2 matches found.
"011000110010110011001": 2 matches found.
"010110010011011011010": 2 matches found.
"101100100110110110100": 2 matches found.
"011001001101101101001": 2 matches found.
"011011011011001001101": 2 matches found.
"110110110110010011010": 2 matches found.
"010011011001001100110": 2 matches found.
"100101101100100100100": 2 matches found.
"001011011001001001001": 2 matches found.
"100110100110010110101": 2 matches found.
"001101001100101101010": 2 matches found.
"011010011001011010100": 2 matches found.
"110100110010110101001": 2 matches found.
"011011010101101101101": 2 matches found.
"011011001011001001001": 2 matches found.
"110110010110010010011": 2 matches found.
"101100101100100100110": 2 matches found.
"110010010010010100101": 2 matches found.
"0101010110001100101100": 2 matches found.
"1010101100011001011001": 3 matches found.
"0101011000110010110011": 3 matches found.
"1010110001100101100110": 3 matches found.
"0101100011001011001100": 2 matches found.
"1011000110010110011001": 2 matches found.
"0101100100110110110100": 2 matches found.
"1011001001101101101001": 2 matches found.
"0110110110110010011010": 2 matches found.
"1001011011001001001001": 2 matches found.
"1001101001100101101010": 2 matches found.
"0011010011001011010100": 2 matches found.
"0110100110010110101001": 2 matches found.
"0110110010110010010011": 2 matches found.
"1101100101100100100110": 2 matches found.
"01010101100011001011001": 2 matches found.
"10101011000110010110011": 3 matches found.
"01010110001100101100110": 3 matches found.
"10101100011001011001100": 2 matches found.
"01011000110010110011001": 2 matches found.
"01011001001101101101001": 2 matches found.
"10011010011001011010100": 2 matches found.
"00110100110010110101001": 2 matches found.
"01101100101100100100110": 2 matches found.
"010101011000110010110011": 2 matches found.
"101010110001100101100110": 3 matches found.
"010101100011001011001100": 2 matches found.
"101011000110010110011001": 2 matches found.
"100110100110010110101001": 2 matches found.
"0101010110001100101100110": 2 matches found.
"1010101100011001011001100": 2 matches found.
"0101011000110010110011001": 2 matches found.
"10101011000110010110011001": 2 matches found.
Looks like the new record is 26-bits. I'll locate them in the blocks next - just a bit late, I should probably get some sleep. :)
 
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