时差N小时 神奇的字符串(下)

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 An Australian computer scientist named Brendan McKay set out recently to demonstrate that the same thing can be done with any long book. He applied¹ Drosnin’s observational selection technique to Moby Dick and produced such eerie² phrases as “M L King” next to “To be shot by them” and “Princess Di” next to “mortal in the jaws³ of death.” So by throwing away all the strings⁴ that spell nothing, you can just wait until eventually a coincidence comes along. That’s the error of observational selection.

一个叫做Brendan McKay的澳大利亚计算机科学家最近证明从任何书都能组成神奇的字符串。他把Drosnin的观测选择技术应用到《Moby Dick》书中，产生了怪诞的短语“M L王”，紧挨着短语“被他们枪毙”。“公主迪”紧挨着短语“死亡魔爪下的道德”。所以抛弃所有没有意思的字符串，你耐心等待直到形成新的组合即可。这就是观测选择的缺点。