Babbage explored (in the paper & ink era!) many of the
issues raised in the Dark Mode thread. There is a book of
mathematical tables in the Science Museum in London, which
he had printed with varying type colours on varying paper
colours. His objective was to see what combination was
most reliably readable. I don't remember his conclusion,
and unfortunately I haven't been able to find an image
online.
Ian:
Babbage explored (in the paper & ink era!) many of the
issues raised in the Dark Mode thread. There is a book of
mathematical tables in the Science Museum in London, which
he had printed with varying type colours on varying paper
colours. His objective was to see what combination was
most reliably readable. I don't remember his conclusion,
and unfortunately I haven't been able to find an image
online.
At least we know what to look for:
Specimen of logarithmic tables
printed with different coloured inks
on variously coloured papers
recently (1988) published in issue 3, volume 10,
of /Annals of the History of Computing/.
See also:
Babbage's Guidelines for the Design of Mathematical Notations:
<https://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~dirk/dutzSchlimm2021-AM-babbage_guidelines.pdf>
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Ian:
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How long till AI becomes cheap enough for spammers to employ
it for unmunging such riddles?
Anton Shepelev <anton.txt@gmail.moc> writes:
Ian:
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How long till AI becomes cheap enough for spammers to employ
it for unmunging such riddles?
I couldn't figure out the riddle in question here. I'd take my hat to
any intelligence that can.
Salvador Mirzo <smirzo@example.com> wrote:
Anton Shepelev <anton.txt@gmail.moc> writes:
Ian:
*********** To reply by e-mail, make w single in address ************** >>>How long till AI becomes cheap enough for spammers to employ
it for unmunging such riddles?
I couldn't figure out the riddle in question here. I'd take my hat to
any intelligence that can.
Their email has two 'u' characters, so I think you're meant to read
that as a 'w' (this might be more obvious with some fonts than
others). Then in the riddle to "make w single" means to "make w a
single character", so "uu" becomes "w".
The w-ified domain resolves and has an MX record so it can receive
email (seen with command: "dig [domain] mx"), unlike the original.
So that's my guess.
not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) writes:
Salvador Mirzo <smirzo@example.com> wrote:
Anton Shepelev <anton.txt@gmail.moc> writes:
Ian:
*********** To reply by e-mail, make w single in address ************** >>>>How long till AI becomes cheap enough for spammers to employ
it for unmunging such riddles?
I couldn't figure out the riddle in question here. I'd take my hat to
any intelligence that can.
Their email has two 'u' characters, so I think you're meant to read
that as a 'w' (this might be more obvious with some fonts than
others). Then in the riddle to "make w single" means to "make w a
single character", so "uu" becomes "w".
The w-ified domain resolves and has an MX record so it can receive
email (seen with command: "dig [domain] mx"), unlike the original.
So that's my guess.
You're brilliant!
If you are a computer program, I take not just my hat to you, but
would be happy to buy you a cup of coffee, if you could care
about it. :)
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