Generated collection — where it appears
Named by 6 essays across 4 fields — each of them below, with the objects they name alongside it.
What the generated collection was right about
Five strands of conclusions, drawn on collections made by one line with one dial, checked against a corpus nobody made. Most hold. One headline was a property of the generator's alphabet, and one crossing that was guessed at turns out to be met — but only with the structure the strand on range minima built.
A corpus that was not generated
Every collection in five strands has been copies of a generated text with a fraction of its characters replaced — three numbers, one dial. Here is one that was not — twelve essays, eight source modules, ten revisions of one file — measured beside the model of it.
Documents that are not the same length
A separator per document costs a whole bit per character — on a generated collection whose alphabet is 21 symbols, where adding a few crosses 32. Real prose has 87 symbols and sits 41 short of the next power of two, so the same separators cost 0.04%.
The shape of a real history's depth
Four essays here are about capping how far an extraction follows a chain of copies, and every number in them came from a generated collection. Here is the depth histogram of a real version history, which is a bell, and of twelve unrelated essays, which is nearly the same bell.
The cap that would ship
The published sweep put the knee at four to eight. On four real collections it is at nine to twelve, a cap of one costs forty-eight times the free parse rather than twenty-one, and the number a system should actually set is none of those.
The dial that has no setting
The generator has one parameter. The real version history's run count asks it for 2.3% and its phrase count asks for 3.2% — and the reason is not that the dial is badly calibrated. Real edits average 7.3 characters a block and generated ones average 1.04.
Named alongside it
The objects these essays reach for when they reach for this one.
CorpusControlMeasurementPhrase countVersion historyIndex sizeAlphabetDepthDocument collectionDocument listingExtractionModel