I'm too lazy to look at the JS, do you happen to know what algorithm those tools use? Is it just naive maximum likelihood or something more interesting?
The writer of the comic in the article, Ryan North, also wrote The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl which is full of nerdy computer science puns. And many science-based solutions to problems our heroes encounter.
I highly recommend this series. You can read it on Marvel Unlimited, which has a free trial. I suggest reading on a tablet.
Holy smokes! I never read the comic that much, but I did read a book of short stories based around an idea from one of his comics: The Machine of Death. Highly recommended, it's rather good.
I’m going to watch wizard city this weekend with my four year old, during the pandemic we watched the whole series together. It’s amazing that we can both love the same show, and it’s given him a freaky sense of humor.
The Simon & Marcy episode is one of the saddest episodes of television, I cannot be convinced otherwise, and it may have ruined the Cheers theme song forever for me. Arguably my favorite TV series ever.
Adventure Time is funny because you have lighthearted stuff like "Mathematical!" or "Oh my Glob!" and then you have "fighting the physical manifestation of death, but the 'apocalyptic heat death' kind, not the 'grim reaper' kind, who also exists"
Fun fact: Russian translation of Dancing men is legitimately solvable, with messages being _in Russian_!
The translators had to butcher the characters' names and twist the deduction logic here and there — but it's still a marvel of localization work (especially given the languages, grammar and even alphabets being very different).
In this case, the solver was able to immediately decrypt both ciphertexts, with a single mistake in the characters name ("Margeline").