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11:07 PM

I suggest having a look here : http://wordlist.sourceforge.net/ Its Kevin's Word List Page. This page contains links to various Word Lists and related information. Example of some of the wordlist are: SCOWL (Spell Checker Oriented Word Lists) Automatically Generated Inflection Database The Pa...

Chrome uses SCOWL.

user259867

@hichris123 Actually, it would be interesting to find gibberish non-words in SE posts, outside of code blocks.

user259867

Like repeating characters, but not necessarily repeating.

hichris123

huh

lemme take a look.

user259867

Of course, LaTeX markup also looks like gibberish from some point of view. But catwalk posts are usually lowercase letters, no punctuation. fgudrkbrbvxjh dhfbxgbvjh fdgvcnzc

hichris123

@FamousBlueRaincoat Well, look at the matches here: regex101.com/r/gK6hR4/1. And most of those matches could be markdown.

user259867

11:19 PM

> The script has halted execution as it exceeded a maximum execution time of 2s. This would likely occur when your expression results in what is known as catastrophic backtracking.

hichris123

Uh... it works fine here.

user259867

reminded me of balpha's video on this issue: vimeo.com/112065252

bjb568

same here

user259867

I'm using flimsy Wi-Fi in Panera Bread, so who knows what could go wrong.

user259867

Although the message suggests it's on server side.

user259867

11:22 PM

Or is the actual match client-side? Then the low-power Chromebook may be taking too long.

bjb568

Chromebook?

blargh

user259867

You don't like Chromebook, it does not like your regexes. Fair is fair.

Kevin Brown

mmm Panera, good food but terrible wifi (at least in my area)

Braiam

> They ran off with bundles of cords and wires, sticking out of their pockets as stars sticking out through the fabric of space-time. At the end of the railroad, where they opened up their sacks to view their loot, they were blinded by the sheer weight of feathers they swapped for bowling balls.

user259867

Regardless, I wasn't necessarily thinking of regex... more like overall appearance. There are some 2-letter combinations that don't normally appear in English, like zx or yj. If the post contains >N of them, it's a bad sign.

user259867

11:26 PM

There ought to be a table of frequencies of 2-character substrings in English somewhere.

hichris123

Good idea, but I think it would be tricky to implement.

user259867

Bigram frequency in the English language

user259867

"ur" is on the list of most common ones, thanks to @bjb568

bjb568