Your interlocutor in the other thread seemed to suggest that they were busy until mid-July or so. Perhaps you could take this into account when posting.
I agree that IEEE754 doubles was quite an unrealistic choice, and too easy. However, the other extreme of having a binary blob with no structure at all being manifest seems like it would not make for an interesting challenge. Ideally, there should be several layers of structure to be understood, like in the example of a “picture of an apple”, where understanding the file encoding is not the only thing one can do.
Your interlocutor in the other thread seemed to suggest that they were busy until mid-July or so. Perhaps you could take this into account when posting.
I agree that IEEE754 doubles was quite an unrealistic choice, and too easy. However, the other extreme of having a binary blob with no structure at all being manifest seems like it would not make for an interesting challenge. Ideally, there should be several layers of structure to be understood, like in the example of a “picture of an apple”, where understanding the file encoding is not the only thing one can do.
I have posted my file here https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/BMDfYGWcsjAKzNXGz/eavesdropping-on-aliens-a-data-decoding-challenge.