Jeffrey Shallit has commented on his blog about UD’s 500-heads-in-a-row series (see here, here and here).  In his comment Shallit demonstrates that after all these years he remains clueless about even the basic ABCs of design theory. Before we get to Shallit’s Romper Room errors, let me congratulate him on getting at least something right.  He refers to the concept of Kolmogorov complexity and writes: If the string is compressible (as 500 consecutive H’s would be) then one can reject the chance hypothesis with high confidence; if the string is, as far as we can see, incompressible, we cannot. Here Shallit agrees with our own Granville Sewell, who wrote in comment 4 to my “Jerad’s DDS” post: The reason why 500 … Continue reading Jeffrey Shallit Demonstrates Again That He is Clueless About Even Very Basic Design Concepts