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I could image those seemingly-pointless patterns to be some sort of anonymous (since noone knows who the receiver is) steganographically-protected messaging. Well, I'm not serious.


That's an interesting idea. Who is looking at market data for secret codes?

I love a good conspiracy theory :)


Yes, I too thought it was similar to a numbers station.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numbers_station


Perhaps someone has a system that evolves bots by mutation, and these patterns are just the effects of 'bad' mutations. I'm not serious either, though.




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