Well, what a letdown those answers were.
I solved the rot-n one by sucking up an English word dictionary and seeing if the four longest words were in there. Ok, not particularly AI I suppose.
I could have got the strip question by doing it manually but I wanted to at least try to solve it using programming. In the end the effort seemed too great so I let it pass me by and waited to see what the gurus came up with.
Prof Norvig utterly sidestepped the programming with statements like "you can probably get a good result with letter trigrams or some such" Dude. Put your money where your mouth is an SOLVE THE DAMMNED PROBLEM instead of doing more professorial hand waving.
Not impressed.
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