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Title: The Voynich Manuscript
Post by: Nearly Sane on January 08, 2017, 10:50:37 PM

Not a Robert Ludlum novel, much more interesting


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voynich_manuscript

Title: Re: The Voynich Manuscript
Post by: Shaker on January 08, 2017, 11:54:46 PM

When you posted the link earlier about the Phaistos Disc, the Voynich Manuscript was the first thing that popped into my head.

Title: Re: The Voynich Manuscript
Post by: torridon on January 09, 2017, 06:37:25 AM

Intriguing item. If noone has decrypted it yet maybe a deep learning approach could step up to the mark. We already have neural nets that can be trained to recognise handwritten script without reference to a particular language, although deriving an unknown grammar from an unknown vocabulary from unknown script is going to be a big challenge.

Title: Re: The Voynich Manuscript
Post by: Nearly Sane on September 09, 2017, 06:45:00 AM

The solution?

https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/voynich-manuscript-solution/

Title: Re: The Voynich Manuscript
Post by: Udayana on September 09, 2017, 05:59:28 PM

Seems plausible enough.