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Nearly Sane

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The Voynich Manuscript
« on: January 08, 2017, 10:50:37 PM »
Not a Robert Ludlum novel, much more interesting


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

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Re: The Voynich Manuscript
« Reply #1 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.
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Re: The Voynich Manuscript
« Reply #2 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.

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Re: The Voynich Manuscript
« Reply #3 on: September 09, 2017, 06:45:00 AM »

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Re: The Voynich Manuscript
« Reply #4 on: September 09, 2017, 05:59:28 PM »
Seems plausible enough.
Ah, but I was so much older then ... I'm younger than that now