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Where's the actual solution? I feel like I'm missing something because what I see is some plausible commentary about it and some interesting discussion of Latin
by fusiongyro 9y ago
Where's the actual solution? I feel like I'm missing something because what I see is some plausible commentary about it and some interesting discussion of Latin and ligatures but where's the actual decoding of the writing?
- tbrake 9y agoThe last two paragraphs direct how to decode but no fully decoded text is available. An exercise left to the reader I suppose.
- atemerev 9y agoThere is a sample decoding at the top of the article. Looks plausible.
- saalweachter 9y agoThe image at the top is a decoding of a couple of lines of text. The decoding yields extremely boring Latin, so I'm not terribly surprised if the investigator decided not to decode the entire document.
- quinndupont 9y agoThat's the curious thing: to an academic there's no such thing as "extremely boring Latin", especially when it comes to the Voynich. Why we're only given a tantalizing line is odd. Perhaps there is no single "universal" solution? Perhaps this is just a guess that happens to roughly work for a single line, but nothing else?
- fusiongyro 9y agoI agree. To claim a solution without writing out the whole thing so it can be analyzed in depth seems absurd to me. I'm also not convinced that the statistical analyses that have been thrown at it would fail to detect patterns of meaning that are obscured merely by abbreviation.
- CommieBobDole 9y agoAs I read it, the writing is un-decodable because it's not really "writing" in the conventional sense, it's recipes encoded using single-letter abbreviations, many of which require an index to decipher. No index is present, and the author surmises that it was never completed, or lost.
- hcs 9y agoI'm reminded of the work that was done to reverse engineer the Intel ME 11 [1], it was compressed with an unknown Huffman code which the team was nevertheless able to recover somehow. And that was with variable-length words! [1] http://blog.ptsecurity.com/2017/08/disabling-intel-me.html http://blog.ptsecurity.com/2017/08/disabling-intel-me.html
- unkown-unknowns 9y agoFrom your link: > In particular, MINIX was chosen as the basis for the operating system (previously, ThreadX RTOS had been used). Now ME firmware includes a full-fledged operating system [...] Woah, did I read that correctly? That there is a version of MINIX running inside of the Intel processors of presumably almost every modern computer with an Intel CPU that has Intel ME in it? If so then that's insanely cool! I mean I still dislike Intel ME itself and wish I could disable it easily and without risking damage/destruction but the idea of there being a version of MINIX running on my computer right now is quite cool.
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- singularity2001 9y agoA latin tramslation snipped is in the header: https://www.the-tls.co.uk/s3/tls-prod/uploads/2017/09/p16_Gibbs1.jpg https://www.the-tls.co.uk/s3/tls-prod/uploads/2017/09/p16_Gi... (not too convincing IMO)