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Significant Breakthrough in Quest to Decipher Voynich Manuscript
- taneliv 9y agoThe actual ACL article: https://transacl.org/ojs/index.php/tacl/article/download/821/174 https://transacl.org/ojs/index.php/tacl/article/download/821...
- eesmith 9y agoWhen this came up yesterday, I thought rspeer's comment was the most insightful, at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16241656 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16241656 . > "he ran this somewhat anachronistic model and it told him that the text was a good statistical match for being in... Esperanto. He threw this prediction out on the basis that it makes absolutely no sense. You'd think this would be the first sign that the model did not fit the data. > The #2 prediction was Modern Hebrew ...