Re: VMs: Overfitting the Data

[Dennis <tsalagi@xxxxxxxx>]

elvogt@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Zitat von Dennis <tsalagi@xxxxxxxx>:

> > 	The Firth paradigm is an interesting subset of Voynichese, 
> > accounting for about 80% of the characters in the VMs.
> >
> > http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~stolfi/voynich/mirror/reeds/firth/24.txt
>
> Does anybody know, did the Firth p. lead to any results?

	Not so far as I know.  Robert Firth himself didn't do 
anymore with it, as I recall.   It goes further than the 
Tiltman paradigm but is still simple.

	The idea that the prefix and suffix components might be the 
elements of a Trithemian cipher hasn't been pursued, except 
that it may be implicit in some of Nick's ideas.
> Cheers,
>
>    Elmar, quite happy that we seem to be turning back to actually trying to 
> crack the ciphers :-)

	I agree!

Dennis

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