"Why do humans, pets, and even lab animals of many species kept in controlled lab conditions on standardized diets appear to be increasingly obese over the 20th century? What could possibly explain all of them simultaneously becoming obese?" "Why does writing in the morning (anecdotally so far) seem to be so effective for writers, even … Continue reading Open Questions – Gwern.net
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Artificial Intelligence May Have Cracked Freaky 600-Year-Old [Voynich] Manuscript
"The first step was to figure out the language of the ciphered text...the AI analyzed the Voynich gibberish, concluding with a high rate of certainty that the text was written in encoded Hebrew... For the second step, the researchers entertained a hypothesis proposed by previous researchers—that the script was created with alphagrams...Armed with the knowledge … Continue reading Artificial Intelligence May Have Cracked Freaky 600-Year-Old [Voynich] Manuscript
The Solution to the Voynich Manuscript | Nicholas Gibbs
The solution to the Voynich Manuscript is a really interesting example of the power of scholarship and subject specialization. Edit: A week after it was published, this "solution" was debunked. I missed the follow-up. Perhaps the lesson here is how difficult it can be to untangle these kinds of puzzles.
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