how to use voynich ninja/ weekly voynich video chat

[oshfdk]

Unless someone remembers a particular thread at the right moment, or someone successfully uses the limited search function (which presupposes knowing the exact term that was used in advance).

If there is a text/markup only dump of the forum available with thread/post ids, I think it's nowadays not very hard or very costly to create an embeddings based search, that would find relevant posts or threads based on semantical requests (no remembering of exact keywords required).

If you have a relatively powerful GPU (for example, a M1 MacBook), the pre computation of vectors can be done locally and then the search queries can be processed on a low end Linux server. This won't automatically cover new posts, but could provide a way to go through old threads on a given topic.

If needed, maybe I can help with the pre computation part, I think I can spend some time on this in the second half of May.

[oshfdk]

And for collaboration, I suggest recurring video meetings, i understood there were 100s of people attending online last voynich day. Could potentially be highjacked by people with solveritis, but could also be valuable in making it less individualistic and more collaborative

Do we have a jitsi or zoom where we could organise a "more casual get together" on a more frequent basis?

I don't want to come across as rude, just genuinely curious: why do you think there is a need for tighter collaboration?

[RobGea]

Wiki - fandom wiki - You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. - no idea who runs it or how good content is

Solutions - curated thread - You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. - idk of anyone who has their own list of solutions

Blogs - VN Blogosphere reader - You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. - most blogs are currently on hiatus or discontinued

Software - You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. - voynich_nu page with links to IVTT and BITRANS

Tags n stuff - You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. think you would have to write a plugin / extension and submit it

[Koen G]

We once tried to establish a wiki on the forum and it didn't work at all. People underestimate how much effort these things take. And especially, you need a certain critical mass of content before it becomes attractive.

I do see a lot of potential in a curated thread with links though. This can be in categories to make it easy to navigate.

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When it comes to the technical / web hosting part of the forum, that's all David Jackson.

[davidd]

Tags n stuff - You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. think you would have to write a plugin / extension and submit it

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didnt test it myself off course

[Bluetoes101]

You can download from - You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.
Depends what you are using it for, but personally I just use Voynich Voyager

I think if you held one of these proposed meetings you probably wouldn't want to do another one.. 
Lots of people on here are pretty chill, have spent a long time with the MS and read many works by others, however some (usually fleeting visitors) are.. not these things. Personally I ain't sitting through 30mins of why Tiktok is going to get taken over by swirls caused by the manuscripts aura, or how plants represent galaxy's discovered 2 weeks ago  

There has to be a bit of management of these things for a number of reasons and it takes time

[davidd]

Software - You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. - voynich_nu page with links to IVTT and BITRANS

wget -r -l 2 --accept-regex "bitrans" You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. 
works to get all the files, but ivtt subdir is behind a .htaccess, gives 403.

I'll just download the .c file but could be more userfriendly. As a developer myself I can understand Rene is not interested in providing user support, software provided "as is" etc. a zipfile would have been nice.

[ReneZ]

Actually coding in C just to make it generally usable was already way outside my comfort zone 

[ReneZ]

Rene's website You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. is the closest we have to something like this. But it is also quite sprawling,

... as sprawling as its topic....

Like I said, there is no short way to learn a lot about the MS text, and there is still much more than I have been able to include.

[bi3mw]

ivtt subdir is behind a .htaccess, gives 403.

You can copy and paste the listing.
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Compilation works without any problems.