23-02-2017, 10:01 AM
(This post was last modified: 23-02-2017, 12:12 PM by nickpelling.
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Where are the actual modern computer scientists who "would" say such a thing? I suspect there aren't any.
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Actually, the conclusion was first drawn by William Friedman: and (with my own computer scientist hat on) it's abundantly clear why that should be. Stolfi's word-generation paradigm is merely one of many attempts by computer scientists to algorithmically codify Voynichese.
My point in 2013, however, was quite the reverse: that nobody in the 15th century sat down and formed an abstract word-generation grammar.
Where are the actual modern computer scientists who "would" say such a thing? I suspect there aren't any.
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Actually, the conclusion was first drawn by William Friedman: and (with my own computer scientist hat on) it's abundantly clear why that should be. Stolfi's word-generation paradigm is merely one of many attempts by computer scientists to algorithmically codify Voynichese.
My point in 2013, however, was quite the reverse: that nobody in the 15th century sat down and formed an abstract word-generation grammar.