Hypervector Analysis of the Voynich Manuscript

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Wanted to share this reference with the group.  It is cited in the Kanerva lecture slide deck linked to Darrin’s fuller discussion.

If I am reading this correctly, a hypervector built from some trigrams statistics will only match well (small cosine distance) other vectors built from similar trigrams statistics (for the same trigrams). This will not work at all with an arbitrary choice of letters to represent a language (i.e. a permutation of the alphabet or simple substitution of another alphabet). For Voynichese, no one is arguing that EVA (or CUVA etc.) matches the actual letters that the writer had in mind (if any). Every natural language theorist uses a different mapping.