[Movie] Voynich Talk E3: Why your Voynich theory is wrong (pt1)

[Koen G]

I just uploaded the first part of the third episode of Voynich Talk!
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It is aimed at a broad audience, and attempts to tackle the issues with substitution ciphers in a way the layman can understand. I made this because I feel like there is a bit of a chasm between people who understand the statistics of Voynichese well (like many here on the forum) and those who don't. Bridging this gap is not an easy task, because concepts like conditional entropy can feel overwhelming to the mathematically impaired (it took me quite some time to understand it myself).

My hope is that next time someone exclaims "it's been solved", we can just have them watch a 12 minute video. This first part is all about the entropy problem, other issues may be tackled in subsequent parts.

I did put in a lot of effort in trying to up my video editing game, so I hope it is a bit entertaining for experienced researchers as well. In one scene I animated the crossbow, and there's a joke about corn.

Enjoy!