GPT and the Voynich. Code! Not a solution!

[Dunsel]

Why don't you just learn how to do this analysis on your own and apply it to the Voynich? In the end, it'll be more reliable and you will have more control. It's harder than typing a bunch of prompts, but it's very rewarding.

tldr;  Riding a horse is very rewarding.  But there's a reason why we own cars.


1979 - TI99 - Learned to program it, useless now.
1980 - TRS-80 Mod 1.  Learned BASIC, useless now.
1981 - Apple 2c - Learned BASIC, useless now.
1981 - Commodore Vic 20 - POKE'd and PEEK'd my way to learning CBasic - Way dead.
1982 - PDP-1170 - Learned Pascal, mostly useless now (I still write in Lazaras for my own apps.)
1983 - Commodore SX64 - Commodore Basic - You see where I'm going here?
1985 - Amiga-500 - Learned Amiga basic.  Wayyyy useless now.
1986 - 386SX-16 - Learned Turbo pascal while running a Fido-Net BBS.  Useless now.
1987 - Discovered pipe delimited flat files!
~1990 - 486 - Learned Borland Pascal for Windows.  Mostly useless (see Pascal above)
~2010 - AMD Phenom Black - Learned C# (enough to hack out code) - Not useless but see no use for it now.
~2012 - AMD Phenom Black - Learned PHP. Still use it and I'm pretty decent at Wordpress Plugins.  But, it's a dying language.
~2013 - Discovered MySQL - Still use it with PHP but it'll be sitting on the bench soon enough.

* dates are approximate.

So, as you can see I've had a lot of 'rewarding' adventures in writing code.  And you can see how useful most of them are now.  

The world now revolves around the FOTM code, which today is python.

I am 61 years old. While I can read Python and mostly follow it's logic, I am not going to learn it's syntax because I'm too old and don't have room in my head for yet another coding language.  That, and I'll likely be dead before I grasp it well enough before it falls out of favor for the next great FOTM language.

However, Alzheimer's hasn't set in yet and I still can learn pretty quick.  Not as quick but pretty quick.

That being said, I have no college degree, I don't have the money to get one, and if I did have the money, by the time I get a PhD in computational linguistics, I'd be too old to even see the computer screen.

So, let me sum it up this way.  I'm using AI for a reason.  There's an old coder's axiom.  "When the only tool you have is a hammer, everything begins to look like a nail."  I'm not so old that I can't figure out how to use a nail-gun.  Hammers.... mostly useless now.

Edit: However, I don't seem to be immune to shooting myself in the foot with one upon occasion.

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