The Voynich Manuscript’s positional entropy collapse

[eggyk]

5. You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.. Cited for the claim that "character distributions at word boundaries differ markedly from those in medial positions, with medial transitions exhibiting especially high predictability." I have not been able to consult the article and make no claim about everything it contains. What can be established is how the field cites it.

Why include a reference in this list if you haven't read it yet? You say you make no claims about everything it contains, but are then quite happy to add it to the list as "used for claims their sources do not support ". 

All of this is checkable in a few minutes by anyone with the volumes to hand, and all of it is correctable in an erratum. I make no claim here about the paper's methodology or its conclusions; that is a separate discussion, and I may come back to it.

Is it? Sure, the incorrect references can be checked more easily, but checking your analysis of the conclusions of all of the reports cannot. Statements like this are not exactly straightforward to check:

Across transcription conventions: they state that conditional entropy is to some extent affected by how characters are divided, and give the -iin case (three characters in EVA, one in Currier). Their claim is that character division cannot lower entropy to Voynich levels, which is a different and narrower statement.

I agree with Rafal that if your access was a free preprint version of the paper, it would have been far more friendly to raise issues privately so they could be solved without this public criticism. And frankly, if we are going to treat voynich ninja as an official forum for raising these issues, perhaps it would also be prudent to declare the use of AI for the writing and phrasing of those posts when applicable. Just throwing it out there.