The Voynich Manuscript: Understanding the Untranslatable with Lisa Fagin Davis

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When you apply any metric to an unknown text, you will always find a closest match. But a closest match is not an identification.

I agree. That's some weakness of statistical tool and models. They will always give you something - closest language, consonant and vowels, groups of similar words that behave in the same way, sections and places where "topic" changes etc. Are they real or just statistical artifacts is another story.

My belief, after spending some time on this forum, is that currently existing statistical models are unable to tell real language with meaningful information from structured gibberish. 

I haven't listen to Lisa podcast but if actually she said some stuff then some criticism of Thorsten is justified.

On the other hand, sorry to say that but it feels a bit too intensive. Thorsten, I like your autocitation theory but please don't become a psychofan of Lisa