05-05-2014, 08:53 AM | #1 |
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Voynich Manuscript
Could probably go into any Ultratech discussion, but give quantam computers are as much a THS thing.
Could quantam computers decode (or disprove the possibity of decoding the Voynich Manuscript. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voynich_manuscript Then I just need to think of an adventure where this could be interesting. |
05-05-2014, 09:19 AM | #2 | |
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The Voynich manuscript would not have been created using any particularly complicated mathemati9cal scheme (by modern standards of complicated at least..So there's no mathematical problem to solve. Unless there are Space Aliens involved somehow. :) Mostly it just looks like another unknown language with no way to get started on translating it. Perhaps something like Egyptian hieroglyphs before the discovery of the Rosetta Stone.
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05-05-2014, 09:29 AM | #3 | |
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http://www.livescience.com/43542-voy...s-cracked.html http://www.theverge.com/2014/2/28/54...k-in-the-world So any computer would have to be able to do linguistics in order to translate (as opposed to "decode") the text. |
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05-05-2014, 11:26 AM | #4 |
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Re: Voynich Manuscript
Human annalists are still much better at complex pattern recognition than any program at the moment.
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05-05-2014, 12:31 PM | #5 | |
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05-05-2014, 01:15 PM | #6 | |
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Switching to a different codebook, or using a different encryption algorithm in an existing computerised communication system is trivial by comparison. |
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05-05-2014, 01:21 PM | #7 | |
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05-05-2014, 02:22 PM | #8 | |
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The other thing about the code talkers is that they predate computers. A code that can be broken by a modern computer in an hour may be functionally unbreakable at TL 7 or lower. Last edited by Anthony; 05-05-2014 at 02:32 PM. |
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05-05-2014, 02:38 PM | #9 |
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Re: Voynich Manuscript
You're probably thinking of the Navajo "codetalkers" deployed to the Pacific theater during WWII. It was pretty effective, but it worked because we had a ready-made body of native speakers of an obscure language. We did not try to train up recruits who didn't already speak Navajo to do the job. It was a nice bit of improvisation during wartime because we happened to have enough members of an ethnic minority speaking a language hardly studied outside of the US at the time to form a viable corps of signals personnel, but it's not a viable general or long-term strategy.
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05-05-2014, 02:46 PM | #10 |
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Re: Voynich Manuscript
In the US it actually dates back to some Chocktaw code talkers in WWI (Hitler apparently knew about that and sent some anthropologists to learn Native American languages; a few Comanche were used during the Normandy invasion, but it wasn't as heavily used as the Navajo in the Pacific theater).
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