Cracking the Voynich Code 2022 weekly progress

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Weekly Progress

Week 1

Reilly

  • Background research into work of previous students

Greg

  • Background research into academic background of the Voynich Manuscript

Week 2

Reilly

  • First meeting with supervisor
  • Begin planning project and first deliverable: Project Management Plan

Greg

  • First meeting with supervisor
  • Begin planning project and first deliverable: Project Management Plan

Week 3

Reilly

  • Set up GitHub repository
  • Set up Dropbox for shared documents
  • Expand background and objectives sections of Project Management Plant
  • Create Work Breakdown Structure

Greg

  • Create Project Management Plan
  • Detail project background, objectives, deliverables of plan
  • Create project Gantt chart

Week 4

Reilly

  • Setup Wiki
  • Plan and allocate first body of work
  • Start designing text formatter

Greg

  • Plan and allocate first body of work

Week 5

Reilly

  • Explore transcript sources and EVA character meanings
  • Complete formatter design and write up GitHub readme justifying design
  • Develop basic text formatter

Greg

  • Learn Git and GitHub

Week 6

Reilly

  • Solidify upcoming tasks

Greg

  • Outline new plan for upcoming tasks
  • Preliminary reading for transcription automation

Break 1

Reilly

  • Started Introduction and relevant literature review and for the report
  • Investigation into potential other approaches for differentating numbers and prose

Greg

  • Psuedo code for HMM approach
  • Implemented code to determine transition and emission probabilities
  • Started write-up for relevant literature review and methodology sections

Break 2

Reilly

  • Too busy with assignments so little progress was made this week

Greg

  • Continued work on characteriser code
  • Continued work on HMM code, currently experimenting with online libraries but can switch to a manual approach

Week 7

Reilly

  • Naive anagram approach using word permutations (9+ hour runtime)
  • More sensible anagram approach using character matching

Greg

  • Too busy with assignments so little progress was made this week

Week 8

Reilly

  • Improved anagram code by filtering duplicate entries and adding character profiling (alongside word profiling)
  • Ran anagram code on common European language translations of UNDHR

Greg

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