I'm Matt. I live in Seattle with my partner Rachel and two cats who run the place. Professionally I build machine learning systems. Unprofessionally I fall into rabbit holes and build things at the bottom.
This site is where I keep everything. Papers, side projects that usually start as "I wonder if..." and sometimes turn into something, and writing about whatever I'm thinking about at the time.
Latest Post
All posts →What I Think the Voynich Manuscript Is (and Isn't)
I spent months running computational analysis on the world's most mysterious book. Here's what the data says, and what it doesn't.
Latest Paper
All papers →The Voice But Not the Song: A Shorthand Hypothesis and the Statistical Fingerprint of the Voynich Manuscript
Matthew Ruckman
Computational analysis of the Voynich Manuscript identifying Italian syllabic tachygraphy as the encoding mechanism most consistent with its statistical fingerprint, with 56 permutation-validated signal words and partial decodings.