Matt RuckmanPapers
Pre-prints, prints, supplementaries, deeper dive stuff and the occasional thing I'm still arguing with myself about. Mostly I put them here so anyone who wants to check the work can.
Calibrated Falsification of Prior Dorabella Decryptions: A Negative Result on Substitution-Consistency and Language Identification
A calibration-first falsification pipeline applied to Edward Elgar's 1897 Dorabella Cipher. The Packwood (2020) reading fails strict substitution-consistency (one symbol encoding eight different letters), and matched-budget simulated annealing cannot demonstrate Italian as the plaintext language (z = −1.23). Proposes substitution-consistency as the minimum standard for length-matched strict-substitution claims.
A Physics-Informed Neural ODE for Non-Parametric Dark Energy Reconstruction: Methodology and Application to DESI DR2
A physics-informed neural ODE reconstructs the dark energy equation of state w(z) non-parametrically from DESI DR2, supernovae, Planck, and cosmic chronometers, with Feldman–Cousins-calibrated significance. Headline: w(1.0) ≈ −1.18 at ~1σ, reported as a method demonstration with a marginal hint, not a detection.
The Dictionary Collision Effect in Computational Decipherment
A four-category token classifier separates genuine signal from dictionary-induced noise in computational decipherment. Six correction methods compared across 252 cells; only the four-category framework correctly flags wrong-language evaluations as noise.
The Voice But Not the Song: A Shorthand Hypothesis and the Statistical Fingerprint of the Voynich Manuscript
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.