Watched a recent youtube veritasium on the enigma machine and was curious on how JEV would do in regards to the analysts calls made at Bletchley's. I rebuilt the historical sequence into the software ux. Results were a mixed, which is what made it interesting. Given the right crib, the Bombe breaks 22 of 25 messages; ciphertext-only against 10 plugs, 0 of 25, same wall Bletchley hit. As a judge of "is this decryption German?" Jev is excellent: AUC 0.9999, 159/160 right decisions. As a crib selector it has no skill at all; its ranking is no better than the fixed list. Against XGBoost an classi…

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I watched the excellent Veritasium video [1] on the Enigma machine, and watched the full animation by Jared Owen [2], but was still a bit confused on how the inner mechanics of an Enigma machine work. I used Astra to build out the inner components through a combination of reference images, writing out hundreds of extremely detailed prompts, and building my own inspection tools to ensure that every part is sized and positioned in a historically accurate way. It's still a work in progress, but would love any feedback on the experience so far! 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsBZOcqZerk 2. ht…

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I watched the excellent Veritasium video [1] on the Enigma machine, and watched the full animation by Jared Owen [2], but was still a bit confused on how the inner mechanics of an Enigma machine work. I used Astra to build out the inner components through a combination of reference images, writing out hundreds of extremely detailed prompts, and building my own inspection tools to ensure that every part is sized and positioned in a historically accurate way. It's still a work in progress, but would love any feedback on the experience so far! 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsBZOcqZerk 2. ht…

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