The Farnese letter

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27 points | by grigolin 1 day ago

4 comments

  • userbinator 1 hour ago
    Mentally autocorrected the title to "paypal cipher" and got enticed to click...

    More seriously, this looks like the context modeling that advanced compression algorithms do, but in reverse.

    Recovering the key does not settle the text.

    That said, the Claudish in this article is only slightly annoying.

  • raphlinus 59 minutes ago
    I had a sense. Pangram identifies this as AI.
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    • userbinator 34 minutes ago
      Definitely, although a bit less annoying to read than the usual level of Claudish, so it was either edited or the AI is improving.
  • esafak 22 minutes ago
    I knew it was going to be cryptography. Everybody's cracking something these days. See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49738551
  • lubujackson 1 hour ago
    Love this analysis!