The Farnese letter

ggrigolin 1 day ago 5 commentsRead Article on simonklee.dk

Discussion Sentiment

33% Positive

Analyzed from 81 words in the discussion.

Discussion (5 Comments)Read Original on HackerNews

userbinator•about 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•about 1 hour ago

I had a sense. Pangram identifies this as AI.

userbinator•28 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•17 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•about 2 hours ago

Love this analysis!