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evilfredtoday at 7:11 PM2 repliesview on HN

this isn't an achievement, it's yet another amateur crank claiming he solved a famous puzzle, without a paper and without any critical review. many people have claimed to decode Linear A before. just because this guy used an LLM doesn't make it more credible


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foostertoday at 9:46 PM

"amateur crank claiming"

I don't know why you want to stoop to name calling which violates the guidelines and the spirit of this site.

"without any critical review" is also seemingly untrue: the post says Rutgers and Cambridge are reviewing it

Kosturdistantoday at 7:36 PM

He has a working draft of a manuscript that may form the basis of a scholarly article, it has been shared with experts, and there is an excerpt of the paper in my blog post. I have also seen and read the paper with my own 2 eyes, I can't publish it though, Tom wants to keep that under wraps while it's reviewed by linguistics experts.

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