An amateur says he cracked Linear A with Claude Code. Skeptics count the characters (aiclambake.com)
A self-taught engineer built Python tooling to cross-reference the digitized Minoan corpus and proposes Linear A is an extinct Semitic language, ancestor to Hebrew. The post says experts at Rutgers and Cambridge are reviewing it.
A Greek computer scientist in the thread invoked Shannon: deciphering an unknown script in an unknown language with no parallel text isn't hard, it's underdetermined. With a corpus this thin, you can endlessly generate plausible 'translations' and never know which is right.
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