The Farnese letter

4 comments

• userbinator5 hours ago
  Mentally autocorrected the title to &quot;paypal cipher&quot; and got enticed to click...<p>More seriously, this looks like the context modeling that advanced compression algorithms do, but in reverse.<p><i>Recovering the key does not settle the text.</i><p>That said, the Claudish in this article is only slightly annoying.
• raphlinus4 hours ago
  I had a sense. Pangram identifies this as AI.
  • userbinator4 hours 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.
    • cryptonector27 minutes ago
      &gt; or the AI is improving.<p>I hope not.
• esafak4 hours ago
  I knew it was going to be cryptography. Everybody&#x27;s cracking something these days. See also: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=49738551">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=49738551</a>
• lubujackson5 hours ago
  Love this analysis!