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Re:Codebreaker Cracks 135 Year Old Message [video] by nneonneo on Tuesday January 02, 2024 @12:38AM (#38838511)
Academic paper with far more detail, including the decoding of all messages here: https://canwin-datahub.ad.umanitoba.ca/data/publication/brea...
Re:Codebreaker Cracks 135 Year Old Message [video] by e28eta on Tuesday January 02, 2024 @01:04AM (#38838642)
Places where the author notes a mismatch between the “correct” word and the word on the paper, I wish they’d presented the morse code difference too. Otherwise, pretty interesting!
Re:Codebreaker Cracks 135 Year Old Message [video] by nneonneo on Tuesday January 02, 2024 @01:54AM (#38838925)
It's clear that the author of the pieces of paper knew several words to be incorrect: "lisstd" (should be "linnet"), "piped" (should be "biped") and "meraccous" (should be "meracious") have little x's under them (the cross under "piped" is specifically under the first "p"); while "tertal" (should be tergal), "palm" (should be "bank"), and "dsrch" (should be "duck") are all underlined.
Re:Codebreaker Cracks 135 Year Old Message [video] by e28eta on Tuesday January 02, 2024 @04:58PM (#38847661)
Maybe they looked into it and found it wasn’t super relevant nor interesting, but while reading the paper I found myself wondering about the “edit distances” in those typos.

Ex: ‘e’ is dot, ‘t’ is dash; making a /t/e/ substitution seem very plausible, and my hypothesis is that including that extra layer of info would be interesting. I didn’t go through all the others, and would also be willing to believe it’s a dead end.