Re:Amateur may have cracked Linear A, a 120-year-old puzzle
by iwontberude on Saturday June 20, 2026 @07:01AM
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Actually it’s the flattening of achievement to be some guy, Claude or a combination of both when really it was neither.
Re:Amateur may have cracked Linear A, a 120-year-old puzzle
by ben_w on Saturday June 20, 2026 @12:40PM
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"Flattening of achievement" is true for the overwhelming majority of people named and revered for their genius. Shakespeare didn't invent many of his plot lines, Einstein used Lorentz' transform (amongst other things) etc.
As reported (I have no skin in this), Di Mino appears to have used Claude to write tool to perform statistical analysis to test an idea he had, and in such cases as this it seems to me fairer to praise the human using the machine than to praise a director for the films acted, filmed, written, and edited by others.
No human, individually or as a team, has been able to solve this to date.
To the extent this was Claude solving it itself and thus denying Di Mino any thunder, there was nobody to have stolen anything from. To the extent he has thunder to be stolen, it wasn't ever in Claude's possession.