[Article] Decoding Anagrammed Texts Written in an Unknown Language and Script

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He dismissed those who are skeptical by saying: "I don't think they are friendly to this kind of research," he said. "People may be fearing that the computers will replace them."

I think he's completely misinterpreting the skepticism.

It has nothing to do with fear of computers replacing people... the problem is people who claim solutions without showing the details of how they got from A to C. Without that information, it's an empty claim.


The technology he's developing is very interesting and potentially useful for historians and linguists but, unfortunately, there's very little information about how the first sentence was "decoded". How much is revealed and how much was subjectively interpreted? It's quite an awkward sentence.