(07-07-2026, 06:12 PM)Aga Tentakulus wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.(07-07-2026, 05:35 PM)Jorge_Stolfi wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.and the fact that they were compiled by the same Author and penned by the same Scribe.
If that were actually the case, the colour of the ink and the hand might change, but not the style of writing, as there is, after all, only one author.
Some things can be seen but not calculated.
Keep your eyes off the computer screen.
@Aga Tentakulus,
The thing is the human eye is just an analytical tool, exactly like statistics or algorithms.
One doesn't necessarily exclude the other.
In fact, I could argue that the eye can be easily fooled too, especially since we aren't looking at the real manuscript, we are looking at a digital photograph.
The pixels making up that high-resolution image are just another form of standardization, exactly like the Takahashi transcription or any other text file. They are both simply tools that digitize and standardize the original information.
If we take the 'purist' route of keeping computers out of it, we'd have to toss out almost every visual analysis out there unless the researcher is physically sitting in the Beinecke Library, next to VMS.
Algorithms don't replace human intuition, they just help us quantify the visual patterns you're pointing out, to make sure they aren't just optical illusions or scribal noise.
At the end of the day, they're all just tools.

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