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rsoto2 • yesterday at 7:19 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

You could likely "unlock" the manuscript yourself with a competent computer vision algorithm. It's nothing that fancy.


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Perseids • yesterday at 7:35 PM

Have you seen the manuscripts? Take a look at slide 10 of https://aitp-conference.org/2026/slides/JvP.pdf [1]. On slide 12 you can at least make out a few words (even before reading the English translation I could clearly read "Jede" and "Systems ist berechenbar"), but any part of the shorthand is completely unrecognizable. Also take a look at slide 6 that shows a bunch of word transcriptions in the shorthand. If I understood the article correctly, you have to intimately know the math involved to have any chance of decoding the content, as there is a lot of interpretation involved.

If one could wish for a best case publishing, I would like to have the page scans side by side with the German reading side by side with the English translation with running commentary by the research group.

[1] via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50487434 , thanks empath75

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