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Every ancient language that has ever been deciphered needed an anchor. Usually that’s a bilingual text, like the Rosetta Stone, or a known relative to compare it to. Linear A, the writing system of the Bronze Age Minoan civilization on the Greek island of Crete, has neither. Linear A is described as a “language isolate”

While working as a product tech lead at a startup, Rachit Kataria watched a multi-hundred-thousand-dollar enterprise account suddenly fall into jeopardy.  After pausing his entire engineering team’s workload for two weeks to ship a requested fix, he discovered the effort made no difference. The customer still threatened to churn. “We did a retro, and wouldn’t

Pangram, an A.I. detection start-up, promises near-perfect accuracy in sniffing out writing and imagery that wasn’t made by humans. It’s raising some big questions along the way.