Comments on: The Other Codex http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/22/the-other-codex/ In a mad world, all blogging is psychiatry blogging Fri, 24 Jul 2015 06:54:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.3 By: Nancy Lebovitz http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/22/the-other-codex/#comment-126518 Sat, 26 Jul 2014 17:37:22 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=2461#comment-126518 I thought there were European languages for which only one text existed, but a fast search hasn’t turned up any examples.

Supposing that there is such a language with only one or a few texts, it’s embedded in a cultural context– it’s related to other languages, and it’s about human beings on our familiar planet. The texts have been studied.

My assumption is that those texts wouldn’t be a great starting point for a hard-to-decipher language.

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]]> By: Doug S. http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/22/the-other-codex/#comment-126511 Sat, 26 Jul 2014 17:11:01 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=2461#comment-126511 Let’s try a slightly different question.

How cryptographically secure is a foreign, unknown language? For example, suppose you landed on an alien planet and found a library of (text-only) books written in Klingon – and you don’t know any Klingon, you’ve never met a Klingon, you’ve never even heard of a Klingon, and, of course, you don’t have any Klingons around to interact with. All you’ve got is all the Klingon text you could ever want. Could you decipher any of it?

Alternatively, could modern codebreaking techniques have deciphered the messages sent by the Navajo code talkers of World War II without using any prior knowledge of the Navajo language?

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]]> By: resultado da lotofacil http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/22/the-other-codex/#comment-126468 Sat, 26 Jul 2014 14:31:05 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=2461#comment-126468 muito bom a questão abordada!

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]]> By: pedro http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/22/the-other-codex/#comment-126467 Sat, 26 Jul 2014 14:29:04 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=2461#comment-126467 muito legal o seu post!

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]]> By: Nancy Lebovitz http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/22/the-other-codex/#comment-126251 Fri, 25 Jul 2014 21:48:30 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=2461#comment-126251 “Bingo cards” is one of the things that annoys me in these discussions– they’re an implied claim that only one side keeps saying the same things.

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]]> By: nydwracu http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/22/the-other-codex/#comment-126250 Fri, 25 Jul 2014 21:35:17 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=2461#comment-126250 look at us! we’re a thede! we have injokes! we’re a ‘we’! we’re so much of a ‘we’ you guys check this out here’s an injoke! and then another injoke! and then another injoke! we sure do get these things don’t we! we we we we we

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]]> By: Anonymous http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/22/the-other-codex/#comment-126236 Fri, 25 Jul 2014 19:44:59 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=2461#comment-126236 This is the sort of tripe I’m talking about. Not even trying to be funny, but instead repeating the same cliche phrases to the point where it’s beyond dull. You remind me of those who spam sex chats with “Who wants to talk about my sex wife” or “Does anyone want to discuss brutal thai prisons”. No finesse. No creativity. Only a mechanical churn of crap.

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]]> By: lmm http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/22/the-other-codex/#comment-126233 Fri, 25 Jul 2014 19:36:04 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=2461#comment-126233 I recall reading of statistical tests applied to dolphin calls, which had been unable to distinguish them from language (but *did* distinguish monkey calls). So if I were constructing such a thing I might just get some dolphin recordings and make up a transcription alphabet.

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]]> By: ADifferentAnonymous http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/22/the-other-codex/#comment-126219 Fri, 25 Jul 2014 17:44:59 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=2461#comment-126219 Scott accepts the libertarian argument for strictly non-negative utility of advertising purchases?

I hope you reconsider, not because I’m bothered by you having that belief, but because if you reconsider you’ll probably do it with data and stuff and write an awesome post about it.

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]]> By: Multiheaded http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/22/the-other-codex/#comment-126069 Fri, 25 Jul 2014 02:15:01 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=2461#comment-126069 Billions and billions of marijuanas.

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