Una verdad simulada

Quoting Rahul Siddharthan:

That is the value of interdisciplinary research: what is obvious to one community may be new to another, and the results may be far-reaching.

In the quoted post, Rahul gives an excellent summary about Markov chains and how it was used to conclude that the Indus valley script was indeed a script for a language. Both the posts discussing this recent Science paper by Rahul’s colleague Ronojoy Adhikari are worth reading.

And the original paper by Rao et al. is something I intend to read this weekend. Great stuff.

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