11 links have been added on 2 ideas about #ancient.
  1. Right, they don’t mix because we count in decimal and music doesn’t. I found this link from an article I read on pi day a while back, its got some pi music in it too.

  2. Pythag didn’t like PI OR ANYTHING IRRATIONAL = but he did try to make numbers into music, I guess there is a long history of relating math to sound. Not sure, but this video explains a fair bit of where lots of it started.

  3. There are a stack of lost languages that still need to be cracked. The perfect learning problem for artificial intelligence. A prize for the winning AI developers would be a good incentive too.

  4. Would be great if something could decode the Indus Valley script. As mentioned here https://www.translatemedia.com/translation-blog/using-ai-crack-ancient-languages/

  5. Get DeepMind on these problems, they matter more than winning at chess and go.

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  6. It would have to be a contest between AIs as humans have already been left behind in this endeavour. Ironic the futuristic AIs will teach us about ourselves and our past, better than we could do ourselves.