Viacheslav Zaytsev

Researcher | Oriental Studies | Languages, Scripts, & Texts | Philology & History | #Tangut #Khitan #Jurchen

[Cecilia @Cecilia86865294]

契丹文铜镜！This colossal bronze mirror boasts an engraved owner's name, but what truly steals the show is the poetic passage inscribed on the reverse in #Khitan script!

[Jainam Parmar @aiwithjainam]

Holy shit... Google DeepMind just exposed why everyone's been doing AI reasoning wrong.

The AlphaGo team doesn't use chain-of-thought. They use parallel verification loops.

And it's destroying every "advanced reasoning" technique you've heard about.

Here's what they discovered ↓

[Russian Market @runews]

Classic Russian Literature

[Sergey Dmitriev @vauzhao]

Russian linguist (Sinologist and Tangutologist, student of the great Alexandr Dragunov) Mikhail Sofronov celebrates today his 96th birthday.

So happy that I can be around from time to time.

[Sergey Dmitriev @vauzhao]

10 июля умер Эндрю Вест - один из лучших людей, которых я знал. Честный, прямой, верный, мудрый, ранимый. Лучший знаток древних письменностей, создатель множества шрифтов, точно имеющий дар слышать мысли их создателей, давно ушедших.
Теперь ушёл и он.
https://t.co/1Roh9U7rD8

[Viacheslav Zaytsev @cosmicore]

These 6 characters and the Jin Emperor's signature mark are all that remain of the 12th-century Jurchen Small Script! We've just submitted a proposal for its Unicode encoding – a vital step for covering all four extinct #Khitan and #Jurchen scripts.

https://t.co/oxBP0VbvKX

[Celestial Phineas @CelPhineas]

I made a typometer for Chinese typesetting. It works like charm! 🔥

[Lawrence Zhang 張樂翔 @HistorianZhang]

It really annoys me when publisher come out with these beautifully printed punctuated editions of historical texts and somehow decide to print them in simplified Chinese

[Anthony Bonato @Anthony_Bonato]

"I will teach myself mathematics from books."
The books:

[Alejandro Montenegro @aemonten]

Yeah. Not good.

https://t.co/s3pyrv16rR

[Cristian Bermejo Rubio @ArchivoDiToledo]

En ocasiones, las dificultades paleográficas comienzan por la propia data

[Enfu Zhang @EnfuZhang2003]

Jerry from 古今文字集成 and I made a “西夏文献目录” database, which allows everyone to search almost all published Tangut corpus. Here is the link: https://t.co/OvKAyPS5hU

[Resiste un archivo @resistearchivo]

Se está subiendo a YouTube por primera vez en su formato original –no editado– la mítica serie de Narciso Ibañez Menta "El pulpo negro".
Capítulo 1: https://t.co/fJsB24Yl0o

[Viacheslav Zaytsev @cosmicore]

@sayomgwtf DREAMM, a bespoke emulator for LucasArts games by @aaronsgiles, solves this and similar things in other LA’s games very elegantly. The game logic is unchanged, but the player doesn’t have to look in the game manual and search for the right code.

[(→ Bluesky) 波鴻漫錄 || Sven Osterkamp @schrift_sprache]

My paper on "East Asian languages in Lord’s Prayer collections, ca. 1600–1900" is out now in Histoire Épistémologie Langage 46-1: https://t.co/FXiL5Eitux

With many thanks to @MartinH49009792, @RadwayRobyn & @inyeong_heo, each for introducing me to a fascinating source! 🙏 1/

[Egas Moniz Bandeira ᠡᡤᠠᠰ ᠮᠣᠨᠢᠰ ᠪᠠᠨᡩ᠋ᠠᠶᠢᠷᠠ @egasmb]

The Chinese reads Daqing 大清; it looks like "Great Qing (=Clear) [State]"
But Manchu reads: Amba (=great) Daicing Gurun (=state). This is not "Great Great Qing"; Daicing comes from Mongol Dayičing, 'Warrior.'
Chinese Daqing matches the phonetics with different semantics! 1/4

[Dr. Clayton Forrester @DrClaytonForre1]

A Greek woman examines an antique statue (circa 130 A.D.) at the Louvre.