Show HN: Interactive Phaistos Disc workbench, rotation ergonomics, null models

Category: other

Tags: archaeology, ancient-scripts, interactive-visualization, statistics, python, epistemics

Score: 5.5/10 (Innovation: 6, Technical: 5, Documentation: 8, Utility: 3)

Phaistos Disc Lab is an open-source Python workbench for computational analysis of the Phaistos Disc, including an interactive HTML explorer, corpus tooling for transcriptions and physical observations, and statistical null-model checks. Its standout feature is an explicit evidence-tier methodology (the 'Skeptic Rule') that separates observation from hypothesis, making it unusually rigorous for an amateur research project.

Target audience: Archaeology researchers, computational linguists, and curious developers interested in ancient scripts and epistemic rigor in data analysis

Repository: https://lessthanzero.github.io/phaistos-disk/ · Python · MIT

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