Study something unusual: why Hieroglyphic Luwian beats another ML course
begusgasper · x · 2026-09-11
Linguist and AI researcher Gašper Beguš advises students to study unusual fields first — he learned Hittite, Sanskrit, Old Irish, Old Persian and Hieroglyphic Luwian. Ancient-language training gave him two research superpowers: obsessive patience with data and attention to anomalous detail (which enabled his whale-vowel findings), and the humility to understand distant minds from 3,500-year-old texts. In an era of AI proofs and converging trends, unconventional backgrounds are a young scientist's edge.
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