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@px
if you learn 600 chinese characters, you can read 90% of chinese text it’s not that hard!
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@vitalik.eth
The challenge with this reasoning is that the rarer characters carry more entropy so they contribute more to the meaning of the sentence. You want to calculate cumulative fraction weighted by log(1/freq)
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