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| Vesuvius Challenge 2023 Grand Prize awarded: we can read the first scroll (scrollprize.org) | ||
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| herunan Apr 25, 2024 | on: Deciphered Herculaneum papyrus reveals precise burial place… | context |
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The article references the efforts of researchers to digitally decode papyrus scrolls for the Vesuvius Prize. That itself is very interesting and was covered on HN at the time: |
The Vesuvius Challenge is the gift that keeps on giving.
It still blows my mind that we can now use ML to reveal texts of unopened carbonised scrolls from over 2000 years ago. There was a fascinating HN post on this a couple of months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39261861