2024-02-06
📜🌋👀 FOLKS — WE DID IT!!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks to all of your hard work and late nights, the Vesuvius Challenge actually worked!!!!!! Huge congrats to the winners and runner ups, and to everyone who has participated in one way or another.
Bloomberg
How researchers used AI to read the Herculaneum papyri, charred in 79 AD by Mount Vesuvius' eruption, potentially rewriting key parts of ancient world history
Well, make a 3D CT scan, use the images to virtually unfold, recognize the ink drops, and off you go. Amazing work by three students (from Berlin, Nebraska and ETH Zurich). … X: N...
@natfriedman WE DID IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Bloomberg
How researchers used AI to read the Herculaneum papyri, charred in 79 AD by Mount Vesuvius' eruption, potentially rewriting key parts of ancient world history
Well, make a 3D CT scan, use the images to virtually unfold, recognize the ink drops, and off you go. Amazing work by three students (from Berlin, Nebraska and ETH Zurich). … X: N...