2023-10-14
This is hugely exciting; there are 100s of carbonised Herculaneum scrolls, which may well include many texts by philosophers + historians lost to the historical record except as references in other surviving works. Reading them offers a leap in our knowledge of the ancient world
Nature
A student wins a contest to read the text inside a carbonized Roman scroll, which had been unreadable since a volcanic eruption in AD 79, using an ML algorithm
A 21-year-old computer-science student has won a global contest to read the first text inside a carbonized scroll …
2021-07-14
This 👇👇👇. Also, the poverty of ambition in some parts of the media is really grim - managed declinism. https://twitter.com/...
Bloomberg
France fines Google $593M for failing to comply with a 2020 order to negotiate in good faith with publishers for displaying article snippets in Google News
2021-07-13
This 👇👇👇. Also, the poverty of ambition in some parts of the media is really grim - managed declinism. https://twitter.com/...
Bloomberg
France fines Google $593M for failing to comply with a 2020 order to negotiate in good faith with publishers for displaying article snippets in Google News
- Tech giant penalized for not agreeing deal with publishers — Fine is the second biggest French antitrust penalty so far