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Sorry to hear this happened as this shouldn't have been lost. I'll make sure we get in touch with you.

Hey, that was me! What a pleasant surprise, you made my day. Have a good one yourself!

Yes, definitely. Our research group and some others have been actively working with and scanning the materials from this collection to advance our understanding and methods. This i…

Ultimately, the sky is the limit with the Herculaneum collection. It will probably be a slow and steady build though. We are working to prove the methods on the real Herculaneum ma…

Oh, cool to see this here! I am one of the authors of the paper, I can answer questions later today.

If the morphology hypothesis (of the above paper) is more or less true, then it would indicate it is possible to detect the ink signal if the resolution of the CT scan is roughly a…

I can second the recommendation of Herculaneum, it is an incredible site and I really enjoyed my visit. There was a collection of papyrus scrolls in the Villa dei Papiri there, whi…

http://ruder.io/optimizing-gradient-descent/

Bret Victor has an exploration of this question[0] (2015) that I have found helpful. [0]: http://worrydream.com/ClimateChange/

We likely agree on the larger sentiment here, but in fairness to the author I think the context of the post makes this more acceptable. The textbook recommendations are all submitt…

This might give the beginnings of an idea of what would happen: https://what-if.xkcd.com/1/

This is just like http://windirstat.info/ which can be run on the desktop. Very handy tool...