The Vesuvius Challenge
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The Vesuvius Challenge
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#2Previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35169869
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#3Anyone got any preliminary results to show?
I was playing around with it and was doing pretty well with the unrolling step - I could get hundreds of sheets out mostly hole free.
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#4For those looking for dates, this challenge started around March 15 and the deadline for the smaller open source prize is April 15. The final deadline is the end of this year.
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#5Some background:
>if read, [the scrolls] would more than double the corpus of literature we have from antiquity
And that's just with the ~600 scrolls that have been excavated so far:
>excavations were never completed, and many historians believe that thousands more scrolls remain underground
And, as for the content of the scrolls:
>[at least some of the scrolls] contain philosophical texts written in Greek
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#6How feasible is this?
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#7good discussion with Friedman on the project here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcvMjoJdck4
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#8How am I gonna be an optimist about this
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#9Anyone got any preliminary results to show? I was playing around with it and was doing pretty well with the unrolling step - I could get hundreds of sheets out mostly hole free.
This is one of the problems with big prizes for community efforts--strong motivator but you're crazy if you think anyone is sharing results with 100s of k on the line.
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#10How feasible is this?
$700,000 worth of feasible.