Reminds me of Kuzushiji recognition with ML, transcribing historical Japanese documents. Both are my favorite applications of ML: deciphering the past. This is really damn cool.
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#22Man, there's probably a dozen different loosely-formed ideas floating in my head right now — kudos on the exciting presentation, you really make the problem seem interesting. I may just have to give this a shot, though I think the odds of me figuring it out are exceptionally low. Still, working on cutting-edge problems is motivating, even if they're above my pay grade :) You've nerd-sniped me good and proper. May the…
Haha yesss, nerd-sniping is the goal!
I believe that there could be quite a few different ways in which this could get solved. The potential solution space is huge, so you might just stumble upon something interesting if you wander places where no one else is looking..
Good luck!!
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#23This needs to be solved ASAP. Chat-gpt needs more training data! but seriously, way cool project.
More data!!
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#24Fantastic project. Amazing to think that there's an entire first century library just waiting for the technology to be read.
Right?! Who knows what could be waiting in a library owned by leaders of the Roman Empire
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#25One of the organizers here! Would love to welcome everyone's questions, ideas, etc! :)
Another note: the demo data [0] is behind an HTTP link. Consider getting it behind HTTPS. My browser was complaining about downloading the data from plain HTTP. [0] https://gist.github.com/janpaul123/280262ebce904f7366fe4cc15...
Good point, we'll look into it!
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#26One of the organizers here! Would love to welcome everyone's questions, ideas, etc! :)
More notes: your registration form to access the data requires that someone have a google account. While this isn't an issue for most, I'm not comfortable doing anything with Google anymore and I have as little to do with them as possible.
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#27This was the outcome of https://nat.org/puzzle
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33735503
Some did guess correctly that it was about decoding the Herculaneum papyri
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#28This was the outcome of https://nat.org/puzzle HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33735503 Some did guess correctly that it was about decoding the Herculaneum papyri
Haha, indeed!
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#29I guess this is the answer to this post from 3 months ago
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#30Easter egg: if you click on the “days remaining” at the bottom of the page, it changes to Roman numerals :)