First word discovered in unopened Herculaneum scroll by CS student
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Re: First word discovered in unopened Herculaneum scroll by CS student
#2See also Nat’s twitter announcement: https://twitter.com/natfriedman/status/1712470683207532906
$700k is a life changing amount of money. I admit, it’s tempting to drop everything and go devote myself like a monk to the pursuit of ancient enlightenment via modern ML. I wonder where we’d start…
It’s also funny that the scroll might just be a laundry list.
Re: First word discovered in unopened Herculaneum scroll by CS student
#3That's extremely cool. I wonder what we'll learn.
As an aside, the "Professor Seales and team scanning at the particle accelerator" photo looks like it came from a TV show. "If we keep telling the computer 'enhance', we'll be able to read it".
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#4i love this project. i feel like this is going to be a great source of interest and value over the next few years (and potentially immesurable value over longer time frames).
Re: First word discovered in unopened Herculaneum scroll by CS student
#5See also Nat’s twitter announcement: https://twitter.com/natfriedman/status/1712470683207532906 $700k is a life changing amount of money. I admit, it’s tempting to drop everything and go devote myself like a monk to the pursuit of ancient enlightenment via modern ML. I wonder where we’d start… It’s also funny that the scroll might just be a laundry list.
Or a customer complaint: https://www.thearchaeologist.org/blog/complaint-tablet-to-ea...
Re: First word discovered in unopened Herculaneum scroll by CS student
#6See also Nat’s twitter announcement: https://twitter.com/natfriedman/status/1712470683207532906 $700k is a life changing amount of money. I admit, it’s tempting to drop everything and go devote myself like a monk to the pursuit of ancient enlightenment via modern ML. I wonder where we’d start… It’s also funny that the scroll might just be a laundry list.
A laundry list with something purple...
Re: First word discovered in unopened Herculaneum scroll by CS student
#7See also Nat’s twitter announcement: https://twitter.com/natfriedman/status/1712470683207532906 $700k is a life changing amount of money. I admit, it’s tempting to drop everything and go devote myself like a monk to the pursuit of ancient enlightenment via modern ML. I wonder where we’d start… It’s also funny that the scroll might just be a laundry list.
Or a customer complaint: https://www.thearchaeologist.org/blog/complaint-tablet-to-ea...
What I love about the Ea-Nasir story is the tablet was found in a pile of other tablets, suggesting that Ea-Nasir saved them. Why? Who knows, maybe he found them funny.
Re: First word discovered in unopened Herculaneum scroll by CS student
#8I recently saw a wonderful youtube video on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_L1oN8y7Bs
Title: Herculaneum scrolls: A 20-year journey to read the unreadable
it goes a little bit into the technology of how this was done, deep learning finally cracked the code. They had the scans for a decade but it took ML training to be able to identify which parts were paper and which parts were the ink on top. This had been done on a different set of scrolls with easier to read higher contrasting materials like the video says, 20 years ago. Deep learning is cracking the code for these datasets we had previously thought were impossible to algorithmically solve.
Re: First word discovered in unopened Herculaneum scroll by CS student
#9See also Nat’s twitter announcement: https://twitter.com/natfriedman/status/1712470683207532906 $700k is a life changing amount of money. I admit, it’s tempting to drop everything and go devote myself like a monk to the pursuit of ancient enlightenment via modern ML. I wonder where we’d start… It’s also funny that the scroll might just be a laundry list.
A laundry list with something purple...
purple was the color of nobility and rather rare. It might be the description of a king or a room or roman fashion items.
Re: First word discovered in unopened Herculaneum scroll by CS student
#10See also Nat’s twitter announcement: https://twitter.com/natfriedman/status/1712470683207532906 $700k is a life changing amount of money. I admit, it’s tempting to drop everything and go devote myself like a monk to the pursuit of ancient enlightenment via modern ML. I wonder where we’d start… It’s also funny that the scroll might just be a laundry list.
it might cost more than $700k in compute.