Ars TechnicaAI helps decipher first text of “unreadable” ancient Herculaneum scroll
Computer science student Luke Farritor won $40,000 from the Vesuvius Challenge.
Mark@arstechnica It’s a bit of a pity we keep digging up texts of minor philosopher Philodemus from Herculaneum given no original writings (just lecture notes) from Aristotle remain in existence. That’s contingency for you.