📜🌋👀 FOLKS — WE DID IT!!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks to all of your hard work and late nights, the Vesuvius Challenge actually worked!!!!!! Huge congrats to the winners and runner ups, and to everyone who has participated in one way or another.

Thank you to everyone for this amazing challenge! It is such a joy to decipher those golden treasures from the past! I am looking forward to continue our amazing journey

YoussefNader Congratulations on leading your team to victory, Youssef!!

The best type of morning texts is waking up to 1600cm^2 of unrolled ancient texts by Julian Schilliger

It was such a JOY to work with YoussefNader on the Vesuvius Challenge. Thank you for being such a good team lead!

The technical details of my ink detection journey of the Vesuvius challenge, from kaggle to first letters to grandprize is now live here: youssefnader.com/2024/02/06/the… Please feel free to ask me any technical questions as a reply to this tweet.

Informative post from Youssef on the details of his ink detection model

We're announcing over $500,000 in new prizes for 2024! Join us as we read more of the Herculaneum scrolls! scrollprize.org/2024_prizes

Announcing $500,000 in new progress prizes for the Vesuvius Challenge: scrollprize.org/2024_prizes

This is going to be an insane year for AIs writing code

I am about to miss the celebration for winning the Vesuvius Grandprize! This is the second time I am missing a Prize Ceremony for winning a Vesuvius Challenge in the USA and I started the visa application process as so as the prize was announced. This is incredibly frustrating

A technical talk from YoussefNader and Julian Schilliger on the current state of Vesuvius Challenge and our remaining challenges: youtube.com/watch?v=F5ak1p…

Last month I was honored to speak with Julian Schilliger and YoussefNader at TNG Big Techday about our (mostly their) progress on reading the ancient Herculaneum scrolls. Here's a recording of the talk: youtube.com/watch?v=ooHybB…

Hidden secrets of ancient times unveiled with the power of modern AI tools is something unprecented our next speaker Youssef Nader did achieve. Together with his collague and Co-TEDAI speaker Julian Schilliger , he revealed the hidden text of a charred scroll that was buried by a

Lights, ideas, action! TEDAI Vienna started DAY 1 in spectacular fashion!🔥🎉 On DAY 1 on October 17, we launched TEDAI Vienna in grand style with an unforgettable gala at the stunning Kursalon Hübner. 🌟 Our co-founders, Alina Nikolaou, Curator & Director of @tedaivienna and

We did a Thing! ✋

On October 19th 2024 I shared a stage with Julian, in Volkstheater, where we got to share with the world our work on the Vesuvius Challenge. Now that the talk is finally live and I can share with you one of my 2024 highlights youtu.be/okSG9QaqY1o?si… via YouTube

We found the title of a scroll for the first time! This cylinder of charcoal turns out to be "On Vices, Book 1" by Philodemus

My toxic trait is thinking I can train a frontier model with 8 H100s