Nat Friedman

@natfriedman

California

Joined February 2008

Nat Friedman
@natfriedman
Jul 16
Vesuvius Challenge has been quietly making a lot of progress; we read a full scroll, developed a new unwrapping algorithm with a global spiral prior, and we just launched a new $1M grand prize for reading one of the scrolls we've scanned. There are also 10 $50k prizes available
Vesuvius Challenge
@scrollprize
Jul 15
A new phase BEGINS! 🚀 🏆 $1M Grand Prize 💰 $2M+ in open prizes 👑 $20K awarded every month to the best submission scrollprize.org Will you read the next scroll? 👀 Spread the word and repost! 🔁
Nat Friedman
@natfriedman
Jul 3, 2025
Started work at Meta this week. My job is to make amazing AI products that billions of people love to use. It won't happen overnight, but a few days in, I'm feeling confident that great things are ahead.
Nat Friedman
@natfriedman
Jun 3, 2025
Civilization is constant maintenance
Nat Friedman
@natfriedman
May 5, 2025
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
Nat Friedman
@natfriedman
May 3, 2025
Amazingly, this looks like it might be solved, thanks to a lot of help from some wonderful people on X. 🤞 Thank you!
Nat Friedman
@natfriedman
Apr 17, 2025
Anyone have a mexico government connection? A project I’m supporting to LIDAR the jungle there just got rejected by some bureaucrat. Please DM if you can help. Thanks!