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Vesuvius Challenge

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Vesuvius Challenge

@scrollprize

The Vesuvius Challenge is a machine learning and computer vision competition to read the Herculaneum Papyri.

Joined February 2023

Vesuvius Challenge
@scrollprize
Aug 5
This month we awarded $33,500 in progress prizes to 13 different winners! The top submission got $20,000, and we will keep awarding $20,000 to the best contribution of the month till June 2027! Join us, help us read the scrolls, write history and win prizes!
Vesuvius Challenge
@scrollprize
Jul 21
I still can’t believe we’re reading Greek text from this piece of coal! Every month, we’ll award $20,000 to contributors who help us recover more text from other pieces of coal like this one. Join our Discord: discord.gg/V4fJhvtaQn
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! 🔁
Vesuvius Challenge — Reading the Herculaneum Scrolls with AI
From scrollprize.org
Vesuvius Challenge
@scrollprize
Jul 7
@huggingface we use AI to read ancient scrolls📜 We’re launching a $1M 2027 Grand Prize and need reliable, open storage so contestants can train on ML datasets without rate limits 🌋 Can you help? 🙏
Vesuvius Challenge
@scrollprize
Jun 28
This sounds crazy, BUT this week we READ A FULL SCROLL!! scrollprize.org/firstscroll It’s PHerc. 1667, aka Scroll 4! And that’s not all. We also proved that we can directly see ink in a rescan of PHerc. Paris 4 — Scroll 1 — WITHOUT machine learning… …and we UNROLLED ABOUT 140