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Ten months ago, we launched the Vesuvius Challenge to solve the ancient problem of the Herculaneum Papyri, a library of scrolls that were flash-fried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD.
Today we are overjoyed to announce that our crazy project has succeeded. After 2000
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Today we are announcing a major breakthrough in the Vesuvius Challenge: we have read the first word from an unopened Herculaneum scroll.
The word is "πορφυρας" which means "purple dye" or "cloths of purple."
https://t.co/0EDGBX4t4h
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Federal spending in 2024 was ~$7T. In 2019 it was ~$4.5T. 🤔
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Ten months ago, we launched the Vesuvius Challenge to solve the ancient problem of the Herculaneum Papyri, a library of scrolls that were flash-fried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD.
Today we are overjoyed to announce that our crazy project has succeeded. After 2000
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
Luke Farritor is a national treasure.
Federal spending in 2024 was ~$7T. In 2019 it was ~$4.5T. 🤔
TIL: in the 1990s Clinton offered federal workers a $25,000 buyout, and ~150,000 took the deal. He cut federal government spending from 22% to 18% of the economy, the lowest level since 1966.
The deepseek team is obviously really good. China is full of talented engineers. Every other take is cope. Sorry.
We did it! We tested 300 Bay Area foods for plastic chemicals. We found some interesting surprises.
Top 5 findings in our test results:
1. Our tests found plastic chemicals in 86% of all foods, with phthalates in 73% of the tested produc…
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Today we are announcing a major breakthrough in the Vesuvius Challenge: we have read the first word from an unopened Herculaneum scroll.
The word is "πορφυρας" which means "purple dye" or "cloths of purple."
https://t.co/0EDGBX4t4h
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We moved out of San Francisco to Menlo Park a year ago after two meth addicts broke into our house while we were home and robbed us. They are both free now. The police who arrested them -- and were later forced to release them by the DA --…
That @satyanadella had the vision and conviction to put $1B into OpenAI a year before GPT-3 is amazing and underappreciated.
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