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Nvidia GPU Used To Decipher Ancient Greco-Roman Scroll (www.tomshardware.com)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Lame headline. Deciphering old scrolls is easy shit. The mindblowing part is that the scroll was basically a rod of solid carbon after being cooked by Mount Vesuvius and the dude who did it was a friggin undergrad.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Yeah the actual contest page has lots more technical info, including the full first prize writeup.

There's even a new dataset out recently!