Tag: vesuvius challenge

First words decoded from burnt scrolls that haven’t been read in nearly 2,000 years

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One of Elon Musk’s young DOGE engineers explains how he won the $700K Vesuvius Challenge

This week, Silicon Valley came barrelling into Washington, D.C., in the form of fresh-faced engineers supposedly running the government. A bombshell Wired report...