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Nat Friedman - Reading Ancient Scrolls, Open Source, & AI

Dwarkesh Podcast

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Dr. Seals' Virtual Unwrapping

Dr. Seals pioneered this field of what he calls and is now widely called virtual unwrapping. He did it initially with a school that was found in the Dead Sea in Israel. The ink used on the Herculaneum papyrus, it is not very absorbent of x-ray. And so you don't have this nice bright lettering that shows up kind of on your tomographic 3D X-ray.

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