{"id":87163,"date":"2024-02-05T10:54:42","date_gmt":"2024-02-05T15:54:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=87163"},"modified":"2024-02-09T12:08:39","modified_gmt":"2024-02-09T17:08:39","slug":"the-vesuvius-challenge-prize-has-been-awarded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2024\/02\/05\/the-vesuvius-challenge-prize-has-been-awarded\/","title":{"rendered":"The Vesuvius Challenge prize has been awarded!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Scrolling through Twit-, er, I mean “X” this morning brought me this amazing piece of news<\/a> for classical scholars:<\/p>\n

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We received many excellent submissions for the Vesuvius Challenge Grand Prize, several in the final minutes before the midnight deadline on January 1st.<\/p>\n

We presented these submissions to the review team, and they were met with widespread amazement. We spent the month of January carefully reviewing all submissions. Our team of eminent papyrologists worked day and night to review 15 columns of text in anonymized submissions, while the technical team audited and reproduced the submitted code and methods.<\/p>\n

There was one submission that stood out clearly from the rest. Working independently, each member of our team of papyrologists recovered more text from this submission than any other. Remarkably, the entry achieved the criteria we set when announcing the Vesuvius Challenge in March: 4 passages of 140 characters each, with at least 85% of characters recoverable. This was not a given: most of us on the organizing team assigned a less than 30% probability of success when we announced these criteria! And in addition, the submission includes another 11 (!) columns of text \u2014 more than 2000 characters total.<\/p>\n

The results of this review were clear and unanimous: the Vesuvius Challenge Grand Prize of $700,000 is awarded to a team of three for their excellent submission. Congratulations to Youssef Nader, Luke Farritor, and Julian Schilliger!<\/p>\n

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Much more information at the Vesuvius Challenge<\/em><\/a> site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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