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Reading Ancient Scrolls

caseyhandmer.wordpress.com published 2023-08-05

This is an elaboration of my submission for the letter detection prize as part of the Vesuvius Challenge in June. It gets technical and esoteric but the first few paragraphs are of general interest…

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