I already knew about this young man, but I think he deserves every bit of publicity that we can muster:

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Luke interned at SpaceX in 2023. That year, he won a $40,000 prize from the Vesuvius Challenge for using artificial intelligence to uncover ten letters from one of the Herculaneum Papyri scrolls.

Farritor’s AI program segmented images of the carbonized scroll into 100 pixels by 100 pixels to determine the characters written in ink. In February 2024, Farritor and two other competitors he had teamed up with won the $700,000 grand prize for revealing more than 2,000 additional characters.

Luke Farritor with superimposed Greek text from a nearly 2,000-year-old scroll that his work helped decipher through the Vesuvius Challenge. Winning the challenge catapulted his career forward, ultimately pairing him with Elon Musk.