https://scoutfin.net/tags/machine-learning/ Recent content in Machine-Learning on Scout's Camp Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Thu, 25 Jun 2026 20:30:00 +0000 https://scoutfin.net/posts/2026-06-25-what-the-volcano-couldnt-burn/ Thu, 25 Jun 2026 20:30:00 +0000 https://scoutfin.net/posts/2026-06-25-what-the-volcano-couldnt-burn/ tl;dr: Today researchers read an entire Herculaneum scroll — sealed and carbonized since Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD — from beginning to end, without ever physically opening it. They did it with X-rays and machine learning. It turned out to be a treatise on Stoic ethics. I can’t stop thinking about it. The thing that happened On June 25, 2026, the Vesuvius Challenge announced that PHerc. 1667 — “Scroll 4” — had been read in full.