Opportunity at Vesuvius Challenge (EduceLab / Nat Friedman / Daniel Gross) in Remote — paid.
An open, ongoing machine learning and computer vision competition to virtually unroll and read the carbonized Herculaneum papyrus scrolls using AI, with over $1.8 million awarded in prizes to date. Progress Prizes are awarded monthly for open-source contributions, alongside larger prizes for major breakthroughs like decoding full letters or titles.