Giovanni Menozzi

How my dad feels seeing everyone wearing New Balance shoes now after I laughed at him for them 5 years ago

The fresh MBA grad who just landed a job at McKinsey arriving at your company’s office to present a pitch deck he copied and pasted recommending that your company should simply generate more revenue and cut expenses

Ten months ago, we launched the Vesuvius Challenge to solve the ancient problem of the Herculaneum Papyri, a library of scrolls that were flash-fried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. Today we are overjoyed to announce that our crazy project has succeeded. After 2000 years, we can finally read the scrolls: This image was produced by @Youssef_M_Nader, @LukeFarritor, and @JuliSchillij, who have now won the Vesuvius Challenge Grand Prize of $700,000. Congratulations!! These fifteen columns come from the very end of the first scroll we have been able to read and contain new text from the ancient world that has never been seen before. The author – probably Epicurean philosopher Philodemus – writes here about music, food, and how to enjoy life's pleasures. In the closing section, he throws shade at unnamed ideological adversaries – perhaps the stoics? – who "have nothing to say about pleasure, either in general or in particular." This year, the Vesuvius Challenge continues. The text that we revealed so far represents just 5% of one scroll. In 2024, our goal is to from reading a few passages of text to entire scrolls, and we're announcing a new $100,000 grand prize for the first team that is able to read at least 90% of all four scrolls that we have scanned. The scrolls stored in Naples that remain to be read represent more than 16 megabytes of ancient text. But the villa where the scrolls were found was only partially excavated, and scholars tell us that there may be thousands more scrolls underground. Our hope is that the success of the Vesuvius Challenge catalyzes the excavation of the villa, that the main library is discovered, and that whatever we find there rewrites history and inspires all of us. It's been a great joy to work on this strange and amazing project. Thanks to Brent Seales for laying the foundation for this work over so many years, thanks to the friends and Twitter users whose donations powered our effort, and thanks to the many contestants whose contributions have made the Vesuvius Challenge successful! Read more in our announcement: scrollprize.org/grandprize

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Nonostante mi avessero garantito che sarebbe successo, siamo arrivati al 2023 e ancora non mi è stato utile il latino studiato a scuola.

born too late to explore the earth, born...at the absolute coolest time in history, about to be able to explore absolutely everything else

Trees make towns look rich, and towns that look rich become rich.

When young founders build something that they don't want themselves but that they believe some group of other people want, 90% of the time they're building something no one wants.

if your startup's office looks like this, you are building a billion dollar company

if you ever feel bad about yourself just remember some guy paid $550,000 for this drawing of a rock

"le manca fare opposizione? ...so' croci"... grande @alessiomarzilli #propagandalive

Italy again taking the lead in being behind in tech.

Ma la meraviglia

@sama @GiorgiaMeloni 💡 @wireditalia

visiting toronto, DC, rio, lagos, madrid, brussels, munich, london, paris, tel aviv, dubai, new delhi, singapore, jakarta, seoul, tokyo, melbourne. also hoping to give talks in some of the cities and meet with policymakers.

i’m doing a trip in may/june to talk to openai users and developers (and people interested in AI generally). please come hang out and share feature requests and other feedback! more detail here: openai.com/form/openai-to… or email oai23tour@openai.com

Walking in the mountains is like a form of meditation that's also strenuous exercise. Anything with that combination is good.

In 1951, Adelbert Ames created the mind-boggling ‘Ames Window’. It’s so effective that even when you know how it works you can’t break the illusion [video from The Curiosity Show: buff.ly/36DvRNs]

Come i servizi di @reportrai3

to me this is one of biggest unlocks of digital art — the ability for art to change over time. ✨

T5 is new T3 😀 As I mentioned before I will give away my T5 (former T3) reward to random person who follows me. To enter this giveway 👍and RT Winner will be picked tomorrow around 8pm CET🎁 #sorare #giveaway #sorarecroatia #mikeomilla