NF
Nat Friedman
FollowFormer CEO of GitHub; investor; co-founder of the Vesuvius Challenge
The latest interviews, podcast appearances, and blog posts from Nat Friedman, updated daily.
3 months ago
Jun 27
Complete virtual unwrapping and reading of a rolled Herculaneum papyrus
The carbonized papyri from Herculaneum preserve the only large-scale library to survive from classical antiquity, but many unopened rolls remain unread because physical opening risks irreversible…
arXiv preprint (Vesuvius Challenge team, 27 authors)
MORE PEOPLE ON RECORDAL
NF
Niall Ferguson
Historian at the Hoover Institution; author of "The Ascent of Money"
TC
Tim Cook
CEO of Apple
SA
Sam Altman
Co-founder and CEO of OpenAI; former president of Y Combinator
WB
Warren Buffett
Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway; author of the annual Berkshire shareholder letters
JD
Jamie Dimon
Chairman and CEO of JPMorgan Chase
JD
Jack Dorsey
Co-founder of Twitter and of Block (Square)
MG
Malcolm Gladwell
Author of "Outliers" and "The Tipping Point"; host of Revisionist History
YN
Yuval Noah Harari
Historian; author of "Sapiens" and "Nexus"