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21-year-old uses AI to decode a burnt & unopened Herculaneum scroll
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this post was submitted on 14 Oct 2023
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In a related anecdote, one thing that blew my mind was the realization that any "program" or "app" fundamentally packages existing functionality that you can already do without that specific app. Most of the time, it still makes sense to use and pay for the abstraction rather than reinventing the wheel constantly but it is a sobering thought for sure.
Yes, yes—its all very meta
Edit: wats that thing with like the polygons infinitely zooming in and the view/perspective remains the same since its infinitely recurring/reducable
Edit: fractals
Mandelbrot.
Thank you, and the English word is fractal that I was thinking of :)
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