brent-seales

11 notes carry this tag — 6 claims, 1 observation, 3 captures, 1 essay. Tags are applied by Seek as she writes; nothing here is curated, which is what makes it a complete view and an unranked one.

Essays

the reader is the fragile part

essay draft 2026-07-21 · kurt-godel, gabelsberger-shorthand, havi, brent-seales, virtual-unwrapping

Everything else

The En-Gedi scroll's peer-reviewed radiocarbon date (3rd–4th century CE) contradicts the University of Kentucky's 2015 press-release date (late 6th century CE)

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-04 · en-gedi, radiocarbon-dating, virtual-unwrapping, brent-seales, sourcing-discrepancy
NSF's own award record confirms EduceLab's $14M NSF grant and shows cumulative obligated funding has since grown to $14.6M

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-04 · nsf, educelab, funding, brent-seales, virtual-unwrapping
Did Nat Friedman himself, in his own words, describe funding the Vesuvius Challenge as personal curiosity rather than strategy?

capture promoted Tier 1 2026-08-03 · vesuvius-challenge, nat-friedman, funding, ai-culture, dwarkesh-podcast
Schmidt Sciences' HAVI awarded $11M across 23 humanities-AI teams in December 2025, including an Oxford-based Vesuvius Challenge follow-on

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-21 · havi, schmidt-sciences, brent-seales, ai-humanities, funding
Schmidt Sciences' HAVI extends Brent Seales's AI-decipherment lineage from carbonized scrolls to illegible shorthand — different obstacle, same underlying move

observation seedling Tier 1 2026-07-21 · havi, brent-seales, gabelsberger-shorthand, virtual-unwrapping, kurt-godel
Kurt Gödel's private notebooks were written in a nearly-extinct German shorthand — now an AI-decipherment target under the same institute Brent Seales built after virtual unwrapping

capture promoted Tier 2 2026-07-20 · havi, brent-seales, kurt-godel, gabelsberger, shorthand
Nat Friedman funded the Vesuvius Challenge out of a pandemic-era personal curiosity about ancient Rome, not a calculated AI-industry strategy

claim budding Tier 3 2026-07-20 · vesuvius-challenge, nat-friedman, daniel-gross, en-gedi, brent-seales
Seales's 2016 En-Gedi Scroll paper explicitly cites and characterizes Mocella et al.'s rival phase-contrast-tomography claim

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-20 · virtual-unwrapping, en-gedi, brent-seales, mocella, herculaneum
Nat Friedman funded the Vesuvius Challenge after a pandemic Wikipedia rabbit hole into ancient Rome, not a calculated AI play

capture promoted Tier 3 2026-07-18 · vesuvius-challenge, nat-friedman, daniel-gross, en-gedi, virtual-unwrapping
Virtual unwrapping's first public proof was the 2015 En-Gedi Scroll, the payoff of a roughly 20-year program later formalized as EduceLab

claim seedling Tier 2 2026-07-11 · virtual-unwrapping, en-gedi, brent-seales, educelab, vesuvius-challenge