#latin club

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[an-architect-of-words]

Imagine being in a classics class with 6 kids, I say. Imagine how strange and isolated and mysterious. Then it occurs to me that my high school Latin class had 12 kids and 4 by the final semester senior year.

We wanted to start a Latin Club with some of the other grade levels so that we could have a reason to talk to more people about Roman stuff during lunch, but the activities coordinator said the club was denied because it was too exclusive since it was based on a language too few people knew. The Latin teacher thought that was bullshit so he said we could hang out in his classroom anyway. We started calling this “The Illegal Latin Club” then one day our teacher gave us t-shirts that said “I didn’t choose the thug life, the thug life chose me” in Latin on the back.

#the secret history #Latin club #I have so many high school Latin stories #we joked about conquering the French class #A teacher we had year 1 was asked how to say ‘hi’ in Latin #he said ‘cum gladius’ #we had Latin names #we could pick but the teacher said he’d give us a dorky one if we took too long #a kid took too long #we called him Pomponius for the rest of the year #I ended up doodling our whole latin class #I wonder if I kept that

[certamen-the-novel]

Do you know a young person who carries mythology handbooks, rolls their eyes at your Latin pronunciation, or has a parasocial relationship with someone named “Grumio”? If so, you may know a JCLer, and I’ve got the perfect Christmas gift for them. (Just do me a favor and say it’s a Saturnalia gift when you give it to them, okay?)

#tagamemnon #certamen the novel #certamen #lingua latina #junior classical league #latin club #njcl

[ithisatanytime]

(VISIONS)

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[ithurtswhennn]

Angi Griffin 🔥🔥🔥

Black Tape Project

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[haveyouheardthisband]

#Deconstructed Club #Glitch Hop #Wonky #Art Pop #Latin Electronic #Glitch Pop #2010s #2020s #poll

[moonshinemagpie]

I forgive you for everything AI I take it all back give me the library of alexandria plsssss

EDIT:

Folks are saying there's a pay wall on the article so basically: There's this villa that's thought to have belonged to Julius Caesar's father-in-law, and it has multiple floors of a well-stocked library filled with scrolls that were scorched by the same Mount Vesuvius eruption that buried Pompeii.

There's no way to safely unroll these scrolls, but since 1999 we've been examining them with infrared, x-rays, CT scans, and other methods that have helped us see the scrolls' ink without unrolling them. And now AI is showing the potential to decipher these scrolls even more.

Also, scholars apparently nickname these scrolls things like 'Banana Boy' and 'Fat Bastard,' even though they're sometimes revealed to be, like, The Odyssey or the Book of Leviticus.

I additionally learned that "papyrologist" is a possible job title to have.

Another thing that touches me is that we first found these scrolls in the 1700s and mostly had the foresight to keep them intact and preserved until we developed the tech to examine them safely.

Excerpt:

The first word to be found, announced on October 12th, was “porphyras”, which means “purple” in ancient Greek.

...

Many fragments turned out to belong to texts written by a Greek philosopher called Philodemus of Gadara. Until then, they had been known only from mentions in other works. (Cicero, though, was a fan of his poetry.)

...

Mr Friedman and Daniel Gross, another entrepreneur, launched the Vesuvius Challenge in March, with a prize fund of $250,000. Other tech-industry donors soon increased that to over $1m. To get the ball rolling, an initial challenge was posted on Kaggle, a website that hosts data-science contests, to improve the ink-detection model developed by Dr Parsons.

More than 1,200 teams entered. Many competed in subsequent challenges to improve the tools for ink detection and “segmentation”, as the process of transforming the 3d scans into 2d images of the scroll’s surface is known. Scrutinising segmented images from Banana Boy, Dr Handmer realised that the crackle pattern signified the presence of ink. Mr Farritor used this finding to fine-tune a machine-learning model to find more crackles, then used those crackles to further optimise his model, until eventually it revealed legible words.

Mr Nader used a different approach, starting with “unsupervised pretraining” on the segmented images, asking a machine-learning system to find whatever patterns it could, with no external hints. He tweaked the resulting model using the winning entries from the Kaggle ink-detection challenge. After seeing Mr Farritor’s early results, he applied this model to the same segment of Banana Boy, and found what appeared to be some letters. He then iterated, repeatedly refining his model using the found letters. Slowly but surely its ability to find more letters increased. All the results were assessed by papyrologists before the prizes were awarded.

No less important than the technology is the way the effort has been organised. It is, in effect, the application of the open-source software-development method, Mr Friedman’s area of expertise, to an archaeological puzzle. “It’s a unique collaboration between tech founders and academics to bring the past into the present using the tools of the future,” he says. Dr Seales reckons the spur of competition means the equivalent of ten years’ worth of research has been done in the past three months.

An active community of volunteers is now applying the new tools to the two scanned scrolls. Mr Friedman thinks there is a 75% chance that someone will claim the grand prize of $700,000, for identifying four separate passages of at least 140 characters, by the end of the year. “It’s a race now,” he says. “We will be reading entire books next year.”

Being able to read Banana Boy would indeed just be the beginning. Only a small fraction of Greek and Roman literature has survived into modern times. But if the hundreds of other scrolls recovered from the villa could be scanned and read using the same tools, it would dramatically expand the number of texts from antiquity. Dr Seales says he hopes the Herculaneum scrolls will contain “a completely new, previously unknown text”. Mr Friedman is hoping for one of the lost Homeric epic poems in particular.

Even more important, all this might in turn revive interest in excavating the villa more fully, says Mr Friedman. The existing scrolls were recovered from a single corner of what scholars believe is a much larger library spread across several floors. If so, it might contain thousands of scrolls in Greek and Latin.'

#this entire article is extremely cool and worth reading in its entirety btw #i tried to choose a sample paragraph but it's all really neat #me and my high school latin club would have thrown a party over this news #greek #latin #julius caesar #classics #ancient greece #archeology #ai #homer

[high-mouth]

#two door cinema club #latin #牧野真莉愛 #nadine kerastas #eyes #hellenic polytheism #shoto todoroki #yandere imagines #chile #naturecore #childe x reader #beige aesthetic #高崎かなみ #feederist

[they-who-a-service]

#ed rant #cake #janis joplin #pacific northwest #two door cinema club #latin #nadine kerastas #hellenic polytheism #yandere imagines #naturecore #夢乃あいか #donghae #harajuku #guinea pig

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#SoundCloud #LAZA #latin club #club #dance #electronic #music #u

[blackswaneuroparedux]

O praeclaram supellectilem libroru *

Cicero

Oh, what fine furniture books are! *

The Athenaeum Club library.

The Athenaeum tends to attract the cream of the academic world (over 51 Nobel Prize winners) in literature and science.

The Pall Mall-based club was established in 1823 and is named after the ancient Roman Athenaeum, the centre for the study of literature and science.

Sir Charles Darwin used the Athenaeum to study in 1838. In one letter, dated August 9, he said: "I go and dine at the Athenaeum like a gentleman, or rather like a lord, for I am sure that the first evening I sat in that great drawing-room on the sofa by myself, I felt just like a duke. I am full of admiration for the Athenaeum, one meets so many people there that one likes to see … Your helping me into the Athenaeum has not been thrown away, and I enjoy it the more because I fully expected to detest it."

Breaking 150 years of tradition, the 2000 members of the gentleman's club for the 'intellectually elite' voted to allow women to become members in 2002. Baroness Susan Greenfield, professor of pharmacology at the University of Oxford, was the first woman invited and others have followed since.

Hands down one of the best libraries in club land. But they also have the most intrusive librarian with the beadiest eye to keep watch on you from her desk.

#cicero #latin #classical #quote #library #books #the athenaeum #athenaeum #gentlemens club #london #pall mall #club land #private members club #science #literature

[certamen-the-novel]

Hey, Certamen is FREE on the Kindle store for the next 5 days, December 28-January 1! If you’ve been meaning to read the only YA book about Latin Club, it’s the perfect time.

Just look for Certamen by Madelyn Adderley!

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[ithisatanytime]

(ANGELS GUN CLUB)

#SoundCloud #music #ANGELS GUN CLUB #Club #Deconstructed #Latin Club #Latin Tek #soundcloud

[herself-already]

#cake #janis joplin #pacific northwest #two door cinema club #saiouma #latin #牧野真莉愛 #eyes #shoto todoroki #yandere imagines #childe x reader