{
  "id": 403699,
  "title": "What are the chances anyone getting the 700k USD prize?",
  "url": "/competitions/vesuvius-challenge-ink-detection/discussion/403699",
  "author_name": "",
  "post_date": "2023-04-24T13:04:49.280339100Z",
  "votes": 2,
  "comment_count": 4,
  "views": 0,
  "content": "<p>It's been a while since this competition started. What would you say about the possibility of getting the grand prize? Do you think it is achievable in the next couple of months or are we still way behind on this?</p>\n<p>I must say, the prize makes it tempting to try 😃</p>",
  "messages": [
    {
      "id": "2232552",
      "postDate": "04/24/2023 13:04:49",
      "content": "<p>It's been a while since this competition started. What would you say about the possibility of getting the grand prize? Do you think it is achievable in the next couple of months or are we still way behind on this?</p>\n<p>I must say, the prize makes it tempting to try 😃</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "It's been a while since this competition started. What would you say about the possibility of getting the grand prize? Do you think it is achievable in the next couple of months or are we still way behind on this?\n\nI must say, the prize makes it tempting to try 😃",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "2233974",
      "postDate": "04/24/2023 18:28:56",
      "content": "<p><a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/crodoc\" target=\"_blank\">@crodoc</a> May be chance is zero?</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "crodoc May be chance is zero?",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "2233981",
      "postDate": "04/24/2023 18:35:59",
      "content": "<p>You would have as good of a shot as anyone, I don't think you'd be far behind. We only launched it a month ago and it seems like most people have been focusing on the Kaggle ink detection prize. Lots of room to try things for the grand prize!</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "You would have as good of a shot as anyone, I don't think you'd be far behind. We only launched it a month ago and it seems like most people have been focusing on the Kaggle ink detection prize. Lots of room to try things for the grand prize!",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "2233991",
      "postDate": "04/24/2023 18:46:54",
      "content": "<p>Trying to decide is it a good idea to assemble a team and go all in on that one? Thought kagglers would have a some insight about the challenges and opportunity by now.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Trying to decide is it a good idea to assemble a team and go all in on that one? Thought kagglers would have a some insight about the challenges and opportunity by now.",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "2234380",
      "postDate": "04/25/2023 06:45:57",
      "content": "<p>From the <a href=\"https://scrollprize.org/participate\" target=\"_blank\">https://scrollprize.org/participate</a> page:</p>\n<blockquote>\n  <p>A Review Team made up of technical experts and papyrologists will assess all Grand Prize submissions to ensure that they can: </p>\n  <ul>\n  <li>Read at least 4 separate passages from the two scrolls, each containing at least 140 characters of continuous text</li>\n  <li>Verify that each passage contains no more than 15% of characters which are missing or illegible</li>\n  <li>Confirm that submissions contain legitimate and linguistically plausible text</li>\n  <li>Independently reproduce and verify your results using your code and documented techniques</li>\n  </ul>\n</blockquote>\n<p>This part of the competition extends up to the end of 2023, so there is more time than the Kaggle competition.</p>\n<p>Given the size of the data, I guess it could be possible if you put enough time and team members.<br>\nTwo pages that are relevant here:</p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https://scrollprize.org/tutorial1:\" target=\"_blank\">https://scrollprize.org/tutorial1:</a> explaining the whole process (not only the ink detection part)</li>\n<li><a href=\"https://scrollprize.org/data:\" target=\"_blank\">https://scrollprize.org/data:</a> more details about the data (the two scrolls and fragments)</li>\n</ul>",
      "rawMarkdown": "From the https://scrollprize.org/participate page:\n\n>A Review Team made up of technical experts and papyrologists will assess all Grand Prize submissions to ensure that they can: \n- Read at least 4 separate passages from the two scrolls, each containing at least 140 characters of continuous text\n- Verify that each passage contains no more than 15% of characters which are missing or illegible\n- Confirm that submissions contain legitimate and linguistically plausible text\n- Independently reproduce and verify your results using your code and documented techniques\n\nThis part of the competition extends up to the end of 2023, so there is more time than the Kaggle competition.\n\nGiven the size of the data, I guess it could be possible if you put enough time and team members.\nTwo pages that are relevant here:\n\n- https://scrollprize.org/tutorial1: explaining the whole process (not only the ink detection part)\n- https://scrollprize.org/data: more details about the data (the two scrolls and fragments)",
      "votes": null
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  "comments": [
    {
      "id": 2233974,
      "author_name": "serangu",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "04/24/2023 18:28:56",
      "content": "<p><a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/crodoc\" target=\"_blank\">@crodoc</a> May be chance is zero?</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    },
    {
      "id": 2233981,
      "author_name": "jpposma",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "04/24/2023 18:35:59",
      "content": "<p>You would have as good of a shot as anyone, I don't think you'd be far behind. We only launched it a month ago and it seems like most people have been focusing on the Kaggle ink detection prize. Lots of room to try things for the grand prize!</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    },
    {
      "id": 2233991,
      "author_name": "crodoc",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "04/24/2023 18:46:54",
      "content": "<p>Trying to decide is it a good idea to assemble a team and go all in on that one? Thought kagglers would have a some insight about the challenges and opportunity by now.</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    },
    {
      "id": 2234380,
      "author_name": "yassinealouini",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "04/25/2023 06:45:57",
      "content": "<p>From the <a href=\"https://scrollprize.org/participate\" target=\"_blank\">https://scrollprize.org/participate</a> page:</p>\n<blockquote>\n  <p>A Review Team made up of technical experts and papyrologists will assess all Grand Prize submissions to ensure that they can: </p>\n  <ul>\n  <li>Read at least 4 separate passages from the two scrolls, each containing at least 140 characters of continuous text</li>\n  <li>Verify that each passage contains no more than 15% of characters which are missing or illegible</li>\n  <li>Confirm that submissions contain legitimate and linguistically plausible text</li>\n  <li>Independently reproduce and verify your results using your code and documented techniques</li>\n  </ul>\n</blockquote>\n<p>This part of the competition extends up to the end of 2023, so there is more time than the Kaggle competition.</p>\n<p>Given the size of the data, I guess it could be possible if you put enough time and team members.<br>\nTwo pages that are relevant here:</p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https://scrollprize.org/tutorial1:\" target=\"_blank\">https://scrollprize.org/tutorial1:</a> explaining the whole process (not only the ink detection part)</li>\n<li><a href=\"https://scrollprize.org/data:\" target=\"_blank\">https://scrollprize.org/data:</a> more details about the data (the two scrolls and fragments)</li>\n</ul>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
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    "2232552": "It's been a while since this competition started. What would you say about the possibility of getting the grand prize? Do you think it is achievable in the next couple of months or are we still way behind on this?\n\nI must say, the prize makes it tempting to try 😃",
    "2233974": "crodoc May be chance is zero?",
    "2233981": "You would have as good of a shot as anyone, I don't think you'd be far behind. We only launched it a month ago and it seems like most people have been focusing on the Kaggle ink detection prize. Lots of room to try things for the grand prize!",
    "2233991": "Trying to decide is it a good idea to assemble a team and go all in on that one? Thought kagglers would have a some insight about the challenges and opportunity by now.",
    "2234380": "From the https://scrollprize.org/participate page:\n\n>A Review Team made up of technical experts and papyrologists will assess all Grand Prize submissions to ensure that they can: \n- Read at least 4 separate passages from the two scrolls, each containing at least 140 characters of continuous text\n- Verify that each passage contains no more than 15% of characters which are missing or illegible\n- Confirm that submissions contain legitimate and linguistically plausible text\n- Independently reproduce and verify your results using your code and documented techniques\n\nThis part of the competition extends up to the end of 2023, so there is more time than the Kaggle competition.\n\nGiven the size of the data, I guess it could be possible if you put enough time and team members.\nTwo pages that are relevant here:\n\n- https://scrollprize.org/tutorial1: explaining the whole process (not only the ink detection part)\n- https://scrollprize.org/data: more details about the data (the two scrolls and fragments)"
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