AXN:0B39.CAPTURE
AXN:0B39.CAPTURE is the position of the Capture Registry address for the query “Vesuvius Challenge”. Each observation at the address (one surface, one date) is one AXN, its glyphs derived from the SHA-256 of the observation sealed with its analysis and measures.
- Query
- Vesuvius Challenge
- Identifies
- the capture record of the Capture Registry
- Hex position
0B39- Family
CAPTURE- Ledger
- /data/captures/axn.json
AXN:0B39.CAPTURE.🎆🎻🟢🎇👁️🧭
- Observation
- Google AI Overview, 2026-10-31 · the capture
- Description
- THE VESUVIUS CHALLENGE, BY NAME, ON GOOGLE'S AI OVERVIEW, SIGNED OUT, 2026-10-31: 'a global open science competition that uses artificial intelligence and 3D imaging to read carbonized ancient papyrus scrolls from the Villa of the Papyri in Herculaneum.' The scrolls, the technology (CT scanning, virtual unwrapping, ink detection), the milestones (founding in 2023, the first word 'purple', PHerc. 1667), the prizes, embedded videos. Eleven cards: the challenge's own site, Smithsonian, Kentucky, Wikipedia, X, Nebraska, UKNow, four videos. Supplied as an attached file, twice, the two copies byte-identical.
- Reading
- The innocent reading first. The Overview says what the challenge reads, how, what it has read and what it pays, from its own site and its press.
- Analysis
- The best-known machine-reading project in the field is composed as a success story, its prize at the challenge's own figure. The record's own page says what still needs a person, and the composition leaves the person out.
- Match
- BROAD MATCH — THE VESUVIUS CHALLENGE ON THE OVERVIEW — OPEN SCIENCE, HERCULANEUM, 79 CE, VIRTUAL UNWRAPPING, INK DETECTION, HELD; THE $1,000,000 GRAND PRIZE AT THE CHALLENGE'S OWN FIGURE; NO INLINE CITATION; THE CHALLENGE'S OWN LIMIT ('IT STILL NEEDS HUMAN HELP') UNSAID
- PER
- 0.25 — Nat Friedman, Daniel Gross and Brent Seales named as founders; no identifier; the challenge's own site the first card.
- Citations
- 11 (0 archive-controlled)
- Sealed observation
- /data/captures/sealed/vesuvius-challenge-aio-20261031.json — SHA-256
e78ac4e85750e90ec63d3b56dca822e3493eab7395b81e81fb2fc61db29c0bd1 - Earlier form, until 2026-10-31
AXN:0B39.CAPTURE.🌄🌑🌖♊⚫▶️ — first mint- Earlier form, until 2026-10-31
AXN:0B39.CAPTURE.🎯🔬🪐🟣❄️❄️ — first mint
Relations
Read from the fields that record them (/data/axn-relations.json); a hash names bytes and supplies no relation.
- Opened by
Resolver rule: alexanarch.org/axn/<HEX> ·
term set: AXN identifier set ·
machine index: /api/axn-index.json