Chris Barrow
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910 appearances
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard 26 Jun
Chris Barrow’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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A lot of people didn't quite regard the anniversary commemorations.
Richard Kagoe.
Now, it sounds like an impossible challenge how to read a 2,000-year-old papyrus scroll that was burnt to a crisp when Mount Vesuvius erupted in what's modern-day Italy.
Now, though, with the help of AI, a team have managed to virtually unroll the scroll from the library of a luxury Roman villa in Herculaneum.
It's one of hundreds of incredibly fragile rolls that the Vesuvius Challenge project are working on.
Brent Seals is a professor of computer science at the University of Kentucky and one of the founders of the project.
Professor Brent Seals.
Now, you may or may not be interested in football, but the Men's Football World Cup is underway at the moment, and it's a fascinating case study in tournament design.
Normally, for the maths to work nicely, you want a number like 32 or 16.
because it halves and halves again until you're left with two teams in the final but this World Cup has started off with 48 teams so to get back to a nice number like 32 you've got to knock out 16 of them which is pretty awkward and there's a match on Saturday between Austria and Algeria that's taking place that both sides probably want to lose so that their draw for the rest of the tournament is better.
There was also a famous match in 1982, West Germany versus Austria again.
Both teams wanted Germany to win by one or two goals.
The statistician David Spiegelhalter has been telling Evan Davis why 48 teams is just not a good number.
I should first of all say I'm not particularly interested in football, but this is absolutely gripping.
Austria and Algeria are currently second and third in Group J, both on three points.
Austria had a goal difference.
But the point is that the winner of the match will end up a runner-up in Group J, and they will have to play Spain in the first round of the knockout competition when they're down to 32, which isn't a match that either team particularly want to face.
And the loser of the match will end up in third place.
But because of this odd 48 teams doesn't go nicely, and they want to get 48 down to 32, out of the 12 third place teams, they're letting eight go through.
The top eight of the third place teams go through into the knockout round.
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