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I love this, and my lottery dream consists of funding a scalable, interactive, tag-based version that allows layering of different topics. As a schoolteacher, t
by georgebcrawford 2y ago
I love this, and my lottery dream consists of funding a scalable, interactive, tag-based version that allows layering of different topics. As a schoolteacher, the woolly mammoths/pyramids moments are great for my 12/13 year old students. Revolutions, wars, social movements, the arts, sports, science, etc could all be toggled, with links to Wikipedia or potentially other sources for each entry. Potentially crowd-sourced with moderation. I also dream of having a classroom tool version that students could build.
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- mncharity 2y agoI'm reminded of Grun's The Timetables of History: A Horizontal Linkage of People and Events[1]. It's a giant table of line-or-paragraph brief entries, arranged by year rows and column topics (Politics, Literature, Religion, Art, Music, SciTech, DailyLife). For a web interactive sketch, where every day was a dot (a year across, centuries fit on a screen, mouseover gives newspaper links etc), I mined Wikipedia links from their event lists[2]. A bit limited as source material, but even a limited LLM might tag them. Hmm, and a limited LLM is giving interesting answers to "List events in Topic from between 700 BC and 600 BC." (usual caveats, and other tooling needed for links). [1] example page images on https://www.ebay.com/itm/403249650410 https://www.ebay.com/itm/403249650410 [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1924 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1924 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_3 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_3