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Rue de l'Avenir(en.wikipedia.org)
295 points by benbreen 3y ago|118 comments
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Once the world's largest, the Pennsylvania Hotel goes 'poof' before our eyes(nytimes.com)
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Medieval Icelandic Feasts(historytoday.com)
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Wild Pigeon Chase(noemamag.com)
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The End of Enlightenment: Empire, Commerce, Crisis(historytoday.com)
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A Look Inside the 17th-Century Witch Trials of the Arctic Circle(lithub.com)
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A silken web(aeon.co)
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by benbreen 3y ago
Forgetting context is a problem, for sure. One thing I've found that works fairly well is to include a request for a "status bar" in your prompt. I.e. you ask it to remind itself with each response 1) who it is pretending to
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by benbreen 3y ago
Not factually wrong at all - the dosages, ingredients, diagnosis and even the language are all strikingly accurate. Naturally, the "fake" 1680s doctor didn't write the same prescription as the real one (Sydenham). But a diffe
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Role-playing with AI will be a powerful tool for writers and educators(resobscura.substack.com)
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Cabinets of curiosities laid the foundation for modern museums(smithsonianmag.com)
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The most interesting things I read in 2023(resobscura.substack.com)
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History's most famous pot: the Meidias hydria(britishmuseum.org)
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by benbreen 3y ago
I think we agree, just define terms differently -- video games are art! In other words, gamers are consumers of artwork, and that consumer demand for a new kind of art drove demand for the hardware to go with it. (Naturally that wasn't
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by benbreen 3y ago
Author here - thank you for this. I definitely don't claim to be an expert on the history of 3d graphics, and you clearly know a lot more than me about the detailed history of NVIDIA. That said, starting in the early 1990s is missing t
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When Technology Follows Art(resobscura.substack.com)
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by benbreen 3y ago
Thanks for doing this. We should talk! I am a historian and have been exploring using LLMs in teaching ( https://resobscura.substack.com/p/simulating-history-with-ch... ). I love this idea. I’m fairly sure at this point
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by benbreen 3y ago
Etymonline.com is one of my favorite websites. I had no idea it had a blog though - thanks for posting. I love the description of English as “Built from half-Frenchified Roman marble and local wattle-and-daub.”
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The Vibrant Worlds of Batuan Paintings in Bali(sapiens.org)
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by benbreen 3y ago
Author here. Thank you, I thought this was an interesting point. Researching the book this post is based on, I was really struck by who was actually attending the Macy cybernetic conferences — it was incredibly eclectic. Anthropologists, ph
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Margaret Mead, technocracy, and the origins of AI's ideological divide(resobscura.substack.com)
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How to use generative AI for historical research: Four real-world case studies(resobscura.substack.com)
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From Aristocratic to Ordinary: Shifting Modes of Elite Distinction (2020)(journals.sagepub.com)
71 points by benbreen 3y ago|88 comments
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The Early Modern English Plan to Colonize Russia(historytoday.com)
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A man who invented fifteen hundred necktie knots(newyorker.com)
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The father-son struggle that helped ensure IBM's success(nytimes.com)
41 points by benbreen 3y ago|13 comments
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The world nearly adopted a calendar with 13 months of 28 days(washingtonpost.com)
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Why is RC Cola popular in Tajikistan?(snackstack.net)
60 points by benbreen 3y ago|37 comments
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21st Century Bard(nextbigideaclub.com)
5 points by benbreen 3y ago|1 comments
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The Youngest Daughter of the Sciences(laphamsquarterly.org)
18 points by benbreen 3y ago|2 comments

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