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by benbreen 10mo ago
Was going to say - it would be fascinating to go a step further and have Gemini simulate the actual articles. That would elevate this to level of something like an art piece. Really enjoyed this, thank you for posting it. I'm going to
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by benbreen 10mo ago
I read Ulysses Grant's memoirs awhile back, and loved his description of being in San Francisco in the 1850s. (Another tidbit I loved is that he imagined an alternate path for his life where he would have settled down in the Bay Area a
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by benbreen 10mo ago
I think the median response is something between revulsion and mild dislike if it's spoken about in the context of the classroom. But there are also a pretty significant group of people who find it interesting as a potential research t
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by benbreen 10mo ago
Thank you! So glad people here are reading (I'm the author of the post). I'm doing student meetings and grading all day but happy to answer questions or discuss anything historical with the HN community in between!
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I have been writing a niche history blog for 15 years(resobscura.substack.com)
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Did the Giant Heads of Easter Island Once Walk?(nytimes.com)
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by benbreen 10mo ago
Agreed. Or at least the best non-Shakespeare play I've ever read, and among the best works of 20th century literature. I really can't recommend Arcadia highly enough. It's both deeply moving and extremely thought-provoking, c
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Tom Stoppard's Ordinary Magic(commonreader.co.uk)
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Garfield's proof of the Pythagorean Theorem(en.wikipedia.org)
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Stereo Images of Giant Galaxies(bbc.com)
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How well can Gemini 3 make a Henry James simulator?(resobscura.substack.com)
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Can automation help make the humanities more human?(resobscura.substack.com)
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Aptronym(en.wikipedia.org)
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What happened with the CIA and The Paris Review?(theparisreview.org)
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The debate over a tech breakthrough raising questions about life itself(washingtonpost.com)
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Itiner-e: A high-resolution dataset of roads of the Roman Empire(nature.com)
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The Age of Books and the Age of Brainrot(resobscura.substack.com)
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Artificial Versifying (2019)(jeffreymbinder.net)
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Can automation help make the humanities more human?(resobscura.substack.com)
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The Transformations of Fernand Braudel(historytoday.com)
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The Future of Space Is More Than Human(noemamag.com)
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Scopist(en.wikipedia.org)
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by benbreen 1y ago
Currently working on an idea like this, but its a history simulator for educational use - I find that LLMs respond rather well to being grounded in a specific time/setting in real world history, as opposed to being told to roleplay a f
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Thieves steal treasured jewelry from Louvre in 7-minute daylight heist(washingtonpost.com)
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Baltasar Gracián(en.wikipedia.org)
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Bédélia(en.wikipedia.org)
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Thishereness(lrb.co.uk)
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Modesty Is Not a Virtue: Norbert Wiener (1995)(cs.nyu.edu)
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The Age of Books and the Age of Brainrot(resobscura.substack.com)
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Making sure AI serves people and knowledge stays human(diff.wikimedia.org)
122 points by benbreen 1y ago|34 comments

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