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Defending adverbs exuberantly if conditionally(countercraft.substack.com)
86 points by benbreen 1y ago|52 comments
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Sid Meier's Pirates – In-depth (2017)(shot97retro.blogspot.com)
168 points by benbreen 1y ago|72 comments
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The Art of the Critic(metropolitanreview.org)
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Making maps with noise functions (2022)(redblobgames.com)
54 points by benbreen 1y ago|3 comments
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by benbreen 1y ago
Just as a side note, I ended up turning the 1970s RPG type game it originally made into a text-based RPG where you play as Henry James in 1889, kind of fun! Curious if the link actually works: https://aistudio.google.com/app
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by benbreen 1y ago
Yes, I think this kind of combination is where higher ed is going to land. I've been talking to a colleague lately about how social skills and public speaking just got more important (and are things we need to focus on actually teachin
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by benbreen 1y ago
The ability to seamlessly integrate generated images is fascinating. Although it currently takes too long to really work in a game or educational context. As an experiment I just asked it to "recreate the early RPG game Pedit5 ( https:
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Why were Belle Époque cities beautiful?(resobscura.substack.com)
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William James's Grief (2024)(frontporchrepublic.com)
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Onfim's world: Child artists in history(resobscura.substack.com)
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Ninth Bridgewater Treatise(en.wikipedia.org)
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As Bright as a Feather: Ostriches, Home Dyeing, and the Global Plume Trade(publicdomainreview.org)
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Henry James's family tried to keep him in the closet (2016)(theguardian.com)
16 points by benbreen 1y ago|24 comments
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Hill or High Water(royalsociety.org)
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AI makes the humanities more important, but also a lot weirder(resobscura.substack.com)
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The Once and Future Genius(literaryreview.co.uk)
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Shakespeare may not have been a remote husband, new study finds(washingtonpost.com)
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How Much Should You Know About Your Child Before He's Born?(newyorker.com)
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Henry James was not at home in America(newrepublic.com)
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Georgetown–IBM Experiment(en.wikipedia.org)
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Mistaking Mary Magdalene(newyorker.com)
42 points by benbreen 1y ago|29 comments
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Home Depot's $20B secret garden(wsj.com)
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by benbreen 1y ago
Author of the original Appendix article here (the one about Darwin's kids) - I think it got on HN today because I linked to while discussing Onfim here: https://resobscura.substack.com/p/onfims-world-medieval-chil.
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Onfim's World: Child artists in history(resobscura.substack.com)
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Typographic Pictures Composed Entirely of Brass Rule (2024)(blog.glyphdrawing.club)
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by benbreen 2y ago
That's awesome, thank you for uploading.
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by benbreen 2y ago
Gwern and others who have dug into it this far might be interested by this footnote in the Crespo article: "I have tried to lay my hands on the original version of the conversation, as I am sure Simon did, too. I contacted Gabriel Zadu
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by benbreen 2y ago
I've been developing a more elaborate variation on the "chat with a pdf" idea for my own use as a researcher. It's mostly designed for a historian's workflow but it works pretty well for science and engineering pape
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When Jorge Luis Borges met one of the founders of AI(resobscura.substack.com)
167 points by benbreen 2y ago|61 comments
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Lapham's Quarterly Announces New Stewardship(laphamsquarterly.org)
45 points by benbreen 2y ago|6 comments

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