brettnbutter

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by brettnbutter 5mo ago
I'm not sure but in theory I would expect the layouts to be less variable with magazines due to the smaller page space. And vLLMs seem to be good at odd text inside images
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by brettnbutter 5mo ago
I think I see the confusing part now. The /subscribe page only is visible once you google auth or enter email / confirm your email exists. It's $9.99/month for the default selection though. In stripe it has the no CC
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by brettnbutter 5mo ago
I'm going to try to figure out how to make a subset of the data searchable for free (for anyone anonymous or not without having to start free trial) as well in the next few days, so people can play with that too before committing to an
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by brettnbutter 5mo ago
When you're anonymous or google/email authd, you can now see today-in-history stuff. There should be a gentle nudge to sign up when you view a component or go to pages that require activating the free trial (no cc required) which
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by brettnbutter 5mo ago
I'm opening up https://snewpapers.com/today-in-history to the world right now. Per @benwillis's advice below, I will figure out how to make a section of the data searchable for free as well, but this is the best
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by brettnbutter 5mo ago
I see what you mean now with the witchcran. I do instruct it not to correct old-time spellings, and only to tidy up obvious mistakes. I guess it got confused on this one
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by brettnbutter 5mo ago
Great idea. This should be fairly easy to do with the embedding vectors I have for the semantic search, using some clustering tools. Adding it to my backlog now!
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by brettnbutter 5mo ago
Hmm, I just tried to upload the jpgs of some of todays samples to Arcanum via https://www.arcanum.com/en/newspaper-segmentation/try-it/ and it didn't work. I'll try it again later, but it seems bas
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by brettnbutter 5mo ago
In hindsight it was probably a terrible example to you use, because people will think the OCR is off, but if you click on the clipping (or download the PDF from the PDF link at the top) and zoom in, you'll see that it's verbatim q
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by brettnbutter 5mo ago
Nice collection you have there. Just asked the Sleuth for some examples of that, and here's one to add to your Unional National one: https://www.finhist.com/bank-runs/episodes/19827.html https://sn
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by brettnbutter 5mo ago
Thank you, I really appreciate it. I will see if I can figure out how to do that, or like "if you're authed, you can try the Sleuth or get x free searches a month"? The balance is trying to do that without (potentially) ove
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by brettnbutter 5mo ago
A few examples you can click on without having to authenticate or click the free trial (no cc if you do though and I won't bother you or chase you with spam etc...) https://snewpapers.com/components/b2d40c08-db63-4
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Show HN: Large Scale Article Extract of Newspapers 1730s-1960s(snewpapers.com)
57 points by brettnbutter 5mo ago|20 comments
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by brettnbutter 5mo ago
Beautiful visualization! I've gone global :-)