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251 points by benbreen 6 days ago | past | 201 comments
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244 points by benbreen 13 days ago | past | 90 comments
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104 points by benbreen 56 days ago | past | 136 comments
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132 points by benbreen 3 months ago | past | 47 comments
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68 points by benbreen 3 months ago | past | 73 comments
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161 points by benbreen 3 months ago | past | 209 comments
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| | Centuries of Childhood (resobscura.substack.com) |
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84 points by benbreen 7 months ago | past | 42 comments
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| | Why I love etymologies (resobscura.substack.com) |
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8 points by benbreen 8 months ago | past
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| | LLM-based educational games will be a big deal (resobscura.substack.com) |
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3 points by arbesman 8 months ago | past
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| | Why I Love Etymologies: Telephones popularized "hello," "lox" is 8k years old (resobscura.substack.com) |
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4 points by benbreen 9 months ago | past
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| | Margaret Mead, John von Neumann, and the Prehistory of AI (resobscura.substack.com) |
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134 points by arbesman 10 months ago | past | 36 comments
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| | How well can AI imitate an early modern doctor? (resobscura.substack.com) |
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1 point by benbreen 11 months ago | past
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| | How well can AI imitate a 17th century doctor? (resobscura.substack.com) |
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3 points by benbreen 11 months ago | past | 1 comment
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| | The (history of) spice must flow (resobscura.substack.com) |
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71 points by benbreen 11 months ago | past | 22 comments
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53 points by benbreen 12 months ago | past | 22 comments
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| | Role-playing with AI will be a powerful tool for writers and educators (resobscura.substack.com) |
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154 points by benbreen on Dec 12, 2023 | past | 101 comments
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| | The most interesting things I read in 2023 (resobscura.substack.com) |
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49 points by benbreen on Nov 29, 2023 | past | 41 comments
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149 points by benbreen on Nov 21, 2023 | past | 81 comments
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| | How to use generative AI for historical research: Four real-world case studies (resobscura.substack.com) |
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37 points by benbreen on Nov 14, 2023 | past | 18 comments
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| | The open-stack library: a futuristic technology from the 18th century (resobscura.substack.com) |
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57 points by arbesman on Nov 8, 2023 | past | 26 comments
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| | Simulating History with Multimodal AI: An Update (resobscura.substack.com) |
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53 points by benbreen on Oct 24, 2023 | past | 17 comments
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| | There should be more cash prizes for solving historical mysteries (resobscura.substack.com) |
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101 points by arbesman on Oct 24, 2023 | past | 29 comments
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| | Simulating History with Multimodal AI: An Update (resobscura.substack.com) |
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2 points by benbreen on Oct 18, 2023 | past
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| | Before psychedelic therapy for wartime trauma, there was narcosynthesis (resobscura.substack.com) |
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86 points by benbreen on Oct 10, 2023 | past | 32 comments
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| | Translating Latin demonology manuals with GPT-4 and Claude (resobscura.substack.com) |
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170 points by benbreen on Oct 3, 2023 | past | 113 comments
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| | Kikkuli: Why do some people from the distant past become memes? (resobscura.substack.com) |
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63 points by benbreen on Sept 26, 2023 | past | 54 comments
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| | Historical maps probably helped cause World War I (resobscura.substack.com) |
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145 points by benbreen on Sept 19, 2023 | past | 93 comments
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175 points by arbesman on Sept 12, 2023 | past | 79 comments
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