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  • very early The Baroque Cycle coded, Quicksilver etc, Neal Stephenson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Baroque_Cycle
    by mxmilkiib
  • Are these old texts really going to improve benchmark scores compared to other things the labs could invest into?
    by charcircuit
  • My own attempts at 17th-century handwriting were a nightmare. If an LLM can parse that mess, sign me up for digital humanities.
    by Marchant_hq
  • This is a strong application of LLMs IMO. They are idea machines. Historical ways of thinking give us different paths to explore the world through.
    by riazrizvi
  • Great use case of AI. Almost 4 years after the sensational release of GPT3.5, the best use case of AI is still being a powerful search engine that can gather information from all corners of the digital world.
    by z_rho_one
  • Great post, thank you! So, let's resolve ancient Near East chronology and determine an absolute date for the sack of Babylon?
    by whythismatters
  • FWIW, I have tried my best to make the 10s of thousands of books on https://SourceLibrary.org ergonomic for both agents and people. All feedback welcome.

    To date, it is the largest collection of agent-accessible translations on the web. The mcp pulls texts and illustrations — and the API provides access to the embeddings. It’s free.

    We are based at the Embassy of the Free Mind in Amsterdam, a UNESCO-recognized library of alchemy, magic and mysticism (among other related topics)

    And, it’s worth saying, I’m very much inspired by Res Obscura’s line of curiosity-driven humanist inquiry…

    Dive into some historical mysteries, there are so many!

    by dr_dshiv
  • I've been using AI to help with my genealogical research, and it's been fantastic. I am loving pushing the family history back and catching mistakes that someone who many others share as a common ancestor have made.
    by loufe

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