| | Using generative AI as part of historical research: three case studies (resobscura.substack.com) |
| 252 points by benbreen on Jan 22, 2025 | past | 203 comments |
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| | 2k-year-old wine and the uncanny immediacy of the past (resobscura.substack.com) |
| 244 points by benbreen on Jan 15, 2025 | past | 90 comments |
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| | Why did clothing become boring? (resobscura.substack.com) |
| 104 points by benbreen on Dec 4, 2024 | past | 136 comments |
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| | A deep history of Halloween (resobscura.substack.com) |
| 132 points by benbreen on Oct 29, 2024 | past | 47 comments |
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| | Post-postal: What did we lose when we stopped writing letters? (resobscura.substack.com) |
| 68 points by benbreen on Oct 23, 2024 | past | 73 comments |
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| | On 17th century "cocaine" (resobscura.substack.com) |
| 161 points by benbreen on Oct 9, 2024 | past | 209 comments |
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| | Centuries of Childhood (resobscura.substack.com) |
| 84 points by benbreen on June 11, 2024 | past | 42 comments |
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| | Why I love etymologies (resobscura.substack.com) |
| 1 point by benbreen on May 23, 2024 | past |
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| | LLM-based educational games will be a big deal (resobscura.substack.com) |
| 8 points by benbreen on May 16, 2024 | past |
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| | LLM-based educational games will be a big deal (resobscura.substack.com) |
| 3 points by arbesman on May 14, 2024 | past |
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| | Why I Love Etymologies: Telephones popularized "hello," "lox" is 8k years old (resobscura.substack.com) |
| 4 points by benbreen on April 30, 2024 | past |
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| | Margaret Mead, John von Neumann, and the Prehistory of AI (resobscura.substack.com) |
| 134 points by arbesman on March 19, 2024 | past | 36 comments |
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| | How well can AI imitate an early modern doctor? (resobscura.substack.com) |
| 1 point by benbreen on Feb 29, 2024 | past |
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| | How well can AI imitate a 17th century doctor? (resobscura.substack.com) |
| 3 points by benbreen on Feb 16, 2024 | past | 1 comment |
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| | The (history of) spice must flow (resobscura.substack.com) |
| 71 points by benbreen on Feb 9, 2024 | past | 22 comments |
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| | Drug history is a backdoor to cultural history (resobscura.substack.com) |
| 53 points by benbreen on Feb 2, 2024 | past | 22 comments |
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| | Role-playing with AI will be a powerful tool for writers and educators (resobscura.substack.com) |
| 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) |
| 2 points by benbreen on Dec 5, 2023 | past |
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| | When Technology Follows Art (resobscura.substack.com) |
| 49 points by benbreen on Nov 29, 2023 | past | 41 comments |
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| | Margaret Mead, technocracy, and the origins of AI's ideological divide (resobscura.substack.com) |
| 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) |
| 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) |
| 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) |
| 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) |
| 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) |
| 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) |
| 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) |
| 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) |
| 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) |
| 145 points by benbreen on Sept 19, 2023 | past | 93 comments |
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| | Simulating History with ChatGPT (resobscura.substack.com) |
| 175 points by arbesman on Sept 12, 2023 | past | 79 comments |
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