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A followup to "The leading AI models are now good historians"
A special discount on subscriptions in honor of the Roman wolf holiday
One other way that the 2020s resemble the 1890s
One of the stranger episodes from the 1950s golden age of psychedelic therapy, and what it tells us about the history of technology
Three case studies with GPT-4o, o1, and Claude Sonnet 3.5, and what they mean
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Civil rights icon Rev Dr Martin Luther King Jr was shot and killed on April 4, 1968, on a motel balcony in Memphis. One of the earliest successes of the civil rights movement was a boycott in Montgomery, Alabama. In 1955, after Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat to … Continue reading The Assassination of Rev Dr Martin Luther King Jr →
I had a dinner with a friend tonight and we spoke of how the new era which has just begun makes lots of our knowledge, or the ways of thinking, about international relations, economic policies, poverty and wealth etc.
Despite its status as one of the most widely known and studied epic poems of all time, Homer’s Iliad has proven surprisingly resistant to adaptation. However much inspiration it has provided to modern-day novelists working in a variety of different traditions, it’s translated somewhat less powerfully to visual media. Perhaps people still watch Wolfgang Petersen’s […]
Wool Aliens of the British Empire JamesHoare Tue, 04/01/2025 - 09:07
