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A followup to "The leading AI models are now good historians"
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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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The Star of India is an iron-hulled merchant sailing ship built in England in 1863. On display at the Maritime Museum of San Diego, she is billed as “the world’s oldest active sailing ship”. In 1863, the Gibson, McDonald & Arnold shipbuilding company, on the Isle of Man, began work on a three-masted sailing barque … Continue reading Sailing Ship “Star of India” →
“Happiness isn’t forever. We were happy and we didn’t know it.” – Alex Maspon on Ibiza in the 1980s In these straightened times of polarised debate, herd mentality, religious fundamentalism and social conformity we need Oriol Maspons’ pictures of 1980s Ibiza. The Spanish photographer’s portraits of Ibiza holidays in the ’80s takes us … Continue reading "Ibiza Undressed – Uninhibited Clubbing in the 1980s (NSFW)" The post Ibiza Undressed – Uninhibited Clubbing in the 1980s (NSFW) appeared first on Flashbak.
Two days after Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany, the Lutheran pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer took to the airwaves. Before his radio broadcast was cut off, he warned his countrymen that their führer could well be a verführer, or misleader. Bonhoeffer’s anti-Nazism lasted until the end of his life in 1945, when he was executed by […]
