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All Souls exam questions and the limits of machine reasoning
The world's most eccentric exam is newly relevant in the age of AI
Aug 13
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OpenAI's "Study Mode" and the risks of flattery
Serious learning requires friction, frustration... and other humans
Jul 31
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Why were Belle Époque cities beautiful?
It's not because they were "traditional" or "classical" — in fact it's just the opposite
May 21
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AI makes the humanities more important, but also a lot weirder
Historians are finally having their AI debate
May 7
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Onfim's world
Child artists in history
Apr 16
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When Jorge Luis Borges met one of the founders of AI
One reason I became a historian is the joy of encountering moments in the past that are foreign, yet also oddly familiar.
Apr 2
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AI legibility, physical archives, and the future of research
A followup to "The leading AI models are now good historians"
Mar 5
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Happy Lupercalia
A special discount on subscriptions in honor of the Roman wolf holiday
Feb 13
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The familiar loneliness of the Kinetoscope
One other way that the 2020s resemble the 1890s
Feb 5
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When the Sackler Brothers studied LSD
One of the stranger episodes from the 1950s golden age of psychedelic therapy, and what it tells us about the history of technology
Jan 29
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The leading AI models are now good historians
... in specific domains. Three case studies with GPT-4o, o1, and Claude Sonnet 3.5, and what they mean
Jan 22
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2,000-year-old wine and the uncanny immediacy of the past
Why artifacts like the Carmona Wine Urn, the Pazyryk Rug, and the Sword of Goujian are so important
Jan 15
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