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Using LLMs to trace alchemical knowledge and decode 17th century letters

174 points · 44 comments · benbreen

  1. unnamed_lands · · focus · HN ↗
    The genealogy subthread is the best part here. Catching a wrong parent in a widely shared tree is exactly the kind of error a confident secondary source hides: every copy agrees, so nobody re-checks the record. Worth trying.
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