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The timeline cleanse we need

Neuf-Brisach, Alsace (wiki)
An aerial photograph showing the layout of Neuf-Brisach and the way it was built as a fortification. (Wikipedia)
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Swords Around a Throne is a sign that you're definitively on the path. If your French is reasonably on point, track down a copy of Infographie de l'Empire napoléonien.

Don't get me started on game options
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You're almost legally obliged to have this
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But Shredniwa and Greskowiak are hits; right person in the right time in the census, working in the mine
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Bartrowhatever (almost certainly mangled) may be tough; I have a feeling he may have missed the census taker dying in 1890, and moved in from who knows where.

I did find a Bartrosz name arriving from Pomerania around the right time, so that's another possibility
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I got an Ancestry account, why not?

Shrednaira should be Shredniwa, who immigrated from Austrian Poland.
Gereseverak should be Greskowiak, also Poland.
Bartroshsitas: No clue.
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I mean, it might *also* be an owl
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If we have similar trouble, do you recommend thwacking it first, or spritzing with oil?
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One of these days I'm going to cave on one of those Iron Feliks Soviet machines...on the other end of the weight spectrum
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I've found this helpful too. Even giving me a .bib file for Zotero. I do get duplicates since some of them are obscure but not the end of the world.
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Upstream of this is teaching professors/teachers how to responsibly use AI. A big part of my academic librarian day is convincing professors to see AI tools as a multitool, rather than just a "thing that writes/cheats." The rise of things like Undermind help somewhat
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My first prompt was too vague and it just compared 2000 and 2024. Second try, again with Agent Mode, went smoother. I'm not a subject expert, but the sources seem reasonable given what I know about data generally.
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Not that I've checked it by hand
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As someone at a university who talks about what products to use/try out on the free tier, this makes ChatGPT a challenge. A lot of inexperienced users are going to get a bumpy ride; I get reliable results on Plus since I can turn on thinking and more thinking, but...
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I feel like I got better results
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But the images it picks and makes for PowerPoints in Agent mode have been pretty on point in my testing, which I suspect is a better use case
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Prompting ChatGPT to research something and put information into an image seems like a frontier it can't really cross. Anyway, all these pictures are more accurate than this one of Chester Alan Arthur that Grok just made me. But then, how many Chester Alan Arthur vectors can possibly be out there
Grok's best shot, which is very bad, of a photorealistic image of former US president Chester Alan Arthur
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I was in history grad school long enough to start dreaming up research questions that could use this
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And second, it shows that the models don't sense that this sort of thing is a challenging problem and needs to switch from a nano system to something else; for a product like GPT-5 (which is essentially, to the consumer, a bundle of models) this is a task it needs to do well