I like it. Is there any chance you could add Hermann Hesse?
Show HN: Learn from 30 historical figures, open source, nonprofit, self-hosted
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#13Really like this. The mission stands out the most, you've built something that's honest about being a starting point and is actually designed to send people on to the primary texts and real teachers, which is the opposite of what most apps optimize for. The per-figure factcheck showing what's verified versus recreated is a thoughtful honesty touch too. Lovely project.
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#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think "echo" is a fine word to use, they're hardly calling them "reincarnations".
Wording aside, I think the concept is icky.
We have writing, artifacts and objects from ancient peoples which we then use to try to construct historiographies of those cultures, as well as interpretations of their lived experience and circumstances.
This is just doing it for specific historical figures with a different type of technology. Why is it more disrespectful than what historians do?
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#15I've skimmed this announcement, your github repo and your site and it isn't clear to me, are these custom models? Are they fine-tuned from some base model? e.g. do you have 30 separate models?
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
Wording aside, I think the concept is icky.
Why though? We have writing, artifacts and objects from ancient peoples which we then use to try to construct historiographies of those cultures, as well as interpretations of their lived experience and circumstances. This is just doing it for specific historical figures with a different type of technology. Why is it more disrespectful than what historians do?
Historians also generally adhere to a standard when making a claim, not throwing it to the math machine for regurgitating.
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#20How do you apply the Kolb cycle?