Thank you, this is really cool. Lovely!
Thanks for the kind words. It has been fun to put together - Hopefully a good addition to the world.
Show HN: The Federalist Papers, typeset as the 1787 newspapers they ran in
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Re: Show HN: The Federalist Papers, typeset as the 1787 newspapers they ran in
#12this is excellent typesetting
Thank you! AI clearly helped a ton, but the number of rounds of me having it render different fonts / formats was staggering. And, I was fortunate enough to come across justif (https://justif.lyall.co/) - I found via HN! ... It perfectly implemented the system of justification I needed.
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#13Great stuff. I've been doing some digging in this period of American history recently and it has lead me to brainstorm about similar applications of modern AI for historical analysis or presentation. I think there's a lot of newly ripened low-hanging fruit right in fields like History now that LLM tools have either digested a lot of historical sources or can be used to build systems such as this for presenting that d…
I love the idea of a map to study provenance. For example, consider the phrases “legislative power,” “executive power,” and “judicial power,” appearing in Articles I, II, and III of the constitution. The first is defined by reference to the subsequent article. But the second and third are not defined in the constitution. Apparently those terms were used as such in writing during the English Civil War, more than 100 y…
These are great thoughts. I may do some investigation into how the Federalist Papers spread, but even with AI, these may be significant research efforts. I need graduate assistants!
Re: Show HN: The Federalist Papers, typeset as the 1787 newspapers they ran in
#14this is excellent typesetting
Thank you! AI clearly helped a ton, but the number of rounds of me having it render different fonts / formats was staggering. And, I was fortunate enough to come across justif ( https://justif.lyall.co/ ) - I found via HN! ... It perfectly implemented the system of justification I needed.
yeah who cares what tools you used to make it: this is a beautiful reproduction
Re: Show HN: The Federalist Papers, typeset as the 1787 newspapers they ran in
#15Very well done, love it!
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#16Very well done, love it!
Thank you! It's been fun.