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TimeCapsuleLLM: LLM trained only on data from 1800-1875

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Post by kopollo »

ddxv wrote: post #212
kopollo wrote: post #50

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I don't know if this is related to the topic, but GPT5 can convert an 1880 Ottoman archival photograph to English, and without any loss of quality.

My friend works in that period of Ottoman archives. Do you have a source or something I can share?

Yes here: https://katalog.devletarsivleri.gov.tr/

Here you will find all official resources provided by the Turkish state. You can register as a foreign citizen and conduct research. However, knowing Turkish is a great advantage. You can find more accurate documents by searching in the summaries, because all documents are archived with a short Turkish explanation - a summary. Also, most scanned images you want to download are paid.

Re: TimeCapsuleLLM: LLM trained only on data from 1800-1875

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Post by emodendroket »

twoodfin wrote: post #216
emodendroket wrote: post #126

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> Does anyone say "we don't know if Einstein could do this because we were really close or because he was really smart?" It turns out my reading is somewhat topical. I've been reading Rhodes' "The Making of the Atomic Bomb" and of the things he takes great pains to argue (I was not quite anticipating how much I'd be trying to recall my high school science classes to make sense of his account of various experiments) i…

It’s been a while since I read it, but I recall Rhodes’ point being that once the fundamentals of fission in heavy elements were validated, making a working bomb was no longer primarily a question of science, but one of engineering.

Engineering began before they were done with the experimentation and theorizing part. But the US, the UK, France, Germany, the Soviets, and Japan all had nuclear weapons programs with different degrees of success.

Re: TimeCapsuleLLM: LLM trained only on data from 1800-1875

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Post by strbean »

viccis wrote: post #183
strbean wrote: post #175

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So, based on the source of "Trust me bro.", we'll decide this open question about new technology and the nature of cognition is solved. Seems unproductive.

In addition to what I have posted elsewhere in here, I would point to the fact that this is not indeed an "open question", as LLMs have not produced an entirely new and more advanced model of physics. So there is no reason to suppose they could have done so for QM.

> as LLMs have not produced an entirely new and more advanced model of physics.

That's a bar that only a handful of humans have met in the entirety of history.

Re: TimeCapsuleLLM: LLM trained only on data from 1800-1875

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Post by ddxv »

kopollo wrote: post #331
ddxv wrote: post #212

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My friend works in that period of Ottoman archives. Do you have a source or something I can share?

Yes here: https://katalog.devletarsivleri.gov.tr/ Here you will find all official resources provided by the Turkish state. You can register as a foreign citizen and conduct research. However, knowing Turkish is a great advantage. You can find more accurate documents by searching in the summaries, because all documents are archived with a short Turkish explanation - a summary. Also, most scanned images you want to dow…

Oh yeah I guess he researches at the one you're talking about in Istanbul. I actually was asking about a source for where you saw it translating ottoman, I thought you'd seen an article or something I could share to him. Sounds like you're the primary source though and I guess you already know him if you're both working there! Haha
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