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Introducing talkie: a 13B vintage language model from 1930

andrewn — 2026-05-06T08:15:05+00:00

Have you ever daydreamed about talking to someone from the past? What would you ask someone with no knowledge of the modern world? What would they ask you? While we don’t have time machines yet, we can simulate this experience by training, in Owain Evans’s phrase, ‘vintage’ language models: LMs trained only on historical text.

The surprising whimsy of the Time Zone Database - Big Muddy

andrewn — 2026-03-08T07:49:39+00:00

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andrewn — 2025-12-13T13:53:57+00:00

Four strange places to see London's Roman Wall

andrewn — 2025-11-12T12:08:34+00:00

James Watson: From DNA pioneer to untouchable pariah | STAT

andrewn — 2025-11-09T15:44:14+00:00

A history of tarot cards · V&A

andrewn — 2025-10-12T07:32:31+00:00

2,500-year-old Siberian 'ice mummy' had intricate tattoos

andrewn — 2025-08-03T14:28:06+00:00

The RISC OS GUI – Telcontar.net

andrewn — 2025-05-19T08:10:31+00:00

'A real chill': National park discovery rewrites human history

andrewn — 2025-04-12T09:34:32+00:00

The Public Domain Review – Online journal dedicated to showcasing the most interesting and unusual out-of-copyright works available on the web

andrewn — 2025-03-17T19:45:26+00:00

Cramming Solitaire onto a Nintendo E-Reader card | Matt Greer

andrewn — 2024-11-03T12:02:21+00:00

Winamp Skin Museum

andrewn — 2024-09-19T12:49:21+00:00

Genetic Evidence Overrules Ecocide Theory of Easter Island Once And For All : ScienceAlert

andrewn — 2024-09-14T09:22:23+00:00

Hyperthread: The intertwined histories of the Microchip and the Jacquard loom – CreativeApplications.Net

andrewn — 2024-09-03T07:35:59+00:00

HeyPuter/Oops.js: 🤭 Oops.js: Add powerful undo/redo capabilities to your app

andrewn — 2024-08-12T13:20:57+00:00

Turkey rejects claim Lord Elgin had permission to take Parthenon marbles | Parthenon marbles | The Guardian

andrewn — 2024-06-07T06:10:36+00:00

Faking William Morris, Generative Forgery, and the Erosion of Art History

andrewn — 2024-05-23T06:03:48+00:00

Windows 10 Desktop — GMUNK

andrewn — 2024-05-23T05:58:42+00:00

The trouble with Soho - by Ed West - Wrong Side of History

andrewn — 2024-05-06T07:03:10+00:00

All records in the Open Content Program (Getty Museum)

andrewn — 2024-03-25T12:32:44+00:00

Artvee

andrewn — 2024-02-07T19:49:39+00:00

STOLPERSTEINE: HOME

andrewn — 2024-01-23T10:36:26+00:00

‘Why is Bridgerton’s race twisting acceptable?’ The real problem with the show’s Black fantasy | Television | The Guardian

andrewn — 2023-06-12T10:17:32+00:00

Edward Johnston: the man behind London’s lettering | London Transport Museum

andrewn — 2023-03-07T06:41:27+00:00

Shawna, a Set Maker | One Terabyte of Kilobyte Age

andrewn — 2023-02-03T22:56:46+00:00

home | Database of Digital Art

andrewn — 2023-02-02T20:03:57+00:00

Button it. – Present&Correct

andrewn — 2023-01-29T15:29:42+00:00

The Knowledge Box by Ken Isaacs (1962) – SOCKS

andrewn — 2023-01-26T09:27:09+00:00

The Interface of Kai Krause's Software @mprove

andrewn — 2022-11-03T13:07:14+00:00

Essays and other works | The Orwell Foundation

andrewn — 2022-10-27T07:07:00+00:00

Graphics For The Dot-Matrix Printer : John Warner Davenport : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

andrewn — 2022-08-29T08:12:23+00:00

JavaScript had a hand in delivering James Webb Space Telescope’s images - The Verge

andrewn — 2022-08-27T09:52:14+00:00

Putting on the Dish - A short film in Polari - YouTube

andrewn — 2022-08-01T06:40:30+00:00

Lumafield CT Shows How iPods Put 1,000 Songs in Your Pocket

andrewn — 2022-05-25T09:09:08+00:00

Inbox: The Original Emoji, by Shigetaka Kurita | MoMA

andrewn — 2022-05-19T10:03:01+00:00

Cover Browser

andrewn — 2022-04-13T10:34:47+00:00

‘Sophisticated’: ancient faeces shows humans enjoyed beer and blue cheese 2,700 years ago | Anthropology | The Guardian

andrewn — 2021-11-18T13:06:47+00:00

Garden Museum - celebrating British gardens and gardening

andrewn — 2021-11-09T09:49:14+00:00

Time travelling with IKEA catalogues 1951-2021 - IKEA Museum

andrewn — 2021-11-07T17:29:55+00:00

Fortunato Depero - Wikipedia

andrewn — 2021-11-01T10:06:07+00:00

Infinite Bliss 3D Edition by Some Donkus

andrewn — 2021-05-08T07:41:38+00:00

A Windows Explorer

Computing History Hub

andrewn — 2021-03-12T07:24:30+00:00

Here’s everything we learned from this list of alternative names considered for London’s boroughs - City Monitor

andrewn — 2021-02-21T08:21:20+00:00

The naming of the London Boroughs: Part One – LCCmunicipal

andrewn — 2021-02-21T08:20:55+00:00

Folklore - The Folklore Society

andrewn — 2021-02-16T09:52:46+00:00

Raw, brave, wild and honest: why Germany is Europe's greatest artistic nation | Art | The Guardian

andrewn — 2021-01-19T23:32:26+00:00

Germany, 1951: Solidarity with Nazi mass murderers | Germany| News and in-depth reporting from Berlin and beyond | DW | 06.01.2021

andrewn — 2021-01-07T20:41:48+00:00

Seventy years ago, thousands of Germans gathered in the Bavarian town of Landsberg to demonstrate against the death penalty for Nazi war criminals. The event shows how little awareness of guilt there was among Germans.

The National Trust is under attack because it cares about history, not fantasy | Peter Mitchell | Opinion | The Guardian

andrewn — 2020-11-13T07:47:19+00:00

Culture in the Third Reich by Moritz Föllmer review – when fascism stole the show | Books | The Guardian

andrewn — 2020-08-04T08:30:53+00:00

History - Miranda Kaufmann

andrewn — 2020-08-04T08:20:14+00:00

AIDS and the Distribution of Crises | Books Gateway | Duke University Press

andrewn — 2020-05-02T09:10:29+00:00

AIDS and the Distribution of Crises engages with the AIDS pandemic as a network of varied historical, overlapping, and ongoing crises born of

How an Album Meant for Scientific Research Became Therapy for Its Co-Creator | Bandcamp Daily

andrewn — 2020-04-28T07:13:02+00:00

JavaScript: The First 20 Years | Zenodo

andrewn — 2020-03-17T08:45:36+00:00

How a sidekick scripting language for Java, created at Netscape in a ten-day hack, ships first as a de facto Web standard and eventually becomes the world’s most widely used programming language. This paper tells the story of the creation, design, evolution, and standardization of the JavaScript language over the period of 1995–2015. But the story is not only about the technical details of the language. It is also the story of how people and organizations competed and collaborated to...

One of the wonders of the world Gen X has seen is HIV going from a relatively short term death sentence to a preventable chronic illness managed with medication.

andrewn — 2020-03-01T19:03:50+00:00

Our Predictions About the Internet Are Probably Wrong

andrewn — 2020-02-20T10:42:39+00:00

ESMT Campus Tours | ESMT Berlin

andrewn — 2020-01-23T21:30:29+00:00

The Story Behind Berlin's Iconic Home Design - CityLab

andrewn — 2020-01-19T10:21:02+00:00

Hazardous hats: V&A staff don gloves to move arsenic-laced relics | Art and design | The Guardian

andrewn — 2020-01-05T21:16:10+00:00

Relocation of museum’s collections to east London has brought surprising dangers

‘We finished every bottle!’ Berlin's cultural legends on the night the Wall came down | Culture | The Guardian

andrewn — 2019-11-05T14:03:28+00:00

It divided families, trapped half a city and symbolised the cold war. Then, 30 years ago this Saturday, the Berlin wall fell. Wim Wenders, Ute Lemper, Daniel Barenboim and more share their memories

〽️ax krieger's big mood on Twitter: "In the late 90s, a slice of the future moved into London's Piccadilly Circus. Decked out in glistening chrome, it offered high-tech thrills and one-of-a-kind experiences. Then, as quickly as it came, this glimpse i

andrewn — 2019-07-14T15:12:12+00:00

Why the writing's on the wall for Berlin's murals | World news | The Guardian

andrewn — 2019-06-16T17:08:15+00:00

KEEP IT SIMPLE | arnoldsche Art Publishers

andrewn — 2019-05-17T06:32:40+00:00

Modern Love: how to teach design history – Alexandra D-S – Medium

andrewn — 2019-04-16T06:35:43+00:00

The Millennium Dome - a design thread.

andrewn — 2019-03-19T10:17:26+00:00

The Millennium Dome - a design thread.

pomber/git-history: Quickly browse the history of a file from any git repository

andrewn — 2019-03-19T09:19:01+00:00

Quickly browse the history of a file from any git repository - https://githistory.xyz/

How can we break the Brexit deadlock? Ask ancient Athens | James Bridle | Opinion | The Guardian

andrewn — 2018-12-26T17:18:28+00:00

How an Astonishing Holocaust Diary Resurfaced in America | History | Smithsonian

andrewn — 2018-10-27T14:03:32+00:00

tiles

andrewn — 2018-08-14T10:24:48+00:00

A pre-history of weeknotes, plus why I write them and perhaps why you should too (Week 16)

andrewn — 2018-08-06T16:59:53+00:00

Invisible Machines — Christoph Rauscher

andrewn — 2018-05-23T07:41:24+00:00