scott b. weingart
@scottbot
past: circus performer; historian of science; librarian; grantmaker; chief data & evaluation officer at NEH. present: dad; resident scholar at dartmouth; chief technology officer at the library of virginia. personal account.
Hey, I just learned not everyone in the world has read Emily Wilson's Odyssey translation yet. If you're someone who hasn't, my gosh, are you in luck to be able to read it for the first time! (But I'm guessing everyone who follows me already has...)
Another from just now: LLM caught that I potentially used the wrong address because of a name twin / family printing dynasty. I haven't double checked, but I will soon. (My text is highlighted atop; LLM wrote everything else.) Two stupid mistakes from me, probably both made late some night, caught.
Case in point: I'm writing a bio of a long-dead poet. I tasked "AI" to proofread, not specifying (e.g.,) to double check my date calculations. On its own, it realized I accidentally calculated a Gregorian date when I should've used Julian. That correction crucially changes my account of his death.
This is the University of Richmond shuttle bus: "There are spiders everywhere."