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AlotOfReading • yesterday at 5:45 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

I would be very surprised if LLMs were adequate for doing archaeological lit review. My experience is that you often find sites documented halfway through a stack of undigitized records in a physical archive somewhere, and it's usually a verbal description that's difficult to localize to a specific location. Heck, I've even contributed to the problem by finding new sites as we're packing up camp, when I didn't have time to properly document them outside field notes.


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chasd00 • yesterday at 6:29 PM

my brother in law did a lot of research in paleontology as a grad student. He said a lot of fossil discoveries take place in basements or storage rooms. Unknown things that were collected but never documented.