A few hours of effort yields AI-generated errata for a paper archive

littmath · x · 2026-08-27

Litt notes the auto-generated errata are rough in places (e.g., replacing whole paragraphs where one word would do) and may be improved later, but he's posting them as-is to show what a few hours of effort can accomplish.

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