Historian Spawns Three AI Research Assistants for ~$5 to Map 20 Years of Annual Reports
RexDouglass · x · 2026-09-15
A historian spent a few hours and $5 of compute to spawn three digital research assistants that doggedly mapped trend lines across hundreds of annual reports spanning two decades — work that used to eat research budgets and weeks of time. "It's a great time to do history," he writes.
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