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Write Like It's 1866: LLMs Relearn Telegraphese
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Everything below is reproducible — harness, frozen ledgers, one-click notebook: github.com/Travis42/telegraph-test. The Telegraph era, where every word was metered In 1866, sending a message across the new transatlantic cable cost $100 — for ten words1$10 a word, ten-word minimum, roughly $2,600 in today’s money. . That’s real money today; it was serious money then. Telegraph companies charged per...
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