Also Sprach Zamo.ca NG

I didn't write much about the Romanian elections, and given the significant disruptions, I thought I share my thoughts. Let me start by asking a few LLMs about Calin Georgescu and the odds of Russian meddling as well as the odds of his campaign having broken the law.

I felt that merely listing the Dacian toponyms isn’t doing anybody any favours. Much like most people didn’t know about the Dacian treasures until they were stolen, I suspect that most Romanians don’t know where the rivers are unless they see them on a map.

I’ve taken that prompt and fed it to Claude AI with amazing results. Here it is, and the Romanian translation will be more refined.

Having heard of the magic of the new kid in town (DeepSeek), I put it through the paces of that “novel prompt” with quite impressing results and ask it for an illustration as well.

We’ve discussed in the recent past how the VERY sparse information we have about Dacians has allowed very little “certain” knowledge about our ancestors. And I just learned about a theft that happened on the last day of a travelling expo at the Drents museum: it’s catastrophic.

A more recent, newer list of likely Dacian words is an opportunity to look back at a few issues with Meta Marioara.