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For Halloween, I asked Opus 5.5 to suggest a spooky project based on my existing work, and it came up with the idea of the ghost census. Pick a location and see how many people died within a 100 meters of it through all of history up to a century ago. https://ghost-census.netlify.app/
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- Ethan Mollick
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- shared a spooky project idea called the ghost census, suggested by Opus 5.5
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For Halloween, I asked Opus 5.5 to suggest a spooky project based on my existing work, and it came up with the idea of the ghost census.
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See the full storyEthan Mollick Shares Opus 5.5’s “Ghost Census” Project IdeaFor Halloween, I asked Opus 5.5 to suggest a spooky project based on my existing work, and it came up with the idea of the ghost census. Pick a location and see how many people died within a 100 meters of it through all of history up to a century ago. https://ghost-census.netlify.app/
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Ethan Mollick shared a project called the “ghost census,” linking to a website and saying Opus 5.5 suggested the idea after he asked for a spooky Halloween project based on his existing work. Mollick described the concept as letting users pick a location and see how many people died within 100 meters of it across history, ending a century ago.
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