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LLM Lab Book 2026-06-30: Using LLMs with Datasette-agent and Database Prep vs Token Usage on Claude

 I'm condensing the steps to move from travel manifest page to human readable findings to sqlite database here. History Research Contextual Recap I'm working on a history of physics research project that explores how industrialists interested in fringe physics wound up actually funding mainstream general relativity research. As part of that research, I've been looking at the travel manifests of various industrialists and research scientists from the 1930s to the 1950s. Because there are literally thousands of passengers on their combined voyages, I'm using LLM agents orchestrated through Gas Town to coordinate the research. At present, I am working on a bit of a mystery. Multiple sources state that Hedy Lamarr came to the United States aboard the S.S. Normandy, arriving on September 30th, 1937. That's the same ship that Tom Slick, (one of the industrialists of whom I spoke above), took across the Atlantic. There's only one problem. Hedy isn't on the travel ...