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An Inquiry into Zeros and Ones

The count feels high but JSON is more verbose than plain text and several metadata fields are irrelevant for LLM use, so we have essentially established an upper bound. The workflow runs at 8:00 AM UTC (4:00 AM Eastern), downloads the latest course data, rebuilds the static site, and deploys to GitHub Pages. The real win would be deploying this as a Model Context Protocol server, letting students query course data through their preferred chat interface.

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