Ben Nagy
@rantyben.bsky.social
I turn latin poetry into long lists of floating point numbers
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We shed as we pick up, like travellers who must carry everything in their arms and what we let fall will be picked up by those behind. The procession is very long and life is very short. We die on the march. But there is nothing outside the march so nothing can be lost to it.
Tom Stoppard 1937-2025
Tom Stoppard 1937-2025
November 29, 2025 at 7:03 PM
We shed as we pick up, like travellers who must carry everything in their arms and what we let fall will be picked up by those behind. The procession is very long and life is very short. We die on the march. But there is nothing outside the march so nothing can be lost to it.
Tom Stoppard 1937-2025
Tom Stoppard 1937-2025
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Latin word of the year voting is now open!
Lärm, Schnarcher, Knurren... Was wird 2025 das LATEINWORT DES JAHRES?
Bis zum 14. Dezember können alle Lateinbegeisterten über das lateinische Wort des Jahres abstimmen.
Mehr dazu und Abstimmung: badw.de/die-akademie...
Bis zum 14. Dezember können alle Lateinbegeisterten über das lateinische Wort des Jahres abstimmen.
Mehr dazu und Abstimmung: badw.de/die-akademie...
November 27, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Latin word of the year voting is now open!
name 26 words with a better(/worse?) ratio. I'll wait.
November 27, 2025 at 8:15 PM
name 26 words with a better(/worse?) ratio. I'll wait.
WEHH due to an unexpected bone shard I have lost yet another tooth. Only a quarter of it has sheared off, but I don't hold out much hope for its survival
November 27, 2025 at 5:39 PM
WEHH due to an unexpected bone shard I have lost yet another tooth. Only a quarter of it has sheared off, but I don't hold out much hope for its survival
basically no "took our jobs" line is ever valid
November 27, 2025 at 2:52 PM
basically no "took our jobs" line is ever valid
(for the record, without evaluating the premise, in a sensible socialist society this would be cause for celebration: I also don't wring my hands about pickaxe-coal-miners who lost their jobs)
The stock market's big bet on AI assumes that a universal plagiarism machine can throw 20 million Americans out of work in the next few years. If it wins the bet, the bottom drops out of the US economy; if it loses, the economy implodes from the top. www.yahoo.com/news/article...
AI can replace nearly 12% of U.S. workers: MIT study
The study simulated over 151 million U.S. workers interacting with AI tools to measure automation potential
www.yahoo.com
November 27, 2025 at 2:51 PM
(for the record, without evaluating the premise, in a sensible socialist society this would be cause for celebration: I also don't wring my hands about pickaxe-coal-miners who lost their jobs)
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📢 #CfP #medievalsky #Ovid
📜Teaching with Ovid: An online pedagogy symposium
📅12-13 June 2026
📃The International Ovidian Society and the Societas Ovidiana invite paper proposals on any aspect of teaching Ovid in the classroom
📲Details: shorturl.at/RiviU
⏰Submission deadline: Friday 16 January 2026‼️
📜Teaching with Ovid: An online pedagogy symposium
📅12-13 June 2026
📃The International Ovidian Society and the Societas Ovidiana invite paper proposals on any aspect of teaching Ovid in the classroom
📲Details: shorturl.at/RiviU
⏰Submission deadline: Friday 16 January 2026‼️
November 27, 2025 at 12:13 PM
📢 #CfP #medievalsky #Ovid
📜Teaching with Ovid: An online pedagogy symposium
📅12-13 June 2026
📃The International Ovidian Society and the Societas Ovidiana invite paper proposals on any aspect of teaching Ovid in the classroom
📲Details: shorturl.at/RiviU
⏰Submission deadline: Friday 16 January 2026‼️
📜Teaching with Ovid: An online pedagogy symposium
📅12-13 June 2026
📃The International Ovidian Society and the Societas Ovidiana invite paper proposals on any aspect of teaching Ovid in the classroom
📲Details: shorturl.at/RiviU
⏰Submission deadline: Friday 16 January 2026‼️
WOTD: pareidolia
November 27, 2025 at 1:34 PM
WOTD: pareidolia
OK I don't know what enjambement is. If I start searching for just "a root verb whose subject is in the previous line" I get a bunch of stuff which.. technically yes, but poetically meh.
If I limit it it to "root verb starts the following line" then it's more interesting, but still not ideal...
If I limit it it to "root verb starts the following line" then it's more interesting, but still not ideal...
November 27, 2025 at 1:18 PM
OK I don't know what enjambement is. If I start searching for just "a root verb whose subject is in the previous line" I get a bunch of stuff which.. technically yes, but poetically meh.
If I limit it it to "root verb starts the following line" then it's more interesting, but still not ideal...
If I limit it it to "root verb starts the following line" then it's more interesting, but still not ideal...
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November 27, ca. 110 or 112 CE: Happy birthday to Antinous, stunning boyfriend of emperor Hadrian. Make sure you get yourself a boyfriend who builds cities for you and then starts a cult in your honor if you were ever to fall into the Nile. 🐊 followinghadrian.com/2016/11/27/t... (See CIL XIV 2112).
November 27, 2025 at 12:37 PM
November 27, ca. 110 or 112 CE: Happy birthday to Antinous, stunning boyfriend of emperor Hadrian. Make sure you get yourself a boyfriend who builds cities for you and then starts a cult in your honor if you were ever to fall into the Nile. 🐊 followinghadrian.com/2016/11/27/t... (See CIL XIV 2112).
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I feel you, ancient Mongolian ceramic hedgehog. I feel you.
November 26, 2025 at 10:17 AM
I feel you, ancient Mongolian ceramic hedgehog. I feel you.
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This is a superb paper for understanding some of the issues and limitations with Lomb-Scargle, NUDFT, etc: arxiv.org/abs/1703.09824
Understanding the Lomb-Scargle Periodogram
The Lomb-Scargle periodogram is a well-known algorithm for detecting and characterizing periodic signals in unevenly-sampled data. This paper presents a conceptual introduction to the Lomb-Scargle per...
arxiv.org
November 26, 2025 at 3:35 PM
This is a superb paper for understanding some of the issues and limitations with Lomb-Scargle, NUDFT, etc: arxiv.org/abs/1703.09824
(great set of responses, I have some reading to do...)
Anyone have experience analysing periodicity (eg with Fourier) in data with gaps/missings (eg weekends, holidays) - this is in a health context if it helps? Looking for guides to pitfalls, etc
November 26, 2025 at 7:24 PM
(great set of responses, I have some reading to do...)
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“The Software Paper fills a gap for the computational and digital humanities communities...” Thank you to research software engineer extraordinaire @suttonkoeser.bsky.social for leading this initiative for Computational Humanities Research journal. Please share!
Introducing the 'Software Paper': New ways to publish on research software in Computational Humanities Research
When Lauren Tilton first approached me about joining the Computational Humanities Research (CHR) journal’s Editorial Board as an Associate Editor, the thing that made the invitation so compelling and ...
www.cambridge.org
November 26, 2025 at 2:04 PM
“The Software Paper fills a gap for the computational and digital humanities communities...” Thank you to research software engineer extraordinaire @suttonkoeser.bsky.social for leading this initiative for Computational Humanities Research journal. Please share!
ok very impressive but why did Gaudí think it was a good idea to design tiny snakes for people as gifts?
Some time ago we came across this perfectly formed and harmless baby horseshoe whipsnake on the steps of Bodegas Güell, designed by Antoni Gaudí for his patron enriched from exploiting the Catalan working class and his father's slave profits in Cuba. El Garraf, just down the road from Barcelona.
November 26, 2025 at 7:17 PM
ok very impressive but why did Gaudí think it was a good idea to design tiny snakes for people as gifts?
today's hacking was add tree output to my little wrapper for the (beta) Latin files that will be in versologie.cz/poetree/
The corpus has assorted enrichment, with more on the way, but one of the nice things is full parsing via the latest UDPipe model.
The corpus has assorted enrichment, with more on the way, but one of the nice things is full parsing via the latest UDPipe model.
November 25, 2025 at 3:34 PM
today's hacking was add tree output to my little wrapper for the (beta) Latin files that will be in versologie.cz/poetree/
The corpus has assorted enrichment, with more on the way, but one of the nice things is full parsing via the latest UDPipe model.
The corpus has assorted enrichment, with more on the way, but one of the nice things is full parsing via the latest UDPipe model.
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I explain this trick in my online lectures - lecture 13 40min: youtu.be/sgqMkZeslxA?...
November 25, 2025 at 10:47 AM
I explain this trick in my online lectures - lecture 13 40min: youtu.be/sgqMkZeslxA?...
J-B C is the real deal, get into this if you are into survival modelling, etc.
Que reste-t-il des textes médiévaux ? Pourquoi certains survivent et d’autres s’effacent ?
👉 Une séance de séminaire dédiée aux enjeux de la transmission textuelle dans le cadre du projet ERC LostMA avec @jbcamps.bsky.social
Rendez-vous demain à partir de 14h
Inscription 🔽
👉 Une séance de séminaire dédiée aux enjeux de la transmission textuelle dans le cadre du projet ERC LostMA avec @jbcamps.bsky.social
Rendez-vous demain à partir de 14h
Inscription 🔽
Modelling the transmission and survival of texts and manuscripts | médialab Sciences Po
Le séminaire du médialab accueille Jean-Baptiste Camps pour une séance sur le projet LostMA sur la transmission et la survie des anciens textes. Il analysera comment et pourquoi certains textes manusc...
medialab.sciencespo.fr
November 24, 2025 at 10:13 PM
J-B C is the real deal, get into this if you are into survival modelling, etc.
Seasons came, seasons went
The winter stripped the blossoms bare
A different tree now lines the streets
Shaking its fists in the air
~ Nick Cave, 1997
The winter stripped the blossoms bare
A different tree now lines the streets
Shaking its fists in the air
~ Nick Cave, 1997
November 24, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Seasons came, seasons went
The winter stripped the blossoms bare
A different tree now lines the streets
Shaking its fists in the air
~ Nick Cave, 1997
The winter stripped the blossoms bare
A different tree now lines the streets
Shaking its fists in the air
~ Nick Cave, 1997
this is what I do for fun. automatically 'detecting' ascending tricolons using dodgy syntactic parsing...
November 24, 2025 at 6:50 PM
this is what I do for fun. automatically 'detecting' ascending tricolons using dodgy syntactic parsing...
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📢 Announcing hacklore.org 📢
It’s time to retire outdated cyber advice! More than 80 cybersecurity veterans have signed an open letter urging a shift from folklore to guidance that actually helps people avoid the most common attacks. 🔐
Blog: medium.com/@boblord/let...
Site: www.hacklore.org
It’s time to retire outdated cyber advice! More than 80 cybersecurity veterans have signed an open letter urging a shift from folklore to guidance that actually helps people avoid the most common attacks. 🔐
Blog: medium.com/@boblord/let...
Site: www.hacklore.org
Stop Hacklore!
hacklore.org
November 24, 2025 at 3:05 PM
📢 Announcing hacklore.org 📢
It’s time to retire outdated cyber advice! More than 80 cybersecurity veterans have signed an open letter urging a shift from folklore to guidance that actually helps people avoid the most common attacks. 🔐
Blog: medium.com/@boblord/let...
Site: www.hacklore.org
It’s time to retire outdated cyber advice! More than 80 cybersecurity veterans have signed an open letter urging a shift from folklore to guidance that actually helps people avoid the most common attacks. 🔐
Blog: medium.com/@boblord/let...
Site: www.hacklore.org
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As I have talked about before, there are numerous reasons to read about the Sacred Band, but one is that some politicians today are eliding its dependence on queer love. hyperallergic.com/1029023/why-...
Why Does Elon Musk Have Such a Straight View of Antiquity?
Musk and other conservatives often omit the role of queer soldiers in ancient military successes when extolling the virtues of Greek warriors.
hyperallergic.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:27 PM
As I have talked about before, there are numerous reasons to read about the Sacred Band, but one is that some politicians today are eliding its dependence on queer love. hyperallergic.com/1029023/why-...
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If you are in Australia, you can watch the brilliant new documentary, Army of Lovers (on the Theban Sacred Band) on demand. For everyone else, it will hopefully come to YouTube soon (I am told or maybe use a VPN?), www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/tv-... and trailer www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUTe....
Army of Lovers Trailer
YouTube video by imagenationMTL
www.youtube.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:25 PM
If you are in Australia, you can watch the brilliant new documentary, Army of Lovers (on the Theban Sacred Band) on demand. For everyone else, it will hopefully come to YouTube soon (I am told or maybe use a VPN?), www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/tv-... and trailer www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUTe....
I am cooking pierogi exactly as if they were jiaozhi, and I will finish them off with szechuan pepper oil, vinegar, and laoganma, and nobody can stop me
November 23, 2025 at 6:35 PM
I am cooking pierogi exactly as if they were jiaozhi, and I will finish them off with szechuan pepper oil, vinegar, and laoganma, and nobody can stop me
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Machines Reading Latin Epigraphy
...in which I try to retrain/fine-tune a spaCy model on Latin inscriptions There is a lot of Roman epigraphic data online; the EDH is a great source for this. But none of the databases (at least, the ones that I have looked at) seem to provide a version with […]
...in which I try to retrain/fine-tune a spaCy model on Latin inscriptions There is a lot of Roman epigraphic data online; the EDH is a great source for this. But none of the databases (at least, the ones that I have looked at) seem to provide a version with […]
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scholar.social
November 23, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Machines Reading Latin Epigraphy
...in which I try to retrain/fine-tune a spaCy model on Latin inscriptions There is a lot of Roman epigraphic data online; the EDH is a great source for this. But none of the databases (at least, the ones that I have looked at) seem to provide a version with […]
...in which I try to retrain/fine-tune a spaCy model on Latin inscriptions There is a lot of Roman epigraphic data online; the EDH is a great source for this. But none of the databases (at least, the ones that I have looked at) seem to provide a version with […]