the long October 12th

why is this formatted like a Wittgenstein Investigation

if you get mad at one of my posts please understand the guy who said that is dead. I’m a whole different guy

kind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life

It's Bad! D:

I am not expert here, but some papers I see on a quick (chat-assisted) search:

arxiv.org/abs/2204.05836
arxiv.org/pdf/2406.11380
arxiv.org/html/2408.09...

oh, sweet! thanks so much, I saw the first and the third but the second is exactly what I was looking for.

(this is working alongside an amusing little toy that attempts to perform the same kind of structuralist analysis that Barthes does in S/Z on any input text - Gemini Flash 3 is actually pretty good at it! 1 million token context windows let you do an awful lot.)

Maybe a question for @tedunderwood.com ? I'm planning to benchmark this approach against BookNLP, but am working on a broader text extraction / analysis tool.

Ey! I’m blocking, here!

This game was a chapter in my dissertation! It's so good and everybody should play it.

We're about to get an unanticipated test of how robust the worlds' timekeeping infrastructure is to the failure of something that was widely expected to not fail.

Why?

I was mostly just being snide, sorry! Thanks for the deep dive.