Ben Nagy
@rantyben.bsky.social
I turn latin poetry into long lists of floating point numbers
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.
Maybe I limit it to a clause boundary after the enjambed word? I guess maybe I should look for obj-follows-verb in the same pattern. It's so hard going from "yes I have a degree in poetry" to "ok but *really* what do the words mean, like.. *really*..." (c.f. 'rhyme')
November 27, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Maybe I limit it to a clause boundary after the enjambed word? I guess maybe I should look for obj-follows-verb in the same pattern. It's so hard going from "yes I have a degree in poetry" to "ok but *really* what do the words mean, like.. *really*..." (c.f. 'rhyme')
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...
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.
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...
unsolicited duck pics
November 20, 2025 at 5:10 PM
unsolicited duck pics
last night, fwiw, the smoked-pigs-ear broth was involved in Fancy Tom-Yum-Style Ramen Night, featuring the world famous 2x Buldak (so spicy it was banned for white ppl in Denmark as a poison!)
it was epic. i am still recovering.
it was epic. i am still recovering.
November 12, 2025 at 8:21 PM
last night, fwiw, the smoked-pigs-ear broth was involved in Fancy Tom-Yum-Style Ramen Night, featuring the world famous 2x Buldak (so spicy it was banned for white ppl in Denmark as a poison!)
it was epic. i am still recovering.
it was epic. i am still recovering.
possibly related: I am rewatching "Delicious in Dungeon" for about the third time right now. It's great! Genuine cooking principles, imaginary monsters!
November 12, 2025 at 8:10 PM
possibly related: I am rewatching "Delicious in Dungeon" for about the third time right now. It's great! Genuine cooking principles, imaginary monsters!
"Here was the ancient line of Teucer, a most beautiful race, great-souled heroes, born in better times [...] From far off, Aeneas marvels at the warriors' arms and empty chariots"
(Verg. Aen. 648-51)
not gonna lie, I got a bit of ptsd from the Hades game when I read this passage.
(Verg. Aen. 648-51)
not gonna lie, I got a bit of ptsd from the Hades game when I read this passage.
October 30, 2025 at 8:19 AM
"Here was the ancient line of Teucer, a most beautiful race, great-souled heroes, born in better times [...] From far off, Aeneas marvels at the warriors' arms and empty chariots"
(Verg. Aen. 648-51)
not gonna lie, I got a bit of ptsd from the Hades game when I read this passage.
(Verg. Aen. 648-51)
not gonna lie, I got a bit of ptsd from the Hades game when I read this passage.
that must get your hackles up
October 27, 2025 at 11:06 AM
that must get your hackles up
it surprises me that the idea of a general strike is difficult for Americans, because honestly it's the country where labour has approximately the most leverage? Like... rich fucks won't even take out their own trash...
October 25, 2025 at 3:57 PM
it surprises me that the idea of a general strike is difficult for Americans, because honestly it's the country where labour has approximately the most leverage? Like... rich fucks won't even take out their own trash...
OH MY GOD the most famous Aussie crayfish (staple of the Summer Christmas) is *also* named for Palinurus, except.. spelled wrong because it's from Perth I guess
so touching that his unfair death (murdered by the god of sleep) is memorialised this way 😪
so touching that his unfair death (murdered by the god of sleep) is memorialised this way 😪
October 24, 2025 at 5:41 PM
OH MY GOD the most famous Aussie crayfish (staple of the Summer Christmas) is *also* named for Palinurus, except.. spelled wrong because it's from Perth I guess
so touching that his unfair death (murdered by the god of sleep) is memorialised this way 😪
so touching that his unfair death (murdered by the god of sleep) is memorialised this way 😪
The Promise : The Reality
(Sibyl to Palinurus in Avernus: "quit wingeing, m8. There's going to be a big statue of you and stuff, and a town will be named after you!)
According to en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palinur... is "named after ... Palinuro, Italy, where they are found in abundance"
(Sibyl to Palinurus in Avernus: "quit wingeing, m8. There's going to be a big statue of you and stuff, and a town will be named after you!)
According to en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palinur... is "named after ... Palinuro, Italy, where they are found in abundance"
October 24, 2025 at 5:22 PM
The Promise : The Reality
(Sibyl to Palinurus in Avernus: "quit wingeing, m8. There's going to be a big statue of you and stuff, and a town will be named after you!)
According to en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palinur... is "named after ... Palinuro, Italy, where they are found in abundance"
(Sibyl to Palinurus in Avernus: "quit wingeing, m8. There's going to be a big statue of you and stuff, and a town will be named after you!)
According to en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palinur... is "named after ... Palinuro, Italy, where they are found in abundance"
I know zero Old English, for the record, just poetic ear 💅
October 22, 2025 at 5:19 PM
I know zero Old English, for the record, just poetic ear 💅
me: UGH all the interconnected bars and lines in this Gantt chart are annoying and gross
also me: anyway, back to my soothing video game, Factorio...
also me: anyway, back to my soothing video game, Factorio...
October 21, 2025 at 6:35 PM
me: UGH all the interconnected bars and lines in this Gantt chart are annoying and gross
also me: anyway, back to my soothing video game, Factorio...
also me: anyway, back to my soothing video game, Factorio...
I was planning to do 2-3 hours work and then get back to video games but anyway that was 8 hours ago and now I have apparently made a Gantt chart in LaTeX could someone please kill me?
October 21, 2025 at 6:25 PM
I was planning to do 2-3 hours work and then get back to video games but anyway that was 8 hours ago and now I have apparently made a Gantt chart in LaTeX could someone please kill me?
Still not doing the Thing, but I can't stand it - no Erictho has come across my timeline today, unarguably the baddest-ass sorceress in ancient Lit. No art translations today, so English from www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Latin/...
Lucan is the GOAT for over the top hexameter 😍
Lucan is the GOAT for over the top hexameter 😍
October 7, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Still not doing the Thing, but I can't stand it - no Erictho has come across my timeline today, unarguably the baddest-ass sorceress in ancient Lit. No art translations today, so English from www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Latin/...
Lucan is the GOAT for over the top hexameter 😍
Lucan is the GOAT for over the top hexameter 😍
The EvaLatin24 model is now out for UDPipe, and it is .. just *terrifyingly* good compared to the individual models (it was trained on harmonised treebanks, and has all the new tech) but has some small bugs right now which I am hoping are cosmetic (Tonanti is parsed as punct??)
October 5, 2025 at 4:02 PM
The EvaLatin24 model is now out for UDPipe, and it is .. just *terrifyingly* good compared to the individual models (it was trained on harmonised treebanks, and has all the new tech) but has some small bugs right now which I am hoping are cosmetic (Tonanti is parsed as punct??)