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Computer-assisted studies of fiction tend to count words and trace themes. It's harder to measure the things that really keep readers turning pages: mystery, suspense, and surprise.
But large language models may change that. In this post, I experiment with a new way to measure uncertainty at different points in a story. #AI https://tedunderwood.com/2024/01/05/can-language-models-predict-the-next-twist-in-a-story/
Today! Today!
At #MLA24 to moderate "Digitally Mapping Literary Space and Place" - Thursday, 4 January 12:00 PM-1:15 PM, Independence I (Marriott). #28 is featuring Gillian Andrews, Tyechia Thompson, and Jennifer Isasi and Joshua Ortiz Baco.
Abstracts listed here - https://ach.org/blog/2023/12/04/achmla2024-digitally-mapping-literary-space-and-place/
I come to #posthumanism from a science background, via #permaculture > #timothymorton > #francescaferrando . I think I’m doing it backwards, because only now am I diving into #literarure , #history , #religion , and the rest of the #humanities . It seems that many folx come to PH from a #humanities background.
I’m now discovering a whole slew of things I never knew existed! And finding that a whole bunch of people are studying the things I thought I was the alone in thinking about… so exciting!
#4Ecognition , #cognition, #panpsychism , #digitalhumanities ,
#cognitivenarratology , #consciousness, #reality , #newmaterialisms , #dualism , #phenomenology, #autoethnography , #metaphysics , #ursulaleguin , #krishnamurti where have you been all my life?
If you'll be at #mla24 please join us for #s28 - the ACH session on "Digitally Mapping Literary Space and Place." We'll be featuring Gillian Andrews, Tyechia Thompson, and Jennifer Isasi and Joshua Ortiz Baco. You can find abstracts at the link below -
https://ach.org/blog/2023/12/04/achmla2024-digitally-mapping-literary-space-and-place/
As promised, here are some of the (anonymised) highlights from my students' attempts to reproduce the results of four published #linguistics studies using the authors' original data, which my students brilliantly presented at our mini-conference on #reproducibility yesterday. #OpenScience
1/ One student perfectly replicated the statistics and plots for RQ1 of the paper she chose, but could not replicate RQ2 because some data for this was missing. She contacted the authors. They never replied.
When writing a grant proposal today, I explained that my research will require "gathering a 'corpus' of textual data, much like the data used to train AI systems like ChatGPT."
Something about this cracks me up. Corpus linguistics has had it greatest moment -- it is literally changing the world -- but people don't even know what it is. They just know the know the name of Elon Musk's app.
Today is the day! October is c18.masto.host's member drive month. When we began this adventure 11 months ago, I said I was committed to hosting at $20 a month as my contribution to our community.
Our current hosting costs, due to growth and the extra charge for Elasticsearch, which allows you to search full text of public participating posts, are now $50 a month.
For next year, that leaves $360 beyond my commitment to cover our masto.host server.
Venmo me @johnsonians !
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