Chris Forster
cforster.bsky.social
Chris Forster
@cforster.bsky.social
Associate English Prof., Syracuse University.

Interested in modernism, history of media, obscenity, and computational approaches to literary studies (uh, fine *digital humanities*).

https://cforster.com
An interesting parenthetical comment in this NYRB review of two books on China’s communist party. [Link: www.nybooks.com/articles/202... ]
July 11, 2025 at 2:50 PM
But "a dog in the bucket is worth three in the lake" gets you close enough in the latent space of digested idioms, that the models, in effect, "snaps to grid" and reads it as "a bird in the hand..."
April 23, 2025 at 2:37 PM
I've enjoyed watching this meme this morning b/c it gives real insight into how these models work (and fail). This (funny) trick only works with things that are idiomatic-ish. "the population of a berry meaning," for instance, doesn't.
April 23, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Working with HathiTrust data; I want to normalize a result based on number of titles per year. Is there a standard method/source for this?

I summed titles per year from HathiFiles metadata, using rights_date_used field and got a result that looks like:
December 13, 2024 at 10:11 PM