Cleaned up the previous sentence embeddings comparisons—cleaner calculation of similarity for tragedies, and now both charts use the same scale (in autumn hues 🍂)

It makes sense that tragedies overall are v. similar, but their similarities alone don't explain the lower-right messenger cluster

I might need to update the original plot, but so far it's interesting to note that the messenger similarities don't seem to be a result of consolidation across tragedies, which remain quite distinct (at least from the perspective of sentence embeddings) #dh #ancmedsky

So sentence embeddings of messenger speeches in Attic tragedy show a modest but notable bump in semantic similarity toward the end of the 5th century (see attached image) — generic consolidation, maybe, but why? #ancmedsky #dh

“Ain’t no rule says a dog can’t play basketball” 🏀

Is this true? I.e., that museum curation started to abandon chronological framing “recently” (relative to the late 1990s)?

Brahm’s Requiem matinee — not a bad spot on a Sunday afternoon

omg, me too! <3 PA beer

Used this brilliant NER model on Pausanias recently: huggingface.co/UGARIT/flair... (thank you, @geophilologist.bsky.social !)

Added links to a few by hand, and now we can render them for the next version of opecommentaries.org

(Just excited to share — please pardon the styling 💅🏻)

#dh

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Alvin says hi (his octopus, Ike, could not be reached for comment)

Alvin is having some deep thoughts in the park

Parked Cybertruck. Uglier than I imagined.

I thought these had all been recalled?

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

🔥🔥 (so nice to read an article holding administrators' feet to the flames)

Slightly better visualization? (Ismene only)

Lobbing one over the #DH fence: I've been working on a tf-idf based analysis of the Sophoclean corpus.

Some interesting (?) results so far:

τάλας is highly characteristic of Antigone (the play and the character)

Ismene's (bottom graph in this image) vocab sways with her "loyalty"

It'd be hard to find a more condescending opening paragraph in a programming textbook.

Stop coddling humanists like we've won some kind of consolation prize for people who couldn't hack it in STEM.

From Anderson and Wicentowski. 2020. _XQuery for Humanists_. Texas A&M University Press.

Hi, no billionaires please thanks

(Original thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/WhitePeopleTwitter/comments/14ipvj9/richie_rich/)

Dall-E literally made my dreams come true: Aeschylus' Libation Bears: