Ben Nagy
@rantyben.bsky.social
I turn latin poetry into long lists of floating point numbers
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.
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I explain this trick in my online lectures - lecture 13 40min: youtu.be/sgqMkZeslxA?...
November 25, 2025 at 10:47 AM
I explain this trick in my online lectures - lecture 13 40min: youtu.be/sgqMkZeslxA?...
J-B C is the real deal, get into this if you are into survival modelling, etc.
Que reste-t-il des textes médiévaux ? Pourquoi certains survivent et d’autres s’effacent ?
👉 Une séance de séminaire dédiée aux enjeux de la transmission textuelle dans le cadre du projet ERC LostMA avec @jbcamps.bsky.social
Rendez-vous demain à partir de 14h
Inscription 🔽
👉 Une séance de séminaire dédiée aux enjeux de la transmission textuelle dans le cadre du projet ERC LostMA avec @jbcamps.bsky.social
Rendez-vous demain à partir de 14h
Inscription 🔽
Modelling the transmission and survival of texts and manuscripts | médialab Sciences Po
Le séminaire du médialab accueille Jean-Baptiste Camps pour une séance sur le projet LostMA sur la transmission et la survie des anciens textes. Il analysera comment et pourquoi certains textes manusc...
medialab.sciencespo.fr
November 24, 2025 at 10:13 PM
J-B C is the real deal, get into this if you are into survival modelling, etc.
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...
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📢 Announcing hacklore.org 📢
It’s time to retire outdated cyber advice! More than 80 cybersecurity veterans have signed an open letter urging a shift from folklore to guidance that actually helps people avoid the most common attacks. 🔐
Blog: medium.com/@boblord/let...
Site: www.hacklore.org
It’s time to retire outdated cyber advice! More than 80 cybersecurity veterans have signed an open letter urging a shift from folklore to guidance that actually helps people avoid the most common attacks. 🔐
Blog: medium.com/@boblord/let...
Site: www.hacklore.org
Stop Hacklore!
hacklore.org
November 24, 2025 at 3:05 PM
📢 Announcing hacklore.org 📢
It’s time to retire outdated cyber advice! More than 80 cybersecurity veterans have signed an open letter urging a shift from folklore to guidance that actually helps people avoid the most common attacks. 🔐
Blog: medium.com/@boblord/let...
Site: www.hacklore.org
It’s time to retire outdated cyber advice! More than 80 cybersecurity veterans have signed an open letter urging a shift from folklore to guidance that actually helps people avoid the most common attacks. 🔐
Blog: medium.com/@boblord/let...
Site: www.hacklore.org
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As I have talked about before, there are numerous reasons to read about the Sacred Band, but one is that some politicians today are eliding its dependence on queer love. hyperallergic.com/1029023/why-...
Why Does Elon Musk Have Such a Straight View of Antiquity?
Musk and other conservatives often omit the role of queer soldiers in ancient military successes when extolling the virtues of Greek warriors.
hyperallergic.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:27 PM
As I have talked about before, there are numerous reasons to read about the Sacred Band, but one is that some politicians today are eliding its dependence on queer love. hyperallergic.com/1029023/why-...
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If you are in Australia, you can watch the brilliant new documentary, Army of Lovers (on the Theban Sacred Band) on demand. For everyone else, it will hopefully come to YouTube soon (I am told or maybe use a VPN?), www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/tv-... and trailer www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUTe....
Army of Lovers Trailer
YouTube video by imagenationMTL
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November 24, 2025 at 12:25 PM
If you are in Australia, you can watch the brilliant new documentary, Army of Lovers (on the Theban Sacred Band) on demand. For everyone else, it will hopefully come to YouTube soon (I am told or maybe use a VPN?), www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/tv-... and trailer www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUTe....
I am cooking pierogi exactly as if they were jiaozhi, and I will finish them off with szechuan pepper oil, vinegar, and laoganma, and nobody can stop me
November 23, 2025 at 6:35 PM
I am cooking pierogi exactly as if they were jiaozhi, and I will finish them off with szechuan pepper oil, vinegar, and laoganma, and nobody can stop me
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Machines Reading Latin Epigraphy
...in which I try to retrain/fine-tune a spaCy model on Latin inscriptions There is a lot of Roman epigraphic data online; the EDH is a great source for this. But none of the databases (at least, the ones that I have looked at) seem to provide a version with […]
...in which I try to retrain/fine-tune a spaCy model on Latin inscriptions There is a lot of Roman epigraphic data online; the EDH is a great source for this. But none of the databases (at least, the ones that I have looked at) seem to provide a version with […]
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scholar.social
November 23, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Machines Reading Latin Epigraphy
...in which I try to retrain/fine-tune a spaCy model on Latin inscriptions There is a lot of Roman epigraphic data online; the EDH is a great source for this. But none of the databases (at least, the ones that I have looked at) seem to provide a version with […]
...in which I try to retrain/fine-tune a spaCy model on Latin inscriptions There is a lot of Roman epigraphic data online; the EDH is a great source for this. But none of the databases (at least, the ones that I have looked at) seem to provide a version with […]
actually.. this freaks me out. Why are scribes abbreviating when they have all the space in the world? What is the representation in their head of the concept and what is the transformation? We always assume that abbreviations are secondary...
Diagram showing an eclipse of the moon, illustrating Robert Grosseteste's De sphaera
BL Harley 3735; Calendarial and computistical treatises by various authors; 2nd half of the 13th century; England; f.81v
BL Harley 3735; Calendarial and computistical treatises by various authors; 2nd half of the 13th century; England; f.81v
November 20, 2025 at 10:49 PM
actually.. this freaks me out. Why are scribes abbreviating when they have all the space in the world? What is the representation in their head of the concept and what is the transformation? We always assume that abbreviations are secondary...
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Editors' Choice: New research shows everyone prefers human writers, including AI! – CDH@Princeton cdh.princeton.edu/news/2025/11...
New research shows everyone prefers human writers, including AI!
New research shows everyone prefers human writers, including AI!
cdh.princeton.edu
November 19, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Editors' Choice: New research shows everyone prefers human writers, including AI! – CDH@Princeton cdh.princeton.edu/news/2025/11...
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poem that my dear friend @arcanumb.bsky.social wrote & published this week ❤️🔥🏳️⚧️
March 14, 2025 at 6:10 PM
poem that my dear friend @arcanumb.bsky.social wrote & published this week ❤️🔥🏳️⚧️
I am absolutely 💯✅👍🥳 down for a future where only poets can confuse the AIs making government decisions
November 20, 2025 at 6:04 PM
I am absolutely 💯✅👍🥳 down for a future where only poets can confuse the AIs making government decisions
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“Adversarial poetry.”
Love this. Obvs.
Love this. Obvs.
November 20, 2025 at 5:53 PM
“Adversarial poetry.”
Love this. Obvs.
Love this. Obvs.
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happy transgender day of remembrance
thank you for sticking around in the hardest of times. if you haven't, you are missed dearly
please live 💜
thank you for sticking around in the hardest of times. if you haven't, you are missed dearly
please live 💜
November 20, 2025 at 10:57 AM
happy transgender day of remembrance
thank you for sticking around in the hardest of times. if you haven't, you are missed dearly
please live 💜
thank you for sticking around in the hardest of times. if you haven't, you are missed dearly
please live 💜
Turkey is literally the second-worst table fowl (only pigeon is worse), but if it weren't for you heroes struggling and mostly failing to cook an edible whole bird for weird traditional reasons, I wouldn't be able to buy necks and wings for soup, so ganbatte o7
As someone who is hosting and cooking several Thanksgivings this year, including one this weekend, and therefore has already been turkey shopping: Holy, and I can not stress this enough, shit.
NPR: "Wholesale prices for a turkey have jumped 40% from a year ago, according to the Department of Agriculture."
November 19, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Turkey is literally the second-worst table fowl (only pigeon is worse), but if it weren't for you heroes struggling and mostly failing to cook an edible whole bird for weird traditional reasons, I wouldn't be able to buy necks and wings for soup, so ganbatte o7
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📢 The #CHR2025 proceedings are out!
97 papers, ~1600 pages of computational humanities 🔥 Now published via the new Anthology of Computers and the Humanities, with DOIs for every paper.
🔗 anthology.ach.org/volumes/vol0...
And don’t forget: registration closes tomorrow (20 Nov)!
97 papers, ~1600 pages of computational humanities 🔥 Now published via the new Anthology of Computers and the Humanities, with DOIs for every paper.
🔗 anthology.ach.org/volumes/vol0...
And don’t forget: registration closes tomorrow (20 Nov)!
Edited by Taylor Arnold, Margherita Fantoli, and Ruben Ros
anthology.ach.org
November 19, 2025 at 12:53 PM
📢 The #CHR2025 proceedings are out!
97 papers, ~1600 pages of computational humanities 🔥 Now published via the new Anthology of Computers and the Humanities, with DOIs for every paper.
🔗 anthology.ach.org/volumes/vol0...
And don’t forget: registration closes tomorrow (20 Nov)!
97 papers, ~1600 pages of computational humanities 🔥 Now published via the new Anthology of Computers and the Humanities, with DOIs for every paper.
🔗 anthology.ach.org/volumes/vol0...
And don’t forget: registration closes tomorrow (20 Nov)!
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So tempted to write a troll thread on how this incident shows Rust has bad error handling and wouldn’t have happened in Go, where we actually handle errors 🫣🫢😜
blog.cloudflare.com/18-november-...
blog.cloudflare.com/18-november-...
Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025
Cloudflare suffered a service outage on November 18, 2025. The outage was triggered by a bug in generation logic for a Bot Management feature file causing many Cloudflare services to be affected.
blog.cloudflare.com
November 19, 2025 at 10:14 AM
So tempted to write a troll thread on how this incident shows Rust has bad error handling and wouldn’t have happened in Go, where we actually handle errors 🫣🫢😜
blog.cloudflare.com/18-november-...
blog.cloudflare.com/18-november-...
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Great thread.
Oh wow! This is what happens when you're photographing MSS & don't capture the text in the inner gutter. 1st, here's the photograph (made about 100 yrs ago) of the Codex Salernitanus, f. 82ra. Although that big tear of the page is obvious, the inner gutter hasn't been fully captured in the photo.
November 19, 2025 at 5:17 AM
Great thread.
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Bukowski on cats from Bukowski In His Own Words
November 18, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Bukowski on cats from Bukowski In His Own Words
"my field is so niche that" other experts in Latin poetry think I'm a bit weird
November 16, 2025 at 6:33 PM
"my field is so niche that" other experts in Latin poetry think I'm a bit weird
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The golden age of diversity and democracy in Oz.
November 16, 2025 at 7:04 AM
The golden age of diversity and democracy in Oz.
my two ADHD states are:
1. slacking off, playing video games, complaining that society makes me work and wear pants sometimes
2. doing anxiety-fuelled pomodoros under deadline pressure; you should Fear what I can output in 4x25 + 3x5 minutes
1. slacking off, playing video games, complaining that society makes me work and wear pants sometimes
2. doing anxiety-fuelled pomodoros under deadline pressure; you should Fear what I can output in 4x25 + 3x5 minutes
November 15, 2025 at 4:04 PM
my two ADHD states are:
1. slacking off, playing video games, complaining that society makes me work and wear pants sometimes
2. doing anxiety-fuelled pomodoros under deadline pressure; you should Fear what I can output in 4x25 + 3x5 minutes
1. slacking off, playing video games, complaining that society makes me work and wear pants sometimes
2. doing anxiety-fuelled pomodoros under deadline pressure; you should Fear what I can output in 4x25 + 3x5 minutes