Big news, the return of some silly words arranged in lines back to Ovid’s authorship
10.03.2026 14:04
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Big news, the return of some silly words arranged in lines back to Ovid’s authorship
Ah ha! Finally @rebeccamenmuir.bsky.social 's article with me on the Nux *by Ovid* (we claim) is in print!
Apart from the main finding (which I think is pretty big news), it seems very likely that Medieval Latin elegiac versification is markedly different from Classical ....
Getting all suspicious of LLM writing when encountering “rather than” in a book published 20 years ago
I guess I didn’t wake up thinking I needed to know the names of the 279 named triremes ⛵️in the 4th century BCE Athenian navy, but it appears we all do. link.springer.com/article/10.1... I do like that 3.58% had animal names like Λεοντῆ (lion skin) and Λέαινα (lioness). Greek epigraphy is fun! 🪦
opening bluesky to slip immediately on a monostich
My favorite one I can see from my neighbors is “FreeButNotForU”
i dreamt of a poem made of names of wifi networks
aren't we all here for maximizing that distance! and thanks, @iambic.bot is pure joy
I also think that way; if a bot can write a perfectly non-offensive email announcing a conference, maybe we didn't need emails in the first place. maybe what writing is - it's quirky family chats with loved ones that mix six languages and will give any external observer a stroke
![a footnote from a draft that says: Cited lines here are a mix of those provided by Cunningham [1976] and posted by @iambic.bot—a
Bluesky account that scans and selects user posts
that conform to the pattern of iambic pentameter.
@iambic.bot is itself a tribute to Twitter’s Pentametron
made by the artist Ranjit Bhatnagar.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:lyjnicczeyn7ubxndxhszmso/bafkreif4odgluyn6n2k664aqfkely2wvhi62m4ojzdo7sk6t5avvax2ote)
a footnote from a draft that says: Cited lines here are a mix of those provided by Cunningham [1976] and posted by @iambic.bot—a Bluesky account that scans and selects user posts that conform to the pattern of iambic pentameter. @iambic.bot is itself a tribute to Twitter’s Pentametron made by the artist Ranjit Bhatnagar.
oh, an author reveal! now I can update this little footnote
haven't read that one! thanks for good book recs ;)
Joyce today would totally wage a guerrilla war against conditional probabilities of tokens
Which reminds me of another “linguistic” sci-fi, Delany’s “the ballad of beta-2” where a generation ship is out in space for so long that instruction manuals become metaphors, prophesies and oral epics
made some tweaks to @iambic.bot recently so it never sends the same text twice; it's been on good form since
I always felt that “let’s have this giant embedding of everything” has limited analytical reach — partly because gen ai is much more than a method, of course, but also because it abstracts from math to “human” behavior while I like to study human behavior with math
About the B: there is this piece on llm applications for text analysis by @andreskarjus.bsky.social - an “early” write up by today’s pace of change :)
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
This is a good way to break it down. DH itself is always stretched between using methods and critique of the systems, so a summary of “AI in DH” would be like a summary of “DH” which idk how we feel about in 2026
Good question! Don't know about specific summaries for DH, but there are quite a few recent position papers - humanists' interventions into AI: tinyurl.com/mr39f2p8, also this report tinyurl.com/3zy6b6js
People like @mellymeldubs.bsky.social @mariaa.bsky.social @tedunderwood.com might know more!
Article is in Dutch, but maybe understandable via Google Translate.
TL;DR: AI poetry is used in 3 different ways.
1. To study progress in creative computing;
2. To explore new literary forms and to see how people interpret those;
3. To (deceptively) market AI with appeals to its 'humanity.'
keep that entropy high!! 🤝
maybe if humanity outsources all functional, formal, boring writing to LLMs then we get to finally embrace total grammatical anarchy as signs of humans, redo the language in leetspeak and slangs not yet imagined -- watch me produce next token with so much perplexity that oceans evaporate
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Karpathy writes that this is an "art project" and this is very true. It is a poetic text. "Elegy written in a country churchyard" is 128 lines.
i heard in some lands the pudding is forbidden by being too cool
The world feels quite precarious right now—and sometimes we forget what it feels like to pursue happiness. @alv9n.com digs into a study that asked more than 10,000 people to share their joy. From personal growth to friends and family, here’s our happiness mapped.
pudding.cool/2026/02/happ...
a gpt in a sublime 200 lines of pure Python — it is all there. Incredible for teaching students (and yourself)
karpathy.github.io/2026/02/12/m...
I think the last one is Stan
My cholesterol spiked from looking at this picture
My “For You” feed was flooded by #rstats community’s pipe battle so quickly it felt like 2018; the echo of lost youth
that's cool! I wonder if abstract lexis is partly responsible for the positivity bias
