Ted Underwood
This blog began as an attempt to keep track of cool things I was discovering on Google's ngram viewer. But the ngram dataset proved to be
Categories used most frequently by the blogger:
fiction 19c disciplinary history methodology DH as a social phenomenon interpretive theory 20c machine learning 18c collection-building visualization historicism undigitized humanities genre comparison problems of scale digital humanities deep learning topic modeling representativeness literature
Liberally-educated students need to be more than consumers of AI
10 September 2023
If I'm buying a thinking process, I really need to understand what I see when I look under the hood.
We can save what matters about writing—at a price
31 July 2023
Writing is a way of learning. And we can save what matters about it if we're willing to learn something ourselves.
Using GPT-4 to measure the passage of time in fiction
19 March 2023
Large language models are valuable research assistants, especially when they refuse to follow instructions. … Continue reading →
Mapping the latent spaces of culture
21 October 2021
To understand why neural language models are dangerous (and fascinating), we need to approach them as models of culture.