ASCII Fluid Dynamics, in music-video form: (Thanks to Mason Porter for bringing this to our attention.)
Tag: text
Unwordy Analysis: Can You Identify Authors by Their Punctuation?
Can you identify who wrote a big chunk of text, if you remove all the words and examine only the punctuation. This new study says that in many cases yes, you can: “Pull Out All the Stops: Textual Analysis Via Punctuation Sequences,” Alexandra N.M. Darmon, Marya Bazzi, Sam D. Howison, and Mason Porter, SocArXiv. January […]
Ammo for Space Pedants: Are Two Spaces Better Than One?
There may be no safe space in the ongoing war, between scholars, about blank characters.[SPACE] The latest salvo is in the form of a published study.[SPACE,SPACE] You can look for yourself at the character spacing in the study itself: “Are Two Spaces Better Than One? The Effect of Spacing Following Periods and Commas During Reading,” […]
A look back at the Ig Nobel Prize-spurring Sokal hoax
The 1996 Ig Nobel Prize for literature was awarded to the editors of the journal Social Text, for eagerly publishing research that they could not understand, that the author said was meaningless, and which claimed that reality does not exist. The “research” paper was “Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity,” written by Alan […]