12 comments

  • teddyh 2 days ago

    Contentless article.

    • KineticLensman 2 days ago

      Well it is basically a press release announcing a new book, but TFA does contain some things I didn't know. It specifically identifies the suggested author, namely Gerard, William’s final chancellor, later Bishop of Hereford and Archbishop of York.

      • jfengel a day ago

        That was new, though I wish they'd listed any of the reasons to think that.

        They hint that it's stylographic, the details of which would not make terribly interesting reading. Still, I wish they could have picked out something, rather than irrelevant stuff about what a massive undertaking it was.

        If they've got nothing more than "We ran it through the algorithm and this is what it popped out", then I'm not really all that interested in their conclusion. Stylometry provides hints but if you can't back it up with some sort of historiographic argument then it doesn't really inform history much.

  • parpfish 2 days ago

    Didn’t know map-reduce went back that far

    • panzagl 2 days ago

      Given the effects of the harrowing of the North, the process was more like reduce-map...

    • jxjnskkzxxhx 2 days ago

      Lol map reduce.

      The 2010s called, they want their abstractions back.

  • jonathan_11 a day ago

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  • ChrisMarshallNY a day ago

    > the product of raw, not artificial intelligence

    Them's fightin' woids, around here!