@TedUnderwood@sigmoid.social
I use machine learning to study cultural history at the School of Information Sciences, UIUC. Also , , , . Author of Distant Horizons (Chicago, 2019).
Computer-assisted studies of fiction tend to count words and trace themes. It's harder to measure the things that really keep readers turning pages: mystery, suspense, and surprise.
But large language models may change that. In this post, I experiment with a new way to measure uncertainty at different points in a story. https://tedunderwood.com/2024/01/05/can-language-models-predict-the-next-twist-in-a-story/
A (re)introduction for a new instance. I use to study the of and , at the intersection of and . I teach in the School of Information Sciences and also the Department of English at UIUC. Other interests include , flower gardening, and posting the occasional generated image that looks like a golden age book illustration.
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