Ben Nagy

@rantyben.bsky.social

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I turn latin poetry into long lists of floating point numbers. For (and only for) the purpose of potential employment I have a couple of phds or whatever.

A line featuring elision that happens over the central caesura
The processed output of a few lines of Ausonius Cento Nuptialis showing how words are turned into numbers.
"wog" (european) style soup in a huge pot
A detailed chart describing only some of the huge mnumber of 'common' abbreviations for Latin meters
A section of the cls file for an unnamed journal that redefined the midrule command which is a breach of human rights law
WWII guilt poster edited to say "Daddy, what color card did YOU get vs Mexico?"
Hall 9000 image "I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that"
Claude refusing to translate the obscene section from Ausonius' Cento Nuptialis
a brathänchen
Ethical standard: The author affirms this research did not involve human participants. Agentic coding was used during the production of the software libraries and figures. Every line of code has been reviewed by, and is the responsibility of the author. No LLMs were used in any aspect of the planning, drafting, or editing of the article
smoky lamb skewers cooking
The tiny little island of dactylic hexameter, living together in harmony ... until the Fire Nation attacked
A zoom in on some later poems, showing multiple 'style' centroids for Catullus, depending on meter
The 'complete' corpus of Latin verse, clustered by POS-masked n-grams, but coloured by meter. Meters produce totally different styles.
a charcoal bbq with some sausages and some ribs slow-cooking
a charcoal bbq, just starting, with the magic firestarter sticks
A list of sentences from the start of the Aeneid with 'content words' masked by part-of-speech
graph with dots connected by lines
chimken wangs on the grill
Edward Snowden
hundreds of dead or dying flying ants
tree law, tree law meme/cartoon
A mystery sausage that is close to its use-by date
screenshot of two adjacent posts in my feed top one with a cat and bottom one with another cat looking up
greater racket-tailed drongo (it's a bird)
"you will regret this" guy from Sim City
some homemade baguettes and fixins for homemade terrine
two loaves of bread
cowsay command saying "if you use brew you are like 12 years old, to me"
macports reinstalling cowsay
picture of the box for the Australian candy "fags" for children (imitating cigarettes)
some bread dough in a bowl
blank "change my mind" meme
Bilbo being tempted to keep the one ring meme, with top panel saying "Impact Factor 15.9"
two automatically detected iambic pentameter skeets 1. "it should be harder to approve a war" 2. "with glitter coming out of every pore"
vietnamese/laksa mint, betel leaf, ngo om ("rice paddy herb"), taro stem, sweet basil, sawleaf coriander, red mint
lamb merguez and angus beef sosig, cooking slowly in an unhealthy amount of garlic butter left over from cajun prawns
prawns with an alarmingly large chunk of butter on top
I am defrosting quail for curry tomorrow
2 cuts of lamb ribs over charcoal
No “female poetic voice” Ovid’s technical style is Ovid “gender” vs “genre”
A beeswarm plot showing lexical differences between Ars and Heroides
A passage from the Ars showing imperatives, jussive subjunctives and future irrealis (if this then do that)
A SHAP "beeswarm" plot. Left is Ars, Right is Heroides, redder dots have more of the given feature
Seems good, right?
A confusion matrix illustrating the text of the post
pre-processed text of Heroides 1.1-2 showing POS masking, lemmatisation and some grammatical features
Is there stylometric evidence to support the argument that Ovid has a distinct female poetic style?
muu ping (thai pork skewers) grilling over charcoal
pork/chicken laab
A selection of ingredients for Thai cooking
A SHAP beeswarm plot saying that 'credo' is associated with the left class (ars / male) and 'video' is associated with the right class (heroides / female)
a saucepan full of stock that has set hard overnight
two stock pots simmering
a "moderate sized" pan of moussaka, uncooked, which would feed about six hungry people
an eggplant that has been charred and then skinned
google search: "is 57 prime?" answer: no.