teddyh 15 hours ago

Contentless article.

  • KineticLensman 14 hours 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 9 hours 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 15 hours ago

Didn’t know map-reduce went back that far

  • panzagl 14 hours ago

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

    • jfengel 9 hours ago

      OK, that's a good joke. +1 internets to you.

  • jxjnskkzxxhx 14 hours ago

    Lol map reduce.

    The 2010s called, they want their abstractions back.

ChrisMarshallNY 11 hours ago

> the product of raw, not artificial intelligence

Them's fightin' woids, around here!