March 2012
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February 2012
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"In place of familiar morality tales—money changes... →
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Sentence of the year
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“I’ve met him the in Latin Quarter in Paris, and I’ve met him in pensions in Berlin and Munich. He lives in small hotels in Perugia and Assisi. He stands by the dozen before the Botticellis in Florence, and he sits on all the benches of the Sistine Chapel in Rome. In Italy he drinks a little too much wine, and in Germany he drinks great deal too much beer. He always admires the right things,...
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Seemingly Innocuous Assignments That Will Lead to... →
Make something ugly
Some twisted genius will stumble upon the ultimate solution to this art school chestnut: when it’s their turn to be critiqued they’ll just stand up and destroy the work of one of their classmates. An administrative shitstorm will ensue.
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Quantitative Formalism: An Experiment
Using just 44 word and punctuation features – which we eventually ended up calling Most Frequent Words, or MFW – Jockers was able to classify the novels in the corpus as well as Witmore had done with Docuscope (and its far more complex feature set). Using the“dist” and “hclust” functions in the open-source “R” statistics application, Jockers clustered the texts in the dendrogram of figure 3.1.
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The Book Bench: Dear Sugar's True Identity →
Why are you coming out?
Because I always said I would. Revealing my identity was how I conceived of my anonymity from the start. Being anonymous felt to me like a form of literary performance art, not the way it would always be.
Because my work as Sugar is a really important part of my work as Cheryl. I want to claim it.
Because so many people know already anyway. People who’ve read my...
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