Mapp’ry: Building an Interactive Map of Shakespeare’s World
A developer documents the technical and manual process of building an interactive map that tracks and visualizes every geographical reference in Shakespeare's plays.
Natural Language Processing
Techniques and research in computational linguistics, including tokenization, parsing, sentiment analysis, and language understanding by machines.
Reading List
Lightfeed Extractor: LLM-Powered Web Scraping Library
A TypeScript library for robust, LLM-powered web data extraction and browser automation.
Turning BERT’s MLM Into a Text Diffusion Generator
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BERT-style MLM is a single-step text diffusion process, and extending it to multiple masking steps turns RoBERTa into a workable text generator.
Why Embeddings Got Bigger—and Where Efficiency Pulls Them Next
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Embeddings got bigger with Transformers and APIs, but new efficiency techniques and infrastructure mean the future is about smarter—not just larger—dimensions.
CauseNet: An Open 11M-Relation Causality Graph from the Web
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An open, large-scale graph of web-extracted causal claims—complete with provenance—released to power causal QA and reasoning.