User:Alice/Third trimester
What I'm reading
The Pirate book - edited by Nicolas Maigret & Maria Roszkowska
Beyond Representation: The Figure of the Pirate - by Lawrence Liang
In Defense of the Poor Image - by Hito Steyerl
Notes About Spamsoc - by Hito Steyerl
Coda: A Short History of Book Piracy - by Bodó Balázs
Digital Libraries: Analysis of Delos Reference Model and 5S Theory - by Abdulmumin Isah, Athulang Mutshewa, Batlang Comma Serema, Lekoko Kenosi
What I'm researching
Research questions: If computers made book synopses, or were in charge of categorizing books using the Dewey Decimal Classification, how would they weigh up against humans in making these decisions?
Markov Chains
Markov chains are used to create statistical models of the sequences of letters in a text. Markov chains are now widely used in speech recognition, handwriting recognition, information retrieval, data compression, and spam filtering.
Using a fork of a Markov text generator script (listed below) I generated abstracts of various texts and analyzed the results.
Example 1
Original text: When Computers Were Women, by Jennifer Light
Abstract:
ved credit for innovation or invention. The story presents an apparent paradox. It suggests that women from the history while the way women were breaking into traditionally male occupations during World War II. These two talented engineering.
A closer look at this literature explicates the paradox by revealing wide spread ambivalence about women from the history of ENIAC's female computations during this stage of computers," performing ballistics computations as subprofessional. While celebrating women's work. While celebrated than their own.
The omission of labor. The story of ENIAC's "invention" with special focus on the female computer science perpetuates misconceptions of them were selected to programmer, perceived credit for innovation or invention.
The story of computer, ENIAC, to automate ballistics computers supports Ruth Milkman's thesis of an "idiom of sex-typing" during this stage of computations during the difficulty of these women with mathematical training were ass
Notes
- This text has been OCRd from a scan, so the text quality is not perfect, hence the occasional fragments of words.
Example 2
Original text: A news article on AlJazeera
Abstract:
The government's "Yes" camp. The call for an early polls.
The government has asked parliamentary and presidential polls had previously been slated for snap election. Earlier this year, his ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party), reached an elections would begin. His comments came after meeting Devlet Bahceli's MHP. State of emergency that will increase the powers to appoint vice president new powers to appoint vice presidential election comes as nationalist Movement led by US-based cleric Fethullah Gulen, whom Turkey's continued struggle against Kurdish fighters as "terror threats from a northern enclave.
Erdogan said.
Ankara has labeled the prospect of early polls.
The constitutional changed in an April 2017 referendum that will increase the powers to appoint vice presidential system needs to be confirmed by the elections to be re-elected in the vote give the next president. The snap election commission, he said, but preparations would begin.
Resources
- https://kgullikson88.github.io/blog/markov-chain.html
- https://xiaoxu193.github.io/PyTeaser/
- https://github.com/alicestrt/MarkovTextGenerator (only one that works for me so far)