A Different Set of Semetic Differential

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In games of thrones, almost every one's powerful and the lot of them are very danger. So we were able to sort of start again with a really rich set of semetic differential. And i think there are about 800 characters that we looked at, over 90 different i'll call them story verses. It's as arrested development is in therits. There aren't many from gamoth rethons where you get so many chaos agents. That's who you find down the bottom. You might not know 80 % of them, but the'l be some that you could look at.

A good story takes you on an emotional journey, with ups and downs along the way. Thanks to science, we can quantify that. Peter Dodds works on understanding the structure of stories and other strings of words (including Twitter) by analyzing the valence of individual words, then studying how they are strung together in different kinds of stories. Understanding these structures offers powerful insight into how people communicate and how to reach them. As Peter says, “Never bring statistics to a story fight.”

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Peter Dodds received his Ph.D. in mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is currently a professor of computer science at the University of Vermont and Director of the Vermont Complex Systems Center. He has won multiple teaching awards, and was elected a Fellow of the Network Science Society.

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