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181 | Peter Dodds on Quantifying the Shape of Stories

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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How Much Back Engineering Can You Do When You See Something Strange Happening in the Dataofte S?

The hedenometer is a web page that tracks the frequency of words in stories. It can be used to find out what happened on particular days and weeks. The site has entries for every date of history, as well as modern times. But it's not clear if there are objective procedures for figuring out why certain words appear more often than others.

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