Introduction Government Acquisition Teams (and Academics) request written responses to gauge writers' capacity for difficult work. Good writing requires effort. Writers must provide clear, focused, and valuable prose to Readers. Writers must do...
When I ask ChatGPT to write detailed technical content, I find that it outputs hollow, bombastic, and meandering prose. Such output places a high cognitive load on my mind: My subconscious must fill in the holes of the passive, cliche-ridden, and...
I augment traditional literary analysis with Natural Language Processing (NLP) tools to compare Fyodor Dostoevsky's Rodion Raskolnikov (Crime and Punishment) with Ayn Rand's Howard Roark (The Fountainhead). Tools include both the Google Cloud...
The domain of Natural Language Processing (NLP) provides novel tools for Literary analysis. Analysts use NLP tools to record sentiment, emotional intensity, and word frequencies. Today I use NLP techniques to extract Raskolnikov's speaking (and...
In May 2023 Generative AI still disappoints in writing compelling literary analysis "from scratch." The output reads thin and lacks hard evidence. Today I instead measure Generative AI's effectiveness in assisting with literary analysis. I...
In this blog post I write an entry for the (now defunct) Faux Faulkner Contest. I first write Humpty Dumpty in the voice of William Faulkner. I then command Generative AI to write an entry for the contest and compare the results. You can read my...
Good Vs. Evil - Two Opposing paths Taken by a Similar Genius This blog post provides a comparison between Henry David Thoreau's Walden and Ted Kaczynski's Unabomber Manifesto. To compare these two works, I use both a modern Natural Language...