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The original paper [1] also contains some great graphs. And less hyperbole; these are the six basic plots of ~1400 English-language stories on Project Gutenberg
by wongarsu 3y ago
The original paper [1] also contains some great graphs. And less hyperbole; these are the six basic plots of ~1400 English-language stories on Project Gutenberg, not of every story in the world, ever
1: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1606.07772.pdf https://arxiv.org/pdf/1606.07772.pdf
- kqr 3y agoThose plots are so much better. They also give a sense of the variation around the shape, and are less smoothed than in this article. Also thumbs up for using self-organising maps. Way underappreciated idea!
- all2 3y agoFor those like me who don't know what a self organizing map is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-organizing_map https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-organizing_map A self-organizing map (SOM) or self-organizing feature map (SOFM) is an unsupervised machine learning technique used to produce a low-dimensional (typically two-dimensional) representation of a higher dimensional data set while preserving the topological structure of the data.
- jimmySixDOF 3y agoThere is also the Kurt Vonnegut "Shape of Stories" concept where he has 8 basic universal plot lines graphed out back in the 1940s https://thestory.au/articles/kurt-vonnegut-story-shapes/ https://thestory.au/articles/kurt-vonnegut-story-shapes/
- simbolit 3y agoI hate that they talk about 8 plot lines, but only show graphics for 5.
- frontiersummit 3y agoSkimming the paper: it looks like they are performing sentiment analysis on books, effectively taking the Fourier transform of the sentiment-versus-time data, and reporting which Fourier component (up to 3rd harmonic) is strongest.
- madcaptenor 3y agoI don't see why they stop at the third harmonic, as opposed to the second or the fourth.
- trombonechamp 3y agoLooks like these are just phantom oscillations, a statistical artifact of doing SVD/PCA on smooth data: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.06.20.545619v1 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.06.20.545619v1 You get the same patterns in music: https://pure.uva.nl/ws/files/67945245/000016_2_.pdf https://pure.uva.nl/ws/files/67945245/000016_2_.pdf
- Kevin09210 3y agoMore great "diagrams" from mathematician Jean Petitot applying René Thom's morphodynamic models to the study of the canonical formula of myths (Lévy-Strauss). about 2/3rd in: https://www.persee.fr/docAsPDF/hom_0439-4216_1988_num_28_106_368968.pdf https://www.persee.fr/docAsPDF/hom_0439-4216_1988_num_28_106...
- everybodyknows 3y ago2016, and the BBC article is 2018.