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by benjismith 8y ago
The algorithm for building the lexicon and scoring the vividness of each word is still evolving pretty rapidly, so I'm not quite ready to publish the exact details yet, but I'll eventually write about it in-depth... Until then, he
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by benjismith 8y ago
You can search from the homepage: http://prosecraft.io
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by benjismith 8y ago
The formula is easy, as explained in the article: 1) For any word in the 10,000-word vividness dictionary, add its score to the sum. 2) Divide by the total word count. The complete word list in the vividness dictionary, and the scores of ea
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by benjismith 8y ago
The purpose of this metric is to give authors a practical tool they can use to measure the degree of direct sensory language they use in their writing, and compare it with authors they admire. It's not a value judgement. There are othe
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by benjismith 8y ago
You can click on the logo in the upper-left corner, or you can go directly to the homepage, http://prosecraft.io , to search for specific titles :)
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by benjismith 8y ago
Here's an article I wrote, describing the idea behind the project, defining the idea of "vividness", and explaining how the linguistic analysis works: https://blog.shaxpir.com/writing-vivid-prose-33283e861358
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Show HN: Five Thousand Novels, Ranked by Vividness(prosecraft.io)
54 points by benjismith 8y ago|27 comments
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Five Thousand Novels, Ranked by Vividness(prosecraft.io)
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My Philosophy of Subscription Software(blog.shaxpir.com)
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by benjismith 8y ago
Very cool. I love seeing stuff like this.
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by benjismith 8y ago
Yeah, I got mine a little after midnight too...
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by benjismith 8y ago
Has anybody heard from YC yet? In the past, I've gotten a rejection email midday (2pm pacific), but now it's after 9pm pacific, and I still haven't heard one way or another...
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by benjismith 8y ago
I applied with Shaxpir (pronounced exactly like "Shakespeare"). It's an online writing platform for fiction authors. I like to describe it as a "Github for Literature". https://shaxpir.com Besides the ba
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by benjismith 9y ago
Interesting! I'd love to see a thorough comparison with the Amazon Polly service... https://aws.amazon.com/polly/ Polly is priced at $4 per million characters and the Google WaveNet voices are $16 (compared with t
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by benjismith 9y ago
Lots of legit critique here. Apple certainly has a significant list of longstanding issues to resolve with their product-line. I've been particularly frustrated with my butterfly keyboard. The feel of the keys is lovely, but the reliab
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Prosecraft: Linguistics for Literature(blog.shaxpir.com)
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by benjismith 9y ago
A crowded market can be great because the demand has already been validated, but nobody else has emerged as the market leader yet. That's where YOU step in, with your wisdom and insight about this market, to show the existing const
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by benjismith 9y ago
I don't think we can even comprehend what lies ahead of us for the future of urbanization. The cities, the suburbs, and the rural districts are all undergoing radical generational changes, and there's no hope things settling down
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by benjismith 9y ago
Gotta say... this is pretty badass.
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by benjismith 9y ago
I haven't tried ProseMirror, but I've can second the endorsement for Quill. For the past three months, I've been working on a large-scale integration of Quill (with lots of customizations) into a commercial word-processor ( h
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by benjismith 9y ago
Awesome! I'm very excited about this... As the primary developer of a large sophisticated Javascript app ( https://shaxpir.com ), working with Javascript is an ongoing nuisance, and I'd love to switch the majority of my
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by benjismith 9y ago
I'm compelled to ask how much you're paying for your "Hacker News" subscription... because the rest of us are somehow finding legitimate economic value in this nominally free resource.
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by benjismith 9y ago
No, if you re-read the first sentence there, it says that the different results are attributed to differences in "pre-processing and augmentation". The choice of NN framework is essentially irrelevant.
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Why I Decided to Go Solo(solo-founder.com)
1 points by benjismith 10y ago|0 comments
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Solo Founder Magazine(solo-founder.com)
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Founder and Chief Everything(blog.shaxpir.com)
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Show HN: Shaxpir 4: Everyone
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Reflection VOID: Time Lapse Milky Way with Motion-Control Mirrors(vimeo.com)
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by benjismith 10y ago
Well remember, WebAssembly just a different representation format for the same instruction set, executed by the underlying virtual machine (v8, spidermonkey, etc). So you should expect to see much of a performance difference. The main benef
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by benjismith 10y ago
I enjoy reading about rust. I don't know the language (yet), but I've been keeping my eye on it for a few years, and I think it's going to be fantastic once it stabilizes and gets improved tooling. I especially welcome the po

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