[HN Gopher] Author of William the Conqueror's 'Medieval Big Data...
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Author of William the Conqueror's 'Medieval Big Data' Project
Revealed
Author : zeristor
Score : 45 points
Date : 2025-07-07 06:27 UTC (3 days ago)
(HTM) web link (www.ox.ac.uk)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.ox.ac.uk)
| parpfish wrote:
| Didn't know map-reduce went back that far
| jxjnskkzxxhx wrote:
| Lol map reduce.
|
| The 2010s called, they want their abstractions back.
| panzagl wrote:
| Given the effects of the harrowing of the North, the process
| was more like reduce-map...
| jfengel wrote:
| OK, that's a good joke. +1 internets to you.
| teddyh wrote:
| Contentless article.
| KineticLensman wrote:
| Well it is basically a press release announcing a new book, but
| TFA does contain some things I didn't know. It specifically
| identifies the suggested author, namely Gerard, William's final
| chancellor, later Bishop of Hereford and Archbishop of York.
| jfengel wrote:
| That was new, though I wish they'd listed _any_ of the
| reasons to think that.
|
| They hint that it's stylographic, the details of which would
| not make terribly interesting reading. Still, I wish they
| could have picked out _something_ , rather than irrelevant
| stuff about what a massive undertaking it was.
|
| If they've got nothing more than "We ran it through the
| algorithm and this is what it popped out", then I'm not
| really all that interested in their conclusion. Stylometry
| provides hints but if you can't back it up with some sort of
| historiographic argument then it doesn't really inform
| history much.
| KineticLensman wrote:
| Looking at the actual synopsis of the 1000-page (!) book
| [0], and the table of contents [1], rather than the press
| release, suggests that this _was_ a fairly serious
| undertaking.
|
| [0] https://global.oup.com/academic/product/making-
| domesday-9780...
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| [1] https://global.oup.com/academic/product/making-
| domesday-9780...
| jfengel wrote:
| Thank you. That is much more compelling than the press
| release.
|
| Sadly, at PS143.00, I'm not _that_ compelled. But I
| suspect I 'll get what I wish to know eventually, perhaps
| from a podcast. (I'm more interested in the English
| language than British history, but I do end up listening
| to several podcasts who will certainly find this in their
| domain of interest.)
| ChrisMarshallNY wrote:
| _> the product of raw, not artificial intelligence_
|
| Them's fightin' woids, around here!
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