I like words.
Adelaide, South Australia
https://www.ivory-tower.net.au
This work is a follow up to recently published investigations: Text analytics reveal thirty two percent of comments are not unique and add no value to discussionFurther analytics regarding comments on HIVEThis post examines data from January 2025 through to the conclusion of April 2025, to enable broader analysis of the type of comments published on the platform.
For the first time in a long time, I've taken my camera, and some lights, and a few friends out into the night. No real plan, no real outcome desired. Just the notion of night time, eerie light, a white dress, a female form, and a narrative that would unfold as we worked.
The world is a different place in the year 2025. It is full of large language models masquarding as artifical intelligence, and people unable to think for themselves. More disturbingly, people unable to differentiate machine generated and human generated artefacts, be they text, video, images, or music.
Hello everyone! I have continued to analyse the data set I began looking into a few days ago, and have some new analysis to present to the community. Before I commence with showing the analytics, a few important distinctions.
When I (definitely) read Ender's Game as a kid, I probably thought it was a cool story about a kid getting good at war training, military moves, and strategy. As an adult, this is what the novel starts to manifest as. As an adult, this is definitely not what the novel is. Instead, it is a commentary about control. Control over relationships, control over people, control for the sake of control.
In a past, professional life, I once did a task that examined the quality and occurrence of text. No on asked for it. I was a Business Analyst who kept seeing the same comments come up, and I was concerned that poor quality notes were being left on customer accounts.