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John West

@JohnWest

Now: computational journalism @wsj, formerly @cortico, @medialab, and @qz. Book: *Lessons and Carols*, @eerdmansbooks (2023).

Kingston, NY Katılım Nisan 2009
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Jack Whitcomb@jack_whitcomb_·
on Amazon I have discovered a book called "Infinite Jeffs" which is apparently a copy of Infinite Jest where each word has been replaced with the word "Jeff"
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As the pandemic dragged on, I (a little self-consciously) read the Psalms. I was raising a baby, so each seemed to say something about that quotidian miracle when we make families out of only feelings and time. I'm pumped to say that turned into THE PSALMIST, out in January.
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This is an essay about how I created a very-little-language model using Melville's "Bartleby the Scrivener." I asked it to finish my sentence: "I would..." and it responded "...prefer to, yes." My AI never quite got it right—the most human thing about it.
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Experimenting with the math and data behind large language models helped me understand how AI “thinks.” I wish everyone had the chance to do the same, writes WSJ software engineer John West. on.wsj.com/4nF3OoV

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With @sestamm at @WSJ, I wrote about the whitest county that votes Democratic. Trump wants to expand his advantage in white, working-class enclaves. Harris wants to claw back votes in old union strongholds. Places like Lake County, MN are the battleground. wsj.com/livecoverage/h…
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@AliceOllstein It's true! I am! And while websites may die with a whimper, I really hope my book will be a bang(er).
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@anfuller Just be grateful I didn’t put it in the group chat.
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I'm starting a book club where we only read brand-new works of fiction, gossip about them, and drink Earl Gray. It's called novel-tea.
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At the Miami Herald, @ShirshoD et al have published a disturbing series on Florida's juvenile crime law, which sees more Black kids tried as adults than white kids. (And do yourself a favor and check out the impressive methodology at the bottom) miamiherald.com/news/local/cri…
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5. These kinds of rhymes—allusions across disciplines and genres, times and places—is one of my favorite parts of having a reading life. Not the fact of them, but the thrill of discovery.
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4. And then I stumbled on his NYT interview (nytimes.com/2024/09/05/boo…), where he discusses reading Heidegger, and I pulled up a book I read for my own research, PHILOSOPHY AS POETRY by Richard Rorty.
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1. Because I’m one of those sickos who likes to read critical material about books I just finished, I was looking at reviews of and interviews around SMALL RAIN by Garth Greenwell, which is an incredible book that I can't recommend strongly enough.
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