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The Shape of Blue: Measuring How Language Bends Meaning
Using language models as microscopes to measure how Russian and English carve up blue — and what it reveals about the geometry of meaning
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Russian Blues: A Cat's Tale in Colorspace
Exploring how languages carve up conceptual space differently—and what Russian color terms reveal about geometric Whorfianism
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The Language of Theseus: How the Lyrics Change But the Song Remains
Exploring how language evolves over time through the lens of temporal embeddings and the geometric implications of semantic drift
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The Accidental Geometer: The Geometric Whorfian Hypothesis for LLMs
Treating LLM embedding spaces as Riemannian, language-conditioned models of human conceptual geometry rather than simple Euclidean containers for co-occurrence statistics