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Steve Krause’s personal web site, including his blog, Words & Numbers, and pointers to his projects elsewhere on the web.
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Woe Is Em: The Sad Lifecycle of an AI Tell
In 2025, ChatGPT couldn't stop itself from using the em dash-the punctuation mark before this phrase. Soon the em dash became the best-known stylistic "tell" of AI-generated prose. Writers who had long used ...
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For the Love of Holmes
Sherlock Holmes at Reichenbach Falls by Frederick Dorr Steele, 1903 Sherlock Holmes is among the most recognized and loved fictional characters ever, rightly so. For me, he is a hero, revealing the human potential to find truth by knowing how to look for
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How Band Names Went Wild, 1964-1968
From 1964 to 1968, popular band names went from a single dominant formula to a linguistic free-for-all. The Beatles, The Beac...
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On Returning
In 2005, this blog's first post was a little joke: an apology for not having posted in a while-since 14,789 BC. The image had a cave painting with ASCII art. Even in those early days of blogging, "Sorry I haven't posted in a while" was already a cliché. S
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