12-06-2026, 03:44 PM
Your kink is real — I ran something along these lines and can put numbers on it.
Section-level null model: shuffle section labels across folios while preserving the Currier A/B split, then size-match each pseudo-section (200 iterations). Two sections sit at opposite extremes: Herbal is far more repetitive than its size and dialect predict (windowed TTR about 14 sigma below the null mean) and Balneological is close behind (about 10 sigma below). The Stars pages go the other way: hapax share about +4.4 sigma above expectation.
@Jorge_Stolfi — I checked the label question: rerunning prose-only (dropping all label/circle/radial loci, about 9% of tokens) changes essentially nothing — Herbal -13.5, Balneo -10.7, Stars +4.3. It's a property of the running text.
One caveat for your kink specifically: the Astro and Zodiac folios carry no Currier assignments at all, so they can't enter this kind of null. The testable Cosmo remainder is positive but not significant. What is directly confirmed is nablator's compensation point — the Q13 dip is the -10 sigma Balneological deficit.
Interesting side result: boundary-structure metrics that separate Currier A from B cleanly are nearly blind to sections. Vocabulary diversity and boundary structure look like two independent layers of organization.
Section-level null model: shuffle section labels across folios while preserving the Currier A/B split, then size-match each pseudo-section (200 iterations). Two sections sit at opposite extremes: Herbal is far more repetitive than its size and dialect predict (windowed TTR about 14 sigma below the null mean) and Balneological is close behind (about 10 sigma below). The Stars pages go the other way: hapax share about +4.4 sigma above expectation.
@Jorge_Stolfi — I checked the label question: rerunning prose-only (dropping all label/circle/radial loci, about 9% of tokens) changes essentially nothing — Herbal -13.5, Balneo -10.7, Stars +4.3. It's a property of the running text.
One caveat for your kink specifically: the Astro and Zodiac folios carry no Currier assignments at all, so they can't enter this kind of null. The testable Cosmo remainder is positive but not significant. What is directly confirmed is nablator's compensation point — the Q13 dip is the -10 sigma Balneological deficit.
Interesting side result: boundary-structure metrics that separate Currier A from B cleanly are nearly blind to sections. Vocabulary diversity and boundary structure look like two independent layers of organization.
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