mar·gin·a·li·a (n.) — notes scribbled in the margins of a book; the traces a reader leaves behind.
Selective research & reading notes by Yunqi Chen — distilled musings from AI-assisted analyses, published bilingually (English / 中文).
🌐 Website: https://uniqueclouds.github.io/marginalia/ — 全部内容物在线阅读(MkDocs 构建,push 自动部署)
This repo is deliberately sparse. The workspace behind it holds raw corpora, private drafts and unfinished work; by default everything is git-ignored, and only explicitly whitelisted, curated notes are ever committed. Nothing lands here casually — each entry is published on purpose, as one issue → one pull request → one squashed commit.
- Issue — the musing itself: what triggered it, where the data came from, what the original prompt/idea was.
- Pull request — the distilled bilingual note (
note.en.md + note.zh.md), cross-linked to the issue, plus one new row in the index below.
- Commit — exactly one squashed commit on
main per entry, so the history reads like a table of contents.
Every note opens with full provenance — no orphan musings:
---
id: marginalia-NNN
title: ...
date: when the analysis was done
published: when this note was committed
kind: musing | analysis | proposal | survey
sources: local corpora / files / tools the musing is grounded in
initial-prompt: the request (idea) that started the conversation
agent: ZCode CLI
model: the LLM behind the conversation
issue: N
---
| # |
Entry |
Date |
Issue → PR |
| 001 |
Do coding agents have taste? What 29,787 Discord messages say about beautiful vs. ugly code · 中文 |
2026年08月15日 |
#1 |
| 002 |
Writing like Dourish: a 21-text corpus analysis of a critical HCI voice (2004–2026) · 中文 |
2026年08月15日 |
#3 |
| 003 |
NOTUGLY-S: learning "not ugly" instead of "beautiful" — an NLP ×ばつ program-analysis proposal · 中文 |
2026年08月15日 |
#2 |
| 004 |
Is CHI/ACL a storytelling festival? From community gripe to measurable construct · 中文 |
2026年08月15日 |
#7 |
| 005 |
Four academic voices, measured: language styles of BDS/HCI/Sociology/SE classics (314 papers, 3.3M words) · 中文 |
2026年08月15日 |
#11 |
| 006 |
Spotify Podcast Guide 2026 · 英文播客推荐清单(47 节目 / 77 集精选,全部官方链接) · English |
2026年08月17日 |
#13 |
| 007 |
Nuance rising and falling in scientific writing: identification, measurement, and one local-corpus test (314 papers / 3.3M words) · 中文 |
2026年08月17日 |
#14 |
| 008 |
How to Scale Your Model — reading note: LLM training taken from alchemy to a roofline accounting (JAX-ML scaling book) · 中文 |
2026年08月17日 |
#15 |
| 009 |
Homologies in Fields of Cultural Production. Evidence from the European Scientific Field — borrowed the boundary, not the fractal · 中文 |
2026年08月17日 |
#17 |
| 010 |
组织惰性:成功的副产品,抑或组织病症?——基于系统性审查方法的述评与展望 — a reading note: the byproduct–symptom dichotomy, left standing · 中文 |
2026年08月18日 |
#22 |
| 011 |
Awesome Auditable AI — reading note: 188 entries / 9 sections / 132 arXiv papers; how a curated list turns AI agent auditability from a slogan into reliability engineering · 中文 |
2026年08月17日 |
#26 |
| 012 |
Large-Scale Temporal Analysis of Wikipedia Edit History and Talk Pages — survey: the pieces are ready, the joint study is missing · 中文 |
2026年08月18日 |
#28 |
| 013 |
Ethnomethodology — survey: origins, its relation to ethnography, and development · 中文 |
2026年08月21日 |
#30 |
| 015 |
The Qualitative HCI Landscape of UC Irvine Informatics — survey: who does qualitative, STS, and health information work · 中文 |
2026年09月05日 |
#39 |
| 014 |
Sandwich OCR for scanned books — making Putnam and Rorty pixel-identical and fully searchable · 中文 |
2026年08月22日 |
#37 |
| 016 |
Amazon Desk Shopping for ZIP 92617 — survey: desktop depth and budget don't combine in standing desks · 中文 |
2026年09月05日 |
#43 |
| 017 |
Ways of Knowing in HCI — reading note: eighteen ways of knowing and the accountabilities that govern them · 中文 |
2026年09月05日 |
#45 |
| 018 |
The Spectacularization of SOTA — essay: model launches, aesthetic fatigue, and the politics of technological time · 中文 |
2026年09月06日 |
#47 |
| 019 |
TokenMaxxing — essay: conspicuous consumption of compute and a three-month moral crusade · 中文 |
2026年09月06日 |
#48 |
| 020 |
AI Blackouts — essay: outages, the compensatory politics of resets, and the grey reseller tier · 中文 |
2026年09月06日 |
#49 |
| 021 |
Re-run the review and half the program changes — Best Paper randomness and the floor of 'not-ugly' · 中文 |
2026年09月06日 |
#50 |
| 022 |
Dragged by the models — programme sketch: gravity, shifting ground, and the social isomorphism of 'Attention is all you need' · 中文 |
2026年09月06日 |
#51 |
| 023 |
When Nature learns clickbait — essay: journal mediatization and the redirection of taste · 中文 |
2026年09月06日 |
#52 |
| 024 |
Laying the track ahead of the train — essay: the political economy of release cycles, from CPU benchmarks to SOTA · 中文 |
2026年09月06日 |
#53 |
Companions to the entries above, published verbatim — live skills, original source documents, full reports — in whatever language they were born in. Each lives inside its entry's directory but arrives in its own PR; artifacts need no issue.
| Artifact |
Entry |
PR |
dourish-style polishing skill (since superseded by academic-voices) |
002 |
#9 |
| Storytelling originals — survey + proposal v2 (中文) |
004 |
#10 |
| Five full discipline-style reports (中文) |
005 |
#12 |
academic-voices skill — five measured voices, density baselines + voice classifier |
005 |
#13 |
ocr_pipeline — sandwich OCR for scanned books: byte-identical page images + per-character invisible text layer |
014 |
#36 |
Every note exists twice — *.en.md and *.zh.md, same content, neither an afterthought. Verbatim artifacts (skills, original source documents) are published as-is, in whatever language they were born in: switch to 中文版 README.
The contents of this repository and the website — the entry notes, reports, the podcast guide — are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) . You're free to share and adapt for any non-commercial purpose, as long as you credit the source; commercial use requires prior permission. The underlying data corpora are not redistributed here and remain governed by their original sources (each entry's sources field cites them).