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Marginalia

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.

How an entry is born

  1. Issue — the musing itself: what triggered it, where the data came from, what the original prompt/idea was.
  2. 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.
  3. Commit — exactly one squashed commit on main per entry, so the history reads like a table of contents.

Provenance format

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
---

Index

# 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

Artifacts

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

Languages

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.

License

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).

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Research & reading marginalia — selective bilingual (EN/中文) AI-assisted research notes, each with full provenance: data source · initial prompt · date · model.

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