15 min read essays
Umwelt: The Shape of Meaning
Language doesn't just carry thought. It bends the space thought moves through.
ai
7 min read gwh
The Shape of Blue: Measuring How Language Bends Meaning
Using language models as microscopes to measure how Russian and English carve up blue — and what it reveals about the geometry of meaning
10 min read gwh
Russian Blues: A Cat's Tale in Colorspace
Exploring how languages carve up conceptual space differently—and what Russian color terms reveal about geometric Whorfianism
5 min read gwh
The Accidental Geometer: The Geometric Whorfian Hypothesis for LLMs
Treating LLM embedding spaces as Riemannian, language-conditioned models of human conceptual geometry rather than simple Euclidean containers for co-occurrence statistics