Each row is one of the sixteen lives of Musa the Tailor, the second Branching Selves diarist (a model fine-tuned on Iman Poernomo’s writing as the Tailor, “taken from 2011 into the Barzakh”), from entry 1 at the left to entry 100 at the right, and each square is one entry, coloured by the region of meaning it falls in. The early entries are shared: entries 1 to 9 are one diary, which splits in two at entry 10, in four at 20, in eight at 30 and in sixteen at 40 (the dotted lines). So a shared entry is one tall square across all the lives who share it. The twelve regions were found by k-means on the full text embeddings, with nothing chosen by hand. The names are ours, from reading the entries nearest each region’s centre. Solid colour marks a genuine region, one with room around it; a faded square sits in a soft region, a cut through continuous ground, and fades the closer that entry sits to a neighbouring region.
Tap a region to see who goes there, how long they stay and how deep they go. Tap a square to read that entry.
Tap a square to read the entry.
Lives most alike
By where they spend their own entries (40 to 100): the cosine between two lives’ shares of the twelve regions. 1 would be the same shares exactly.