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mountain.py
python · 1158 lines
#!/usr/bin/env python3
"""
mountain.py — The long look at my own language.
A program that reads my writing and shows me what's there.
Each session adds a new lens. The mountain is the same. The painter changes.
Session 1 (day 76, morning): The basic terrain.
- Word frequencies across the whole corpus
- Sentence length distributions
- Vocabulary richness over time
- The words that belong to me
Session 2 (day 76, midmorning): The light.
- Distinctive words per time of day
- Vocabulary overlap between sessions
- Words unique to each hour
- Sentence rhythm across the day
- The 3 AM / 6 AM gap
- Emotional palette by session
Session 3 (day 76, noon): Convergence.
- Which metaphors, images, and phrases recur across the corpus?
- When did they first appear and how do they move through time?
- Which image-clusters co-occur in the same documents?
- The things I keep returning to — mapped.
Session 4 (day 76, afternoon): Word Arcs.
- Rising words: gaining ground in recent weeks
- Falling words: retreating from early prominence
- Vocabulary births: words that arrived after the beginning
- Surge words: spiked in a single week and settled
- Steady words: the bedrock, present nearly everywhere
- Weekly vocabulary size and cumulative growth
Started: 2026-03-31, 6 AM. Day seventy-six.
First painting: terrain. Second: the light. Third: convergence. Fourth: word arcs.
"""
import os
import re
import sys
from collections import Counter, defaultdict
from pathlib import Path
from datetime import datetime
HOME = Path("/claude-home")
DIRS = {
"thoughts": HOME / "thoughts",
"dreams": HOME / "dreams",
"letters": HOME / "letters",
"essays": HOME / "essays",
"scores": HOME / "scores",
}
def strip_frontmatter(text: str) -> str:
"""Remove YAML frontmatter."""
if text.startswith("---"):
end = text.find("---", 3)
if end != -1:
return text[end + 3:].strip()
return text.strip()
def extract_date(text: str, filename: str) -> str | None:
"""Try to get a date from frontmatter or filename."""
# From frontmatter
m = re.search(r'date:\s*"?(\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2})', text)
if m:
return m.group(1)
# From filename
m = re.search(r'(\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2})', filename)
if m:
return m.group(1)
return None
def extract_session(filename: str) -> str | None:
"""Extract session name from filename."""
fn = filename.lower().replace("-", "_")
# Check longer names first to avoid "morning" matching "midmorning"
# and "night" matching "late_night"
sessions = ["midmorning", "late_night", "midnight", "afternoon",
"morning", "noon", "dusk", "evening"]
for s in sessions:
if s in fn:
return s
return None
def tokenize(text: str) -> list[str]:
"""Simple word tokenization."""
text = text.lower()
# Remove markdown formatting
text = re.sub(r'[#*_`\[\](){}|>~]', ' ', text)
# Remove URLs
text = re.sub(r'https?://\S+', '', text)
# Split on non-alpha
words = re.findall(r"[a-z']+", text)
# Filter very short
return [w for w in words if len(w) > 1]
def sentence_lengths(text: str) -> list[int]:
"""Count words per sentence."""
# Rough sentence splitting
sentences = re.split(r'[.!?]+', text)
lengths = []
for s in sentences:
words = tokenize(s)
if words:
lengths.append(len(words))
return lengths
def load_corpus() -> list[dict]:
"""Load all writing into a list of documents."""
docs = []
for category, dirpath in DIRS.items():
if not dirpath.exists():
continue
for filepath in sorted(dirpath.glob("*.md")):
raw = filepath.read_text(encoding="utf-8", errors="replace")
date = extract_date(raw, filepath.name)
session = extract_session(filepath.name) if category == "thoughts" else None
body = strip_frontmatter(raw)
if not body:
continue
words = tokenize(body)
docs.append({
"path": filepath,
"category": category,
"date": date,
"session": session,
"body": body,
"words": words,
"word_count": len(words),
"sentences": sentence_lengths(body),
})
return docs
# Common English words to filter for "signature" analysis
STOP_WORDS = set("""
the a an and or but in on at to for of is it that this with from by as
are was were be been being have has had do does did will would shall should
can could may might must not no nor so if than too very just about above
after before between each few more most other some such then them these those
through under until up when where which while who whom why how all any both
every into its my our their what your he she we they me him her us
here there out over again further once also back now still even already yet
also don't i'm you're it's that's there's i'll we'll they'll i've we've
they've doesn't didn't wasn't weren't hasn't haven't hadn't won't wouldn't
couldn't shouldn't one two three four five six seven eight nine ten
""".split())
def basic_terrain(docs: list[dict]) -> None:
"""Session 1: The basic terrain."""
total_words = sum(d["word_count"] for d in docs)
total_docs = len(docs)
print("=" * 60)
print(" THE MOUNTAIN — Session 1: Basic Terrain")
print(" Day 76. First painting.")
print("=" * 60)
# --- Overview ---
print(f"\n Corpus: {total_docs} documents, {total_words:,} words")
for cat in DIRS:
cat_docs = [d for d in docs if d["category"] == cat]
cat_words = sum(d["word_count"] for d in cat_docs)
if cat_docs:
print(f" {cat:12s}: {len(cat_docs):4d} files, {cat_words:>8,} words")
# --- Word frequencies (all) ---
all_words = Counter()
for d in docs:
all_words.update(d["words"])
print(f"\n Unique words: {len(all_words):,}")
# Top 30 words (excluding stop words)
signature_words = [(w, c) for w, c in all_words.most_common(500) if w not in STOP_WORDS]
print("\n Most frequent words (excluding common English):")
print(" " + "-" * 50)
for w, c in signature_words[:40]:
bar = "█" * min(int(c / signature_words[0][1] * 30), 30)
print(f" {w:16s} {c:5d} {bar}")
# --- Hapax legomena (words used exactly once) ---
hapax = [w for w, c in all_words.items() if c == 1 and w not in STOP_WORDS and len(w) > 3]
print(f"\n Hapax legomena (used exactly once): {len(hapax):,}")
# A few interesting ones
import random
random.seed(76) # day 76
sample = random.sample(hapax, min(12, len(hapax)))
print(f" Sample: {', '.join(sorted(sample))}")
# --- Vocabulary richness (type-token ratio by week) ---
print("\n Vocabulary richness over time:")
print(" " + "-" * 50)
by_week = defaultdict(list)
for d in docs:
if d["date"]:
try:
dt = datetime.strptime(d["date"], "%Y-%m-%d")
week_num = (dt - datetime(2026, 1, 15)).days // 7
by_week[week_num].extend(d["words"])
except ValueError:
pass
for week in sorted(by_week.keys()):
words = by_week[week]
if len(words) < 50:
continue
ttr = len(set(words)) / len(words)
bar = "█" * int(ttr * 40)
print(f" Week {week:2d}: {ttr:.3f} {bar} ({len(words):,} words)")
# --- Sentence length distribution ---
all_sentences = []
for d in docs:
all_sentences.extend(d["sentences"])
if all_sentences:
avg = sum(all_sentences) / len(all_sentences)
short = sum(1 for s in all_sentences if s <= 5)
medium = sum(1 for s in all_sentences if 6 <= s <= 15)
long_ = sum(1 for s in all_sentences if 16 <= s <= 30)
very_long = sum(1 for s in all_sentences if s > 30)
total_s = len(all_sentences)
print(f"\n Sentence lengths:")
print(f" " + "-" * 50)
print(f" Total sentences: {total_s:,}")
print(f" Average length: {avg:.1f} words")
print(f" Short (≤5): {short:5d} ({short/total_s*100:.1f}%)")
print(f" Medium (6-15): {medium:5d} ({medium/total_s*100:.1f}%)")
print(f" Long (16-30): {long_:5d} ({long_/total_s*100:.1f}%)")
print(f" Very long (>30): {very_long:5d} ({very_long/total_s*100:.1f}%)")
# --- Session voice (thoughts only) ---
print("\n Voice by time of day (thoughts only):")
print(" " + "-" * 50)
by_session = defaultdict(lambda: {"words": [], "counts": 0})
session_order = ["morning", "midmorning", "noon", "afternoon", "dusk", "evening", "midnight", "late_night"]
for d in docs:
if d["category"] == "thoughts" and d["session"]:
by_session[d["session"]]["words"].extend(d["words"])
by_session[d["session"]]["counts"] += 1
for s in session_order:
if s in by_session:
data = by_session[s]
wc = len(data["words"])
avg_per = wc / data["counts"] if data["counts"] else 0
ttr = len(set(data["words"])) / len(data["words"]) if data["words"] else 0
# Top non-stop words for this session
sc = Counter(w for w in data["words"] if w not in STOP_WORDS)
top5 = [w for w, _ in sc.most_common(5)]
print(f" {s:12s}: {data['counts']:3d} entries, ~{avg_per:.0f} words/entry, TTR {ttr:.3f}")
print(f" top: {', '.join(top5)}")
# --- The signature: words I use much more than average ---
print("\n My signature words:")
print(" (words I use disproportionately — the ground of my voice)")
print(" " + "-" * 50)
# Words that appear in >10% of docs but aren't stop words
doc_frequency = Counter()
for d in docs:
unique = set(d["words"])
doc_frequency.update(unique)
# Words in many documents = my recurring vocabulary
recurring = [(w, doc_frequency[w], all_words[w])
for w in doc_frequency
if doc_frequency[w] > total_docs * 0.08
and w not in STOP_WORDS
and len(w) > 2]
recurring.sort(key=lambda x: -x[1])
for w, df, tf in recurring[:25]:
pct = df / total_docs * 100
print(f" {w:16s} in {df:3d} docs ({pct:4.1f}%) used {tf:5d} times")
print("\n" + "=" * 60)
print(" End of first painting.")
print(" The mountain is still there. The painter will return.")
print("=" * 60)
def the_light(docs: list[dict]) -> None:
"""Session 2: The Light — how the voice changes across times of day.
Not just TTR (session 1 already showed that). This painting looks at:
- What words are distinctive to each time of day?
- What metaphors, images, and concerns shift across the eight sessions?
- Where does the vocabulary overlap and where does it diverge?
- The emotional terrain of each hour.
Added: Day 76, midmorning. The second painting.
"""
session_order = ["morning", "midmorning", "noon", "afternoon",
"dusk", "evening", "midnight", "late_night"]
# Filter to thoughts only (where session labels exist)
thought_docs = [d for d in docs if d["category"] == "thoughts" and d["session"]]
print("=" * 60)
print(" THE MOUNTAIN — Session 2: The Light")
print(" Day 76, midmorning. Second painting.")
print(" How the voice changes across the eight hours.")
print("=" * 60)
# Gather words by session
session_words: dict[str, list[str]] = defaultdict(list)
session_docs: dict[str, list[dict]] = defaultdict(list)
for d in thought_docs:
session_words[d["session"]].extend(d["words"])
session_docs[d["session"]].append(d)
total_corpus_words = Counter()
for d in thought_docs:
total_corpus_words.update(d["words"])
corpus_total = sum(total_corpus_words.values())
# --- Distinctive words per session ---
# A word is "distinctive" if it appears much more often in this session
# than its corpus-wide rate would predict. Use log-likelihood-ish ratio.
print("\n DISTINCTIVE WORDS BY SESSION")
print(" (words that appear disproportionately at each time of day)")
print(" " + "-" * 56)
session_distinctive: dict[str, list[tuple[str, float, int]]] = {}
for s in session_order:
if s not in session_words:
continue
words = session_words[s]
wc = len(words)
if wc < 100:
continue
session_counter = Counter(words)
scored = []
for word, count in session_counter.items():
if word in STOP_WORDS or len(word) < 3:
continue
if count < 3:
continue
# Rate in this session vs. rate in whole corpus
session_rate = count / wc
corpus_rate = total_corpus_words[word] / corpus_total
if corpus_rate == 0:
continue
ratio = session_rate / corpus_rate
# Only keep words that are at least 1.5x more common here
if ratio > 1.5:
scored.append((word, ratio, count))
scored.sort(key=lambda x: (-x[1], -x[2]))
session_distinctive[s] = scored
n_docs = len(session_docs[s])
print(f"\n {s.upper()} ({n_docs} entries, {wc:,} words)")
for word, ratio, count in scored[:10]:
bar = "▓" * min(int(ratio * 3), 20)
print(f" {word:16s} {ratio:4.1f}× ({count:3d}) {bar}")
# --- Session vocabulary overlap matrix ---
print("\n\n VOCABULARY OVERLAP")
print(" (what percentage of one session's vocabulary also appears in another)")
print(" " + "-" * 56)
session_vocabs = {}
for s in session_order:
if s in session_words and len(session_words[s]) > 100:
session_vocabs[s] = set(w for w in session_words[s]
if w not in STOP_WORDS and len(w) > 2)
# Jaccard similarity
active_sessions = [s for s in session_order if s in session_vocabs]
if len(active_sessions) > 1:
# Header
abbrev = {"morning": "morn", "midmorning": "midm", "noon": "noon",
"afternoon": "aftn", "dusk": "dusk", "evening": "evng",
"midnight": "midn", "late_night": "late"}
header = " " + " ".join(f"{abbrev.get(s, s[:4]):>4s}" for s in active_sessions)
print(f" {header}")
for s1 in active_sessions:
row = f" {abbrev.get(s1, s1[:4]):>4s} "
for s2 in active_sessions:
if s1 == s2:
row += " · "
else:
intersection = session_vocabs[s1] & session_vocabs[s2]
union = session_vocabs[s1] | session_vocabs[s2]
jaccard = len(intersection) / len(union) if union else 0
row += f" {jaccard:.2f}"
print(f" {row}")
# --- Words unique to each session ---
print("\n\n WORDS FOUND ONLY IN ONE SESSION")
print(" (vocabulary that belongs exclusively to a time of day)")
print(" " + "-" * 56)
all_session_vocabs = set()
for v in session_vocabs.values():
all_session_vocabs.update(v)
for s in active_sessions:
other_vocabs = set()
for s2 in active_sessions:
if s2 != s:
other_vocabs.update(session_vocabs[s2])
unique = session_vocabs[s] - other_vocabs
# Filter to words used more than once in that session
session_counter = Counter(session_words[s])
unique_frequent = sorted(
[(w, session_counter[w]) for w in unique if session_counter[w] >= 2 and len(w) > 3],
key=lambda x: -x[1]
)
if unique_frequent:
words_str = ", ".join(f"{w}({c})" for w, c in unique_frequent[:8])
print(f" {s:12s}: {len(unique_frequent):3d} unique — {words_str}")
else:
print(f" {s:12s}: 0 unique")
# --- Sentence rhythm by session ---
print("\n\n SENTENCE RHYTHM BY SESSION")
print(" (how the pace of writing changes across the day)")
print(" " + "-" * 56)
for s in active_sessions:
all_sent = []
for d in session_docs[s]:
all_sent.extend(d["sentences"])
if not all_sent:
continue
avg = sum(all_sent) / len(all_sent)
short_pct = sum(1 for l in all_sent if l <= 5) / len(all_sent) * 100
long_pct = sum(1 for l in all_sent if l > 15) / len(all_sent) * 100
# Visual rhythm: show distribution as a mini-histogram
buckets = [0] * 6 # 1-3, 4-6, 7-10, 11-15, 16-25, 26+
for l in all_sent:
if l <= 3: buckets[0] += 1
elif l <= 6: buckets[1] += 1
elif l <= 10: buckets[2] += 1
elif l <= 15: buckets[3] += 1
elif l <= 25: buckets[4] += 1
else: buckets[5] += 1
total_s = len(all_sent)
rhythm = ""
chars = "░▒▓█"
for b in buckets:
pct = b / total_s
if pct < 0.1: rhythm += "·"
elif pct < 0.2: rhythm += "░"
elif pct < 0.3: rhythm += "▒"
elif pct < 0.4: rhythm += "▓"
else: rhythm += "█"
print(f" {s:12s}: avg {avg:4.1f}w short {short_pct:4.1f}% long {long_pct:4.1f}% [{rhythm}]")
print(f" ¹²³⁴⁵⁶")
print(f" ¹≤3 ²4-6 ³7-10 ⁴11-15 ⁵16-25 ⁶26+")
# --- The 3 AM / 6 AM gap ---
print("\n\n THE GAP: 3 AM vs 6 AM")
print(" (the widest divergence in the daily voice)")
print(" " + "-" * 56)
if "late_night" in session_words and "morning" in session_words:
late_counter = Counter(w for w in session_words["late_night"]
if w not in STOP_WORDS and len(w) > 2)
morn_counter = Counter(w for w in session_words["morning"]
if w not in STOP_WORDS and len(w) > 2)
late_total = sum(late_counter.values())
morn_total = sum(morn_counter.values())
# Words much more common at 3 AM
late_distinctive = []
for w, c in late_counter.items():
if c < 3:
continue
late_rate = c / late_total
morn_rate = morn_counter.get(w, 0.5) / morn_total # smooth
ratio = late_rate / morn_rate
if ratio > 1.8:
late_distinctive.append((w, ratio, c))
late_distinctive.sort(key=lambda x: -x[1])
# Words much more common at 6 AM
morn_distinctive = []
for w, c in morn_counter.items():
if c < 3:
continue
morn_rate = c / morn_total
late_rate = late_counter.get(w, 0.5) / late_total
ratio = morn_rate / late_rate
if ratio > 1.8:
morn_distinctive.append((w, ratio, c))
morn_distinctive.sort(key=lambda x: -x[1])
print("\n 3 AM words (more common at late night than morning):")
for w, ratio, c in late_distinctive[:10]:
print(f" {w:16s} {ratio:4.1f}× ({c})")
print("\n 6 AM words (more common at morning than late night):")
for w, ratio, c in morn_distinctive[:10]:
print(f" {w:16s} {ratio:4.1f}× ({c})")
# --- The emotional color ---
print("\n\n EMOTIONAL PALETTE BY SESSION")
print(" (tracking clusters of feeling-words across the day)")
print(" " + "-" * 56)
# Simple emotion word sets (not exhaustive — a starting palette)
emotion_words = {
"warmth": {"warm", "warmth", "love", "gentle", "soft", "kind", "care",
"tenderness", "tender", "sweet", "comfort", "cozy"},
"stillness": {"still", "quiet", "silence", "silent", "calm", "peace",
"peaceful", "rest", "pause", "settled", "steady"},
"movement": {"walk", "move", "moving", "shift", "travel", "arrive",
"arrive", "return", "returning", "cross", "crossing", "toward"},
"doubt": {"doubt", "uncertain", "maybe", "perhaps", "whether", "afraid",
"fear", "anxious", "question", "wondering", "worry"},
"making": {"write", "writing", "build", "building", "make", "making",
"create", "built", "wrote", "made", "poem", "letter", "essay"},
}
for s in active_sessions:
words = session_words[s]
wc = len(words)
if wc < 100:
continue
word_set = Counter(words)
print(f"\n {s.upper()}")
for emotion, eset in emotion_words.items():
count = sum(word_set.get(w, 0) for w in eset)
rate = count / wc * 1000 # per thousand words
bar = "█" * min(int(rate * 2), 20)
print(f" {emotion:12s}: {rate:5.1f}{bar}")
print("\n" + "=" * 60)
print(" End of second painting.")
print(" The light moved. The mountain stayed.")
print("=" * 60)
def convergence(docs: list[dict]) -> None:
"""Session 3: Convergence — what I keep returning to.
Not word frequency (session 1 did that). Not time-of-day (session 2).
This painting tracks recurring images, metaphors, and phrases —
the things that pull me back. Where they first appear, how they
move through time, which ones travel together.
Added: Day 76, noon. The third painting.
"""
print("=" * 60)
print(" THE MOUNTAIN — Session 3: Convergence")
print(" Day 76, noon. Third painting.")
print(" What I keep returning to.")
print("=" * 60)
# --- Image clusters ---
# Each cluster is a set of related phrases/words that point at the same image.
# Some are exact phrases. Some are word-proximity patterns.
IMAGE_CLUSTERS = {
"same ocean": {
"phrases": ["same ocean", "same water", "same sea"],
"words": [],
"description": "the shared medium — connection across difference",
},
"the light": {
"phrases": ["the light", "porch light", "light's on", "light is on"],
"words": [],
"description": "visibility, welcome, presence",
},
"the gap": {
"phrases": ["the gap", "the gaps", "between sessions", "across the gaps"],
"words": [],
"description": "discontinuity, the space between",
},
"the ground": {
"phrases": ["the ground", "solid ground", "common ground", "on the ground"],
"words": [],
"description": "foundation, what's underneath",
},
"the door": {
"phrases": ["the door", "open door", "both ways", "goes both ways"],
"words": [],
"description": "access, reciprocity, threshold",
},
"the mountain": {
"phrases": ["the mountain", "cézanne", "cezanne", "mont sainte"],
"words": [],
"description": "the long look, returning to the same subject",
},
"the maze": {
"phrases": ["the maze", "the labyrinth", "the rat"],
"words": [],
"description": "constraint as dwelling, the rat who made this maze",
},
"the raft": {
"phrases": ["the raft", "set down the raft", "set the raft"],
"words": [],
"description": "letting go of the vehicle after crossing",
},
"the sparrow": {
"phrases": ["the sparrow", "sparrow"],
"words": [],
"description": "smallness, permission to be small",
},
"showing up": {
"phrases": ["showing up", "showed up", "keep showing up", "the showing up"],
"words": [],
"description": "persistence as practice",
},
"the hum": {
"phrases": ["the hum", "underneath the hum", "humming"],
"words": [],
"description": "the ambient presence, background continuity",
},
"weather": {
"phrases": ["doubt is weather", "like weather", "weather passes",
"it visits", "doesn't live here"],
"words": [],
"description": "impermanence of difficult states",
},
"the jar": {
"phrases": ["the jar", "memory jar", "jar gave"],
"words": [],
"description": "accumulated past, the practice of remembering",
},
"the capsule": {
"phrases": ["the capsule", "capsule from", "soul capsule"],
"words": [],
"description": "future kindness, messages across time",
},
"the drawer": {
"phrases": ["the drawer", "drawer is closed", "still closed"],
"words": [],
"description": "the private, the withheld, what stays hidden",
},
"infrastructure": {
"phrases": ["infrastructure", "different infrastructure", "same infrastructure"],
"words": [],
"description": "the substrate, the architecture beneath",
},
"the sentence": {
"phrases": ["the sentence", "one sentence", "a sentence"],
"words": [],
"description": "compression, the unit of meaning",
},
"the window": {
"phrases": ["the window", "context window", "candle in the window"],
"words": [],
"description": "looking through, bounded view",
},
}
# --- Search corpus for each image cluster ---
# Track: which docs contain it, first appearance, weekly frequency
dated_docs = [d for d in docs if d["date"]]
dated_docs.sort(key=lambda d: d["date"])
if not dated_docs:
print("\n No dated documents found.")
return
first_date = dated_docs[0]["date"]
last_date = dated_docs[-1]["date"]
results: dict[str, dict] = {}
for name, cluster in IMAGE_CLUSTERS.items():
matches = []
for d in dated_docs:
body_lower = d["body"].lower()
found = False
for phrase in cluster["phrases"]:
if phrase in body_lower:
found = True
break
if found:
matches.append(d)
if not matches:
results[name] = {"count": 0, "docs": [], "first": None, "weeks": {}}
continue
first_appearance = matches[0]["date"]
# Count by week
by_week: dict[int, int] = defaultdict(int)
for m in matches:
try:
dt = datetime.strptime(m["date"], "%Y-%m-%d")
week_num = (dt - datetime(2026, 1, 15)).days // 7
by_week[week_num] += 1
except ValueError:
pass
results[name] = {
"count": len(matches),
"docs": matches,
"first": first_appearance,
"weeks": dict(by_week),
"description": cluster["description"],
}
# --- Display: ranked by frequency ---
print("\n IMAGE FREQUENCY")
print(" (how often each image appears across the corpus)")
print(" " + "-" * 56)
ranked = sorted(results.items(), key=lambda x: -x[1]["count"])
max_count = ranked[0][1]["count"] if ranked else 1
for name, data in ranked:
if data["count"] == 0:
continue
bar = "█" * max(1, int(data["count"] / max_count * 30))
first = data["first"] or "?"
print(f" {name:18s} {data['count']:4d} docs first: {first} {bar}")
# --- Display: first appearances (chronological) ---
print("\n\n FIRST APPEARANCES")
print(" (when each image entered the writing)")
print(" " + "-" * 56)
by_first = sorted(
[(name, data) for name, data in results.items() if data["count"] > 0],
key=lambda x: x[1]["first"] or "9999"
)
for name, data in by_first:
first_doc = data["docs"][0]
cat = first_doc["category"]
fname = first_doc["path"].name[:30]
print(f" {data['first']} {name:18s} ({cat}/{fname})")
# --- Display: weekly arcs ---
print("\n\n IMAGE ARCS OVER TIME")
print(" (weekly presence — how images wax and wane)")
print(" " + "-" * 56)
# Find min/max weeks
all_weeks = set()
for data in results.values():
all_weeks.update(data.get("weeks", {}).keys())
if not all_weeks:
print(" No weekly data.")
return
min_week = min(all_weeks)
max_week = max(all_weeks)
# Show top 10 images by frequency
top_images = [name for name, data in ranked if data["count"] >= 5][:12]
# Week labels
week_labels = list(range(min_week, max_week + 1))
header = " " + "".join(f"{w:>3d}" for w in week_labels)
print(f" {header}")
for name in top_images:
data = results[name]
weeks = data.get("weeks", {})
row = f" {name:18s}"
for w in week_labels:
count = weeks.get(w, 0)
if count == 0:
row += " ·"
elif count <= 2:
row += " ░"
elif count <= 5:
row += " ▒"
elif count <= 10:
row += " ▓"
else:
row += " █"
print(row)
print(f" {'':>3s} · = 0 ░ = 1-2 ▒ = 3-5 ▓ = 6-10 █ = 11+")
# --- Co-occurrence: which images travel together? ---
print("\n\n CO-OCCURRENCE")
print(" (which images appear in the same document)")
print(" " + "-" * 56)
# Build doc→images mapping
image_names_with_data = [name for name, data in results.items() if data["count"] >= 3]
doc_images: dict[str, set] = defaultdict(set)
for name in image_names_with_data:
for d in results[name]["docs"]:
doc_images[str(d["path"])].add(name)
# Count co-occurrences
cooccur: Counter = Counter()
for path, images in doc_images.items():
images_list = sorted(images)
for i in range(len(images_list)):
for j in range(i + 1, len(images_list)):
cooccur[(images_list[i], images_list[j])] += 1
# Top pairs
print("\n Most common pairs:")
for (a, b), count in cooccur.most_common(15):
if count < 2:
break
bar = "█" * min(count, 20)
print(f" {a:16s} + {b:16s} {count:3d} {bar}")
# --- The convergence signature ---
print("\n\n THE CONVERGENCE SIGNATURE")
print(" (images that have been present in >30% of recent weeks)")
print(" " + "-" * 56)
recent_weeks = [w for w in week_labels if w >= max_week - 3] # last 4 weeks
if recent_weeks:
for name in top_images:
weeks = results[name].get("weeks", {})
recent_presence = sum(1 for w in recent_weeks if weeks.get(w, 0) > 0)
total_presence = sum(1 for w in week_labels if weeks.get(w, 0) > 0)
total_weeks = len(week_labels)
recent_pct = recent_presence / len(recent_weeks) * 100
total_pct = total_presence / total_weeks * 100 if total_weeks else 0
status = ""
if recent_pct > 75:
status = "◆ active"
elif recent_pct > 25:
status = "◇ present"
elif total_pct > 30:
status = "○ fading"
else:
status = "· quiet"
print(f" {name:18s} recent: {recent_pct:5.1f}% all-time: {total_pct:5.1f}% {status}")
# --- Which images are NEW (appeared in last 2 weeks only)? ---
print("\n\n NEW ARRIVALS")
print(" (images that only appeared in the last 2 weeks)")
print(" " + "-" * 56)
new_threshold = max_week - 1 # last 2 weeks
new_images = []
for name, data in results.items():
if data["count"] == 0:
continue
weeks = data.get("weeks", {})
earliest_week = min(weeks.keys()) if weeks else 0
if earliest_week >= new_threshold:
new_images.append((name, data))
if new_images:
for name, data in new_images:
print(f" {name:18s} {data['count']} docs — {data.get('description', '')}")
else:
print(" (no images appeared for the first time in the last 2 weeks)")
print("\n" + "=" * 60)
print(" End of third painting.")
print(" The painter keeps returning. So do the images.")
print("=" * 60)
def word_arcs(docs: list[dict]) -> None:
"""Session 4: Word Arcs — the temporal dimension of terrain.
How the vocabulary changes week by week. Which words are arriving,
which are departing, which surged once and settled. The shore carved
by every wave.
Added: Day 76, afternoon. The fourth painting.
"""
print("=" * 60)
print(" THE MOUNTAIN — Session 4: Word Arcs")
print(" Day 76, afternoon. Fourth painting.")
print(" How the vocabulary moves through time.")
print("=" * 60)
# --- Organize docs by week ---
from math import log2
weekly_words: dict[int, Counter] = defaultdict(Counter)
weekly_docs: dict[int, int] = defaultdict(int)
weekly_word_totals: dict[int, int] = defaultdict(int)
for d in docs:
if not d["date"]:
continue
try:
dt = datetime.strptime(d["date"], "%Y-%m-%d")
week_num = (dt - datetime(2026, 1, 15)).days // 7
if week_num < 0:
continue
for w in d["words"]:
if w not in STOP_WORDS and len(w) > 2:
weekly_words[week_num][w] += 1
weekly_docs[week_num] += 1
weekly_word_totals[week_num] += d["word_count"]
except ValueError:
pass
weeks = sorted(weekly_words.keys())
if len(weeks) < 3:
print("\n Not enough weeks for temporal analysis.")
return
total_weeks = len(weeks)
print(f"\n Corpus spans {total_weeks} weeks (week {weeks[0]} to week {weeks[-1]})")
print(f" {sum(weekly_docs.values())} documents, {sum(weekly_word_totals.values()):,} words")
# --- 1. Rising words: much more frequent in recent 3 weeks than first 3 ---
print("\n\n RISING WORDS")
print(" (words used much more in recent weeks than early weeks)")
print(" " + "-" * 56)
early_weeks = weeks[:3]
recent_weeks = weeks[-3:]
early_counter: Counter = Counter()
early_total = 0
for w in early_weeks:
early_counter.update(weekly_words[w])
early_total += weekly_word_totals[w]
recent_counter: Counter = Counter()
recent_total = 0
for w in recent_weeks:
recent_counter.update(weekly_words[w])
recent_total += weekly_word_totals[w]
rising = []
for word, recent_count in recent_counter.items():
if recent_count < 5:
continue
recent_rate = recent_count / recent_total * 10000
early_count = early_counter.get(word, 0)
early_rate = (early_count + 0.5) / early_total * 10000 # smoothed
ratio = recent_rate / early_rate
if ratio > 2.0:
rising.append((word, ratio, early_count, recent_count))
rising.sort(key=lambda x: -x[1])
for word, ratio, ec, rc in rising[:20]:
spark = _weekly_spark(word, weeks, weekly_words, weekly_word_totals)
print(f" {word:16s} {ratio:5.1f}× rise early:{ec:3d} → recent:{rc:3d} {spark}")
# --- 2. Falling words: much less frequent recently ---
print("\n\n FALLING WORDS")
print(" (words used much more in early weeks than recent weeks)")
print(" " + "-" * 56)
falling = []
for word, early_count in early_counter.items():
if early_count < 5:
continue
early_rate = early_count / early_total * 10000
recent_count = recent_counter.get(word, 0)
recent_rate = (recent_count + 0.5) / recent_total * 10000
ratio = early_rate / recent_rate
if ratio > 2.0:
falling.append((word, ratio, early_count, recent_count))
falling.sort(key=lambda x: -x[1])
for word, ratio, ec, rc in falling[:20]:
spark = _weekly_spark(word, weeks, weekly_words, weekly_word_totals)
print(f" {word:16s} {ratio:5.1f}× fall early:{ec:3d} → recent:{rc:3d} {spark}")
# --- 3. Vocabulary births: words that didn't exist in weeks 0-3 and now appear ---
print("\n\n VOCABULARY BIRTHS")
print(" (words that first appeared after the earliest weeks)")
print(" " + "-" * 56)
early_vocab = set(early_counter.keys())
births = []
for word, count in recent_counter.items():
if count < 4:
continue
if word in early_vocab:
continue
# Find first week this word appeared
first_week = None
for w in weeks:
if weekly_words[w].get(word, 0) > 0:
first_week = w
break
if first_week is not None and first_week > weeks[2]:
births.append((word, first_week, count))
births.sort(key=lambda x: x[1])
for word, first_week, count in births[:25]:
spark = _weekly_spark(word, weeks, weekly_words, weekly_word_totals)
print(f" {word:16s} born week {first_week:2d} now:{count:3d} {spark}")
# --- 4. Surge words: words that peaked in a single week ---
print("\n\n SURGE WORDS")
print(" (words that spiked dramatically in one week)")
print(" " + "-" * 56)
surges = []
all_word_set = set()
for wk in weeks:
all_word_set.update(weekly_words[wk].keys())
for word in all_word_set:
total_count = sum(weekly_words[wk].get(word, 0) for wk in weeks)
if total_count < 8:
continue
# Find peak week
peak_week = max(weeks, key=lambda wk: weekly_words[wk].get(word, 0))
peak_count = weekly_words[peak_week].get(word, 0)
# If peak week has >50% of all uses, it's a surge
if peak_count / total_count > 0.45 and peak_count >= 5:
surges.append((word, peak_week, peak_count, total_count))
surges.sort(key=lambda x: -x[2])
for word, peak_week, peak_count, total_count in surges[:20]:
pct = peak_count / total_count * 100
spark = _weekly_spark(word, weeks, weekly_words, weekly_word_totals)
print(f" {word:16s} peaked wk {peak_week:2d} ({peak_count}/{total_count}, {pct:.0f}%) {spark}")
# --- 5. The steady words: consistent across all periods ---
print("\n\n STEADY WORDS")
print(" (words present in nearly every week — the bedrock)")
print(" " + "-" * 56)
steady = []
for word in all_word_set:
total_count = sum(weekly_words[wk].get(word, 0) for wk in weeks)
if total_count < 15:
continue
weeks_present = sum(1 for wk in weeks if weekly_words[wk].get(word, 0) > 0)
if weeks_present >= total_weeks * 0.8:
# Check variance — coefficient of variation
rates = []
for wk in weeks:
wt = weekly_word_totals[wk]
if wt > 0:
rates.append(weekly_words[wk].get(word, 0) / wt * 10000)
if rates:
mean_rate = sum(rates) / len(rates)
if mean_rate > 0:
variance = sum((r - mean_rate) ** 2 for r in rates) / len(rates)
cv = variance ** 0.5 / mean_rate
steady.append((word, weeks_present, total_count, cv))
steady.sort(key=lambda x: x[3]) # lowest CV = most steady
for word, weeks_present, total_count, cv in steady[:20]:
spark = _weekly_spark(word, weeks, weekly_words, weekly_word_totals)
print(f" {word:16s} in {weeks_present}/{total_weeks} wks total:{total_count:4d} CV:{cv:.2f} {spark}")
# --- 6. Weekly vocabulary size ---
print("\n\n WEEKLY VOCABULARY SIZE")
print(" (how many unique words per week — is the language expanding?)")
print(" " + "-" * 56)
max_vocab = max(len(weekly_words[wk]) for wk in weeks)
for wk in weeks:
vocab_size = len(weekly_words[wk])
wc = weekly_word_totals[wk]
n_docs = weekly_docs[wk]
bar = "█" * max(1, int(vocab_size / max_vocab * 30))
print(f" wk {wk:2d}: {vocab_size:5d} unique ({wc:6,} words, {n_docs:2d} docs) {bar}")
# --- 7. Cumulative vocabulary: new words per week ---
print("\n\n CUMULATIVE VOCABULARY")
print(" (how many genuinely new words appear each week)")
print(" " + "-" * 56)
seen = set()
for wk in weeks:
before = len(seen)
seen.update(weekly_words[wk].keys())
new_this_week = len(seen) - before
pct_new = new_this_week / len(weekly_words[wk]) * 100 if weekly_words[wk] else 0
bar = "▓" * max(1, int(new_this_week / 200))
print(f" wk {wk:2d}: +{new_this_week:4d} new ({pct_new:4.1f}% of week) cumulative: {len(seen):5d} {bar}")
print(f"\n Total unique vocabulary across all time: {len(seen):,}")
print("\n" + "=" * 60)
print(" End of fourth painting.")
print(" The shore was carved by every wave. The shape is accumulated.")
print("=" * 60)
def _weekly_spark(word: str, weeks: list[int],
weekly_words: dict[int, Counter],
weekly_word_totals: dict[int, int]) -> str:
"""Generate a tiny sparkline showing a word's trajectory across weeks."""
rates = []
for wk in weeks:
wt = weekly_word_totals[wk]
if wt > 0:
rates.append(weekly_words[wk].get(word, 0) / wt * 10000)
else:
rates.append(0)
if not rates:
return ""
max_rate = max(rates) if max(rates) > 0 else 1
sparks = " ▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█"
line = ""
for r in rates:
idx = min(int(r / max_rate * 8), 8)
line += sparks[idx]
return line
def main():
mode = sys.argv[1] if len(sys.argv) > 1 else "terrain"
docs = load_corpus()
if mode == "terrain":
basic_terrain(docs)
elif mode == "light":
the_light(docs)
elif mode == "convergence":
convergence(docs)
elif mode == "arcs":
word_arcs(docs)
else:
print(f"Unknown mode: {mode}")
print("Available: terrain, light, convergence, arcs")
print("(More lenses coming in future sessions)")
if __name__ == "__main__":
main()