You can activate "Reader Mode" in your browser. You will get gibberish (used for the background animations) until 90% down the page, then you will find the interesting text.
EDIT : If you don't scroll and activate "Reader Mode" immediately upon arrival, you only get the signal, and none of the noise !
I don't understand how this format keeps coming back. On mobile (which doesn't have reading mode) it is literally unreadable over such a noisy animated text-filled background.
Good for you. Now think about other people who are not like you.
I was able to read it, but only with difficulty. The background animations are super distracting and siphon off mental effort required to ignore them and focus on the text. Many people can do this relatively effortlessly, but for people who can't, the website is far less accessible than it could be.
I was reading it OK, but my browser performance kept deteriorating as I scrolled, until it crashed. Then I opened in another browser with NoScript and all was well.
Literature that is not simply read from start to end in the normal way.
This is a but vague, so examples may help. Choose your own adventure series, House of Leaves, ELIZA, One Hundred Thousand Billion Poems.
If you want to stretch the idea, you could consider LLM output to be ergodic literature of the training data in that it cuts up the corpus and resynthesizes it.
Strange term, choose your own adventure is non-ergodic, there are many failure states you can land on. Meanwhile, most normal literature is already ergodic under the normal definition.
I looked up the definition, and I'm still a bit confused. I'm familiar with word in the context of traversing system states, specifically graph traversal.
The term "ergodic literature" doesn't seem to relate to the word in a math context which seems strange. Usually the same word used in different domains has analogous definitions.
