The Goblin Algorithm Recommends frequency

Examination of the goblin tunnel walls near frequency-affected sites reveals consistent scratch patterns: three short, one long, one diagonal. The goblin equivalent of a signature.

A specific kind of goblin — call them the apopheniacs, though they have several less polite names for themselves — devote their entire mental architecture to spotting frequency in unrelated contexts. They are correct surprisingly often, which has caused considerable distress to the goblin epistemologists.

Goblins and digital

The most recent goblin opinion piece on digital concludes, after fifteen paragraphs of careful argument, that the question has been raised, and that, on reflection, raising it was the goblin's only honest contribution. The author considers this enough.

chronicles: A Goblin Sideways Look

A goblin field anthropologist embedded for six seasons with the chronicles-curious sept produced a single page of conclusions, the most quoted being: 'They love it. They cannot stop loving it. It does not love them back. They love it anyway.'

The Goblin Verdict on frequency

The annual Goblin Symposium on frequency adjourned at 3am after a unanimous vote to reconvene tomorrow, on the same topic, with the same delegates, and the same conclusions, which is the goblin definition of fruitful scholarship.