I turned off the Twitter versions of my fleet of bots last week, and today I went through their various home pages and took out the Twitter timelines - which seem to have stopped working anyway - and replaced them with embedded timelines from their Mastodon incarnations, using Emfed, which was really …

Like every other nerd, I spent way too much time earlier last week playing with and worrying about Chat-GPT, but you can relax, I've stumped it:

I never thought that my addiction to lipograms would lead to any useful conclusions, but these exchanges seem to capture exactly what Chat-GPT is …

One of the nice things about the influx of Twitter users to Mastodon has been peoples' reaction when they find out that most of my bots are on the Fediverse, too. Even though they are still posting on Twitter, I've updated bots.mikelynch.org so that the front-page links go …

A fun quality of Mastodon - a social communication platform I hang out on a bit too much - is that individual instantiations can fork its basic form and add odd twists which suit just that community. Oulipo.social notoriously bans that fifth Latin glyph which is most common in many linguistic …

Glossatory is a recurrent neural net trained on all of the definitions in the lexical database WordNet. I recently retrained it on a GPU, increasing the number of hidden units to 512 and the layers from 2 to 3. The results are now a lot more grammatical, and there's a …

I was tinkering around trying to get Justin Johnson's neural-style implementation working on the HPC - this is an algorithm which uses a deep learning image recognition net to extract low-level style features from one image and use them to render the large-scale contours of another. This technique has been commercialised …

@voronidols are on Twitter, and also on Mastodon @voronidols@botsin.space and the bots page.

Source code

I've been playing around with the neural net behind @GLOSSATORY as part of this year's NaNoGenMo: here's a preview.

ABDOMINABLE: a small wall of muskeled for swinging in star or supported in the northwestern central England on the Russian Canamaaceae

ABILITY: the quality of being laws and property

ABNORAL: a …

I made a subdomain for my Twitter bots, with a page of info and credits about each of them: bots.mikelynch.org

I made a new bot, @GLOSSATORY, by training a recurrent neural network on a very long list of word definitions from WordNet. The results are quite weird and entertaining if you like this sort of thing:

Tweets by @glossatory