I found out about NaPoGenMo halfway through April, and decided to do something throwaway and quick for it, unlike my last couple of NaNoGenMo efforts, which have taken much more effort than the end results justified. (I found out about it on Mastodon but that's a story for another blog …

The third of three posts about the details of my NaNoGenMo 2016 project, Annales

1. Vocabularies | 2. TextGen | 3. Events

The event loop is the least interesting part of Annales, but it took the most effort and time. The basic idea is that there's a structured variable which describes the …

The second of three posts about the details of my NaNoGenMo 2016 project, Annales

1. Vocabularies | 2. TextGen | 3. Events

I'm proud that Annales is the only representative of Haskell in 2016's entries, but there's a reason that it's the only one: knocking together quick text generators is really a …

The first of three posts about the details of my NaNoGenMo 2016 project, Annales

1. Vocabularies | 2. TextGen | 3. Events

Annales was originally going to be a long-form version of @GLOSSATORY, a Twitter bot I made earlier this year. Glossatory is driven by a recurrent neural net trained on around …

This was the first time I submitted a NaNoGenMo entry which aimed at being readable, in contrast to my previous efforts, Everywhere Dense and Neuralgae, which were really abstract. Annales is a generated parody of a very ancient genre, the chronicle, which tells history as a sequence of reigns, deaths …

My enry for National Novel Generating Month 2016 is a procedurally-generated chronology of rulers, courtiers and tribes, using a nonsense vocabulary generated with the neural net which drives my twitter bot, @GLOSSATORY.

The full text is available on GitHub:

• ANNALES
• ANNALES.pdf

The source code is here

I'll be blogging …

Gedankōans - a Twitter sequence from a few years ago which I finally got around to publishing as a collection.

I've got two short articles in MATERIALITY: FAKE, now online at Pinknantucket Press:

An uncanny valley in reverse is a brief illustrated attempt to explain the computational underpinning of deepdreams for a lay audience.

Vermiculation, on the use of fake rustic textures in classical architecture and its colonial domestic descendants …

In 2013 I wrote and published an eighty-one-verse poem in Spenserian stanzas on FSVO. It started as an affectionate parody of the works of writers like Erasmus Darwin, who in the eighteenth century enthusiastically boosted the natural sciences in poems which are now long unread. It grew into something a …

For NaNoGenMo (national novel generation month) 2015, I wrote some Python which generates a series of loosely-coupled deepdream images, and adds eight-line surrealist 'poetry' to them based on the image categories used to draw them.

The full text is here: Neuralgae.

The source code and a fairly detailed description of …