NaPoGenMo 2017

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 …

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Annales: Details

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 …

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A bit of a flutter

I went off Nate Silver a bit when I read The Signal and the Noise because I thought he was a bit scanty in explaining Bayesian analysis but mostly because he goes on about how true Bayesians should be prepared to back up their assessments of probabilities with a wager …

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Glossatory II

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 …

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