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 …
more ...My entry 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:
The source code is here
I'll be blogging …
more ...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 …
more ...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 …
more ...Gedankōans - a Twitter sequence from a few years ago which I finally got around to publishing as a collection.
more ...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 …
more ...If you don’t like the state (read: if you don’t like paying taxes or welfare) its backing of money will seem monstrous to you. Returing to a real physical substance as a store of value is politically infeasible because we know what the banking system was like in …
more ...Being and Time New York: Harper & Row, 1962
Martin Heidegger (tr John Macquarrie and Edward Robinson)
I did that thing again, where my mood disorder kicks in and I read an interminably long and difficult work of philosophy. In my defence, if I’d read Being and Time when I …
more ...I made a subdomain for my Twitter bots, with a page of info and credits about each of them: bots.mikelynch.org
more ...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:
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