This is the first in a series of posts about the way we think about programming, the influence these ideas have on how we write code and what languages we choose, and why I like the functional programming paradigm in general and Haskell in particular.
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more ...Here are several sequences which ran on FSVO earlier this year.
The LITANY OF INFINITY - an incomplete catalogue of transfinite cardinals
MANY MOONS - a catalogue of the nature, population and attributes of the Solar System's satellites
An essay on MIGRATORY WORDS, their seasonal habits and reproductive cycle
more ...The chronicles of Louchébem, an ancient city shrouded in myth, legend and metafiction, which started out as a series of short vignettes on Nannygoat Hill in 2010. Writing thirty of these is the closest I've come to doing NaNoWriMo. 'The Faithful Alchemist', a more substantial story in the same setting …
more ...n01440764 tench, Tinca tinca
n01496331 electric ray, crampfish, numbfish, torpedo
n01530575 brambling, Fringilla montifringilla
n01532829 house finch, linnet, Carpodacus mexicanus
n01534433 junco, snowbird
n01537544 indigo bunting, indigo finch, indigo bird, Passerina cyanea
n01601694 water ouzel, dipper
n01608432 kite
n01622779 great grey owl, great gray owl, Strix nebulosa
n01629819 European fire …The Deepdreams algorithm takes a deep neural net trained for image-recognition and uses a forced-feedback loop to induce a kind of machine-pareidolia or hallucination, with beautiful and often nightmarish results:
The original algorithm picks details from all of the neural net's training data, based on resemblances to the original image …
more ..."Everywhere Dense is a novel generated by the principle of recursive acronym expansion, in which this sentence is repeatedly interpolated with random words."
NaNoGenMo, or National Novel Generation Month is a fun parody of National Novel Writing Month (which I also tried one year, but more on that later). Everywhere …
more ...I wrote a bluffer's guide to Matthew Barney's insane five-part epic art film after seeing it at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. It's so old that it used to live on my staff home page, back when staff could have home pages: then it fell off the net …
more ...I love the proper names of stars, most of which are severely corrupted versions of Arabic originals, and one of my favourite books is R H Allen's Star Names - Their Lore and Meaning.
A few years ago I spent several months tweeting every star with a proper name, from Acamar …
more ...I finally got around to getting a domain name. Hi, grab a feed, make yourself comfortable.
This site is a place for me to host or link to various projects which have been either scattered around the net, or languishing in a folder on my laptop for want of a …
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